City Ballet conductor orchestrates nearly $6M sale of Central Park West home

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 4/10 7:44A C. J. Hughes

Andrew Litton, the musical director of the New York City Ballet, has passed the baton when it comes to his Central Park West apartment. The globally-prominent conductor has sold a three-bedroom, three-bath co-op at West 69th Street, near the...

New Yorkers are lining up to eat in the city’s smallest dining rooms

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 4/9 6:25A Andrea Strong, Bloomberg

2025 was supposed to be the year of the maximalist restaurant in New York City. Buzz as big as the arena-size spaces heralded the openings of spots such as Crane Club, La Tête d’Or and Time & Tide. Instead, it’s the city’s tiny dining rooms that...

Celeb hangout Nello relocating from the Upper East Side to an SL Green tower in Midtown

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 4/4 12:33A C. J. Hughes

SL Green Realty has snagged a celebrity hot spot for a Midtown tower. Nello, which shuttered its Upper East Side location last year after allegedly being on the hook for millions in back rent and utility bills, will relocate to a retail berth at...

Upper East Side corner lot to get 34-story residential tower

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 4/3 7:51A Julianne Cuba

A 34-story residential building is poised to replace a corner lot on the Upper East Side now occupied by several low-slung properties, records show. Midtown-based Skyline Developers , which was started by Orin Wilf in 1999, filed permits with the...

Weill Family Foundation donates $50M for new cancer research hub

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/27 4:35A Amanda D Ambrosio

Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill has donated $50 million to launch a cancer research hub focusing on how diet and metabolism affect patients’ reactions to cancer treatments, he announced Thursday. The Weill Cancer Hub East – a partnership between...

Bookstore ends brief chapter on the Upper West Side

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/27 1:03A C. J. Hughes

Change seems to come naturally to some areas. Gentrifying post-industrial swaths of Brooklyn and Queens, perhaps, are used to blocks that morph in quick time. But differences may be harder to swallow in more established neighborhoods, such as the...

Judge appoints receiver for Chetrit-owned apartment complex in Queens

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/26 7:28A Aaron Elstein

A federal judge appointed a receiver to manage two market-rate apartment buildings in Queens after their owner, Meyer Chetrit, fell behind on nearly $2 million in utility bills and risks putting thousands of residents in the dark. The appointment...

Avdoo & Partners in contract to buy Hudson Square office building

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/25 8:41A Julianne Cuba

A Hudson Square office building is in contract to be scooped up by Midtown-based real estate firm Avdoo & Partners, records show. Shlomi Avdoo , founder and CEO of the 10-year-old company, signed the March 21 memorandum of contract to acquire the...

At a Glance: March 25

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/25 12:33A Amanda D Ambrosio, Ethan Geringe

FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS: New York could lose 82,000 health and social services jobs next year if the federal government passes large-scale cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to a new estimate from the...

Celebrity chef Daniel Boulud keeps striving to stay relevant in the city’s restaurant scene

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/24 1:03A Eddie Small

Acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud's career in the restaurant industry has spanned decades and encompassed everything from getting a portrait of himself in a Second Avenue subway station to making a cameo on the hit television show "The Bear." And it...

Historic FiDi office building sells for $20M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/21 1:03A Julianne Cuba

A historic FiDi office building has been sold to a Miami-based investment firm that has scooped up other troubled properties in the city, records show. Rialto Capital Advisors, on behalf of the lender Wilmington Trust, acquired the 5-story...

Fashion show stylist lists Chelsea townhouse for about $15M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/18 1:03A C. J. Hughes

Karl Templer, who has helped style marketing campaigns for fashion brands including Dior, has put his own fashionable address up for sale. The property, a red-brick, stoop-fronted townhouse on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, is listed at $14.5...

Bette Midler family-linked trust scores Flatiron co-op for about $6M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/17 7:35A C. J. Hughes

The family of entertainer and philanthropist Bette Midler has purchased a Flatiron District co-op from a developer known for downtown office-to-residential conversions. A trust in the name of Midler’s husband, performance artist Martin von...

Long Island commercial landlord unloads Park Avenue co-op for about $11M

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/14 8:31A C. J. Hughes

Gregg Rechler, whose portfolio of commercial properties is one of the largest on Long Island, has found a taker for a smaller asset: his own apartment. The managing partner of Rechler Equity Partners and a member of a three-generation family of...

Condo project to rise on Long Island City parking lot

CrainsNewYork.com (Sports) 3/14 7:38A Eddie Small

A busy developer in the city just got a little busier. ZD Jasper, a real estate firm based on Long Island, plans to build a condo development at 37-28 Crescent St. (also addressed as 37-20 Crescent St.) in Long Island City, according to city...