Eric Hadar and the Brill Building

Stonehenge Partners and Invesco Real Estate have sold the Brill Building at 1619 Broadway for $185 million to Eric Hadar and Merchants Hospitality, the New York Post reported. Adam Spies and Doug Harmon of Eastdil Secured brokered the deal, which included 30,000 square feet of air rights, sources told The Real Deal. In addition, eight new signs for roughly 5,000 square feet of advertising space were approved, which will bring in about $2 million per year in revenue.

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From left: Peter Hauspurg, Daun Paris Hauspurg, Barry Gosin and the property that traded hands in Bedford Corners

Newmark Knight Frank principal and CEO Barry Gosin bought the
Westchester County estate of Eastern Consolidated founders Peter
Hauspurg and Daun Paris Hauspurg, for $9.4 million. Gosin and his
wife Jacqueline closed on the purchase of the 26-acre parcel that
includes several residences at 617 Croton Lake Road in Bedford Corners
April 8, records filed with Westchester County yesterday show. Hauspurg
said he and Paris, who are married, no longer need all the space. “It
is a magnificent property,” Hauspurg said, but too large for them now
that their children have moved out. “We are rattling around [in it].”… [more]

New NYC landmarks from left: The Brill Building in Times Square, the Joseph B. and Josephine H. Bissell House in Midtown, the Germania Fire Insurance Company Building in the East Village, the Reformed Church in Staten Island

The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously today to extend the Upper East Side Historic District by 74 buildings and to grant landmark status to Times Square’s famed Brill Building, a Midtown townhouse, a former East Village firehouse and a Staten Island church. The commission also held public hearings on Coney Island’s former Shore Theater, Gramercy House on East 22nd Street and a proposed historic district in Addisleigh Park in St. Albans, Queens, among others. Click here for a full recap of today’s meeting. TRD… [more]