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Trump Roast
A mixed bag of celebrities gathered at the Hammerstein Ballroom last night to roast arguably New York's most famous developer, marketing machine and presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The Situation,...
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Trump Wonders Is This Any Way to Treat Your Savior? [Updated]
In a radio interview this morning, Donald Trump said he feels betrayed by the New York Daily News, which he said he "saved" but now gives him "nothing but bad articles." Trump: "I understand the Daily...
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Trump Money Goes Both Ways: Just like us! say G.O.P.’s Clinton boosters...
In June of last year, before he began positioning himself as the most rabid Birther candidate for president on the Republican right, developer and casino operator Donald Trump gave $25,000 to the...
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Way Back When, Trump Gave to Weiner, Nadler, Dinkins, Green … and Giuliani Too
In this week's Observer, Azi and I looked at Donald Trump's New York state political contributions, which favored Democrats over Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin. Not surprisingly, his New...
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Trump on REBNY: ‘I’m Not a Joiner’
Our politics desk is putting together a piece for tomorrow's paper on Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential candidate. But what about Mr. Trump, the real estate tycoon? Or, more to the point, what...
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Duane Reade Commits to Big Office Relocation at Trump's 40 Wall Street
New York City drugstore pharmacy giant Duane Reade has agreed to relocate its corporate offices to 40 Wall Street, the same Trump Organization-owned office tower that already houses its sushi-serving,...
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“The Most Complicated Deal I Personally Have Handled.”
It’s not uncommon to hear Manhattan’s real estate market characterized as sophisticated or complex. Not every day, however, does a requirement as straightforward as Dentsu McGarryBowen’s uncork such an...
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Howard Rubenstein: Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Recipient
Manhattan real estate moguls talk about his “Solomonic wisdom,” according to The New York Times. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called him the “dean of damage control.” His public relations firm,...
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Trump Card: The Rise of 40 Wall Street and its Steward, Donald Trump Jr.
“For us, we had to do something different,” said Donald Trump Jr. last week, his voice rising with excitement. Freshly tanned from a recent visit to Mexico, where he was overseeing a new project, the...
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In Chicago, Trump Goes Big On Risk
With recent high-profile purchases like the $150 million he forked over for the Doral Golf Resort and Spa and the $48 million he spent to acquire the debt from Fortress Investment Group and other...
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Andrew Goldberg, Broker Behind Trump Tower’s Gucci Deal, Thinks Retail is...
Andrew Goldberg is a retail executive at CBRE, where he is one of the firm’s top brokers, representing both landlords and tenants. With Nordstrom’s deal on 57th Street, retail leasing has been the talk...
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Vornado Realty Closes Loans on Midtown Properties
With a recently obtained mortgage and other two rumored to come next, Vornado Realty seems close to obtaining over $1 billion in loans on Midtown properties from some of the biggest players on the...
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New York Real Estate Veterans Featured on Forbes Billionaires List
New York real estate veterans from Richard LeFrak to Sheldon Solow were featured on Forbes' annual list of the world’s billionaires. In total, 1,426 individuals made the list with a combined net worth...
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Last Chance to Vote: Power 100 Reader’s Poll Closes at 5 pm Today
Thousands of votes have been cast in The Commercial Observer’s first annual Power 100 Reader’s Poll and as of 1 pm this afternoon, Donald Trump holds a razor- thin advantage over Andrew Farkas of...
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Power 100 Reader’s Poll Results
Over the course of five days last week, thousands of you voted in our first annual Power 100 Reader's Poll. In the end, however, the balance of power swung like a pendulum with every new tweet and...
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Trump Finalizes 60-Year Lease for DC’s Old Post Office Building, Luxury Hotel...
Donald Trump told The Commercial Observer that his upcoming hotel in Washington DC's Old Post Office Pavilion "will be as luxurious as any hotel in this country and beyond." The Trump Organization...
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Donald Trump Interested in Buying Buffalo Bills
Donald Trump is interested in buying the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills franchise and keeping the team in Western New York, according to The Buffalo News. “I’m going to give it a heavy shot,”...
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Old New York: The Plaza Hotel
The Plaza Hotel in 1946 (Getty Images) 1907 American architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh designs and builds the French Renaissance château-style Plaza Hotel, which costs $12.5 million to develop. When...
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Retirement Planners on the Move in FiDi
40 Wall Street. Retirement plan management firm Cammack Retirement Group will relocate its Financial District headquarters in the spring of 2015 through a 15-year, full-floor lease at the Trump...
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