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(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are accused by New York Attorney General Letitia

Hudson River Park Friends returned to Pier 62 and Pier Sixty in Hudson River Park to host its 25th Anniversary Gala, celebrating all that the four-mile-long oasis provides to millions of New Yorkers each and every day.

Despite what no one denies has been a challenging year for commercial real estate, Commercial Observer’s 2023 Power Gala, held Sept. 19 at CORE: New York, the new club at 711 Fifth Avenue, proved that there is plenty of optimism — and reasons for that optimism — to be found in commercial real estate today. “We’re in an environment where you have to look beyond the headlines, because everything is not moving at the same speed, and where you invest matters,&#x20...

High atop 711 Fifth in the new CORE club, real estate’s mightiest gathered for Commercial Observer’s annual Power Gala.

The newly-created office portion’s 1.1 million square feet appear to be the only new block of such a size that will come online by late 2024 or early 2025, when the developers are counting on  the current market malaise to be over.

COVID emptied storefronts and sunk foot traffic so much that the retail character of the Crossroads of the World shifted yet again.

Chef José Andrés and his team were debating the dining room’s gold facade. Was it too shiny? Would the travertine limestone be preserved? It was June 2015, a year before the chef was to open his fine-dining restaurant in the new Trump International Hotel. Plans were being finalized. Tentatively called Topo Atrio, the restaurant would

The Beaux-Arts interior of the Palace Theater is a protected landmark, so developers had to devise a plan to raise it three stories in their effort to add more retail space.

It’s a masterful feat of engineering, and will unlock 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail.

An iconic Times Square building is largely empty. One Times Square was once the home of The New York Times, and today is the site of the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop. But while that iconic sphere and LED billboards keep the exterior lit throughout the year, the building’s 22 floors are dark. A three-story Walgreens on the ground floor is the only tenant, and the brand recently signed a lease at the Bow-Tie building two blocks away, making its future occupancy plans uncertain. The propert...