NYC DOT inks 212K sf in Long Island City

June 13, 2025 / no comments

A former office property recently reverted to industrial use secured a tenant for more than half its space. New York City’s Department of Transportation signed a lease for 212,000 square feet at 47-25 34th Street in Long Island City, the Commercial Observer reported. The Queens property is owned by a joint venture of Metropolitan Realty […]

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Ivanhoe Cambridge defaults at 85 Broad Street 

June 13, 2025 / no comments

Ivanhoe Cambridge is facing a tough test at a Financial District office building. The landlord — the real estate unit of Quebec’s public pension fund manager, Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec — defaulted on its $359 million mortgage at 85 Broad Street, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The loan was transferred […]

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Not my rent board: Mayoral contenders clash on control of RGB

June 13, 2025 / no comments

Whose rent board is it anyway? The board where everything’s made up and the numbers don’t matter.  These are perennial complaints about the city’s Rent Guidelines Board — that the mayor has inordinate influence over the board’s decisions and that the board discards its own math.  Both criticisms made an appearance during the second city-sponsored […]

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The Daily Dirt: Rent board rookie makes valiant but naive case to activists

June 13, 2025 / no comments

As we reported Thursday, recently appointed Rent Guidelines Board member Alex Armlovich took to social media to explain why the board won’t freeze rents. In a remarkable series of tweets, he noted that RGB rent increases have been below inflation for 10 years. “RGB has been setting record low rent hikes, not record high,” he […]

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