Harlem Draws a Restaurant Crowd For many years, even as Harlem gained new residential developments, its restaurant scene—with the exception of a few renowned soul-food places—had lagged. That’s no longer the case, as Frederick Douglass Boulevard has become a veritable restaurant row and celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster has become one of the hottest [...]
When the restaurateur Danny Hodak began exploring locations for a new eatery last year, the initial plan was to spin off his lauded Hell’s Kitchen Mediterranean hotspot Taboon into a second outpost. Upon further discussion with Israeli business partners, however, Mr. Hodak chose, instead, to open a fast and casual, lunch-crowd accessible restaurant under a [...]
As Seen in The Times: Darrell Rubens, a senior managing director at Winick Realty, said the brokerage firm incorporated CityMaps in its fliers and some online listings, wherever the firm’s own maps, cultivated over the past decade, failed to cover. “In our office,” he said, “we have 35 brokers updating maps, then we have a [...]
Madison Avenue Block Gets Facelift With High-End Retailers A few blocks away on the less fancier Lexington Avenue, another building is hoping a new glass façade will help it find a new tenant. When Emigrant Bank’s lease ends this year after three decades at 1270 Lexington Ave., at East 85th Street, the Moin Development and [...]
The new pop-up shop: They don’t sell anything Temporary retail stores, known as “pop-ups,” have been quite literally popping up in New York City for several years now, often hawking seasonal items at Halloween and Christmas. But a new breed of pop-ups is emerging, industry insiders say: Non-retail ventures, from PayPal to the TV show [...]
Track Star With construction underway on the Second Avenue subway, however, leasing activity has slowed in the area. “It’s very hard to navigate sidewalks,” said Hal Shapiro, a broker at Winick who specializes in the Upper East Side. “Noise interferes with the retail experience.” When Shapiro was tasked with filling a vacant storefront at 1300 [...]
O Pioneer! Winick Realty’s recently appointed managing partner among far west side’s earliest shepherds Steven Baker built a life, and staked his career, on the Far West Side of Manhattan at a time when the High Line still languished as an abandoned freight track and nearly every block west of Ninth Avenue included a warehouse, [...]
20 to Watch in 2012 Kelly Gedinsky It’s always an assuring sign to a commercial real estate intern when two senior members of Winick Realty tell her she needs to be a broker. Such was Kelly Gedinsky’s experience. After spending two weeks as an intern to executive vice president Lori Shabtai, both Ms. Shabtai and [...]
THE OTHER WALL STREET OCCUPIERS Protesters aren’t the only new thing occupying Wall Street. Downtown retail, particularly in FiDi, keeps getting hotter, says Winick Realty’s Darrell Rubens, whom we snapped with colleague Annie Shinn on the roof of 75 Wall St. Tenants are finally realizing the advantages of the market, particularly the affordable space available and the proximity to workers, [...]
Pop-Up Shops Become More Than Just Temporary The advent of pop-up shops in emerged after the economic downturn left retailers little options to expand or move to new locations. But as New York rebounded, many of the stores have become neighborhood mainstays. “There are a lot of scenarios in which these spaces are occupied by [...]
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