Category : Editorial Supplements

Amalgamated Bank’s Real Estate Finance Group is providing financing to a co-operative apartment building in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, that will be used to install a 21st century solar energy system by the end of this year. When the project is completed, residents of Sungarden Homes Association Inc. will reduce their...

A new program will make available $5.5 million in matching grants for New York City businesses most impacted by Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. This grant program – which is being funded with $5 million from the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, as well $500,000 from the...

By Faith Hope Consolo, chairman, The Retail Group, Prudential Douglas Elliman The Holidays are here! Particularly this year, when many of our friends, colleagues and neighbors continue to recover from the October hurricane, we should take a moment to be thankful for all we have and celebrate what’s really important,...

Datawatch Systems, a provider of managed security systems whose Manhattan office is located at 845 Third Avenue, has introduced the latest 24/7 off-site building monitoring and security technology solution to two prominent New York office buildings. Both of the buildings, the 78-story Metropolitan Tower, aka 142 West 57th Street, and...

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – November 19, 2012) – Brookfield Office Properties Inc. today announced that One New York Plaza, the company’s 2.6-million-square-foot office building located at the southern tip of Manhattan, reopened for business on Saturday, November 17. “Our property operations and maintenance personnel worked around the clock to remove...

By Gerald H. Morganstern Esq. Managing Partner Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP  The good guy guaranty, a form of limited guaranty and staple of many commercial office leases, is undergoing a transformation today as the market improves and landlords seek the opportunity to gain the edge.             In its...

By Ryan Dudley, CPA, CA, MIT, principal and International Tax Practice Leader, Friedman LLP Investors from around the world are attracted to US real estate as a stable long-term investment. Yet for many investors, the scale and complexity of the U.S. income tax system can become a post investment nightmare....

By Holly Dutton In an increasingly tight and expensive New York real estate market, some commercial developers are turning to law firms based in Westchester, where the quality is the same but the cost is less. Steven Goldman, a partner in the real estate practice of Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin &...