Lois Weiss joined the New York Post as a freelancer in 2000, and her trademarked, Between The Bricks, real estate gossip column is a Wednesday must-read. Weiss regularly writes for Cityfeet.com and Gotham, and provides occasional commentary for industry publications. She was previously contributing editor to Real Estate Weekly and is also a photojournalist whose pictures often illustrate her articles. She is also a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events. Lois was the Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Editors and has been its President, Vice President and Secretary. On the weekends she can be found kayaking or shooting her AR-15 in competitions. Lois@BetweenTheBricks.com
Vornado Realty Trust is swooping in to buy the landmarked 510 Fifth Avenue. Sources say the real estate investment trust led by Steven Roth and Michael Fascitelli is trying to work out a deal for the five-story...
March 10, 2010 12:00 AMAd am Hochfelder was the baby-faced boy wonder who at the top of his game owned part of a Midtown office portfolio worth nearly $3 billion. Now, he's been indicted for allegedly forging documents and stealing...
March 03, 2010 12:00 AMThe office building at 340 Madison Ave. is on the block, and thanks to its current cash flow it could be one of the few prime city offerings to fetch more than the sellers paid for it in the boom. The 23-story...
February 24, 2010 12:00 AMDiscount retailer Daffy's is facing a lawsuit from Charles Cohen, who claims the chain backdated a renewal option for its East 57th Street store and thus should be booted out of his building. "I am outraged and...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AMReal estate executives are calling on Uncle Sam to provide federal stimulus money to build a new subway station at West 41st Street and Tenth Avenue for the No. 7 subway line extension after budget constraints closed...
February 10, 2010 12:00 AMPopular teen clothier American Eagle is moving its nest in SoHo into a bigger and more prominent space. After company executives' eyes bulged at the numbers from the retailer's Times Square store, they decided...
February 03, 2010 12:00 AMThe publisher of Better Homes & Gardens is itself searching for a better home. Sources say that Meredith Corp., the publishing giant that owns that title along with 172 others and 12 TV stations, has hired Ed Weiss...
January 27, 2010 12:00 AMThere is at least one real winner from Lehman Brothers' stunning bankruptcy. Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is close to landing at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, getting about 132,000 square feet that had...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AMThe one Group's sexy steakhouse, STK Midtown, is bringing a 9,000-square-foot restaurant plus sprawling outdoor casual dining and a takeout concept to the Grace Building on Sixth Avenue near Bryant Park. Executive...
January 13, 2010 12:00 AMWith more than 1.05 million square feet worth of leases signed in December, Tishman Speyer Properties is on a lease roll. As Post colleague Steve Cuozzo reported yesterday, CB Richard Ellis renewed its 125,000 feet...
January 06, 2010 12:00 AMThis Annus Horribilis is thankfully over, making it time for the Annual Golden Brick awards. Lead Brick to the City Council for requiring living wages for all employees at all stores at the Kingsbridge Armory,...
December 30, 2009 12:00 AMGary Barnett's proposed 60-story skyscraper on W. 34th Street -- cater-corner to the Javits Center -- is apparently kaput. The anchor tenant for the 1.5-million-foot tower, the World Product Centre, was supposed to...
December 23, 2009 12:00 AMThe city is moving toward greener buildings with a new law expected to be approved today by the City Council that requires energy retrofits and other measures for larger properties. The powerful Real Estate Board of...
December 09, 2009 12:00 AMThe Forbes family may be close to a contract to sell its headquarters at 60 Fifth Ave. for about $55 million, as the cash-strapped family continues to sell off assets amid a slump in publishing. The price tag...
December 02, 2009 12:00 AMWest Side law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Garrison & Wharton, which holds down a chunk of 1285 Avenue of the Americas, has decided to expand there to 550,000 feet rather than anchor a new Port Authority Bus Terminal tower....
November 25, 2009 12:00 AMAn investment company controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi has given Gary Barnett's Extell Development a fistful of dollars to kick-start the construction of a 72-story tower opposite Carnegie Hall. The...
November 18, 2009 12:00 AM
George Comfort & Sons is in "active negotiations" for 1.5 million feet of potential leases to fill the 700,000-foot hole at the bottom of Worldwide Plaza at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street. Comfort's Peter Duncan said...
November 11, 2009 12:00 AMMurray Hill Proper ties honcho Norman Sturner is quietly shopping around a trophy tower. Sturner declined comment, but others confirmed that he's looking to sell. There is virtually no product available, and the...
November 04, 2009 12:00 AMThe clothing company Jay-Z co-founded, Rocawear, renewed its nearly 40,000-foot lease for the top of 1411 Broadway. The entertainment mogul holds down the entire 38th and part of the 39th floor of the 40-story...
October 28, 2009 12:00 AMVornado Realty Trust has a $2.8 billion cash war chest readied to pounce on real estate deals. But like everyone else, they need to find places to park the money until the bid and the ask meet in a comfortable spot....
October 21, 2009 12:00 AMAt a time when financial firms are stressed and vacancy levels are rising, the city has let 1,600 office jobs skip across the Hudson River. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine gleefully made the official announcement...
October 14, 2009 12:00 AMBROADPOINT Gleacher Se curities Group is consolidating and expanding into 75,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas with an eye to expanding that space to several hundred thousand feet. The firm is...
October 07, 2009 12:00 AM
The Elghanayan brothers, who founded Rockrose Development 39 years ago and decided to part ways this summer, have settled on how to divide their assets. H. Henry Elghanayan will operate under the Rockrose Development...
September 30, 2009 12:00 AMGEORGE Comfort & Sons made the biggest deal of the year in June, when it bid $605 million for Worldwide Plaza at 825 Eighth Ave. But now two of its other office buildings are in "special servicing," which could...
September 23, 2009 12:00 AMKICKING off the fall market: A number of office tenants in a range of industries are trolling for spaces well over 100,000 square feet, or are in the midst of renewing. The largest potential tenant may be law firm...
September 16, 2009 12:00 AMTO simplify the ownership stack, and to get a jump on things before it gets a new $145 million mortgage from TIAA-CREFF, SL Green Realty is fiddling with several ground leases at the Graybar Building, Between the...
September 09, 2009 12:00 AMWELCOME to the new world order: The only office sale to be marketed and closed so far this year was just sealed with a final price tag of $150 million. Youngwoo & Associates and Kumho Investment Bank completed their...
September 02, 2009 12:00 AMTIMES Square may soon have a bowling-alley trifecta. Bowlmor Lanes, the trendy Union Square spot that made rolling balls a blast for the celebrity cocktail jet set, wants to put another set of pins near Shubert...
August 26, 2009 12:38 AMWORLDWIDE Plaza's new ownership team, led by George Comfort & Sons, is sitting down with prospective tenants and is open for business with a mere 639,540 square feet ready to rent. While that might not be enough to...
August 19, 2009 12:00 AMIF you've played the real-estate game since 2005, you should be quaking in your kishkas. "Our steroids were leverage and the buyers were way over-financing," admitted one investment broker who oversaw many such...
August 12, 2009 2:03 AM
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