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NY’s Real Estate Board celebrates 128 years tonight at spirited gala

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) is celebrating 128 years as an organization, longer than the pact that brought together the five boroughs For the first time since the pandemic, its annual gala banquet will return to its traditional winter date in January and take place at the Glasshouse in Midtown West. Guests include REBNY’s board of governors and the evening’s honorees along with (very often) the governor, the mayor, deputies, commissioners, the City Council speaker, Council members, state senators and Assembly representatives, US Congressional representatives and senators, as well as other officials who can create gridlock as…

Publication New York Post
Date 2024-01-18
Author Lois Weiss

Douglas Durst Looks Back on the Last Four Years as REBNY Chair

On the eve of handing over the REBNY chairmanship, Douglas Durst reflects on the last four years

Publication Commercial Observer
Date 2024-01-16
Author Mark Hallum

REBNY 2024: The Exit Interview and This Year’s Honorees

Douglas Durst gets real on his last stint as chairman of REBNY

Publication Commercial Observer
Date 2024-01-16
Author Mark Hallum

A new 4,000-square-foot brewery in LIC serves mixed-culture beers made with NY ingredients

Just steps away from Queens Plaza in Long Island City, Finback LIC is a new taproom and mixed-culture studio that just opened at 29-37 41st Avenue, operating as Finback Brewery's third Queens outpost (the first location opened in Glendale nearly a decade ago and the second landed in Gowanus, Brooklyn, in 2020) According to an official press release, this new storefront will focus on "the production of mixed-culture beers highlighting New York State fruits and other local ingredients." Among the on-premise offerings is a golden ale dubbed Live by the Sun and Moon 2021, conditioned on merlot grapes from the…

Publication Time Out New York
Date 2024-01-03
Author Anna Rahmanan

Montroy DeMarco Architecture-designed U.S. Headquarters Office of SOCOTEC in Manhattan Receives LEED CI v4 Platinum Certification

New York, NY – A newly completed, 11,000-square foot U.S. headquarters office of SOCOTEC, Inc. (formerly Vidaris, Inc.) designed by Montroy DeMarco Architecture (MDA), received LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. LEED Platinum is the highest level of certification, indicating an ultimate degree of sustainability through energy efficient design and building systems, recycled and environmentally responsible materials, and sustainable operations and practices. At the time of its certification, SOCOTEC’s headquarters was one of only six LEED CI v4 Platinum certified projects in New York State SOCOTEC is a leading provider of sustainability and high-performance consulting and design…

Date 2024-01-03
Author Informed Infrastructure
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