Steve Cuozzo joined the New York Post in 1972. He has covered commercial real estate for The Post in his Realty Check column every Tuesday since 1999, and the city's restaurant scene in his Wednesday Free Range column since 1998. He also contributes regularly to the op-ed pages, where he has closely monitored the state of progress -- or lack thereof -- at the World Trade Center site since shortly after the 9/11 attacks. His book, "It's Alive," published by Times Books in 1996, chronicled The Post's successful battle for survival in the early '90s when it foundered under previous ownership. A proud native of Brooklyn, he lives today in Manhattan.
Call it the 2-cent turn around. According to Ken McCarthy, Cushman & Wakefield's New York-area research chief, the average Manhattan office building asking rent increased in February by 2 cents per square foot over...
March 09, 2010 12:00 AM
New York’s mighty restaurant-making machine has finally run out of steam. After decades of galloping expansion during good times and bad, the city’s most creative owners and chefs have pulled in the reins for good — or...
March 03, 2010 2:31 AMC harles Blaichman, developer of High Line-straddling 450 W. 14th St., insists there's nothing wrong with his 15-story project that's still a concrete skeleton, vowing that curtain-wall glass will finally start...
March 02, 2010 12:00 AM
Of all the blunders at the World Trade Center site, the dumbest might be City Hall's decision, with the Port Authority's blessing, to kick-start work on a performing-arts center. The last thing Ground Zero needs is...
February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
‘How is that rock shrimp taco treating you this time?” the Choptank waitress said more nervously than I think she meant to sound. “Just dandy,” we reply. The blue corn taco number had arrived ice-cold the first time....
February 24, 2010 1:34 AMProminent auction eer Phillips de Pury is probably coming. Fabled gadget emporium Hammacher Schlemmer will probably go. Both "probablys" reflect the uncertain, shifting retail sands of 57th Street, which still...
February 23, 2010 2:07 AM
The Russian Tea Room is now the last surviving vestige of former owner Warner LeRoy's legacy, thanks to the recent sale of Tavern on the Green's every last screw and socket. Although the RTR has been in other hands...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AM
When Cushman & Wakefield CEO Bruce Mosler completes the transition to co-chairman of the global firm he has led for nearly five years, he'll no longer "be traveling like 300 days a year like George Clooney in 'Up in...
February 16, 2010 12:00 AM
'Why rent there when you can rent on Park Avenue?" That's what Donald Trump is saying to friends about the new 1 World Trade Center, according to The Post's Lois Weiss. But the fact is, if you're looking for truly...
February 16, 2010 12:00 AM
Attention, David Chang fanatics: You can have his food without waiting and without braving a fiendish online reservation system. Just drop by the mezzanine of the Chambers Hotel on West 56th Street, where you can nosh...
February 10, 2010 12:23 AMPort Authority Execu tive Director Chris Ward wasn't exaggerating when he said recently the PA would act swiftly to find a development partner for 1 World Trade Center. Although a deal might be months off, six...
February 09, 2010 12:00 AMSome day, maybe by Mayor Bloomberg’s seventh term, City Hall might find the money and smarts to landscape and accessorize Times Square’s repellent asphalt plazas so they don’t look quite so much like prison yards....
February 07, 2010 12:45 AM
Openings and closings make the biggest splash in the dining world. But life’s a journey for a restaurant, just as it is for a person. And this winter, there’s been change aplenty at two established eateries — one that’s...
February 03, 2010 2:22 AMThe worst news buried in the gloomy arbitration decision over Larry Silverstein's beefs with the Port Authority at the World Trade Center site was the fate of the underground Vehicle Security Center, through which all...
February 02, 2010 12:00 AM
President Obama's decision to hold the trials of Kha lid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorists in lower Manhattan is a declaration of war against downtown. It's heartening that Mayor Bloomberg and Sen. Chuck...
January 28, 2010 12:00 AM
Lunching recently at Alain Ducasse’s Benoit on West 55th Street, enjoying its luscious salmon en croute and pate for just $19, I mentioned to my friend that Ducasse — after 10 frustrating years in New York — had finally...
January 27, 2010 3:23 AM
S teven J. Pozycki's SJP Properties and law firm Proskauer Rose have reached a term-sheet agreement for a prospective Proskauer move to new 11 Times Square, three different sources said yesterday. It will take...
January 26, 2010 12:00 AM
The gang at my table at Danny Meyer's new, "nothing until 10 p.m." Maialino chuckled over the giant carving knife the waitress set down with abbacchio alla cacciatora -- braised lamb in wine and herbs to you. "They...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AM
Climaxing an unusually rapid negotiation, global beauty giant Avon Products has clinched a beaut of a deal to move its New York headquarters to the William Kaufman Organization's 777 Third Ave. The 15-year direct...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AM
So, now New York City is poised to become “Detroit,” according to Mayor Bloomberg, who’s uncharacteristically panicked by the possibility of new, punitive Federal taxes on Wall Street. The over-the-top remark put him,...
January 17, 2010 1:26 AM
The best window view from any Manhattan restaurant seat is at the corner table for two — a k a Table 31 — at Robert, the new eatery on the ninth floor of the Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle. It’s just as...
January 13, 2010 1:17 AMIn a major breakthrough for Extell's International Gem Tower, the venerable Gemological Institute of America will move its famed New York "laboratory" into the eagerly awaited, 34-story project now poking out of the...
January 12, 2010 12:00 AMNew York City urgently needs new office buildings to replenish its ob solescent stock. New construction is particularly essential at the World Trade Center site, where the fate of three planned towers now hangs in the...
January 12, 2010 12:00 AM
AND Tavern on the Green makes three. Last week saw the closing of the huge Central Park restaurant, making it the city’s third iconic, landmark-venue eatery to be shuttered over the past year. Remember the Rainbow Room...
January 06, 2010 2:27 AMTHE Port Authority wants you to believe that its latest attempt to unload 1 World Trade Center to a private developer is different than the last time around -- but if you swallow that, I'll sell you oil from Ground Zero...
January 05, 2010 12:00 AM
By spring, we’ll be weary of short ribs and venison, Brussels sprouts and rivers of chestnut purée. One-pot, cold-weather casseroles and stews outlive their welcome when local peas start anew from the earth. For now,...
December 30, 2009 1:18 AMTUCKED into Jones Lang LaSalle's just-released, year-end "Skyline Review" is this holiday-season party pooper: "Net effective rents in Midtown have fallen by 42 percent since the second quarter of 2008."...
December 29, 2009 12:00 AMIt's presumptuous to guess what the city's real estate kings and queens would like to find in their holiday stockings. Presumptuous, but too much fun not to -- so we'll go way out on a limb and suggest which players...
December 22, 2009 12:00 AMMAYOR Bloomberg will soon decide whether to make permanent or scratch the "experimental" redesign that's turned Times Square into what David Letterman called a tourists' "petting zoo." Or maybe he won't. The...
December 21, 2009 12:00 AMWith its vote to kill the Kingsbridge Armory deal, the City Council has put everyone on notice: Don't bother trying to make New York a better town unless you're willing to pay a truly massive bribe. The council's...
December 17, 2009 12:00 AM
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