On Politics: Hochul might be NYC transit's best ally in a century

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/20 8:12A Ross Barkan

Kathy Hochul’s tenure as governor has not always been smooth. Her approval ratings, at times, have been middling, and she barely survived a re-election challenge from a Trump Republican. Yet it’s becoming clear, more than four years after she...

Trump-appointed Morocco ambassador sells Fifth Avenue co-op for $18.8M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/13 11:33P Julianne Cuba

A prominent GOP fundraiser and U.S. ambassador to Morocco has sold his Upper East Side co-op for almost $19 million, records show. Richard Duke Buchan III, who founded the private investment firm Hunter Global Investors in 2001, offloaded the...

RXR buys stakes in Upper East Side luxury rental buildings

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/12 11:33P Natalie Wong, Bloomberg

RXR purchased stakes in a luxury apartment building and a string of townhomes on Manhattan's Upper East Side as demand for high-end residential properties persists. The New York-based real estate firm bought a roughly 45% stake in 265 E. 66th St....

Hospital for Special Surgery expands in Palm Beach with new partnership

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/11 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Hospital for Special Surgery is expanding its reach in Florida through a new partnership in Palm Beach that will help it tap a larger share of orthopedic patients. The Upper East Side-based specialty hospital will now have surgeons practicing at...

Ex-magazine executives turn the page on Park Slope brownstone

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 1/8 7:22A C. J. Hughes

A stylish experiment in family-based co-living has come to a profitable end. Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzman, Conde Nast executives-turned-interior designers, have sold the prewar Park Slope brownstone they co-owned and shared with Mitchell’s...

Northwell Health expands into Pennsylvania with health center in Dingmans Ferry

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/21 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

The region’s largest health system is moving west. Northwell Health is expanding into Pennsylvania with a new primary and immediate care center in Dingmans Ferry. The 2,800 square foot facility is the first of two primary care offices opening in...

StubHub co-founder sells Upper East Side apartment for $4M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/16 11:33P C. J. Hughes

A reseller of tickets has completed a resale of real estate. Tech entrepreneur Jeff Fluhr, a founder of ticket marketplace StubHub, and his wife, Claire, an interior designer, sold their Upper East Side co-op for $4.1 million, according to a tax...

Tribeca condo linked to billionaire hedge funder Tom Hill hits the market

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/12 7:16A C. J. Hughes

Hedge fund billionaire Tom Hill is looking to sell property in Tribeca. A shell company operated by Hill, a former vice chairman of Blackstone and the current chairman of the firm Two Sigma, has listed the 4,400-square-foot condo on Laight Street...

Prolific developer scoops up latest Long Island City site

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/8 11:33P Eddie Small

Prolific developer ZD Jasper is closing out the year with another major purchase in Long Island City. The Long Island-based real estate firm recently closed on buying a quartet of parcels on Davis and Pearson streets in the trendy Queens...

Construction ends on $125M Animal Medical Center expansion

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/8 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, the city’s only veterinary trauma center, is putting the finishing touches on a massive gut renovation and expansion on the Upper East Side, doubling its patient capacity in one of New York’s densest...

Adams issues order banning Israel divestment

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/4 11:33P Laura Nahmias, Bloomberg

Mayor Eric Adams issued a pair of executive orders aimed at addressing antisemitism, his office said, weeks before Zohran Mamdani takes his place. Adams, who recently returned from a trip to Israel, issued an executive order prohibiting city...

Demand for off-label treatment fuels New York’s alternative wellness economy

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/4 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Add blood plasma replacement to the list of things a well-heeled New Yorker can do with $10,000 and a couple of hours to spare in Midtown Manhattan. The new-age treatment is one of the more expensive of the myriad offerings in the city's...

On Politics: Will a Speaker Julie Menin be Mamdani’s friend, or foe?

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 12/3 5:36A Ross Barkan

Julie Menin is set, come January, to become the next speaker of the City Council. She’ll make history in at least two ways: She’s the earliest candidate to ever declare victory in the backroom contest among council members, and she’ll be the...

Map: See where the city’s newly popular 99-unit buildings are going

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 11/30 11:33P Eddie Small

New York developers learned a new favorite number this year: 99. The amount of buildings real estate firms planned with exactly 99 units skyrocketed in 2025 as companies attempted to navigate the rules and requirements of the 485-x affordable...

H&M to close two Manhattan stores in January

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 11/25 7:47A C. J. Hughes

Retail chain H&M will shutter two Manhattan locations in late January and lay off 62 employees from the stores, according to state layoff filings. The stores, located in the Upper East Side and Financial District, were underperforming, an H&M...