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 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Whereas real estate condo developers in the past focused on apartments for singles and couples, they are lately rethinking their strategies and changing layouts to create three-, four- and even five-bedroom apartments. According to one recent report, sales of large New York City condos exploded in the past five years, with three-bedroom apartment sales quadrupling and four-bedroom apartments tripling.

NEW YORK, NY - March 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ariel Property Advisors has been retained to sell a vacant, six-parcel development site at 148-46 Hillside Avenue near the vibrant downtown Jamaica regional business district in Queens. The asking price is $5.75 million.

New York, NY - March 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that 90% of the units are sold at 88 Morningside, a premier residential development in Harlem. Located on the corner of Morningside Avenue and West 122nd Street, 88 Morningside is a modern 12-story residential building the provides buyers with spectacular views of adjacent Morningside Park, as well as the Manhattan skyline. The six remaining units include one-bedroom, one-bathroom homes, ranging in price from $425,000 - $470,000.

NEW YORK, NY - March 1, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Strong fundamentals backed up strong investment sales in Northern Manhattan during 2011, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Northern Manhattan Fundamentals Report, an overview of residential and retail markets that gives investors a better understanding of today’s revenue drivers affecting investment property values uptown.

NEW YORK, NY - February 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ariel Property Advisors has been retained to sell a Washington Heights development site at 605 W. 161st Street near Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The asking price is $3.15 million.

NEWARK, NJ - February 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- TreeTop Development, a Newark, N.J.-based multi-faceted real estate company that has owned and self managed over 3,000 residential homes throughout New York and New Jersey, recently completed the purchase of four properties in New York City consisting of over 80 apartment homes and eleven retail spaces totaling 10,000 square feet.

NEW YORK, NY - February 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- TNS Development Group Ltd., Great American Construction Corp. and Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that sales have launched on the open market at The Shelton, a newly constructed 14-story development offering affordable co-op living with high-end features.

New York, NY - February 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Fed up with companies and organizations that are lowering standards for quality of work and treatment of workers in the commercial moving industry, a group of the area’s largest and most well-respected movers joined together today with the Greater New York Building and Construction Trades Council to announce the better business trade group “Moving Forward”.

NEW YORK, NY - January 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing and West 147th Street Associates LLC, an affiliate of L+M Development Partners, Inc., today announced that all units at PS90, a premier residential development in Harlem, have been sold.

Baldwinsville, NY - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Syracuse NY realtors have lately been busy inviting other locals to join in the fun and get cold for a cause for The Big Chill, an event hosted by the Greater Baldwinsville Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of funding the Ronald McDonald House Charities of CNY as well as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

New York, NY - January 4, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- RKF, the exclusive retail leasing agent in Manhattan for Pret A Manger, is helping the sandwich chain expand throughout the city, most recently by arranging two new long-term retail leases. The newly opened shops are located at 350 Hudson St. and 62 West 45th St. in Manhattan. In total, Pret A Manger has 33 Manhattan locations.

NEW YORK, NY - December 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- As a contract deadline looms in New York City for 22,000 office cleaners represented by SEIU 32BJ, janitors in more than12 cities across the country including Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angles have pledged to honor picket lines should the strike spread outside of New York City.

New York, NY - December 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With office cleaners stepping up preparations for a possible strike, cleaners will gather near Bowling Green Park and march past their worksites in downtown Manhattan’s Financial District. Hundreds of other office building workers will also be on the streets at several Midtown locations including Grand Central Station and the Grace Building.

ROCHESTER, NY - December 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Attorney Anastasios “Taso” Kolokouris, 28, of Avon, N.Y., has been arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint with violating the Clean Air Act asbestos work practice standards involving asbestos removal and disturbance. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

New York, NY - December 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chairman John B. Rhea and NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced today the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the redevelopment of Prospect Plaza, which is located in the Ocean Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Albany, - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) $194 Million Plan Will Create More Than 6,000 jobs Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today travelled to Stony Brook to sign the Stony Brook University 2020 challenge grant application that proposes a $194 million plan to help revitalize Long Island's economy by building a first-class medical research building at the Stony Brook campus

New York, NY - December 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With only two weeks left until a possible citywide strike, thousands of New York City office cleaners and other commercial building workers will march and rally through the streets of Midtown Manhattan during rush hour to demand a fair contract from the Realty Advisory Board, an industry association representing most building owners.

New York, NY - December 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- At the New York Housing Conference (NYHC) and the National Housing Conference (NHC) 38th Annual Awards Program, Nixon Peabody partner John L. Kelly was among the national and local affordable housing leaders recognized for their incredible commitment to affordable housing and for their support of economic growth, job creation, and recovery.

NEW YORK, NY - December 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Dec. 8, national and local affordable housing leaders will be recognized for their incredible commitment to affordable housing and for their support of economic growth, job creation and recovery. They will be honored at the New York Housing Conference (NYHC) and the National Housing Conference (NHC) 38^th Annual Awards Program, one of the largest gatherings of housing professionals in the nation, which will be held at the Hilton New York in Manhattan. With over 1,200 government officials and affordable housing leaders expected to attend, this year’s Awards Program will highlight the importance of affordable housing as a means to encouraging economic growth, job creation and recovery. It will also feature several symposiums designed to facilitate discourse among various affordable housing groups to address some of the most pressing issues currently facing the affordable housing industry.

New York, NY - December 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thousands of New York City office cleaners and commercial building workers voted Thursday to authorize their bargaining committee to call a strike if necessary. Failure to reach a new contract by 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2012 could lead to a strike of more than 22,000 office cleaners at over 1,500 commercial office buildings citywide.

New York, NY - December 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thousands of New York City commercial office cleaners will vote Thursday to authorize their bargaining committee to call a strike if necessary. Failure to reach a new contract by midnight, January 1, 2012, could prompt a strike of more than 22,000 apartment building workers at over 1,500 commercial office buildings throughout the city.

Yonkers, NY - November 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Philip A. Amicone, Chairman of the Board of Yonkers Industrial Development Agency (IDA), announced that the board approved a resolution to move forward with a public hearing and to negotiate economic development package for a project that will transform the long-abandoned PS 6 school building and surrounding brownfield at 33 Ashburton Avenue into an affordable housing complex with two modern, environmentally-friendly, buildings. The complex will provide 50 units of senior housing and 70 units of family low-income housing units.

Washington, DC - November 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, today announced an $8,587,883 Assisted Living Conversion Program (ALCP) grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Loretto in Syracuse to support a multi-year project to renovate 39 units of affordable housing and install a full size elevator for senior citizens living at the Bernardine assisted living facility.

NEW YORK, NY - November 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced new pricing on the five remaining units at Beacon Towers, a Central Harlem cooperative development.