All Posts Tagged With: "retail"

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Empty Retail Spaces in NoHo – Broadway and Astor Place is Land of K-Mart

(post by Dee) Whatever happened to NoHo?! I went down there the other day and couldn’t help but notice how quiet and dead it was. I had an eerie feeling that the festive, cool, lively spirit has left the neighborhood. Half of the storefronts along Broadway were vacant, and 8th Street was deserted! Besides NYU, [...]

14Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Broker Tales’ 5 Best New Lower East Harlem (LEH) Restaurants of 2008’

Broker Tales’ 5 Best New Lower East Harlem (LEH) Restaurants of 2008’:
1. La Galette Café opened summer of 2008 on 177 East 100th St (100th between 3rd and Lexington) and is a unique fusion of French and Senegalese food. They make a killer croque monsieur and some of the most flavorful lamb and red snapper [...]

29Sep2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lower East Harlem – LEH: Uptown Manhattan’s New Sub Neighborhood

(post by Ardie) Since Lehman Brothers lost their ticker original symbol (LEH is now LEHQ), I decided to use the acronym to describe what I call the Lower East Side of Harlem of New York. This area is different from most of Harlem because in the recent two years it has seen the most explosive [...]

24Sep2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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4-85 47th Rd in Long Island City - Food Cellar & Co Market: Queens West Gets a Supermarket!

(post by Dee) The long-awaited supermarket has arrived to LIC. Located at 4-85 47th Road in Queens West part of LIC (NOT in Hunters Point, as mistakenly reported by NY Daily News article - although they do specify in being in Queens West, also!) Someone at the paper needs to do little more research [...]

21Sep2008 | | 1 comment | Continued

Cap Rates: Is Commercial Real Estate Also Falling?

(post by Dee) I recently read a blog post titled Slow Motion Crash that predicts commercial real estate is headed in the same direction as residential - down. He compares the life cycle of the housing market bubble to that of commercial properties, and points to higher vacancies and longer time it takes nowadays to [...]

20Jun2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

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