...that everyone’s trying to go green now. Murray Hill’s newest residential offering at 303 East 33rd is following right along. Besides being LEED certified, a designation that involves using Earth-friendly...

Published by CondoMod on October 7, 2008.

Two weeks ago, the landlord at 95 Madison Ave. began offering brokers who lead full-floor tenants to the building their full commission at the deal signing. Typically commissions are paid over months.

Published by Crain's New York Business on October 5, 2008.

The unidentified 47-year- old East Harlem man tumbled from a lift inside a loading-dock area at 622 Third Ave., between East 41st and 42nd streets at 1 p.m. and hit his head on a garbage compactor.

Published by New York Post on October 4, 2008.

Examples of aborted deals and troubled developments abound. Last Friday, HSBC, the big Hong Kong-based bank, quietly tore up an agreement to move its American headquarters to 7 World Trade Center after bids for its existing home at 452 Fifth Avenue, between 39th and 40th Streets, came in 30 percent lower than the $600 million it wanted for the property.

Published by New York Times on October 1, 2008.

Last Friday, HSBC, the big Hong Kong-based bank, quietly tore up an agreement to move its American headquarters to 7 World Trade Center after bids for its existing home at 452 Fifth Avenue, between 39th and 40th Streets, came in 30 percent lower than the $600 million it wanted for the property.

Published by The New York Observer on October 1, 2008.

Examples of aborted deals and troubled developments abound. Last Friday, HSBC, the big Hong Kong-based bank, quietly tore up an agreement to move its American headquarters to 7 World Trade Center after bids for its existing home at 452 Fifth Avenue, between 39th and 40th Streets, came in 30 percent lower than the $600 million it wanted for the property.

Published by New York Times on October 1, 2008.

To celebrate its opening, the cafe will be offering free coffee all day tomorrow. In additional AQ news, the first location, set in the Scandinavian House (58 Park Ave.), has closed and is now an outpost of Smorgas Chef.

Published by Zagat New York City on September 29, 2008.

Marc Weisman, who joined Fifteen Group as a principal in 2007, is running the 3,100-square-foot office at 232 Madison Avenue, between 37th and 38th streets.   

Published by The Real Deal on September 25, 2008.

...and Franklin Roosevelt, Sniffen Court and more Participants should meet at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 34th Street. Each tour costs $15 per person and reservations are not required. For more information, call...

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

In August, city officials barred traffic on Park and Fourth Aves. and Lafayette St. from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park for six hours on three consecutive Saturdays.

Published by New York Daily News on September 24, 2008.

New Jersey-based Sunshine Developers bought the site at 309-311 Fifth Avenue at 31st Street, as well as adjoining air rights, for $50 million in late 2006, said Benjamin Bottner, investment sales associate at real estate advisors Marcus and Millichap, and a broker on the current deal. A year later, the developer demolished the five-story building on the site, and this year won city approval for an Ismael Leyva-designed building with a 212-room hotel and 39,000-square-foot residential building.

Published by The Real Deal on September 22, 2008.

"This is the extension of Midtown, the preeminent business district in the world," said Weisbrod.

Published by New York Post on September 22, 2008.

New Jersey-based Sunshine Developers bought the site at 309-311 Fifth Avenue at 31st Street, as well as adjoining air rights, for $50 million in late 2006, said Benjamin Bottner, investment sales associate at real estate advisors Marcus and Millichap, and a broker on the current deal. A year later, the developer demolished the five-story building on the site, and this year won city approval for an Ismael Leyva-designed building with a 212-room hotel and 39,000-square-foot residential building.

Published by The Real Deal on September 22, 2008.

Such was the scene last night outside of the New York Public Library to celebrate the fact that we can now go home and watch the movie over and over again. Magda was popular! And she and the rest of the girls seemed cheerfully resigned to signing yet more pieces of Sex bric-a-brac.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

According to Mr. Powers, none of the 10 landlords that control 42 percent of the Midtown office market are overleveraged, which should have a stabilizing effect.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

In these fleeting moments, the clouds caught the shimmering light of day’s end and the streets began to glitter with street lights and neon signs. Framed by the canyons of Midtown, these ephemeral effects, highlighted by a black border on each print, take the shape of upside-down skyscrapers.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

The Bellevue psychiatric hospital, First Avenue and 29th Street, is a shelter and intake center for the homeless. Some advocates are criticizing a plan to close the Men’s Intake Center, at 400 East 30th Street. (Photo: Jacob Silberberg for The New York Times)

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

Yuet Lau, 58, suffered a concussion and was treated at Bellevue Hospital after the incident at 415 Park Avenue South. The canopy of the stroller protected the little boy from being hit, witnesses said.

Published by New York Post on September 19, 2008.

The Bellevue psychiatric hospital, First Avenue and 29th Street, is a shelter and intake center for the homeless. Some advocates are criticizing a plan to close the Men’s Intake Center, at 400 East 30th Street. (Photo: Jacob Silberberg for The New York Times)

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

The L-shaped structure is technically on the Gowanus side, yet the Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group is promoting the condos based on their Park Slope location--notably at a sales office at 294 Fifth Avenue at First Street, in Park Slope proper.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

A nonprofit group that spruces up Midtown is violating the civil rights of four Rastafarian workers by ordering them to hide their dreadlocks under their uniform caps, the feds charged yesterday.

Published by New York Post on September 18, 2008.

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the four officers, who patrol midtown streets for the Grand Central Partnership, are victims of religious discrimination.

Published by New York Daily News on September 18, 2008.

The company restoring 419 Park Ave South said a quarter of the Kips Bay building's corner came down.

Published by NY1 on September 18, 2008.

For nearly 30 breathtaking minutes, New Yorkers stared upward in disbelief as two men hung, trapped, on a scaffold that partially collapsed. The scare happened 70 stories above the ground in midtown.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 18, 2008.

Ms. Langfield notes that only a few skyscrapers have accessible spaces at the top: the Empire State Building charges $34, Rockefeller Center charges $18 and Open House NY, the annual design and architecture weekend festival that is scheduled for Oct. 4 to 5 this year, charges a whopping $500 for a tour of the top of the Woolworth Building.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

9:30 a.m. The board of the New York State Urban Development Corporation meets in the 37th floor conference room at ESDC headquarters, 633 Third Ave.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

Bar Breton (254 Fifth Ave. at 28th Street, 212-213-4999) Chef Cyril Renaud of Fleur de Sel plans to open this brasserie in November, specializing in the dishes of his native Brittany, including shellfish and savory buckwheat crępes.

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

Pranna (79 Madison Ave. at 28th Street, 212-696-5700) Long Island restaurateurs Payal and Rajiv Sharma plan to open their first Manhattan restaurant this September, featuring the flavors of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and India by chef Chai Trivedi. That will include Asian-inspired sliders, spring rolls, and wings

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

Chef James Rich most recently was at Trio Restaurant & Wine Bar in Murray Hill. At the Center Room and its sister bar, Arpeggio, which opened in July, the chef is focusing on seasonal American fare, offering dishes such as greens from local farms with local apples, spiced walnuts, and New York goat cheese, as well as a late summer tomato and onion tart.

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

10 a.m. The city School Governance Task Force holds a hearing in the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., on the 9th floor.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

...overcharges and difficult tenants/landlords. Free. 5:30 p.m. Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Ave., Room 018. For more information, call (212) 592-7000...

Published by New York Post on September 17, 2008.

More than a week after Upp vanished, she was spotted checking her e-mail twice at an Apple store in midtown Manhattan. She showered eight times at several city New York Sports Clubs, where she had a gym membership, police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 16, 2008.

Neither Deutsche Bank’s real estate advisers at Eastdil Secured nor a representative from George Comfort & Sons would comment. But for those who have never heard of the Comforts, they appear to be one of those powerful New York real estate dynasties that, against all odds, manages to stay well below the media radar. The firm owns 200 Madison Avenue and 498 Seventh Avenue, among other properties.

Published by The New York Observer on September 16, 2008.

As part of the deal, Barclays would get Lehman's Seventh Avenue office in Midtown Manhattan, with more than one million square feet of office space. Two data centers in New Jersey will also be part of the transaction.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 16, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide.

Published by New York Post on September 15, 2008.

...that, against all odds, manages to stay well below the media radar. The firm owns 200 Madison Avenue and 498 Seventh Avenue, among other properties...

Published by The New York Observer on September 15, 2008.

A cancer-stricken Hollywood wardrobe maven and her son were found dead in her Gramercy apartment in an apparent murder-suicide. The Sun reports that a 64-year-old man’s body was found in Seward Park on the Lower East Side early Sunday.

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

The incident on East 51st Street, in busy midtown Manhattan, was one in a wave of fatal construction mishaps in the city dating back to last year. On May 30, another tower crane broke apart and fell on an apartment building, killing two workers. Other crane operations were suspended temporarily.

Published by New York Post on September 15, 2008.

The midtown Manhattan incident was one in a wave of fatal construction mishaps in the city dating to last year. On May 30, another tower crane broke apart and fell on an apartment building, killing two workers. Other crane operations were suspended temporarily.

Published by WNBC on September 15, 2008.

"They get very aggressive," said Jim Scardelli, an elevator manager at a Hell's Kitchen business who had encountered the group near the tunnel, and another squeegee guy on Broadway while he was on his way to the George Washington Bridge.

Published by New York Post on September 14, 2008.

Crews work on the facade of the Empire State Building. (Photos by Rolando Pujol)

Published by amNY.com on September 14, 2008.

Found along West 14th Street, from Chelsea to the West Village, four establishments define a different restaurant row.

Published by New York Times on September 13, 2008.

They said the worker summoned the elevator to the fifth floor of the midtown building around 3 p.m. Friday. He stepped in when the doors opened, but the elevator wasn't there.

Published by WNBC on September 13, 2008.

Quick action by a veteran subway operator helped save the life of a man who had fallen onto the tracks and wound up under the train at a busy Midtown station during yesterday's morning rush hour.

Published by New York Post on September 13, 2008.

A gay dad from Chelsea who spirited his toddler son to Israel - and away from his estranged husband, who shared custody - pleaded guilty yesterday to taking the boy.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

New York's gated communities are secure, safe, monitored. At the Westminster in Chelsea, the concierge knows his tenants by name. They greet him with a "Hi, John!"

Published by The New York Observer on September 12, 2008.

At Cynthia Rowley's show on September 11 at a loft in Chelsea, three little girls ran around the runway, tugging at their parents' arms and climbing on and off the chairs in the front row.

Published by The New York Observer on September 12, 2008.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Mr. Nersesian found an unusual place to write: the Empire State Building. Three of his uncles had a law office there, first on the third floor and then on the 18th.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

Born and raised in the city, one of three sons of an Armenian-American father and a fifth-generation Irish-American mother, he lived in a succession of neighborhoods — first Midtown and Brooklyn Heights with his family, then Times Square, Chelsea and the Upper West Side on his own — with each move being the result of an eviction.

Published by New York Times on September 12, 2008.

He landed a job as an accountant working for the United States Post Office in its Postal Data Center on 33rd Street, across from the Empire State Building. In 1991, he was forced to retire when the center was relocated to Minnesota.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 11, 2008.