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Manhattan-based First Nationwide Title Agency (FNTA) is expanding both its New York City headquarters and its satellite offices on Long Island. The agency is expanding to 6,465 s/f at 220 East 42nd Street (aka the News Building), to occupy premises nearly twice the size of its existing office space. Move-in...

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a package of investments in Downtown Brooklyn that will ensure the district continues to grow. Ten years after the area’s major rezoning, the administration is seeking to knit together Downtown Brooklyn’s parks, commercial strips and institutions. Included in the package are redesigned streets, opening the ground floors of City-owned buildings to retail development, opening new parks and improving existing ones, and collaborating with the area’s 11 major education institutions to position Downtown Brooklyn as a national leader in technology.

By Dan Orlando “We are very much in the information business and the idea business. We feel that to generate information and to collaborate information you need an open environment,” said CBRE New Jersey’s senior managing director Jeff Hipschman. “In a more traditional environment, it’s work to have to collaborate.”...

Now in its diamond jubilee 60th year, The Realty Foundation of New York quietly but steadfastly continues to implement its core mission — aiding real estate professionals in need, financial distress and those who might be undergoing some form of personal hardship. More than ten years ago, we gave $10,000 to a broker who was faced with business reversals and was having difficulty making ends meet. Last week, that same broker called out of the blue to say he and his wife were eternally grateful for the funds that rescued him in a time of need, and he wanted to pay it back.

Weehawken, NJ Mayor Richard F. Turner joined officials from the Township of Weehawken and Lennar, one of the nation’s largest home builders, on Tuesday ( July 15) to cut the ceremonial ribbon on the newest luxury condo building on the Hudson River waterfront: 1000 Avenue at Port Imperial. The new, 74-unit...

By Steven Spinola The issue of landmarking and its relationship with New York’s need for additional housing, especially affordable housing, is receiving a great deal of attention. REBNY’s recently released a report entitled Housing Production on NYC Landmarked Properties is an informative and important contribution to this crucial public policy...

Snapple, and its parent company Dr. Pepper, has teamed up with Rechler Equity Partners, the largest owner of commercial real estate on Long Island, as the popular beverage company moves its Long Island operations to 51,734 s/f at Rechler’s 2004 Orville Drive North in Bohemia, NY. The announcement was made...