PR visionary Howard Rubenstein dead at 88
Howard J. Rubenstein, the New York public relations guru whose firm represented some of the city’s leading real estate players, died today at the age...
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Douglas Durst named new chairman of REBNY
The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the City’s leading real estate trade association, today announced that Douglas Durst, chairman of The Durst Organization,...
Cuomo taps industry leaders to help reopen New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday (Tuesday) named real estate, construction and banking leaders to a new advisory board tasked with guiding New York’s coronavirus reopening strategy....
REBNY members make promise to New Yorkers
Owners representing more than 150,000 rental units in the City, and the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the City’s leading real estate trade...
Census count gets underway
Would anyone who wants a share of $74 billion please stand up. The 2020 Census officially gets underway tomorrow (Thursday) and the real estate industry...
Tributes flow for New York champion, Jay Kriegel, dead at 79
New York’s real estate and political communities were united in their grief this week following the death of Jay L. Kriegel. The 79-year-old development advisor...
Strong REBNY good for New York, say industry leaders
Legendary New York dealmaker Jay Kriegel said the role of the Real Estate Board of New York has never been more important. Kriegel, whose name...
Héctor Figueroa: Remembering A Life Lived for Others
BY WILLIAM C. RUDIN & JAMES WHELAN Albert Einstein once said that “a life lived for others is a life worth living.” Last Thursday, Hector...
Tributes flow for workers’ rights champion, Hector Figueroa
Héctor Figueroa, president of the country’s largest building workers union, 32BJ SEIU, died on Thursday, July 11, at the age of 57. The union said...
Big Apple issues a hot potato when it comes to building for the future, say developers
While infrastructure and affordable housing were on the minds of panelists at New York University’s Schack Institute’s annual conference on capital markets, a tide of...