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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]

From left: Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Marc Frankel and James Kuhn, Fred Posniak of Malkin Properties and Eva Santiago of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

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]

Justin Elghanayan and rendering of 43-25 Hunter Street on left (Credit: Rockrose)

To make room for construction of the tallest residential building in Queens, Rockrose Development is in the midst of tearing down seven warehouses in Long Island City, the New York Observer reported.

The 50-story building in the Court Square area would also set a record for holding 975 units, more than any other building in the borough. (Sky View Parc has 448 units.) [more]

Cushman & Wakefield CEO Glenn Rufrano at company booth at ICSC

Watch this space for live updates from the 2013 International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon event in Las Vegas, on now through Wednesday. [more]

120 Park Avenue (via Flickr)

Bloomberg LP is taking 68,000 more square feet at its 120 Park Avenue address, the New York Post reported.

Although the media and financial organization is based at the Bloomberg Tower at 731 Lexington Avenue, the company leased 482,399 square feet, or 12 floors, at the 600,000-square-foot, 26-story Park Avenue office tower in 2011, as The Real Deal reported. Now, Bloomberg LP has taken additional space at for its Midtown East satellite office, including one full floor and a wraparound terrace, the Post said. [more]

Foxwoods Theatre

Britain’s biggest theater company has purchased a long-term lease for Broadway’s biggest venue, Foxwoods Theatre, for an estimated $60 million, the New York Times reported.

Ambassador Theater Group secured the lease that — if renewed — extends through 2073, the company’s executives told the newspaper. The 1,932-seat theater, at 213 West 42nd Street, is now home to “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” Live Nation put Foxwoods on the market in December after operating for the building owner, nonprofit New 42nd Street. Ambassador bought the lease through one of its subsidiaries, Lyric Theater LLC, the Times reported. [more]

Stuart Elliott

From the May issue: Legendary New York City newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin used to put out a year-end list of people who had wronged him.

Dubbed “People I’m Not Talking to Next Year,” the list, which ran in the 1960s, included people like “the big shot maitre d’ at the 21 Club” who didn’t let him in, and Pepe, a bar owner who was trying to extort Breslin with an inflated bar tab. [more]

9/11 Memorial

World Trade Center Properties, an affiliate of Silverstein Properties, lost its bid to prevent American Airlines from using “act of war” as a defense to its alleged negligence in the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bloomberg News reported. [more]

Amanda Burden and Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden may get a new lease on life from the Bloomberg administration – a permanent one.

The City Planning Commission will on Wednesday consider a proposal from commissioner Amanda Burden that could effectively turn a 15-year extension of MSG’s lease  into one with no expiration date, Capital New York reported. The proposal contains a loophole that allows MSG to remain atop Penn Station in perpetuity, if it comes to an agreement with the three railroads beneath it to make infrastructure improvements. [more]