After years of deterioration and blight, the Hotel Carter in Times Square is poised to have a new owner in a matter of months. The vacant property at 250 West 43rd Street is being put up for auction with the Manhattan sheriff’s office on May 6, the New York Post reported. The development was posted in a legal notice; the sheriff did not respond to a request for comment from the publication. Less than a year ago, the city filed a civil lawsuit against brothers Meyer and Joseph Chetrit, claiming they failed to properly maintain the property, making it a […]

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Manhattan’s luxury market reeled off its strongest week in almost a year.  The borough saw 43 contracts signed for homes asking at least $4 million between March 2 to March 8, for a total contract volume was $422 million, according to a report from Olshan Realty. The total marks the most in a single week since May 2025.  There were 23 contracts signed for condos, five for townhouses and 15 for co-ops — the most since November 2021. Homes that went into contract last week had a median asking price of $6 million and an average discount of 9 percent.  […]

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Hollywood’s archetypical agent has been showing a very different side of himself as a host of a video podcast called “Rushmore.”

The president insists conflict with Iran will be brief, but world leaders are preparing for severe economic blowback.

Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake.

Finance ministers for the seven industrialized countries met on Monday and said they would consider releasing oil from reserves but were not ready to do so now.

For decades, he wrote a syndicated column in The Washington Post promoting nonviolence. That became the subject of a course he taught for nearly 40 years.

Ready Capital reported a $232 million loss in its most recent earnings amid a massive restructuring of its commercial real estate loan book.  Since last year, the firm’s stock has fallen over 60 percent from over $5 to under $2 and has slashed its dividend to $0.01. As part of its restructuring it is seeking to sell about $1.5 billion of loans to free up $250 million, company executives said on the earnings call. Its net loss of $232 million was still an improvement from its $314 million in the fourth quarter of 2024.   Ready Capital was once a key […]

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Letitia James was dealt a major blow to her push to root out income discrimination across New York state. The New York Appellate Division’s Third Judicial Department handed New York Attorney General James and the Legal Aid Society a loss on Thursday, the Commercial Observer reported, striking down a state law that banned housing discrimination based on source of income. The case revolved around the law enacted in 2019. That law contains components deemed unconstitutional, according to the appellate court, particularly regarding the rights of landlords. “Landlords are now forced to consent to governmental searches of their rental properties and […]

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