Blackstone is nearing an agreement to purchase a Midtown tower, which would mark a return to New York office dealmaking for the world’s biggest real estate investor.
Judge Jennifer Shecter granted a motion sought by the building’s landlord, Cooper Union, to evict the tower's operator, RFR, after the firm defaulted on $21 million in rent and other obligations.
The nation’s biggest office-to-residential conversion is hitting the market with 1,300 apartments carved from a million-square-foot brick fortress originally built to house computers — and not much ...