Extell Development’s Gary Barnett and 655 Madison Avenue

New York

Development

Gary Barnett bags $1B+ loan for 655 Madison

Veracity Equities’ Edmond Li and 153 Elizabeth Street

Commercial

Veracity fights foreclosure as Nolita hotel auction gets pushed again 

NYC’s top deals: Kathryn Greenberg shells out $20M for 15 CPW pads

Attorney General Letitia James, HCR Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas and Peak Capital Advisors’ David Gomez with 48-33 47th St, 131 Greenpoint Avenue and 724 Metropolitan Avenue

Politics

The Daily Dirt: Sub-rehab disaster in the making

509 Madison Avenue and Kensico Properties' Nabil Chartouni

Kensico begins onerous land-use review for 509 Mad conversion

Bromley Companies CEO Nicholas Haines and 122 Fifth Avenue

Bromley lands $163M refi for Flatiron office building

Midtown South Community Council president John Mudd, Mayor Eric Adamsm and aerial of Midtown South

Lawsuit filed to nix Midtown South rezoning

Vornado Realty Trust’s Steven Roth and 770 Broadway; 250 Vesey Street and Robert Granieri of Jane Street Capital; 70 Hudson Yards and Related Companies' Jeff Blau and Deloitte's Joe Ucuzoglu; 660 Fifth Avenue and Ken Griffin of Citadel

Manhattan’s top office leases of 2025

Midwood Investment & Development CEO John Usdan and 200 Douglass Street in Gowanus BK

Midwood lands $200M loan for Gowanus project 

SL Green's Marc Holliday with 1350 Sixth Avenue, 245 Park Avenue and 750 Third Avenue

SL Green eyes $2.5B in property sales

Kering CEO Luca de Meo and Ardian CEO Dominique Senequier with 717 Fifth Avenue

Kering sells majority stake at 717 Fifth Ave for $690M

Corcoran’s Steven Cohen, Alex Lasry and 535 West End Avenue

FIFA World Cup host committee CEO pays $21M for Upper West Side penthouse

Douglas Elliman’s Nadia Bartolucci with 94 Douglas Street; Eckstrom’s Carlos Saavedra with 323 Clinton Street

Brooklyn townhouse developers score top contracts

Clockwise: The Wheeler withRob Speyer of Tishman Speyer, Brooklyn Tower of Larry Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, 2350 East 69th Street with Andrew Joblon of Turbridge Equities and St. George Tower at 111 Hicks Street with Joshua Wechter of East Gate Investors

Classrooms and clubs: Top Brooklyn and Queens retail leases

Paramount Hamptons’ Bill Locantro and the Oki-Do site in East Marion, New York

Tri-State

Recipe for inertia: North Fork eyesore persists

Steve Cohen with a rendering of Metropolitan Park; Bally’s CEO Soo Kim with a rendering of Bally's casino; Genting Americas East president Robert DeSalvio with a rendering of Resorts World

The Daily Dirt: Here’s what the casino teams promised

NYC’s top deals: 15 CPW condo snags $22M — almost double its 2008 price

Charles Cohen’s 750 Lex headed to auction block 

Bushburg buys FiDi office at steep discount for possible resi conversion

Sotheby’s International Realty’s Serena Boardman, 4 East 79th Street and Lone Star chairman John Grayken