Alvin Ailey at the Whitney, Boucheron on Madison Ave and more NYC events
Every week, Alexa rounds up New York's hottest fashion, hotel openings, restaurant debuts, and celebrity-studded cultural happenings. This is a hand-picked guide to the best things to see, shop, taste and experience across the city. What's on your luxury list this week? Boucheron makes its Manhattan debut, Goop drops a furniture collection, and the Alvin […]
Prostitution doubles on NYC’s seedy Roosevelt Ave.
The crime-ridden neighborhood of Jackson Heights, where prostitutes ply their trade openly and brazen shoplifters abound, has only gotten worse since The Washington Post blew the whistle on it about five months ago. Roosevelt Avenue near 91st Street in Queens has long been tainted by illegal open-air migrant markets and dozens of sidewalk prostitutes, but […]
Cops shut down NYC Dominican Day Parade as unruly crowd swarms 6th Ave. and teen slashes 65 year-old
A Dominican Republic Day parade in Manhattan was abruptly halted on Sunday after a large, disorderly crowd swarmed the route in Midtown and a teenager slashed a 65-year-old man in the face, law enforcement sources said. The 42-year-old parade was expected to attract 500,000 spectators and feature 113 organizations, including community groups, carnival bands and […]
Hochul restarts 2nd Ave. subway project and punts congestion pricing revenue fight to 2025
Gov. Kathy Hawkle has freed up $54 million to restart the Second Avenue subway construction project that was stalled by the abrupt halt to congestion pricing, but she acknowledged Tuesday that the question of how to fill a $15 billion hole in the MTA’s budget will drag on into next year. The state Legislature ended […]
Midtown Manhattan’s shelter-lined ‘8th Ave. Corridor’ plagued by open drug use: ‘Strip of despair’
Locals say a section of Midtown Manhattan has become a “city of despair” where drug addicts inject drugs, smoke marijuana and sleep beneath the feet of commuters and tourists. “There’s a lot going on around here,” one store owner told The Post about the so-called 8th Avenue neighborhood near Penn Station, which is home to […]
Blackstone boosts footprint at 345 Park Ave.
Blackstone’s impending deal to expand its global headquarters, Rudin Management, by 250,000 square feet at 345 Park Avenue, is a sign of strength on two playing fields: Park Avenue and the world. Blackstone, the powerful asset manager led by Stephen Schwarzman, is the world’s largest owner of commercial real estate. Continued expansion in the face […]
French hospitality outfit Accor signs lease at Michael Shvo’s 711 Fifth Ave
The cheerful sounds heard at 711 Fifth Avenue last week were coming not from the posh Core Club on the tower’s top four floors, but from Accor’s new offices on the seventh floor. The French hospitality company signed an unreported 23,000-square-foot lease in December and was celebrating its move into the space, sources told Realty […]
Historic Knickerbocker Greys youth group pleas for Albany to stay in its Park Ave home
Hold the line! A historic New York youth group is calling on lawmakers to intervene to prevent them from being evicted from the Upper East Side building they’ve called home for more than a century. The Knickerbocker Glades, founded in 1881 as a group of young cadets, are facing eviction from the Park Avenue Armory […]
Sherry-Lehmann’s Park Ave. landlord gets OK to finally empty wine from store — a year after shutdown
The Park Avenue landlord of iconic wine retailer Sherry Lehman has finally given permission to remove the storied store’s old shelving, fixtures and leftover bottles of wine that have been gathering dust for more than a year since it closed amid scandal. Obtained. New York Judge Suzanne Adams ruled on March 4 that Hong Kong-based […]
Park Avenue landlords boast new leases after glowing Sixth Ave. report
Park Avenue landlords are sounding the alarm after reporting last week that Sixth Avenue had regained a narrow lead over Park in terms of minimum percentage of available space. The Stahl Organization’s 277 Park Avenue location between East 47th and 48th Streets boasts an unreported 175,000 square feet of new and expanded leases signed in […]