Donate Eight, a non- profit organization founded by members of the New York City real estate, building management and building service community in response to the immediate need to increase organ donation and awareness, will hold its first annual “Spring Cocktail Reception” on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall located at 1356 Broadway.
The organization is called “Donate Eight,” because it is possible for one registered donor to give up to eight life-saving organs: heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, and intestines. Donate Eight …

The King Low Heywood Thomas (King) Boys Varsity Soccer team is hosting its inaugural King Cares Mother’s Day 5K, a three mile walk/run in Stamford’s South End on Saturday, May 11. The proceeds will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Stamford and the Orphaned Starfish Foundation. The race is sponsored by Colliers International.
 
Each year, the Boys Varsity Soccer team creates a communal fund raising event to support various organizations. Last year, the team raised money, volunteered and donated sports equipment to the Boys and Girls Club of Stamford. Another year, the team adopted …

A recent decision by the Appellate Terms, First Department has given owners a second chance where a renewal lease offer is inadvertently made. The Rent Stabilization Code requires
owners to offer rent stabilized tenants a renewal lease between 90 and 150 days prior to the expiration of the lease. Unlike the law governing contracts in which an offer can be revoked
prior to acceptance, the courts have held that a renewal lease offer is binding once offered and cannot be revoked during the 60 day window period even if an owner comes to learn that the
tenant is not occupying the apartment as his or her primary residence.

Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, is delighted to announce that they have donated the use of 8,409 square feet of space at 100 Wall Street to Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), a non-profit organization that produces free cultural events all around Lower Manhattan and promotes artists and the arts through grants, artists residencies, professional development for artists and advocacy.
The latest announcement aligns with Savanna’s 2012 donation of the use of the entire 21st floor (11,250 square feet) at 80 Broad St. LMCC will …

Just shy of a year ago, Real Estate Weekly published an article entitled “Brain Drain Decimating Appraisal Profession.”
“There isn’t a child in the United States today who is saying, ‘When I grow up, I want to be an appraiser’,” said Marc J. Nakleh, a director at Cushman & Wakefield.
But with the recovering economy, there has been an increased demand for appraisal services and the national Appraisal Institute is seeking to draw a younger demographic to the profession with new education programs and professional designations.

Meet the women who make up three quarters of the Real Estate Weekly editorial staff.

Mary Ann Tighe, CEO of the New York Tri-State Region at CB Richard Ellis, started her career at Edward S. Gordon & Company in 1984.

Back then, comments that today could be considered sexual harassment were just part of the colorful personality of ESG’s eponymous founder. That kind of attitude wasn’t out of place with the times. In 1992, it was estimated that of New York’s 5,000 commercial brokers, only about 100 were women.

Finding a mentor who would help her learn the business was key to her success, says Tighe, who has gone on to pay that forward mentoring the likes of Rob Speyer.

When Real Estate Weekly hosted its inaugural Women’s Forum in 2012, it was one of Sarah Trefethen’s first assignment’s as a new reporter at Real Estate Weekly.

L-R: Sarah Trefethen, Linda O’Flanagan and Holly Dutton
“It was a fantastic introduction to the New York real estate industry,” said Trefethen. “My first impression was that it was an industry dominated by smart, strong women.”

Trefethen, along with editor Linda O’Flanagan and reporter Holly Dutton make up three quarters of the editorial staff at Real Estate Weekly, a publication that has chronicled the business of buying, selling an building New York for the past 65 years.

City policy is often more complicated than it seems.

Take bike lanes. New York City’s cycling corridors might not seem like a subject the chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York would spend much time pondering, but to Mary Ann Tighe they’re a fascinating example of how seemingly unrelated elements of city life tie into real estate.

“Many new laws touch upon the real estate life of the city, and we need to explain to people” the implications of their ideas, Tighe said.

Greg Burke, owner of Lane Office furniture dealership in New York City, celebrated his 30th year at his company by donating 20,000 meals to homeless New Yorkers as a corporate sponsor for the Coalition for the Homeless Grand Central Food Program. Throughout the month of October, employees at Lane Office volunteered at the food pantry at St. Bart’s Church in Midtown East. Along with his wife Christine and two sons, Charlie and Brian, Greg took a van trip throughout downtown Manhattan to hand out hot soup, bagels, and milk to …