Wall Street wants in on Crumbl’s oversized sugary cookies

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/19 5:12A Will Kubzansky, Bloomberg

On a recent afternoon on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, young patrons queued up for a TikTok-famous treat: a $5 cookie from Crumbl. Just outside, Merle Behrens, 17, was posing for a photo with the chain’s signature pink box in hand. She purchased...

Deals of the Day: June 17

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/17 6:22A Julianne Cuba, C. J. Hughes, Edd

Leases Industry City lands new retail tenant Address: Industry City Building 4, Brooklyn Landlord: Jamestown, Belvedere Capital and Angelo Gordon & Co. Tenant: Artist & Craftsman Supply Lease size: 10,101 square feet Lease length: 10 years Asset...

Blood Center's $750M expansion on UES stalls years after rezoning

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/11 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Nearly four years after the city greenlit a controversial proposal from the New York Blood Center to build a 16-story life science tower on the Upper East Side, the project remains at a standstill. The City Council in 2021 paved the way for the...

Upper East Side outpaced Lower Manhattan in luxury residential sales last week

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/9 9:25A Julianne Cuba

The Upper East Side is giving Lower Manhattan a run for its money when it comes to luxury residential sales. The number of contracts signed for properties above $4 million in the tony neighborhood have outpaced the downtown market in four out of...

Deals of the Day: June 5

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/5 8:01A Julianne Cuba, C. J. Hughes, Edd

Leases Recruiting firm for legal industry inks Rockefeller Center deal Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan Landlord: RXR  Tenant: Macrae Lease size: 5,503 square feet Lease length: Five years Asking rent: $102 per square foot Asset type:...

Housing, casinos divide borough president candidates in Manhattan and Bronx

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/4 12:48A Nick Garber

Lively races for borough president are playing out this month in Manhattan and the Bronx, sparking interest from business donors keen on influencing officials who hold a key voice in development fights. Though often derided as powerless, borough...

Two life science firms ramp up footprints in Industry City

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 6/4 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Two biotech companies are expanding their footprints at Industry City amid a citywide slowdown in life science leasing activity. The firms, Cresilon and Rumi Scientific, signed multi-year leases to occupy more than 61,000 square feet of lab space...

Knicks’ chief orthopedist keeps the team ready for big games that go down to the wire

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/29 9:25A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Dr. Answorth Allen’s career and love for New York sports fit together like a healthy knee joint. Allen is the associate surgeon-in-chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and the chief orthopedist for the NBA’s New York Knicks. A sports fan and...

At a Glance: May 29

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/29 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

CORRECTION: The number of emergency room visits at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in the six months ending in February was approximately 48,000 and the number of admissions across both the health system's Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses, not just...

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center forges ahead on state-funded cancer center

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/27 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is mapping out construction of a new oncology hub in Queens as part of a state-funded effort to modernize struggling safety-net hospitals. The 408-bed facility, based in Richmond Hill, requested approval last week...

Next generation of high-end sushi restaurants comes at a lower price

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/23 12:33A Kat Odell, Bloomberg

New York City is a global capital for high-end sushi, home to some of the most sought-after omakase experiences outside of Japan. Those chef’s choice meals have also become extremely pricey—especially compared to similar experiences in Tokyo....

NYU Langone gets $60M gift to expand women’s health services in Midtown

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/21 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

NYU Langone is getting a $60 million gift to ramp up women’s health services in Midtown, it announced Wednesday. Billionaire philanthropists Allison and Roberto Mignone donated $50 million to the hospital system to expand and integrate primary...

Hedge fund billionaire looks to sell Fifth Avenue pad for $40M

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/16 11:26A C. J. Hughes

John Griffin, the founder of former hedge fund Blue Ridge Capital, which had $9 billion in assets at its 2013 peak and $6 billion when it wound down four years later, is looking for a nice return on an Upper East Side home. Griffin has listed a...

The top 9 new places to eat, drink and party in the Hamptons this summer

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/16 12:33A Kat Odell, Bloomberg

Welcome to the unofficial start of the Hamptons summertime dining season. It will be as busy as ever out on the East End. There’s been brisk demand for houses among well-heeled buyers, according to a first-quarter report from Douglas Elliman....

Northwell gets support for $2B Lenox Hill project with new mental health clinic

CrainsNewYork.com (Real Estate) 5/15 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Northwell’s Lenox Hill Hospital has committed to building a new mental health facility on the Upper East Side so it can win key political endorsement for its controversial $2 billion expansion. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine reached a...