New York RealEstateRama

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) has leased space on the fifth floor of W&H Properties’ 250 West 57th Street, announces Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises W&H Properties.

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) -- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) announced today that it will host its Annual Institutional Investor Conference on Monday, December 5, 2011.

New York, NY - November 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com), the Manhattan franchise of leading real estate company Keller Williams Realty Inc., has appointed Eric Barron as CEO and Team Leader. He will be responsible for overseeing Keller Williams' Manhattan growth, while working closely with its recently launched international division.

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.

November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel, and Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced that the City has allocated $14.4 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits to 13 affordable housing projects. The tax credits were provided by New York State and serve as a critical source of funding for low-income affordable housing developments. New York City worked closely with the Cuomo Administration to complete these financing deals, which will support a total of 737 affordable units. It is expected that the work being done on these 10 new construction projects and three preservation projects will create approximately 1,400 new construction and related industry jobs throughout the course of their construction period.

NEW YORK, NY - November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has been selected by SJP Properties as exclusive leasing agent for 11 Times Square, a 1.1 million-square-foot, LEED Gold-Certified commercial tower situated at the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York’s Times Square. Jones Lang LaSalle will oversee leasing and marketing for the building’s office space.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sean Brady, senior director of Cushman & Wakefield of New Jersey, Inc. and co-founder of the firm's Data Center Advisory Group, is slated to address the Greater New York Data Center Summit on November 29, 2011. Scheduled to run from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the event will be held at the McGraw Hill Conference Center in New York City and will feature more than 30 speakers in eight panel discussions.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Panera Bread Company, the popular bakery-café chain, leased the only available space at Malkin Properties’ 10 Union Square East retail condominium.

November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- “The contract proposals made today by the city’s major building owners on a new contract for 22,000 of the city’s commercial office cleaners are an aggressive attempt to rollback wage and benefit standards that working men and women depend on to support their families. In particular, proposals for establishing a two-tier staff structure, aimed at creating a lower second class of workers, and for placing restrictions on the political action of union members are unacceptable.”

NEW YORK, NY - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- City Comptroller John C. Liu today announced that an audit of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) found that the agency kept $9.8 million in unused funds from expired contracts and other sources – money that should have been returned to the City treasury.

Washington, DC - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today announced that the City of Binghamton has been awarded a $485,058 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs Sustainable Housing and Communities grant to create a Main Street revitalization plan that can be integrated with the city's existing Comprehensive Plan - a document created in 2003 to guide the city's economic development efforts

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Human Rights Watch, the international advocacy group, has renewed and expanded its space at the Empire State Building, announces Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises the building.

New York, NY - November 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that 75% of the units are sold at 88 Morningside. Closings are currently underway and immediate occupancy is available.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- BAM Architecture Studio has added two professionals to its growing staff, an architect and an interior designer, says Ross Adam Cole, principal of BAM Architecture Studio.

New York, NY - November 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com), the Manhattan franchise of leading real estate firm Keller Williams Realty Inc., has appointed Jacqui Howard as Vice President.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Robert A. Silver, executive managing director of Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), has joined his colleague Jonathan Fanuzzi and the leasing teams at 1333 and 1359 Broadway as part of his NKF role, announces Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises the W&H portfolio of nine Pre-War Trophy office buildings in Manhattan.

New York, NY - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Joel Herskowitz, whose legacy in New York City commercial real estate brokerage spans 27 years, has joined the newly formed Lee & Associates NYC LLC. Herskowitz, the former president and CEO of Grubb & Ellis New York Inc., takes on the title of COO, and whose duties also include broker recruitment, which the Manhattan office has made one of its top priorities.

NEW YORK, NY - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Leading real estate firm Halstead Property announced today that Sara Rotter has joined the firm as Director of Sales for Downtown. In her new position, Rotter is working closely with Richard Grossman, the Executive Director of Sales for Downtown. Together, they are responsible for the day-to-day management of Halstead’s two offices in the Village and SoHo as well as the strategic growth of the firm in the Downtown market

New York, NY - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- 2011—Keller Williams NYC (www.kwnyc.com), the Manhattan franchise of leading real estate firm Keller Williams Realty Inc., has announced the appointments of Raymond Choy, Jennifer Burn and William Calle.

Washington, DC - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17) is pleased to announce the removal of a provision that would have denied operations and Section 8 funding for 12,000 public housing units in New York City. The provision, originally inserted by House Republicans into the FY 2012 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations (T-HUD) bill, was stripped from the bill yesterday.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- BAM Architecture Studio has opened its first office outside the New York area, in Durham, North Carolina, to provide local support for existing clients there and broaden its opportunities to serve clients in the life sciences, healthcare and corporate arenas, three sectors in which the firm already has a solid reputation.

NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- W&H Properties, the portfolio of nine Pre-War Trophy office buildings in Manhattan, is sponsoring the 201l Sherri P. Koeppel Memorial Blood Drive with the Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association of New York.

NEW YORK, NY - November 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The world’s most famous office building has been recognized for purchasing 100 percent renewable energy. The Empire State Building has received a 2011 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

New York, NY - November 16, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The New York City Housing Authority joined with Laborers’ Local 79 of the Mason Tenders District Council (MTDC) of Greater New York to celebrate the addition of more than 200 NYCHA residents into the union at a job site luncheon on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. in Harlem’s Johnson Houses. There are 35 NYCHA laborers, members of MTDC’s Laborers’ Local 79, currently working at Johnson Houses, 11 of which secured their jobs through NYCHA’s Section 3 efforts.