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 [...]
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 [...]
After 9/11, Financial District Less Dominated By Finance High-end retailers dot the Financial District: Hermes, BMW, Tumi, Tiffany & Co. The brokerage Winick Realty hosted a party last year at 75 Wall Street to attract another such tenant. “We’re really pushing for a high-end luxury retailer to come down here,” Winick broker Annie Shinn said [...]
Brokers with Unique Style and Substance Embedded in the fabric of top-performing retail real estate firm Winick Realty Group LLC—a 35-broker operation representing some of the most prestigious tenants and landlords throughout New York City and its surrounding areas—is a story of female empowerment and camaraderie that is rare in this historically male-dominated subset of [...]
Stretch of East 14th Street Transformed Into Foodie Haven A new round of eateries are opening along East 14th Street. The strip between Second and Third avenues is preparing for a trio of new restaurant openings over the coming days and months, including a second outpost of Lower East Side Taiwanese eatery BaoHaus, a new [...]
NATIONAL CHAINS HAVE ADAPTED THE TEMPORARY STORE STRATEGY, BUT IT’S GETTING HARDER TO EXECUTE Spirit Halloween, another party supply seller, also hopes to have a more visible presence in 2011, according to Alex Hill, an associate with brokerage firm Winick Realty Group who represents the retailer in the New York market. Last year, Spirit Halloween [...]
Giggle Me: Retail Just for Kids on the Rise Where schools are built—whether in recent months or decades ago—retail for the pint-sized naturally tends to follow. Last month, Winick Realty secured a lease for Beehives and Buzzcuts, a children’s hair salon, on First Avenue between 21st and 22nd Street. At the 2,500 s/f shop, young [...]
As seen in The Times: Rise in Trade Center Spurs Retail Revival The 360,000 square feet of retail to open in 2014 at the World Trade Center site will not be as centralized as it was in the concourse mall, but will be distributed throughout the site, stretching from the World Financial Center as far [...]
The Logician, the Compass and the Dreamer In describing her role at Winick, where she has worked for six years, Ms. Shabtai insisted that she has regularly collaborated with many of its brokers, and not only Ms. Gedinsky and Ms. Kass. “We’re Jeff’s Angels,” she said jokingly, referring to the firm’s chief executive, Jeffrey Winick. [...]
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