Great photos from the Gothamist and photographer David Vega showing Greenwich Village in the mid 1980’s. I recall taking the PATH train every weekend and walking around 8th Street…I’d hope that some day I could live and work in the Village…and now I do!
The Lone Star (pictured above) on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue was next to Time Equities’ offices at 55 Fifth Avenue. A new retail/apartment building is being constructed on the site.
Gammon Ragonesi Associates (GRA), one of New York City’s leading design and packaging firms purchased the 16th floor (6,333 RSF) of 131 West 33rd Street for $3 million.
Mort Zuckerman, the billionaire owner of real estate firm Boston Properties, is reportedly considering a run for U.S. Senate to replace Kirsten Gillibrand. The New York Times’ description of Michael Bloomberg perfectly articulated my opinion of Zuckerman…”a self-financed nonpolitician whose independence from special interest groups would let him apply strong medicine to the city’s fiscal ills, and damn the political consequences.”
Vornado is in the planning stages to build a $3 billion office building on the Hotel Pennsylvania site. They are ready for the perfect tenant to come along to occupy the Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed tower which will “soar to a few hairs short of the Empire State Building’s peak.”
Two commercial real estate blogs, Globe St. and The Real Deal, responded to the recently released TEI Office Condominium Market Report.
