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PR firm BerlinRosen expands space to 24,500 square feet
The public relations powerhouse BerlinRosen is expanding to 24,500 square feet at 15 Maiden Lane. The firm has 17,500 feet in the downtown building that sits between Broadway and John...
NYC's homeless taking advantage of shutdown to sleep in unstaffed parks
The government shutdown has been great for some lower Manhattan hobos — who are now able to catch up on their beauty rest during the day on the steps of...
Resilient downtown Manhattan is thriving
Seventeen years after 9/11, downtown is thriving so impressively that a visitor from Mars wouldn’t suspect that a terrorist attack killed nearly 3,000 innocent victims and left much of the...
Disney/ABC waiting for current tenants to vacate 4 Hudson Square
The Mouse House is roaring into Hudson Square, but Disney needs a clean sweep to build its dream home. And like Mickey in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the company must take...
Former World Financial Center lobby to get redesign
The former World Financial Center’s public areas little resemble their old, stodgy selves since the complex’s transformation into Brookfield Place — and now, one of the few remaining vestiges of...
'RHONY's Ramona Singer mulls move downtown
“The Real Housewives of New York City” star and Upper East Sider Ramona Singer would like to try a new neighborhood — either Flatiron or elsewhere downtown — for a...
ABC shopping for new building downtown
It looks like Kelly and Ryan could soon be broadcasting from Hudson Square — or another new Manhattan site. Disney-owned ABC is seeking to cut a deal to move its...
Enormous penis pops up in NYC
Meet the newest member of the Lower East Side street-art scene. A towering painting depicting a shockingly life-like penis went up on the side of 303 Broome St. on Christmas...
'Uptown' and 'downtown' rats are actually different
“Uptown” rats are genetically different than “downtown” rats -- and there’s also a distinction between “West Village” and “East Village” rats, a Fordham University grad student has discovered. Matthew Combs...
NYC commercial real estate scene thriving 16 years after 9/11
On this 16th year of commemorating the horror and heroism of 9/11, all’s well on the Manhattan office scene — an outcome that seemed impossible following the terrorist attack that...
Looking back on September 11 as the anniversary approaches
Construction has replaced destruction. Everywhere, new multimilliondollar residential and professional skyscrapers.
More media companies are fleeing Midtown for techy downtown digs
Macmillan Publishers has joined the great southern migration of media companies from Midtown and Midtown South. As we first reported on Monday, the global trade-book publisher signed a jumbo lease...
Sant Ambroeus to open massive Brookfield location next year
In a year when many restaurant industry “experts” claim that New York City’s become too expensive to open new places, it’s remarkable indeed how large new restaurants just keep opening...
Luxury residential convert sells for $450M
A former downtown office building recently converted to a luxury residential rental by a venture of Vanbarton Group and Metro Loft Management is being sold to the latter for $450...
Canal Street is undergoing a real estate renaissance
The tiny, two-story building at 301 Canal St., just west of Broadway, doesn’t look like much — a vacant, nondescript brick structure with green plywood covering the ground floor. But...
Popular downtown Poké eatery moving to bigger space
PokéSpot, the popular Fourth Avenue eatery that promises “to put the power of poké in your hands,” is expanding its Hawaiian raw-fish luau to a larger downtown space. Owners Russell...
Brookfield Place is becoming a mecca for men's fashion
Downtown’s Brookfield Place, also owned by Brookfield Property Partners, is turning into a men’s mecca. European suitmaker Suitsupply, known for its revolutionary marketing and unique locations, just leased 1,600 square...
R&B legend sells $2.61M downtown apartment
R&B legend Aaron Neville and his photographer wife, Sarah Friedman, have sold their charming Greenwich Village penthouse duplex for above its asking price. It was last asking $2.6 million and...
Lower Manhattan sees dip in commercial vacancy
Amid a backdrop of softening across all Manhattan submarkets, downtown managed to eke out a year-over-year drop in commercial vacancy, down by .4 percent, to 9.9 percent, from the third...
Meet the woman who took on Robert Moses and saved lower Manhattan
Next time you take a walk down Broome Street, from Little Italy into SoHo, treasure the little historic churches, the classic Italian restaurants and cafes, the cast-iron buildings, cobblestone streets,...