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Horror stories from NYC's 8th Ave. 'Strip of Despair' — where stabbings, drug use and public defecation are the norm
"They s**t on the street. They s**t on cars. We clean with a hose twice a week because everywhere smells like piss," one fed-up super said.
Clean up the 8th Avenue 'strip of despair' NOW
No neighborhood should have to put up with so many addicts passed out on its streets, shooting up or engaging in knife fights.
Midtown Manhattan's '8th Ave. Corridor' plagued by junkies lying at tourists' feet, fighting in the streets
A stretch of Midtown Manhattan has become a “strip of despair,” where smacked-out addicts shoot up, light up and conk out at the feet of commuters and tourists, locals say.
Homeless man accused of throwing rocks through NYPD precinct under arrest
A stunning 28-second video clip obtained by The Post shows a vile vandal hurling stones through a Midtown South Precinct window Thursday.
Textile Building snags top law firm as first tenant after $350M revamp
The rolling-thunder procession of late-in-the-year commercial leases that we predicted a few weeks ago is under way in earnest. In the largest Midtown South location of 2023, global litigation firm...
NYC street-brawl murder is a surreal sign of what's to come
New Yorkers witnessed a surreal sight last week, an alien scene that made residents question the city’s future livability.
Century-old Textile Building set for a revamp that includes penthouse
The handsome former Textile Building at 295 Fifth Ave., a century-old monument to the city’s golden age of apparel-making, will soon sport a two-story penthouse addition — among other major...
NYC's lawlessness has gotten so bad that even criminals are giving advice
“This could be avoided if you just get the drugs off the street,” Lawrence Downey, a career criminal accused of fatally knifing a WWE star’s brother, told cops.
SL Green's One Madison tower is a $2.3 billion bet against COVID-19
Bucking fears of a bleak future for office buildings, SL Green is taking the plunge on a $2.3 billion, speculative project that bets on a revived city three years from...
Midtown tower at 183 Madison sells for $222.5 million
The 19-story 183 Madison Ave. has been sold to APF Properties for $222.5 million. The deal that closed late last month was marketed by CBRE’s Darcy Stacom, Ryan Spector and...
Private equity firm moving to Park Avenue tower
GoldPoint Partners is leaving Midtown South for Fisher Brothers’ 299 Park Ave. at East 48th Street. The firm, which manages more than $12 billion of private equity assets, has leased...
Discovery set to consolidate offices in Manhattan
Discovery Inc. has signed a lease for 362,000 square feet at 230 Park Ave. South and is telling employees on Thursday where in the Big Apple it will move its...
Well-heeled New Yorkers are flocking to the 'Fur District'
In the 1970s, Bennett Model commuted to work on 30th Street at his family’s company, a buying office that purchased luxury outerwear for stores around the world. At the time,...
Where Leonardo DiCaprio has been holing up between gigs
Leonardo DiCaprio is starring in a Charles Manson-themed movie by Quentin Tarantino, set to be released in 2019. This marks the actor’s first film since winning the Oscar for best...
NYC's most prolific 911 caller nabbed by cops
A homeless man has earned the distinction as perhaps the most prolific 911 caller in city history -- waging a nearly nonstop campaign of harassment that included more than 4,100...
Tommy Hilfiger is moving to Midtown
Tommy Hilfiger is leaving Manhattan’s Far West Side for a better fit in Midtown South. The apparel giant, a unit of PVH Corp., just signed a lease for 200,000 square...
Emergency text app snags larger space on West 39th St.
A company that created an app that lets you text 911 operators is moving into larger quarters in Midtown South. Fueled by everyday home and automobile accidents as well as...
Criminal with 158 arrests heads cop's 'Top 10' list
A fed-up NYPD commander has compiled a Top 10 list of the worst recidivist offenders in his precinct in an effort to keep them locked up — including a guy...
The luxury real estate boom taking over Midtown South
Take a walk down Park Avenue South, then up Lexington Avenue between 18th and 28th streets — a small crossroads of the NoMad, Flatiron and Gramercy neighborhoods — and it’s...
The rents in Midtown South are too damn high for companies
One of Manhattan’s hottest office building zones may be pricing itself out of the market. Midtown South, for years one of the most sought-after areas for companies — ironically, because...