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

CrainsNewYork.com (Advertising & Marketing) 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...

Julie Menin claims victory in council speaker race

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 11/26 5:16A Nick Garber

Julie Menin claimed victory in the hard-fought race for City Council speaker on Wednesday, as the Manhattan lawmaker said she had secured support from a large majority of the 51-person body — a milestone with implications for Mayor-elect Zohran...

H&M to close two Manhattan stores in January

CrainsNewYork.com (Biotech) 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...

Memorial Sloan Kettering posts $62M loss as Epic system costs mount

CrainsNewYork.com (International) 11/21 9:21A Amanda D Ambrosio

Memorial Sloan Kettering reported yet another deficit in the third quarter as increased labor costs and the rollout of a new electronic medical record system weighed on its financial performance, according to a new filing. The Upper East Side...

Upper East Side co-op bounces from one real estate clan to another

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 11/19 8:41A C. J. Hughes

An Upper East Side spread has passed from one real estate family to another.   The estate of Christiane MacArthur, a French former model whose in-laws owned Midtown office towers and much of Florida, sold a 3,500-square-foot co-op on Fifth Avenue...

Japanese firm scoops up Kips Bay apartment building for $10.4M

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 11/19 7:15A Eddie Small

A Tokyo-based real estate firm purchased a multifamily building in Kips Bay for $10.4 million, showcasing Japanese companies' continued interest in New York properties and the strength of the city's market-rate residential developments. Norbil...

Hackensack Meridian, Johns Hopkins target drug-resistant fungal infections with $35M accelerator

CrainsNewYork.com (Energy & Utilities) 11/18 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Hackensack Meridian Health and Johns Hopkins University are launching a consortium with big pharma to expedite the development of treatments for drug-resistant fungal infections. The group received a grant from the National Institutes of Health...

Former NY Gov. Spitzer pitches luxury Upper East Side tower

CrainsNewYork.com (Energy & Utilities) 11/18 11:33P Julianne Cuba

One of New York's disgraced former governors made a rare public appearance Tuesday when he made the case for his new luxury development on the Upper East side. Eliot Spitzer resigned from office in 2008 after getting caught in a prostitution...

Billy Joel sells lower Manhattan pad to his daughter

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 11/18 6:35A C. J. Hughes

The Piano Man has unloaded a NoLita home to a familiar face. Pop music icon Billy Joel sold his 1,600-square-foot condo on Elizabeth Street to his daughter Alexa Ray Joel, also a singer-songwriter, for $4.5 million, according to a deed that...

Upper East Side homeless shelter once opposed by Zabar’s heir sells for almost $15M

CrainsNewYork.com (Nonprofits) 11/14 7:53A Julianne Cuba

A contentious Upper East Side homeless shelter once fought by the heir to gourmet grocery store Zabar's has sold to new owners for just under $15 million, records show. Manhattan-based real estate firm Apex Investments, through the entity 91st...

NYPD officers kill man in shootout after he threatened people, Upper East Side hospital

NBCNewYork.com (Local) 11/14 2:41A The Associated Press

A man with a gun was killed Thursday in a shootout with police in New York City after he pointed his weapon at a man in an apartment building elevator and a deli worker and threatened to shoot up a hospital, police said.

Chelsea church to be replaced with 197-unit residential project

CrainsNewYork.com (Transportation) 11/13 6:52A Eddie Small

A pair of residential buildings are poised to rise on a former church site in Chelsea, as a developer's long-gestating plans for the property come into focus. Timber Equities intends to construct two 14-story, 145-foot residential buildings at...

Inside the Upper East Side’s ‘beauty longevity clinic’ where high-powered women and celebs get their...

NYPost.com (Metro) 11/13 2:18A Rachel Sacks

Georgia Louise — whose celebrity clientele includes Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Aniston — caters to the extravagant whims of the rich and powerful who want to look younger while living longer.

Chetrit's felony case for tenant harassment highlights rent-stabilized tensions

CrainsNewYork.com (Banking) 11/12 11:33P Aaron Elstein

In 2000 real estate investor Meyer Chetrit and a partner bought Park West Village, an 850-apartment complex on the Upper West Side. The seller was Leona Helmsley, New York’s “Queen of Mean,” who famously said “Only the little people pay taxes”...

JFK’s grandson joins race to replace Nadler

CrainsNewYork.com (Economy) 11/12 9:44A Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg

Jack Schlossberg, the 32-year-old grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, announced his bid for Congress, entering the race for a seat being vacated by veteran Manhattan lawmaker Jerry Nadler. Schlossberg will seek the Democratic nomination...