Monthly Archives: March 2012

EUGENE, OR - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Joel Krieger and IDX, Inc. have joined forces to bring thousands of Empire Access MLS (EAMLS) listings to the fingertips of online home seekers. As a member of the EAMLS, Krieger has long had access to thousands of Wappingers Falls, New York area listings. Now, his clients can experience the same levels of accessibility once reserved for agents and brokers only, conveniently on the website Krieger hosts. His custom IDX solution has forever changed the way his clients search for homes online.

New York, NY - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York State’s Superintendent of Financial Services, has named Brian D. Obergfell to the newly formed State Charter Bank Advisory Board. Mr. Obergfell is a senior partner at Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP and a member of the firm’s executive and strategic committees.

NEW YORK, NY - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- March 30, 2012—Brooklyn saw 377 commercial real estate transactions in 2011 consisting of 562 properties and totaling approximately $1.8 Billion in gross consideration, according to the Brooklyn Year-End Sales Report 2011 released by Ariel Property Advisors.

New York, NY - March 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Security officers by the hundreds rallied in support of colleagues who work for private security contractor U.S. Security Associates (USSA) at the Sony Corporation’s North American headquarters building on Madison Avenue. USSA has repeatedly stood in the way of workers’ attempts to gain better working conditions, wages, training and benefits by violating their right to organize.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - March 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Steve Mosto has been appointed vice president of Energy Services for Donnelly Mechanical Corp., a leading provider of HVAC and energy services in New York City, announces Robert Ragozine, president of Energy Services for the company.

NEW YORK, NY - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today introduced a new interactive online tool providing mortgage delinquency and foreclosure information for each county in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

NEW YORK, NY - March 27, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced an agreement with Steven J. Baum P.C. (“Baum Firm”), Pillar Processing, LLC (“Pillar”), Steven J. Baum, and Brian Kumiega requiring them to pay $4 million to New York State in penalties, costs and fees, which will be used in part for programs that offer assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure or victims of predatory lending practices. The agreement stems from abuses in their foreclosure-related legal work. Baum Firm founder Steven J. Baum and managing partner Brian Kumiega also agreed to not represent lenders or servicers in new foreclosure-related cases for a period of two years. Until ceasing most of its operations on or about December 31, 2011, the Baum Firm was the largest foreclosure firm in New York State.

Torrance, CA - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Seasoned industry professionals Henry Goldfarb and Stanley Lindenfeld have been named vice chairman and executive managing director of Lee & Associates NYC LLC, respectively. The two retail experts have over 42 years of combined experience within the New York-based real estate markets where they have specialized in retail and commercial brokerage.

NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Mark Marasciullo as a Managing Director in New York. He will serve on the firm’s national investor client team — a group of established facilitators and relationship managers for Jones Lang LaSalle’s largest institutional investor clients.

NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has named John Wheeler, managing director, to oversee its Lower Manhattan office. He will also continue to provide brokerage and advisory services to some of the firm’s most significant clients.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - March 23, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The firm of Louis J. Freeh, former director of the FBI, has leased a high-end pre-built suite at the Empire State Building, announces Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises the property

Torrance, CA and New York, NY - March 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- William Will Lopez, 40, has joined Partner Engineering and Science Inc.'s New York office as a Project Manager in the firm's growing Industrial Hygiene Division.

New York, NY - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York City Housing Authority applauds and welcomes City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn’s announcement today that NYCHA will receive $10 million from the City Council to help fund repairs and hire public housing residents to perform those repairs in Fiscal Year 2013. As the largest affordable housing provider in the city, NYCHA housing is a critical resource. Recent years have brought unparalleled fiscal challenges for NYCHA as it strives to maintain and preserve its 178,000 units of affordable housing.

Washington, DC - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rockland County’s Office of Community Development was awarded a $556,106 Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance to homeless persons, including transitional housing, permanent housing plus supportive services Congressman Eliot Engel announced

Torrance, CA - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates NYC has taken another step in fortifying its already formidable retail arm with the addition of Robert Kunikoff, a former executive managing director of Grubb & Ellis New York Inc. Kunikoff spearheaded the national and New York Retail Group where he specialized in strategic roll-outs for retailers’ expansion into the New York market. With 25 years of real estate experience, coupled with his impressive list of clients served, Kunikoff will give Lee NYC yet another powerful tool in its arsenal of top retail brokers.

New York, NY - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com) today announced the appointments of Grant Braswell and Daniel Geller as licensed real estate salespersons. Braswell will specialize in residential sales and rentals for Keller Williams NYC. Previously, he was an agent and head of digital marketing at The Blumstein Team, one of The Corcoran Group’s top sales teams. Earlier in his career, Braswell was a media planner and buyer for leading digital media agency Mediasmith. He has a Bachelor’s in Economics from Emory University.

NEW YORK, NY - March 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Pier 1 Imports is coming to the Upper East Side, and RKF arranged the 17, 514-square-foot retail lease with the home furnishings and gifts store at 1110 Third Ave. Located on the northwest corner of 65th Street at the base of The Chatham, the Robert A. M. Stern-designed residential condominium, the retail space includes 4,638 square feet on the ground floor, 8,119 square feet on the lower level and 4,757 square feet on the second floor. This will be Pier 1 Imports’ second location in Manhattan.

EUGENE, OR - March 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. and East Amherst, New York Broker Colleen Kulikowski have joined forces to present area home seekers with a comprehensive online real estate website. IDX Broker software has integrated a search page that extracts raw listing data directly from the New York State Alliance MLS (NYSAM) database and seamlessly presents it onto Kulikowski’s website. She can now supply her clients with thousands of New York area homes instantly, from the convenience and familiarity of her IDX-enabled website.

EUGENE, OR - March 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, IDX, Inc. announces David Schlowsky of Giandana-Loftus Real Estate in Windham, New York has become the latest professional to adopt a customizable IDX solution for his real estate website. His IDX solution now seamlessly integrates thousands of Columbia Greene Northern Dutchess MLS (CGNDMLS) listings onto his search page, creating a comprehensive database of properties for his clients to explore online. Adding IDX Broker software to his website has revolutionized the way Schlowsky presents listings to his clients and other potential New York buyers.

NEW YORK, NY - March 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A financial institution has retained Ariel Property Advisors to sell its financial lien positions for nine investment properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Long Island.

NEW YORK, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Multifamily transactions in New York City increased six percent in January 2012 compared to December 2011, but month-over-month dollar volume fell due to the absence of deals by institutional investors, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Multifamily Month in Review: New York City.

Yonkers, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Mike Spano, L+M Development Partners Inc. (L+M) and the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA) symbolically broke ground today marking the start of construction on Warburton Lofts, a historic restoration of loft-style rental apartments and retail space located at 44-50 and 54 Warburton Avenue (aka 6-8 Wells Avenue) across from Philipse Manor Hall. The $10 million mixed-use project is the latest in a series of developments that is bringing new economic investment to downtown Yonkers, improving the quality of the city’s housing stock for all income levels and continuing the downtown’s renaissance.

NEW YORK, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing announced today that Parkside Flats, a new residential development located at 362 St. Nicholas Avenue in Central Harlem, has two remaining units available.

New York, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, the New York-based full-service real estate firm, announced today that Robert Werner has been promoted to Managing Director. Werner, 46, joined Rose in 1999 and has been acting as a Portfolio Director within the company’s residential management division.

NEW YORK, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- For the third time in less than a year, The Marketing Directors, Inc. has emerged as the preferred choice to bring a new Brooklyn development to market