Thirty top real estate agents from seven leading brokerage firms achieved the esteemed New York Residential Specialist (NYRS) designation this spring, adding them to the ranks ofv an elite group.

When ACC Construction was hired to built out the offices of an investment banking firm, the challenge was to find a balance when creating an open, light space that was neither too traditional, too high-tech nor too stark and minimal.

By Roland Li

Billionaire Jeff Greene, who made a fortune betting against subprime mortgages, has picked up another sort of distressed asset. Greene’s firm, Coral Gables, FL.-based Florida Sunshine Investments, Inc., has purchased 62 Wooster Street for $26.27 million, according to city records. The building, which also has the address 476 Broome Street, was a planned luxury conversion by Trinity Development Group, with five residential units, a roof-top swimming pool and 4,000 s/f of retail space with art galleries.

By Daniel Geiger

U.N. Women, a newly formed office of the United Nations that became operational earlier this year, has taken 85,000 s/f at 220 East 42nd Street. Asking rents in the building are around $55 per s/f, although it was not clear by press time what the UN had negotiated to pay. The deal will bring a U.N. tenant back to the roughly 1.1 million s/f property after the United Nations Population Fund relocated from the building to Third Avenue last year.