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At One Times Square, Jamestown has opened the immersive "Times Travel," a multi-sensory, multi-floor journey through the history of Times Square and the New Year's Eve Ball.

By Lois Weiss The Trump Administration has just turned down a pardon for tech entrepreneur and comedian, Ari Teman, who spent over seven months in Federal lockup after trying to collect funds owed to his intercom company by two New York City landlords and a co-op, which variously claimed in court they hadn’t signed the electronic documents or didn’t even do business with his firm, despite having his intercom system on the door of their buildings. Speaking exclusively to Betwe

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By LOIS WEISS American Express and Silverstein Properties celebrated the groundbreaking of the new American Express Tower in Lower Manhattan on July 9, 2026 with an overflowing crowd in a tent erected on site. "Our commitment to this site has become a continued legacy, where now power meets permanence," said Lisa Silverstein. "My father began this journey almost 25 years ago in 2001, passing me the baton of responsibility a few years ago. I carry this torch, stretching the a

https://commercialobserver.com/2026/07/china-camera-insta360-lease-times-square/ Insta360, a China-based global optics and camera company, has signed its first U.S. lease for a 1,100-square-foot store at 1515 Broadway in Manhattan’s Times Square, Commercial Observer has learned.

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By Lois Weiss Saturday, April 4, 2026 AI and tech entrepreneur and investor, Gonzalo Hevia Baillères, who was outed as Emma Watson’s boyfriend by the Post's Page Six, has now been outed as the mystery company that could pay the highest average office rent in the city for a portion of the top floor of 9 W. 57th St. Baillères’ multinational holding company, HBeyond, currently operates out of New York, Miami and Mexico City where his family owns other companies. Newmark confir

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Sunset Studios at Pier 94, is a joint venture between Hudson Pacific Properties, Blackstone and Vornado that is located on the Hudson River right off the West Side Highway around West 55th Street.

Ryan Seacrest hosts TV broadcast for New Year's Eve from Times Square By LOIS WEISS There is nothing like being in Times Square for New Year’s Eve when tons of colored confetti rains down and the speakers blare Auld Lang Syne and then Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York. Thousands of people arrive early in the morning – many wear diapers because no porta pottys are supplied – and are then crammed into giant barricaded pens below the Red Staircase at West 47th Street that ru

November 27, 2025 By Lois Weiss The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade can be a chilly but wonderful day for families but the day before the parade is filled with its own magic. That Wednesday, Macy’s elves lay out all the balloons around the Museum of Natural History and begin adding helium at the same time the floats are lined up along Central Park West. The inflation event has become an annual "thing," especially since it gets dark after 4 p.m. As the day goes on, the floats get p

https://commercialobserver.com/2025/11/rippling-relocates-133k-sf-penn-district/ Rippling is AI powered human resources. They are growing fast and on a sublease from Spotify at 4 World Trade Center. But the company wanted a loft-like building in Midtown and worked with Sacha Zarba and Jeff Fischer of CBRE to find a new home. With this move to Vornado's 330 West 34th Street, repped in house by Jared Silverman, that nearly doubles their space from 69,000 square feet to 133,000

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https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/real-estate/why-new-nyc-office-towers-are-breaking-ground/ As rents make development feasible, developers are buying buildings and bulking them up with amenities and also breaking ground for new office towers But will the next NYC mayor become a black swan and kill the golden goose?

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Developers are building lots of studios in New York City and its environs. There are incentives here but other states and countries are also upping the ante. Even the latest Star Wars movies and series have decamped to England and Europe leaving a lot of sad costumers, hairdressers, prop makers, carpenters and others behind in Los Angeles. Is there enough business for all of the new NYC studios? Some say no and believe some of the Johnny Come Lately's will eventually go bust

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https://commercialobserver.com/2025/05/chrysler-building-sale-2025/ Chrysler Building on the Market for first time in nearly a decade

By Lois Weiss Binyan Studio render of the TenBerke Architects designed 72-story tower for 395 Flatbush Avenue A new residential building,...

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By LOIS WEISS Adidas is moving its Soho Origins shop down the block to 135 Spring St. which was a former Valentino location. The new...

Crocs has leaped over Old Navy -- which will become a Primark store - and landed at the former Vans at 140 West 34th St while 152 West...

President Trump at Inauguration Eve Rally says, "This nation belongs to you." By Lois Weiss Two things were clear from spending time in Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President: We are, as he proclaimed, in “the dawn of a Golden Age of America” and son Barron is the next most popular Trump. This second inauguration of President Trump brought out a gaggle of real estate investors and longtime friends. Among those at various events were

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By LOIS WEISS The Upper West Side of Manhattan was rocking with street life and visitors for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation. Yes, it's a thing that's a bucket list experience for New Yorkers who spend their Wednesday afternoon and evening before Thanksgiving watching the giant balloons go from flat to floating. In the past, the inflation all happened at night but now, the Macy's elves start at 1 p.m. and visitors are corralled into a path that starts

Friars Club to be auctioned with tons of memorabilia inside

President Trump and entourage for his victory speech at 2:47 a.m. Nov. 7, 2025 By LOIS WEISS In promising a "golden age of America,"...

By LOIS WEISS Donald Trump brought the Trump Train to Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 27, and like other rallies, it was filled...

By LOIS WEISS A New York State judge has ordered Aby Rosen's company to stop interfering with the operations of the iconic Art Deco...