Lois Weiss joined the New York Post as a freelancer in 2000, and her trademarked, Between The Bricks, real estate gossip column is a Wednesday must-read. Weiss regularly writes for Cityfeet.com and Gotham, and provides occasional commentary for industry publications. She was previously contributing editor to Real Estate Weekly and is also a photojournalist whose pictures often illustrate her articles. She is also a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events. Lois was the Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Editors and has been its President, Vice President and Secretary. On the weekends she can be found kayaking or shooting her AR-15 in competitions. Lois@BetweenTheBricks.com
Local Israeli investor Jonathan Leitersdorf is getting a prime development site in Chelsea on the northeast corner of 11th Avenue and West 23rd Street. According to documents we've reviewed, the closing on what is...
July 06, 2011 12:00 AMTwo Grand Central tower is the latest Midtown office building to hit the sales block with a value that could top $370 million. Boston Properties, Goldman Sachs and Meraas Capital, which is controlled by Dubai's...
June 29, 2011 12:00 AMElaine's is turning into a development site, according to Neal Sroka of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who is marketing the restaurant along with the two occupied walk-ups above it for $9.5 million. "The people...
June 22, 2011 12:00 AMJoe Sitt's Thor Equities is in contract to buy the Scribner Building for $108.5 million. The 12-story plus penthouse building at 597 Fifth Ave. has over 12,000 square feet of retail space and approximately 58,000 square...
June 15, 2011 12:00 AMAnother downtown office building is close to becoming a hotel. Multiple sources say a sale of the Class B building at 170 Broadway, owned by AMG Realty, is in the works to local hotelier Tribeca Associates. The price...
June 08, 2011 12:00 AMInsurance giant CNA has found a new home downtown, where it will move to about 80,000 square feet at 125 Broad St. from larger offices at 40 Wall St. Sources tell us the nearly 20-year deal includes the seventh and...
June 01, 2011 12:00 AMLaw firm Morrison Foerster has just signed a lease for 180,000 square-feet to become the anchor tenant for Boston Properties' upcoming tower at 250 W. 55 St. The firm is leasing seven floors from 17 to 23 plus the...
May 25, 2011 12:00 AMAfter four long years of waiting, the iconic Woolworth Building is finally moving toward a residential conversion of its top floors. Steve Witkoff of the Witkoff Group, and a partner in the building's ownership that...
May 18, 2011 12:00 AMThe trendy upscale Cooper Square Hotel is up for sale and is expected to attract interest from equally trendy hoteliers like Ian Schrager and Rocco Forte. The nearly new 22-story hotel has 145 keys to rent out each...
May 11, 2011 12:00 AMThe "Men in Black III" movie is turning a Greene Street loft into a back-to-the-sixties party palace. The upcoming flick, starring Will Smith, Alice Eve and Josh Brolin as the young Tommy Lee Jones character, Agent K,...
May 10, 2011 12:00 AMIn what could become a test of the city's Class A commercial office market, a 49 percent interest in the landmark Seagram Building is being marketed by Citibank's high net worth unit on behalf of RFR Holding. The...
May 04, 2011 12:00 AMAfter shuttering some locations just two years ago, Starbucks is now ready to pour its caffeinated concoctions from several new city locations. The first new 1,200 square foot coffee outlet will open on the 43rd...
April 27, 2011 12:00 AMIt looks like Vornado Re alty Trust still has an eye on its long-stalled development at 1800 Park Ave. At the end of the year, documents show, it bought out its partners, California Urban Investment Partners (CUIP)...
April 20, 2011 12:00 AMThe George Soros- founded Open Society Foundations, which support worldwide human-rights programs including the Open Space Institute, signed a letter of intent for 160,000 square feet at the Argonaut Building at 224 W....
April 13, 2011 12:00 AM
Celebrity shag slicer Ric Pipino will open a second Manhattan location at the Galleria at 115 E. 57th St. The stylist already has a glammed-up NoLIta location on Centre Street, where he services celebs including...
April 06, 2011 12:00 AM
TIAA-CREF has transferred a 49.99 percent interest in 685 Third Ave. through a joint venture to the Melbourne, Australia-based Future Fund Board of Guardians for what we've learned was $100,332,537. Through a...
March 30, 2011 12:00 AMArk Restaurants will open a new upscale, modern restaurant in Hell's Kitchen with a menu designed by David Waltuck, the former chef and owner of Chanterelle. The 10,530-square-foot, ground floor restaurant will be...
March 23, 2011 12:00 AMA small slice of the Times Square Bow-Tie is for sale, providing a rare opportunity for a new owner and retailer to lure in some of the thousands of people passing by every day. The 15,000-square-foot building at...
March 16, 2011 12:00 AMIt looks like Boston Properties has finally roped another anchor tenant for 250 W. 55th St. Sources tell us that the law firm Morrison Foerster has signed a letter of intent for at least 200,000 square feet at the...
March 09, 2011 12:00 AMNow that Comcast has acquired a majority stake, NBC Universal has quietly signed a massive lease at Rockefeller Center with an NBC Trust and General Electric affiliate, public records show. GE scooped up the real...
March 02, 2011 12:00 AMThis is starting to be come the Year of the Apartment Building. A prewar building at 737 Park Ave. is coming to market for the first time in 65 years and could fetch as much as $250 million. The brick apartment...
February 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The Hunts Point produce market in The Bronx is suddenly getting the red carpet treatment from New Jersey, which wants it to move to the Meadowlands. The members of the Hunts Point Produce Cooperative Association...
February 16, 2011 12:00 AMNow that a prominent development partner and architects are on board, a key site catty-corner to Bryant Park is moving closer to a resolution. The Post has learned that Hines Interests is now working with Pacolet...
February 09, 2011 12:00 AMThere's a rumbling in the asphalt jungle as new offerings start coming out of the ledgers. The 21-story luxury residential rental at 88 Leonard St. is being offered through the Cushman & Wakefield capital markets...
February 02, 2011 12:00 AM
Eastern Mountain Sports is climbing into a nearly 13,000 square foot duplex retail space in the Laureate condominium on the southeast corner of Broadway and West 76th Street. The store will open next fall at 2150...
January 26, 2011 12:00 AMMichael Kors has fi nally snagged a prime Fifth Avenue location at Rockefeller Center. As The Post reported online yesterday, the fashion retailer has signed a 10-year lease for the just-shuttered Kenneth Cole...
January 19, 2011 12:00 AMJ oseph Moinian andGoldman Sachs' Whitehall Funds have hired investment brokers at Eastdil Secured to sell the office building 245 Fifth Ave. on the southeast corner of 28th Street. The 310,000-square-foot building...
January 12, 2011 12:00 AMWe traversed 2010 across the deal doldrums into multiple blend-and-extend leases, a handful of office turnovers, and ended on a high note -- with the Google purchase of 111 Eighth Ave. The end of 2009 had left us...
January 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Jumbo tenants are al ready lining up to fill Société Générale's 536,000 square-foot space at 1221 Ave. of the Americas when it exits by 2013 for 444,000 square feet at 245 Park Ave. The largest lease so far this...
December 29, 2010 12:00 AMBy the end of business today, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be richer by a Chelsea block filled with bricks. That's when the $1.77 billion cash deal for 111 Eighth Ave. will officially close after the...
December 22, 2010 12:00 AM
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