Lenox Hill Hospital plans to lay off ambulance workers, cut emergency services

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/10 12:42P Amanda D Ambrosio

Lenox Hill Hospital is planning to lay off more than a dozen EMTs and paramedics as it cuts back ambulance services in Upper Manhattan, according to the workers’ union. The Upper East Side hospital, which is part of Northwell Health, notified the...

Prime Manhattan, Brooklyn retail portfolio hits market seeking $60M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/10 7:03A Eddie Small

A major New York development team is hoping to take advantage of interest in the city's red-hot retail market by selling a portfolio of six storefronts across Manhattan and Brooklyn for $60 million. CBSK Ironstate is putting the retail portions of...

Eight-building Manhattan multifamily portfolio seeks $90M buyer

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/9 7:47A Eddie Small

A Long Island-based real estate firm is seeking more than $90 million for a portfolio of eight Manhattan residential buildings it has owned for decades. S&H Equities is looking to part with its buildings at 38-40 Carmine St., 90 Rivington St., 96...

Mount Sinai to study Alzheimer’s risk among Chinese Americans with federal backing

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/8 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Mount Sinai is planning to close a gap in clinical research on Alzheimer’s disease in Chinese communities with backing from the federal government. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine last month received a $25 million grant to study the...

Sotheby’s sells Manhattan office to Weill Cornell for $510M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/2 7:49A Natalie Wong, Bloomberg

Sotheby's sold its former headquarters on Manhattan's Upper East Side to Weill Cornell Medicine.  The auction house sold the property for $510 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The building, located one block from the East...

22-story residential project planned for Upper East Side

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 10/2 6:28A Eddie Small

A busy developer's plans for an Upper East Side site are coming into focus. Manhattan-based real estate firm Avdoo has filed plans with the Department of Buildings to construct a 22-story, 50-unit residential project at 242 E. 71st St., located...

Luxury co-ops relax decades-old rules to attract buyers in competitive market

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/30 12:33A C. J. Hughes

Co-op buildings, especially at the more expensive end of the real estate market, are trying to shake off their stodgy image. Building on past moves, the elite, often Upper East Side residences, which are essentially private companies in which...

Northwell consolidates women’s cancer care in new $14M center

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/29 12:33A Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Northwell Health is opening a new facility dedicated to women’s cancer in Lake Success, the latest in a series of new oncology programs in the works in recent years. The system will announce a new $14 million outpatient facility, known as the...

New York Blood Center faces lawsuits after data breach exposed 194K donors

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/26 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Blood donors from other states are suing the New York Blood Center for failing to promptly notify them about a cyberattack that compromised their records earlier this year, exposing thousands to identity theft and financial harm, legal documents...

Prolific developer scoops up additional Long Island City sites

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/24 12:33A Eddie Small

ZD Jasper is not done adding to its real estate portfolio yet. The prolific Long Island-based real estate firm has partnered with Flushing-based Winspire Development to purchase two more Long Island City sites, buying 46-34 11th St. and 10-54...

Architectural designer picks up a Fifth Avenue co-op for about $10M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/23 12:33A C. J. Hughes

The longtime partner of billionaire cosmetics executive William Lauder has a new home. Architectural designer and philanthropist Lori Tritsch has snapped up a two-bedroom co-op on Fifth Avenue for about $10 million, according to a tax record that...

Investor keen on rent-stabilized Bronx properties picks up nine more for about $20M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/18 12:33A C. J. Hughes

A landlord with an appetite for rent-stabilized housing has gobbled up more properties. Investor Yechiel Newhouse has purchased a nine-building, 249-unit portfolio in the South Bronx for $19.6 million, according to deeds that appeared in the city...

Boutique Noho building sells for almost $50 million

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/12 12:33A Julianne Cuba

A boutique residential and retail building in NoHo has traded hands for almost $50 million, records show. Jason Blacksberg, executive vice president and chief legal officer at Westchester-based firm Acadia Realty Trust, signed the documents...

Former employees sue Mount Sinai for allegedly shortchanging their pay

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/12 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio

Health care workers are suing Mount Sinai Health System for allegedly shortchanging them, a new court filing shows. Two former patient care associates, Juliette Mitto and David Gervais, filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on...

Upper East Side jeweler first to finalize home purchase at Surrey Hotel condo

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 9/4 8:29A C. J. Hughes

A low-profile project from the tight-lipped but ambitiously expanding luxury developer Reuben Bros. has officially opened. The project is the condo portion of the Surrey Hotel, a collection of homes inside the top six floors of the historic...