(Illustration by Nate Kitch) Last year, residents began moving into TF Cornerstone’s massive new rental tower at 606 West 57th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, where (Illustration by Nate Kitch) Last year, residents began moving into TF Cornerstone’s massive new rental tower at 606 West 57th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, where...

Nonetheless, Extell’s Gary Barnett is banking on the fact that there’s one more round of luxury sales to capture with his 179-unit Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th Street...

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Clockwise from left: 30 Hudson Yards, Central Park Tower, Gary Barnett, Ric Clark, Stephen Ross and One Manhattan West One look at the Far West Clockwise from left: 30 Hudson Yards, Central Park Tower, Gary Barnett, Ric Clark, Stephen Ross and One Manhattan West One look at the Far West...

The 95-story tower at 217 West 57th Street will be the city’s tallest residential building at 1,550 feet, the only one with its own ballroom and the first to list a staggering 20 units at $60 million or above...

Clockwise from left: 250 West 57th Street, 1 Liberty Plaza and 135 Madison Avenue There was a noticeable slowdown in office leasing activity in October. Clockwise from left: 250 West 57th Street, 1 Liberty Plaza and 135 Madison Avenue There was a noticeable slowdown in office leasing activity in October....

On Billionaires’ Row, JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group have been battling with lenders at their planned supertall condo at 111 West 57th Street, which is facing cost overruns...

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Upon being named U.S. Secretary of Commerce, billionaire Wilbur Ross listed his penthouse at 171 West 57th Street for $21 million, after paying $18 million in 2007...

That's mostly thanks to Extell Development's Central Park Tower on Billionaires' Row at 217 West 57th Street...

But all the big-ticket office building loans can’t mask the near-absence of condo construction financing. Banks retreated from ground-up residential lending in 2016 amid fears of oversupply in the high-end condo market. Extell Development’s Central Park Tower, for example, could have conceivably made this ranking, but Gary Barnett hasn't been able to land the $900 million construction loan he desires to build the 88-story tower at 217 West 57th Street...

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From left: 53 West 71st Street, 147 Waverly Place, 150 Central Park South, and 157 West 57th Street The price cuts at Extell’s One57 just From left: 53 West 71st Street, 147 Waverly Place, 150 Central Park South, and 157 West 57th Street The price cuts at Extell’s One57 just...

The Manhattan magnate in August closed on a $1.2 billion fixed-rate mortgage for his namesake Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street...

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He was also the first major developer to begin building as the economy recovered from the 2008 crash, with his 1,005-foot-tall condo-and-hotel tower, One57. The building has a nearly $3 billion sellout price filed with the state attorney general and sale prices north of $6,000 per square foot. It also launched the Billionaires’ Row frenzy on West 57th Street...

AvalonBay Communities, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, has completed or begun more than 3,000 rental units in the city within the last 10 years. TF Cornerstone, the real estate firm run by brothers K. Thomas and Frederick Elghanayan, has developed around 4,000 rental units in the last six years, including the 1,028-unit 606 West 57th Street, slated to open in 2017...

Extell Development , for example, is seeking $190 million in EB-5 financing for its 95-story Central Park Tower at 217 West 57th Street and $200 million for its 80-story One Manhattan Square project at 252 South Street...

In 1882, the developers of the Rembrandt declared they were seeking “people of means and good social standing,” as owners. The building, at 152 West 57th Street, was New York City's first co-op, a form of vertical living that quickly became ubiquitous in the city and still makes up a good chunk of its housing stock...

Nest Seekers, meanwhile, saw listings jump more than 83 percent to $635.5 million, with star agent Ryan Serhant leading the way with mega listings like a duplex at 146 West 57th Street that’s asking roughly $15 million and a condo at 200 Chambers Street listed for roughly $13 million...

The apartment at 550 Madison Avenue is set to take the cake as the most expensive listing in New York City (and its biggest, at 21,000 square feet.) And other developers followed suit: The Zeckendorf brothers are asking $130 million for a triplex penthouse at 520 Park Avenue, JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group are reportedly going to launch $100 million-plus penthouses at 111 West 57th Street, and even Ben Shaoul’s Magnum Real Estate Group is mulling a seven-figure ask at his redevelopment of the Verizon building at 140 West Street...

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As of press time, it was also slated to be the tallest residential tower in the city at 1,494 feet, excluding its spire, followed by JDS Development and Property Markets Group’s 111 West 57th Street at 1,431 feet...

In fact, it specializes in the less-glamorous and lower-profile world of landlord-tenant disputes, though its work does run the gamut, from financing deals as small as $3 million, to sizeable development projects, mostly on behalf of the Durst Organization, like Via, the 709-unit tetrahedron-shaped rental rising on West 57th Street and the West Side Highway...