2.25.2010

Heartbeat of the Market - Recent Headlines and News

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the future of real estate marketing
"...the first mobile interactive floor plan presentation optimized for the iPhone in the virtual media industry."


the real deal
"The rate of default on office, retail, hotel and industrial properties reached 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter, approximately double the rate seen in the same quarter a year earlier."

the real deal
"...there were double-digit changes in Times Square where they rose sharply and Downtown where they plunged..."

american city business journals

"Tuesday, March 3rd, at Galt House East."


wall street journal
"Fewer people fell behind on their home-mortgage payments in last year’s fourth quarter than in third quarter..."

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2.18.2010

Heartbeat of the Market - Recent Headlines and News

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the real deal
"CAI, which was recently tapped to lease the site from the city and operate the amusement park, has signed a 10-year deal with the city and plans to invest around $30 million on the park..."


the real deal
"A so-called "bonus bounce" would be a boon to mid-priced luxury condos in Soho and Tribeca..."

inman news
"Today's column covers eight simple, common-sense "gems" from Real Estate Connect that can help build your real estate business in 2010.:

inman news

"Civil rights group calls for better government intervention..."


the real deal
"While many women have broken into the male-dominated construction industry, the retail side of things hasn't caught up with the times..."


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2.12.2010

Co-Op/Condo Forum: Wednesday, February 17th

Senator Liz Krueger

&

Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh

invite you to a

CO-OP/CONDO FORUM

An Opportunity to Have Your Questions Answered

LEARN ABOUT: ● THE ROLE OF THE BOARD ● THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT ●

● SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS ●

Panel Participants:

Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq., Partner,

Finkelstein Newman Ferrara LLP

Kevin McConnell, Esq., Partner,

Himmelstein, McConnell, Gribben. Donoghue, & Joseph LLP

Lisa Wallace, Assistant Attorney General

Real Estate Finance Bureau

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

6:00 pm — 8:00 pm

Baruch College, School of Public Affairs

135 East 22nd Street, Rm. 301

CO-SPONSORED BY: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney ● Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer

Senator Tom Duane ● Senator Daniel Squadron

Assembly Members: Jonathan Bing ● Richard N. Gottfried ● Micah Kellner

City Council Members: Dan Garodnick ● Jessica Lappin ● Rosie Mendez

Community Board 5 ● Community Board 6

For further information, contact:

Alice Fisher at alicefisher.nyc@gmail.com or 212-490-9535

Cameron Peterson at cameron.ad74@gmail.com or 212-979-9696

NO RSVP NECESSARY

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2.11.2010

Heartbeat of the Market - Recent Headlines and News


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the real deal
"...he broadening of the district would be implemented incrementally, eventually encompassing structures in the area bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Park West, 15th Street and Fifth Avenue."


new york times
"A Con Edison transformer in a vault below the sidewalk at 641 Avenue of the Americas in Chelsea exploded in a fireball seven stories high Thursday morning."


zillow blog
"...here is some celebrity real estate we’ve posted that includes past winners of Academy Awards®..."


the housing helix with jonathan miller
"Here is a brief recap of the 2000-2009 Manhattan Market Market Report..."


Google Buzz - The Next Big Thing in Social Media?
future of real estate marketing
"I think at this point Google Buzz is too new make any predictions about what Realtors will or won’t need to do..."



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2.10.2010

New York City Snow Day




Views of the snow from Midtown East. Wishing you all a safe and happy NYC snow day!
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2.08.2010

116 Central Park South


Rent: $2,800

Details:
Size: One Bedroom
R/B/B: 3.5/1/1
SF: 854
Neighborhood: Central Park South
Availability: Immediate
Term: 12-24 Months

This spacious 1 bedroom featuring a large and open living room, long and spacious kitchen, dining area, and a deluxe sized bedroom. The hardwood floors throughout complete this elegant space. The building is full service, with garage, garden, health club, laundry room and common storage room. Across from Central Park, it is just steps to all the best dining, shopping and entertainment.

Apartment Features:
Dining Area; Galley Kitchen; Windowed Kitchen; Dishwasher; Marble Bathroom; WIC

Exposure / View:
South

Building Features:
Post-war; Garage; Garden; Health Club; Laundry Room; Common Storage Room.


Call Patricia Levan to view this listing. 212-686-9288. Or E-mail at pl@levanrealestate.com.

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Valentine's Day: NYC Style



Looking for a unique way to spend Valentine's Day? Check out these tips on how to make the best of it in the big apple.




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New Lincoln Center Addition

With an actress among the ranks at the team here at Levan Real Estate, our ears perked up at the mention of an addition to Lincoln Center. And it's not just any addition - they'll be building a black box theater on the roof of the center's famed Vivian Beaumont Theater. The whole idea looks just a little crazy on paper.

The Real Deal did a piece on the whole project last week. The pictures have put our fears to rest - what about yours?


Design of black box theater appears to fit in well with rest of Lincoln Center
February 04, 2010 06:30PM
By James Gardner

A rendering of the new theater (Source: H3 Hardy Collaboration)


For those of you who worry about the potential desecration of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, in the form of Hugh Hardy's newly announced black box venue that is scheduled to take up residence on the landmark's roof, I can offer this consolation: the work that has already been done on the Beaumont's plaza and surroundings, according to designs by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has wrought such a change upon the place that the new addition should make little difference.

We will not know until next fall, apparently, the success of that work, which includes, among other alterations, the creation of a huge grassy mound for sunbathing and a new restaurant along the sides of the reflecting pool that continues to hold Henry Moore's titanic "Reclining Figure."

What we can say is that the feel of the place will be -- indeed already is -- vastly different from what it was. The spare, almost minimalist, geometry of the post and lintel theater, the perfectly square reflecting pool, and the surrounding grounds, together with the way they all responded to the striated side of the Metropolitan Opera, provide one of the most muscularly modernist experiences in New York City.

Even though most of the original Beaumont Theatre structures, designed by Eero Saarinen and Gordon Bunshaft among others, will survive, the mood of the place will be different. The severe modernist rectitude is gone, a rectitude that was not without its charms and endearments. In its place will be a clash of glass, curving metal, and several varieties of stone.

Into this mix comes the new theater, whose renderings were just released a few hours ago. It seeks to be unobtrusive, and indeed it seems so, if we can trust the drawings in which it appears to float above the roof of the existing structure.


An aerial view of the theater (source: Michael Klausmeier, Inc.)

Capable of accommodating 130 spectators, it looks from the outside to be made up of hundreds of tiny filaments that recall the façade of the recently completed New York Times Building. There is no more reason to have them here than on the Times Building, but they always look good, which is why so many contemporary architects use them.

In its geometric rigidity, the new theater looks as though it will play well with the surrounding architecture, a fact further guaranteed by its pale exterior, which will match that of the Vivian Beaumont immediately beneath it.

James Gardner, formerly the architecture critic of the New York Sun, writes on the visual arts for several publications.

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2.04.2010

Heartbeat of the Market - Recent Headlines and News


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the real deal
"...the landlord for the gang's iconic vacation home, at 1215 Ocean Terrace in Seaside Heights, says he's raking in more than three times what he did before the show..."

the real deal
"Shawn Carter, also known as rapper and Rocawear clothing founder Jay-Z, has filed a suit against his lenders over a loan workout for a planned boutique hotel in Chelsea."

the wall street journal
"...: Second mortgages stand behind the first lien and are supposed to take the first loss in a modification or short sale..."

new york magazine
"How stuy town became an oasis for Manhattan's new middle class."

new york observer
"...proposed budget: more than $50 million a year from the under-tapped resource that is the city's co-op housing market"



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