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Today’s Garment District is looking better than ever
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Today’s Garment District is looking better than ever

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By Barbara Blair Randall President, Garment District Alliance The Garment District Alliance has supported the positive development of its iconic neighborhood for more than 20 years, making investments and providing services and programs that leverage market-driven momentum, and positioning the neighborhood for continued growth. That was never more true, or...
Princely sums becoming the norm for Kings County retail
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Princely sums becoming the norm for Kings County retail

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By Geoff Bailey, SCG Retail From Shanghai to Paris, Tokyo to London, the world’s greatest cities still struggle to top Manhattan. But as of late, the borough from across the river has been taking headlines away from the Big Apple. And it’s not just the Brooklyn Nets who have outshined...
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Physical security the silent sentinel of New York’s iconic properties

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By Robert Smilowitz, PhD, P.E., principal, Weidlinger Associates, Inc. As the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, One World Trade Center is both a landmark and a challenge to risk-takers. It was to be expected that someone would eventually evade security guards and climb to the top of the tower....
Squeezing out evidence of apartment overcrowding
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Squeezing out evidence of apartment overcrowding

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By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman For middle class American society, the idea of the minimum amount of space one would want to live in is vastly larger than standards accepted as absolutely normal in other times, places, and cultures. Consider that a 64 square foot igloo is commonly said to comfortably house five adults. However, any New York landlord looking at five adults living in an 8 ft. x 8 ft. apartment would be on the phone with counsel to find out what kind of proceeding to bring for the apparent overcrowding. And in that situation, the landlord would be correct. That would indeed be overcrowding.
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“Glow-in-the-dark” lights a lifesaver in emergencies

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By Evan B. Lipstein In the wake of super storm Sandy many NYC residents are still struggling to get their properties up and running. The storm shut off the lights and flooded basements that were equipped with generators designed to offer redundancy to light the property’s hallways and common areas. Owners are now tasked with re-examining their buildings’ safety systems. Everyone should be thinking not only about backup power and emergency lighting, but also the idea of what system redundancies and other methods might be used to improve safety.
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Better to be safe than sorry

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By Jay L. Hack In law school, law students study a case called The TJ Hooper. A federal appellate court, in 1932, decided that a tugboat operator was negligent because the boat didn’t have a radio, even though tugboats generally did not use radios at that time. The court decided...
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Former Domino Sugar site will be boon for jobs, economy

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Two of New York City’s top officials, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen and City Planning City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod deserve a lot of credit for working out an agreement with Jed Walentas of Two Trees Management on the redevelopment of the old Domino Sugar site....
Radio Shack shake-up a good thing for shoppers
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Radio Shack shake-up a good thing for shoppers

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By Faith Hope Consolo, chairman Retail Sales, Leasing and Marketing, Douglas Elliman It’s not exactly surprising that yet another electronics retailer, Radio Shack, is retrenching, announcing earlier this month that it will close 1,100 of its more than 5,000 stores around the United States. Competition has killed more than one...
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Time for real estate companies to take look at tech budgets

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By Jennifer McLean, CFO, GFI Capital For much of the real estate industry, new technologies have been viewed as minor annoyances — unnecessary distractions to a well-oiled machine. After all, why allocate capital to a new digital infrastructure when you can just, you know, buy a new building? However, as...
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Publishing neighborhood now making the headlines

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By Christel Engel, executive managing director, Colliers International I am fortunate to have witnessed, and participated, in the renaissance of Midtown South over the course of my career. When I earned my New York Real Estate license in 1986, off the avenues between 15th and 30th Streets was a manufacturing...