The Real Estate industry’s girl power will be in the spotlight in midtown on Feb. 15.
The first annual Real Estate Weekly Women’s Forum will held at the McGraw-Hill Conference Center, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, at 49th Street.

Over 300 participants are expected to attend to hear from keynote speakers MaryAnne Gilmartin, of Forest City Ratner, and Leslie Himmel, of Himmel and Meringoff Properties, along with two dozen other presenters and panelists representing the industry’s best female talent.
Registration for this event is still open. Visit http://rewomensforum.com/ to sign up and to cast your vote for the most influential woman in real estate. Read more...

Stepping up their efforts to support NYU’s bid to create a school of applied sciences in Downtown Brooklyn, the borough’s business leaders today released a 90-second video demonstrating unified support for the initiative. 

Produced by the DUMBO BID and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the video predicts that Downtown Brooklyn is on the CUSP of something big.

CUSP is… Read more...

William Thompson, MWBE Team Chair for the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, welcomed Professional Women in Construction (PWC) at the recent MWBE Showcase highlighting contracting opportunities at the CUNY/CCNY Advanced Science Research Center project.
Andis Woodlief, MWBE Manager of Skanska USA Building, a co-sponsor of the Showcase, assisted the co-ordination of the event. Other sponsors included NYESD, DASNY, NYCSBS and CUNY. Governor Cuomo has… Read more...

By Rose Evans,
vice president of property management
Levin Management Corporation

Having been in the retail property management business for nearly six full decades, and with a 12.5 million-square-foot, 90-shopping-center portfolio, our firm has seen just about everything when it comes to natural disaster emergencies.
So when a crisis arises, we know what to look… Read more...

SJP Properties will start work on the third and final stage of its Waterfront Corporate Center in Hoboken, NJ, this fall after signing global learning giant Pearson as an anchor tenant.
At a press conference at the site yesterday (Tuesday) SJP president Steve Pozycki and Pearson boss Rich Glicin announced that the text book publisher would lease 200,000 s/f and relocate hundreds of New Jersey employees to a new, state-of-the-art office building on Hoboken’s waterfront.

The deal comes after New Jersey’s Economic Development Authority awarded Pearson an $82 million tax break to stay in the Garden State rather than relocate elsewhere. Read more...

Not too long ago, Joseph Burden, a partner at the law firm Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, worked with the owner of a small apartment building who suspected one of his tenants was dealing drugs.

In a police raid, 85 pounds of weed were seized from the man’s apartment.

It wasn’t quite the five-story marijuana farm discovered in the Bronx last week, but the case was still a serious one.

“The landlord lived in the building, and knew something was going on,” said Burden, noting that, for legal and business reasons alike, it’s in a multifamily landlord’s best interest to ensure that criminals are evicted, either by bringing the case to local housing court or filling out papers provided by the District Attorney’s office. Read more...

MKF Group hopes to fill the hole left by H&H bagels.

The investment management firm acquired the defunct bagel shop’s former headquarters at 639 West 46th Street with an $11 million bid at a bankruptcy hearing on Thursday.

“It’s a great opportunity for somebody who wants a full building presence with highway visibility,” said Adam J. Smith, MKF’s managing director of real estate. Read more...