Steve Cuozzo joined the New York Post in 1972. He has covered commercial real estate for The Post in his Realty Check column every Tuesday since 1999, and the city's restaurant scene in his Wednesday Free Range column since 1998. He also contributes regularly to the op-ed pages, where he has closely monitored the state of progress -- or lack thereof -- at the World Trade Center site since shortly after the 9/11 attacks. His book, "It's Alive," published by Times Books in 1996, chronicled The Post's successful battle for survival in the early '90s when it foundered under previous ownership. A proud native of Brooklyn, he lives today in Manhattan.
A vacant, former meat-processing plant will soon blossom into a six-story office/retail jewel with a dramatic glass-and-steel crown across the street from the Standard Hotel. Taconic Investment Partners (which sold 111...
November 01, 2011 12:00 AMEpic change is coming to 280 Park Ave., the 1.2 million square-foot office towers at 48th Street purchased by a Vornado-SL Green joint venture for nearly $500 million earlier this year. We heard that longtime tenant...
October 25, 2011 12:00 AM
More than once at La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, the hosts couldn’t find our reservation or had the wrong number of people in my party. Waiters wordlessly dropped off strange items or expounded interminably on the obvious -...
October 19, 2011 12:00 AMIf an army fights on its stomach, Zuccotti Park is in for a long, full-bellied siege. But forget chef Eric Smith’s boast of “5-star” cuisine. The meal I tasted last night -- at the East New York soup kitchen where it...
October 19, 2011 12:00 AMFor a guy so worried about World Trade Center cost overruns, Gov. Cuomo sure is taking chances. His arbitrary decision to move the site of the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church back to Liberty Street -- reversing...
October 18, 2011 12:00 AMJoseph Moinian, who controls 10 million square feet of residential and office properties, is prepared to say goodbye to 1 million more. The energetic builder-landlord has put an ultra-prime development site up for...
October 18, 2011 12:00 AM
There are pubs, gastropubs — and now, a “food-driven pub.” When Jones Wood Foundry adopted that dorky slogan last winter, I thought they were nuts. But this Upper East Side mecca for “charismatic” British classics is...
October 12, 2011 12:00 AM
New details of a lease between the city’s Human Resources Administration and Silverstein Properties at 4 World Trade Center might not be the final word. As reported by GlobeSt.com, HRA is taking 582,000 square feet in...
October 11, 2011 12:00 AM
One year after the $20 million Lincoln opened to a critical piling-on, the pricey Italian restaurant under the twisting grass lawn twinkles a half-star brighter. It might not be the mega-leap forward diners who may pay...
October 05, 2011 12:00 AM
Gov. Cuomo, seizing the World Trade Center reins even before he picks a successor to Port Authority executive director Chris Ward, is maneuvering to move construction of a new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church back to...
October 04, 2011 12:00 AM
‘Sorry,” our waitress at madhouse Red Farm cheerfully apologized for a delay bringing our drinks. “I was taking care of 12 people at once.” No sweat, babe! Ed Schoenfeld and Joe Ng’s crazy-busy, “totally inauthentic”...
September 28, 2011 12:00 AM
It’s taken a long time, but the messy south blockfront of 42nd Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway is finally close to measuring up to the redeveloped north side. Construction of a new hotel to fill the vacant...
September 27, 2011 12:00 AM
A new restaurant’s gotta have a shtick. No “concept,” no juice. Take Salinas. All along, I thought it was just a really nice, good-looking, well-run place to enjoy the smartly crafted, Spanish-themed menu of chef Luis...
September 21, 2011 12:00 AMNew York hotel owners had better pray the tourist boom continues. Since 2000, the number of rooms in Manhattan has swelled more than 27 percent, according to Tom McConnell, head of Cushman & Wakefield’s hospitality...
September 21, 2011 12:00 AM
Long before Condé Nast took 1 million square feet at 1 World Trade Center, the New York Academy of Sciences took 40,000 square feet at 7 World Trade Center -- a small lease signed in 2005 which, in years to come, might...
September 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Kids caught in crossfires like it was the 1980s, the NYPD dangerously whittled down to save money, and what’s City Hall doing? Trying to fill desolate bicycle lanes by flooding the town with 10,000 more bikes. In...
September 16, 2011 12:00 AM
What do the following wish-list restaurant phenomena have in common? * Great new Italian places to fill the void left by the recent closings of Convivio and Alto. * One new eatery of any cuisine in FiDi — the city’s...
September 14, 2011 12:00 AM
Pera, the popular Mediterranean-Turkish brasserie at 303 Madison Ave. at East 41st Street, is colonizing a forgotten SoHo corner. In one of the year’s more interesting restaurant deals, the Pera team will launch a...
September 14, 2011 12:00 AMQuidsi Inc., the Amazon-owned company best known for its baby-oriented e-commerce sites, including diapers.com, has crawled away from a major Midtown lease at the last minute, Realty Check has learned. Quidsi had been...
September 13, 2011 12:00 AM
The day the screaming came across our sky, there was no “evacuation” as in the apocalyptic opening of Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” The “destroying planes” which E.B. White prophesied in the final pages of “Here...
September 11, 2011 12:00 AM
Seven years since its design was unveiled, and $700 million in public and private funding later, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum is at last upon us. Following today’s ceremony exclusively for victims’ families...
September 11, 2011 12:00 AM
New Yorkers are justifiably celebrating the city’s recovery from 9/11, even as we mourn the loss of 2,752 lives. Downtown not only survived as the nation’s fourth-largest business district, but blossomed into the city’s...
September 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Ten years after the 9/11 attack destroyed Windows on the World and a dozen other restaurants, two Manhattan eateries conjure 9/11’s horror and heroism as no others do. Each, in its way, is haunted by memories — at the...
September 07, 2011 12:00 AMDowntown Class-A vacancy will temporarily soar from 9.2 percent today to more than 15 percent in the next three years, predicts Jones Lang LaSalle -- but the firm foresees only sunny skies for the district after that....
September 06, 2011 12:00 AM
A promo for The Dutch, Andrew Carmellini's irresistible new "American" restaurant in SoHo, reads: "Why can't American food mean myoga and soy, or chicken paprikash? And what about guajillo chili?" Places that...
August 31, 2011 12:00 AMSome cheapskates are whining about mandatory tips at a handful of New York restaurants -- even, God forbid, for infants. Well, let them eat at home with their screaming tots. Intermittent bursts of outrage over the...
August 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Two large new lease transactions have swallowed up more than 150,000 square feet of SL Green buildings -- but the smaller of the two is the more interesting, with ramifications for the downtown office market. At...
August 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Free Range is worried about El Quijote, and you should be, too. The adorably anachronistic Spanish restaurant “next door to” the Chelsea Hotel, as its Web site says, is actually in the hotel. Let us pray. No doubt you...
August 24, 2011 12:00 AMThere are signs of life at last for long-aborning plans to burnish the hit-and-miss south blockfront of West 42nd Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway. Blackstone, which owns the office tower at 1095 Sixth Ave.,...
August 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The birthday lady next to us at Casa Nonna put down her BlackBerry to taste her cake. She quickly returned to her e-mail while her male dining companions loudly went back to their favorite topic: the golden age of...
August 17, 2011 12:00 AM
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