The firm is handling leasing at JDS Development Group’s 760-unit American Copper Buildings at 626 First Avenue as well as sales and leasing at Sheldon Solow’s 550-plus unit 685 First Avenue, among other high-profile projects...

The Manhattan magnate in August closed on a $1.2 billion fixed-rate mortgage for his namesake Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street. JP Morgan Chase was the lender. According to Real Estate Weekly, Solow is expected to use a little over half of the funds to pay off existing debt with Deutsche Bank, but that would leave him a good chuck of change to play while he’s busy developing a previously long-delayed residential tower at 685 First Avenue...

In September, more than half of the 2,218 units approved came from just three projects. Sheldon Solow’s 550-unit rental and condo project at 685 First Avenue was the largest among them...

After two years of decline, the city’s retail market is experiencing a sudden burst of activity. Retail tenants with an eye for a deal are makingAfter two years of decline, the city’s retail market is experiencing a sudden burst of activity. Retail tenants with an eye for a deal are making...

The developer’s $33 million site purchase was comprised of three buildings at 1711-1715 First Avenue...

From left: 400 West 61st Street, One Vanderbilt in Midtown East and Queens Park Plaza in Long Island City Though new Manhattan developments were the heaviest From left: 400 West 61st Street, One Vanderbilt in Midtown East and Queens Park Plaza in Long Island City Though new Manhattan developments were the heaviest...

Clockwise from top left: 15 Central Park West, One57, co-op at the Sherry-Netherland and renderings of the Charles and Carlton House If one had to Clockwise from top left: 15 Central Park West, One57, co-op at the Sherry-Netherland and renderings of the Charles and Carlton House If one had to...

Construction site at 57 Reade Street in Tribeca in 2009 (via Photobucket) and a snail In Hollywood, they call it “development hell.” Film productions become Construction site at 57 Reade Street in Tribeca in 2009 (via Photobucket) and a snail In Hollywood, they call it “development hell.” Film productions become...

The largest residential filing of the month goes to Sheldon Solow, who finally has plans for a 42-story, 550-unit apartment tower at 685 First Avenue, a parking lot across from the no longer empty development site at 626 First Avenue that Curbed once affectionately referred to as the First Avenue Mud Pit (Solow sold it to JDS Development in 2013)...

The top 10 is rounded out by Steve Witkoff, Fisher Brothers and Howard Lorber’s 111 Murray Street in Tribeca (155 units, $973 million sellout); Shaoul’s Post Luminaria at 385 First Avenue in Gramercy Park (138 units, $177 million sellout); Bizzi & Partners’ 96 Varick Street in Soho (115 units, no sellout price detailed); Toll Brothers’ 959 First Avenue in Turtle Bay (113 units, $271 million sellout) and Aby Rosen’s 100 East 53rd Street in Midtown (99 units, $763 million sellout)...

From left: the $118.5M penthouse listing at the Ritz Carlton, Israel Englander and his co-op at 740 Park Avenue This year may not be over From left: the $118.5M penthouse listing at the Ritz Carlton, Israel Englander and his co-op at 740 Park Avenue This year may not be over...

Meanwhile, Town is also making inroads on the Upper East Side, especially since it secured an exclusive to market Bluerock Real Estate’s the Charles, a new 30-unit luxury condominium at 1355 First Avenue...

Indeed, 217,000 square feet was listed last month at the West Tower of the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences, a 421,000-square-foot, under-construction research building on 29th Street between First Avenue and the East River, according to CoStar...

Town, which is set to launch sales at the 29-unit Charles condo at 1355 First Avenue in the coming weeks, had not yet replaced Price by press time...

With schools in Queens and throughout the city bursting at the seams, it ramped up its purchases from one per year with an average price of just over $8 million from 2004 to 2008, to eight acquisitions in 2009 and 2010 worth more than $135 million, Real Capital Analytics data showed. As a mark of the pressure on schools, the United Federation of Teachers filed suit in state court in Manhattan last month in an effort to force the city Department of Education to reduce the number of students in classrooms in Fresh Meadows, Queens. In its recent purchases, the city spent the most in Manhattan, where it paid $39 million in July for 10 East 15th Street near Union Square, a two-story building with 109,000 square feet of development rights; and $33 million to Solow Realty for a parcel with development rights for 236,000 square feet at the corner of 35th Street and First Avenue, in the footprint of the developer’s stalled mega-project...

Financial news has been bleak as of late, with the credit crisis and the collapse of Bear Stearns rocking the real estate world. Yet while sellers ofFinancial news has been bleak as of late, with the credit crisis and the collapse of Bear Stearns rocking the real estate world. Yet while sellers of...

Among his transactions in 2003, he considers the lease renewal for New York Presbyterian Hospital on 38th Street off First Avenue one of his biggest deals...