There were 187 transactions totaling $253 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16.
🏆 Commercial: The priciest commercial transaction to hit records was on Staten Island, where a vacant lot at 191 Canal Street traded for $10.5 million. The parcel measures 0.9 acres. The seller was a company managed by Nazim Bashirov of United Land Realty, and the buyer was a company tied to Sheldon Perl.
🏆 Residential: Lenox Hill recorded the top home sale in the city. A trust dropped $16.5 million on a townhouse at 116 East 65th Street, which once belonged to Ghislaine Maxwell, the former socialite who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring with financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse children. The seller in the latest deal was AstraNYC LLC, which purchased the property in 2022 for $16 million. The five-story property dates to 1910 and measures 7,000 square feet.
📊Residential: Insurance executive Justin Foa paid just under $10 million for a 5,000-square-foot condo at 900 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side. The sellers were Carl and Dalia Cunow. Carl Cunow founded clothing company the Onia Group and Dalia Cunow is an interior designer. The unit has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms. It went on the market in September for $11.9 million.
📊Residential: Alexandra Cooley, CEO of Nuveen Green Capital, purchased a co-op at 36 East 72nd Street in Lenox Hill for $7.8 million. The seller was a trust tied to late Wall Street executive Charles Mott.
📊Commercial: A company managed by developer David Halberstam purchased a townhouse, currently configured as a family office/financial firm but to be delivered vacant, at 115 East 69th Street in Lenox Hill. The property spans roughly 10,000 square feet and has 27 rooms across five stories and a basement. Marcus & Millichap’s John Stewart represented the seller, Landmark Management. The property went on the market a year ago, with an asking price of $11.5 million.
By the Numbers: DOGE promised lease cuts. The federal rent bill barely budged.
Last year, the Trump administration made slashing the federal government’s office footprint a centerpiece of its cost-cutting campaign.
But the savings have yet to show up in the government’s rent bill.
A new TRD Data analysis of U.S. General Services Administration records found that the federal government’s annual rent obligations were essentially unchanged through May, despite hundreds of lease terminations touted by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
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