Outer borough offices didn’t have the Manhattan magic.  Brooklyn and Queens office landlords spent much of 2025 courting the same tenants that kept the outer boroughs afloat since the pandemic: government agencies, schools and mission-driven groups. Private-sector users remained scarce, and the boroughs again lagged Manhattan’s healthier leasing market. Long Island City and parts of Brooklyn continued to draw big-footprint tenants, but the surge of Midtown leasing still hasn’t translated across the river. Brokers say outer borough availability remains high and deal flow uneven, even as education and public-service users quietly make up a growing slice of new leases. Here […]

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