No Cutting Corners When it Comes to New York City Living
Starting last week, rental units are officially on the market at the most distinctive and environmentally conscious new addresses in town.
Date 2016-03-09
Author John Banks
Strategy and Technology Consultancy Moving to Durst’s 1133 Avenue of the Americas
Booz Allen Hamilton, which specializes in strategy and technology advising, has inked a deal to move into nearly 23,000 square feet at 1133 Avenue of the Americas between West 43rd and West 44th Streets.
Date 2016-03-09
Author Terence Cullen
American Kennel Club to Open Dog-Care Shop in Manhattan
Club’s store on far West Side is its first in U.S The American Kennel Club is opening its first retail store in the U.S. on Manhattan’s far West Side, at the base of a soon-to-open luxury rental tower that anchors a booming residential block. The club, which maintains a registry of purebred pedigrees and provides the standards for dog shows, has leased 4,000 square feet in Via 57West, the Durst Organization’s tetrahedron-shaped building on West 57th Street. Also within the block, which is bounded by West 57th and West 58th streets and 11th and 12th avenues, are two other Durst…
Date 2016-03-06
Author Keiko Morris
One World Trade Center Is Key to Durst’s Broadcast Push
Company plans to outfit tower’s spire with antennas to service broadcasters leaving Empire State Building The return of broadcast-transmission facilities to a perch high above the World Trade Center site marks an expansion into a niche business for one of New York’s most prominent family-run real-estate companies. The Durst Organization is constructing a broadcast center at One World Trade Center. It plans to outfit the tower’s 408-foot spire with antennas to service television broadcasters lured away from the Empire State Building. While Durst is a joint venture owner of the 104-story building with the Port Authority of New York and…
Date 2016-03-04
Author Keiko Morris
A First Look at the Great Pyramid of West 57th Street
New York is a city where good architects come to gnash their teeth. Global monument-builders find their designs eaten away by termite-like regulations, community objections, and budget-shaving specialists.
Date 2016-03-04