Steve Cuozzo
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NYC's most fashionable shopping corridor is getting a mystery makeover
Two large office retail buildings are being demolished for new, mixed-use projects where East Midtown meets the Upper East Side.
Grand Central's hottest new restaurant was hiding in plain sight
The change of hands -- and of design and cuisine -- came as a surprise.
Blame gutless City Hall for NYC's ugly scaffolding menace
Manhattan looks like a shabby, bombed-out wreck because elected officials are too chicken to tangle with the opaque scaffold-rental industry and its army of inspectors and consultants.
Yeshiva University enlarges Midtown footprint with health sciences campus at Herald Center
The deal couldn’t come at a better time for landlord JEMB Realty Corporation, which needed a new tenant.
Owner of 60 Wall Street makes risky bet with $250M revamp
Although other FiDi buildings are competing for big tenants, eyes are mostly on 60 Wall. Paramount is marketing 60 Wall as “Wall Street But Not As You Know It.”
Din Tai Fung is one of NYC’s hardest reservations — but the soup dumplings are totally worth it
Get a table — if you can.
Midtown tower with famed lineage sells for first time in eight decades
An office building once owned by John Jacob Astor has sold for the first time in 82 years. Jay Properties bought 8 W. 38th St. from the Felder family for...
Aging NYC office building shows how to succeed despite trend toward shiny new towers
Let's say you own a 60-year-old, near-900,000 square-foot Midtown office building. Demand for space in Midcentury buildings is weak. A half-billion-dollar mortgage payment is coming up. Do you: Scramble to refinance...
Major developer sues city for $50M over stalled NYC riverfront project
Alexandria Real Estate Equities claimed it has tried for years to construct a third tower to complete its life sciences campus on First Avenue between East 28th and East 30th...
City Council defuses ‘nuclear bomb’ plan to regulate luxury restaurants at NYC hotels amid backlash
Menin told The Post on Monday the threat to restaurants was “an unintended consequence” of the original bill.
Century-old NYC office building signs two deals to buck trend toward newer towers
While some older buildings atrophy, others thrive. Two new deals totaling 104,000 square feet have brought George Comfort & Sons’ 960,000 square-foot 498 Seventh Ave. to 95% occupied.
StubHub expands footprint at WTC, scoops up shrinking Spotify's space
Spotify needed less space at the World Trade Center, but StubHub needed more. In a deal that should make everyone happy -- including landlord Larry Silverstein -- the online live-event...
Mayor Adams could learn a good lesson from Bloomberg's real 'city of yes'
Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for economic development, dreamed up, championed and nurtured some of Gotham’s most impressive, game-changing projects — from Brooklyn Bridge Park to Governors Island to Hudson Yards.
'Nuclear bomb' hotel rules will wreck top restaurants, too
In addition to subjecting hotels to absurd new union-dictated rules, the City Council bill would also bring to an end a golden age of great places to eat and drink within...
Whole Foods to beef up NYC footprint with new outpost in East Village as Manhattan real estate remains in flux
The circumstances reflect a Manhattan retail scene that continues to be in turbulent flux, struggling to get its juice back after the pandemic and -- maybe more critically -- the online...
Coqodaq is a great time with amazing fried chicken — despite what the self-serious liberal media says
It's a fun, popular restaurant, not a sign of 'end times' like the NYT claims.
NYC developer slams $600M suit by exclusive club as 'cynical ploy' for rent reduction
Michael Shvo calls Core’s claims a “cynical ploy” to “litigate in the press” for a rent reduction and to get out of paying other bills, including for a $10 million...
Staple Pigeon streetwear launches first US store in Soho
Streetwear clothing brand Staple Pigeon is launching its first permanent US store at 21 Mercer St. in Soho.
Salesforce reportedly orders staff to return to office 'four to five days a week'
Salesforce, the powerhouse software company that’s the largest tenant at 1095 Sixth Ave. at West 42nd Street, is poised to bring most of its employees back to their offices.
It's last call for iconic Midtown bar Neary's after nearly 60 years
Neary’s, the wonderful pub that Jimmy Neary launched at 348 E. 57th St. in 1967, closed its doors on Friday for the last time. Not surprisingly, it's been called the...