“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” became a flashpoint about free speech in the country after it was temporarily suspended this year.

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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An ex-Marine and a 40-year company veteran, he turned a nearly bankrupt money loser into the world’s most profitable automaker.

Sharon Baum, a veteran Manhattan luxury broker, has died at the age of 85. The powerhouse broker spent more than 30 years as one of the most successful agents in New York City, building on nearly two decades as a female trailblazer in corporate leadership before moving into brokering luxury deals.  Corcoran CEO Pam Liebman announced Baum’s death in an internal memo to the brokerage where Baum began her career in 1991, lauding her as a character of style and substance. Baum was with the firm for more than three decades before joining Douglas Elliman last year.  “Sharon was a […]

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In March, the city put out the request for a developer to take on a conversion at 100 Gold Street. GFP Real Estate answered the call. The New York City Economic Development Corporation selected GFP to redevelop the 10-story office building in the Financial District, the Commercial Observer reported. GFP will revamp the 1960s-built government building with a mixed-income residential building with thousands of units. Specifically, there are 3,700 units planned for the site, a drastic increase from the 2,000 units Mayor Eric Adams sought when revealing plans for the property back in January; Adams announced plans for the property […]

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Eyal Ofer’s $30 million repositioning of 99 Park Avenue has yielded another big lease. Ofer’s Global Holdings signed the wealth management firm Cerity Partners to just shy of 49,000 square feet at the 26-story Midtown office tower. Cerity, which has more than $130 billion of assets under management, had been a subtenant on the 16th floor and expanded via a direct deal with the landlord. Global Holdings said it has signed more than 300,000 square feet worth of deals at 99 Park since announcing a $30 million repositioning earlier this year. It is currently 98 percent occupied.  “Our investment in […]

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The president has shattered norms by pledging to “be involved” in the regulatory fate of a transaction that could reshape the news and entertainment industries.

Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.

Federal relief money comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.

Mr. Kushner’s private equity fund is one of the many groups helping Paramount mount a hostile bid to buy the group, whose holdings include CNN.