Kips Bay Decorator Show House at 161 East 64th Street (Credit: Sotheby’s)
Kips Bay showhouse at 161 East 64th Street lists for $16 million. Sandy-ravaged Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island is open for business. Cafe Wha? building in Greenwich Village on market for $11.5 million. City proposes making Fourth Avenue in Park Slope more pedestrian friendly. Three Bushwick buildings vie for landmark status. Read these stories and more after the jump.
Kevin Salmon
From the May issue: Kevin Salmon, formerly of the commercial brokerage Salmon & Marshall, has launched his own Manhattan company, Khizer Salmon Real Estate Professionals. The new firm will focus on retail condo and multi-family building sales in New York City and the tri-state area.
Khizer Salmon has set up shop in a 1,000-square-foot space at 505 Park Avenue, where Salmon works with two other agents and a marketer. [m0re]
Paul Massey and Bob Knakal of Massey Knakal
Industry movers and shakers were out in force at several parties Sunday and Monday nights for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual ReCon event in Las Vegas. See full story and photos after the jump.
From left: Aldon James, the club at 15 Gramercy Park South and Bradley Silverbush
A city housing court judge ruled last week in favor of the National Arts Club in its move to evict former president O. Aldon James, his twin brother John James and former club member Steven Leitner from their apartments at the storied organization’s 15 Gramercy Park South headquarters. [more]
From left: Manchester City’s Ferran Soriano and a stadium blueprint
The proposed soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park just got two major new supporters. The New York Yankees and Manchester City, which announced their plans today to create a new Major League Soccer team, said their first choice for a spot to play is the contentious Queens plot, Brownstoner reported. [more]
Victoria’s Secret CEO Lori Greeley and 2 Herald Square
Lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret inked a 60,000-square-foot lease to take two additional floors above its flagship retail location in Herald Square to use as offices, training space and storage.
The store, a division of the Ohio-based public company Limited Brands, signed a lease during the first quarter of 2013 for floors four and five at 2 Herald Square, a 380,000-square-foot office and retail building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, owned by Sitt Asset Management, David Sitt, a principal with the firm, told The Real Deal. [more]
From left: Larry Silverstein, 1 WTC and the Empire State Building
New York City’s commercial real estate industry is edgy over the possibility of the government yanking what has come to be known as terrorism insurance, the New York Post reported.
The program, called the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, comes up for renewal next year; if Congress does not extend it, the cost of doing business will increase for owners of iconic properties — their insurance premiums will rise and their buildings will drop in value. [more]
Seamless CEO Jonathan Zabusky and 1065 Sixth Avenue
Seamless, the delivery food website that yesterday announced its merger with competitor GrubHub, will keep its Midtown headquarters space, Crain’s reported. GrubHub will also maintain its Chicago headquarters.
“We don’t have a single office,” Seamless CEO Jonathan Zabusky — soon to become the president of the merged company — told Crain’s. “Both companies have storied histories in the cities they come from, so it was never a consideration to close one of the offices.” [more]
182 East 2nd Street and Airbnb founders (Building photo via PropertyShark)
Airbnb continues to spur legal issues in New York City. An administrative law judge has upheld a $2,400 fine against a man who allegedly violated the city’s illegal hotel law by hosting a guest at his condominium at 182 East 2nd Street using the short-term rental website, CNET reported.
However, Administrative Law Judge Clive Morrick dismissed building and zoning code violations against the man, Nigel Warren, and reduced the fine from $7,000, CNET said. [more]
With music thumping, alcohol flowing and choice cuts of steak tempting guests, the Newmark Knight Grubb Frank bash last night at the Marquee at the Cosmopolitan nightclub was one of the more festive of the parties surrounding the annual ICSC’s RECon in Las Vegas. See the photos after the jump…. [more]
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