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Byline: C. J. Hughes Jeffrey LeFrancois, 39 Executive director, Meatpacking District Management Association Compared with its grittier post-industrial self, the Meatpacking District is now cleaner, calmer and more upscale. Jeffrey [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Seung Kyu Kim, 37 Executive chef, Coqodaq For Seung Kyu Kim, it's not enough for the fried chicken at his wildly popular eatery Coqodaq to just [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Lauren Crowley Corrinet, 39 Vice chairman, CBRE On the most basic level, Lauren Crowley Corrinet is a real estate broker. But her job at CBRE, analyzing [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Photographer Annie Leibovitz seems to have had a good eye for a downtown real estate investment. The chronicler of the powerful and famous for magazines such [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes It may be a small purchase by the standards of Qatar, the natural gas-rich Middle Eastern nation that's a massive investor in New York real estate. [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Another apartment building has traded at a major loss. The same week that a Brooklyn Heights rental went for less than it cost in the face [...]

Byline: Nick Garber And C. J. Hughes A new bribery investigation into Eric Adams' administration has swept up a leading real estate firm that handles city leases and two senior [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A global insurance executive has left the High Line. Mike Wells, a former CEO of British financial giant Prudential PLC, has sold his three-bedroom unit at [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Ireland's ambassador to the United Nations has a new home. Fergal Mythen has purchased a four-bedroom penthouse at the condo tower at 695 First Ave. for [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A new school is rising in the Hub, a faded South Bronx shopping district slowly working to restore its luster. The Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Jay Brown, who co-founded the entertainment powerhouse Roc Nation alongside billionaire hip-hop entrepreneur Jay-Z, has picked up a pad in SoHo. The home, a full-floor condo [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Fans of trimmings -- not the Thanksgiving kind, but the sequins, tassels and ribbons that give a little pizzazz to clothing -- suffered a blow in [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Sarah Cole, the general manager of trendy Manhattan izakaya joint Kin Gin, has worked for some of the hippest Japanese restaurants in New York. The accomplishment [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes High-profile defense attorney Mark Heller, whose occasionally controversial professional conduct recently forced his retirement, has put his Upper East Side townhouse on the market. The landmarked [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Architect Morris Adjmi, a go-to source for some of the city's top luxury developers, is saying goodbye to his own high-end West Village home. The six-bedroom, [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A longtime hub for Regency armchairs, Chippendale chests and Louis XV-style tables may be on its last legs. Earlier this month a developer acquired the Greenwich [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A couple with ties to the cryptocurrency world has picked up a penthouse on the Lower East Side in the largest deal in the neighborhood in [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A large industrial site in leafy Boerum Hill that the city recently rezoned for housing will be developed by busy builder Yitzchok Katz. Property records made [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A beer magnate may be toasting to a sale on the Upper East Side. Luis Felipe Padreira Dutra Leite, the chief financial officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev, [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Joe Jackson, the Grammy- winning singer of 'Steppin' Out' and other hits, and an emblem of 1980s downtown cool, has sold his duplex co-op in Hudson [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Housing production ended 2023 with a whimper. In the fourth quarter developers filed permits to build 4,046 units, down slightly from the 4,190 units filed for [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Last month's blockbuster deal for the storefront at 717 Fifth, which Gucci owner Kering bought from Jeff Sutton's Wharton Properties for a whopping $963 million, delivered [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A sloping project that teetered after original developer HFZ Capital Group went bankrupt during the pandemic continues to right itself under its new owners. One High [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes The year began with predictions that Turtle Bay would be hot in 2023. A recent deal suggests the prognosticators might have been onto something. The estate [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Douglas Elliman, pummeled by the home-sales slowdown, is planning to leave one of its longtime Midtown homes for a smaller office, dealing another blow to the [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes A 1980s Murray Hill tower with Hollywood ties--and a key role in zoning history--is embracing a third act. Morgan Court, a 40-unit condo known as a [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes Hollywood may be shut down by labor strikes. But the movie business still seems to have the power to pull real estate deals across the finish [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes To contend with the city's housing crisis, policy makers and business leaders have proposed solutions that could significantly rearrange the landscape. Converting offices into housing, permitting [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES You're not having a 1980s flashback: Japan does indeed appear to be on a buying spree in New York once again. Four decades ago Japan owned [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A massive conversion project in West Chelsea is set to test whether large offices can still find takers in a work-from-home world where corporate tenants are [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES The developer of a long-delayed condo conversion in Hell's Kitchen has put its project into bankruptcy protection to stave off a foreclosure auction, in line with [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Even in the summer swelter, it might take more than a private pool to sell a Tribeca pad. Star turns on TV might not be enough [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes The way some real-estate boosters tell it, the entire office market isn't in trouble. The problem instead is limited to old, small and bare-bones buildings. Indeed, [...]

Byline: C. J. Hughes The April 25 sale of a failed conversion project in Turtle Bay was yet another reminder of the spectacular stumbles of a development arrangement that sought [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Richard Kirshenbaum, an advertising executive who handled marketing for Target and other major companies before going on to gently mock the wealthy and powerful in newspaper [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Sometimes email just won't do. In a case with possible implications for commercial landlords across the city, a justice in state Supreme Court in Queens County [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Although homelessness in New York may be hitting Great Depression-levels, creating housing for those most in need can still encounter the same old major not-in-my-backyard roadblocks. [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A top Wall Street analyst is warning that a storm is coming for office buildings that could rival the Great Recession. Lisa Shalett, the chief investment [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A pair of well-regarded Japanese restaurants that helped imbue parts of Midtown East with a Tokyo-style speakeasy vibe is shutting down. Aburiya Kinnosuke, at 213 E. [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A blue-blood bastion is lashing out at a black-tie mainstay on the Upper East Side. The Metropolitan Club, a members-only retreat founded by the Morgans, Whitneys [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Warmer weather probably won't do much to improve the dispositions of some commercial landlords. Offices in Manhattan are still about as empty as they were during [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A Brooklyn couple--she's an interior designer and author; he's a house-music disc jockey who's worked with Madonna--have shown they have a knack for real estate. Athena [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES ANDREW L. ROSENBERG, Cassin & Cassin Andrew L. Rosenberg, a real estate- focused partner at Cassin & Cassin, is a big believer in balance. Though many [...]

Byline: EDDIE SMALL And C. J. HUGHES One week after Jacob Garlick's Virginia firm Abraham Trust shocked the New York real estate world with its surprise winning bid of $190 [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Extell Development appears to have scored a major bargain on the Lower East Side amid a soft housing market and an ongoing legal fight. The luxury [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES As remote work becomes the rule rather than the exception, some developers are betting that employees will want to live a few steps from their offices [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Tumbleweeds may be blowing through commercial buildings, prompting calls to turn some of the millions of square feet of unused offices into apartments. But not so [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES Suzy Welch--widow of business management icon Jack Welch, former General Electric chief executive--might be best known as an author and TV commentator. But the Harvard MBA-holder [...]

Byline: C. J. HUGHES A century-old Manhattan hotel for veterans that closed during the pandemic is nearing a sale but needs to untangle legal issues first. The Soldiers, Sailors, Mariners, [...]