157 Columbus Avenue

The Brodsky Organization is renovating its 70,000-square-foot office tower at 157 Columbus Avenue  to help attract prospective tenants, its first facelift in 30 years, the New York Observer reported. [more]

From left: Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern, Samantha Kleier Forbes, Michele Kleier and JP Forbes

Veteran Upper East Side brokers, including the Kleier family and Fox Residential chief Barbara Fox, gathered last night for the official opening of Brodsky Development’s 135 East 79th Street. While the event took place at an ad hoc sales center at 654 Madison Avenue built to resemble the building’s interiors, and not at the property itself, guests were suitably impressed by the detailed finishes on display and kept busy munching on tiny macaroni and cheese dishes and steak and arugula mini salads. See photos after the jump .