Kyna Doles | August 29, 2016 HUBB NYC buys in Tribeca, while Newcastle Realty Services sells in Washington Heights 1.) Real estate investment firm HUBB NYC purchased a 10-unit mixed-use building at 121 Chambers Street for $16.2 million, rounding out its Manhattan portfolio to 30 properties. The Tribeca building is five stories spanning 18,500 square feet. [...]
Sarah Maslin Nir | August 14, 2016 Once upon a time, a mansion stood at the corner of Clark Street and Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights. Built in 1872, it was stately and corniced, bedecked in stone scrollwork and intricate ironwork, a credit to its architect. Its more recent history has been far less illustrious, however. [...]
Abby Carney | August 8 2016 After nearly a decade out of the game, Chumley's is set to reopen September 6, helmed by Sushi Nakazawa restaurateur Alessandro Borgognone. It's been a long time coming, since 2007 to be exact, when the 1922-born West Village pub—a literary haunt with esteemed regulars like E.E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and John Steinbeck—closed down [...]
Christopher Cameron | August 7, 2016 C humley’s, the 1830s-era bar at 86 Bedford in the West Village, has been closed ever since one of its exterior walls collapsed in 2007. Delays and lawsuits from noise-sensitive neighbors have kept the bar closed – presumably for good. But now it seems the legendary watering hole will reopen after [...]
James Barron | August 7, 2016 It is a question that has been asked before: Whatever happened to Chumley’s? You read that very same question, in those very same words, in these pages four years ago, and that was not the first time it had come up since an attached chimney gave way in April [...]
Evan Bindelglass | August 5, 2016 A pre-Civil War corner building in New York City’s first historic district will be restored to its former glory. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a plan to rebuild 100 Clark Street, which is also known as 1 Monroe Place. As indicated, the site is at the corner of Clark [...]
Lore Croghan | August 4, 2016 It's déjà vu all over again. On Tuesday, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) approved a reconstruction plan for one of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District's rare eyesores, 100 Clark St., which has been sitting half-demolished since 2008. If this news sounds familiar, it's because the preservation agency approved a [...]
Kyna Doles | July 18, 2016 E&M sells a Harlem rental building; Shamah picks up a multifamily building in Hamilton Heights 1.) Irving Langer’s E&M Associates sold a 55-unit rental building at 148 West 142nd Street for $16.5 million less than two years after buying it for $10.6 million. Investor Shaul Kopelowitz, who owns a handful [...]
Zachary Kussin | January 15, 2013 A 70,000-square-foot Upper West Side property, located at 380 Columbus Avenue at West 78th Street, has traded hands for $50 million, city records filed late last week show. Newcastle Realty Services purchased the building from Joben Realty Associates in a deal that closed on Dec. 28, according to the deed. [...]
Ariel Stulberg | September 30, 2015 Newcastle Realty Services purchased an 88-unit multifamily building at 658 West 188th Street in Washington Heights, paying $23.1 million. The seller, the Stadtmauer family’s Mauer Bach Realty has owned the six-story, 98,000-square-foot building since at least 1972, according to property records. Newcastle, led by Margaret Streicker Porres, had its condo conversion [...]
