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Commercial brokerage Lee & Associates NYC has hired a new 10-person office and retail leasing and sales team that includes three new principals and seven brokers, all of whom came from Advisors Commercial Real Estate. Gregory Gang, Catherine O’Toole and Corey Abdo have been hired as executive managing directors and principals, and they are leading a team that includes new brokers Milana Kakuriyeva, Stephanie Moore, David Scher, Stephen Tarter, David Toran, Ari Waldman and Meagan…

Lee & Associates NYC welcomed a crowd of over 120 members of the city’s commercial real estate community to Club 101 on Monday to discuss the ins and outs of finding and negotiating a lease for office space in New York City. For their first-ever event, the Lee NYC team hosted a mix of tenants, developers, lawyers, accountants, property owners and more. Sponsors and panelist contributors for the event included the national accounting firm, Withum, the…

Sard Verbinnen & Company, the go-to public relations firm for Wall Street firms during crises, will move its offices to 65,068 square feet at 909 Third Avenue, according to a broker on the deal. The PR firm signed a 15-year lease to take over the entire 31st and 32nd floors of Vornado Realty Trust’s 33-story building between East 54th and East 55th Streets, as The Real Deal first reported. Alan Friedman of Lee & Associates NYC…

Lee & Associates NYC will host its first-ever panel event on Monday, October 29, 8 to 11 a.m., at Club 101 at 101 Park Avenue, between 40th and 41st Streets. Entitled “Executing the Deal,” the symposium will welcome both tenants and landlords. The event will comprise two panels, “Describing the Leasing Process” and “Issues to Be Considered.” Sponsoring the event will be the national accounting firm, Withum, the national architectural/interior design firm, Environetics, and the…

Longtime investment sales broker Ben Tapper has landed at Lee & Associates NYC after nearly 15 years at Eastern Consolidated, which shut down earlier this summer. Tapper, 42, started Sept. 5 as a senior managing director at Lee’s newly launched investment sales division, the firm’s spokeswoman told Commercial Observer. He spent 14.5 years selling development sites, commercial condominium units, residential properties and mixed-use buildings, in addition to hammering out long-term leaseholds and 1031 exchanges. Click here…

Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY) has taken 11,366 square feet at 75 West 125th Street to house its foster care program, Commercial Observer has learned. The space spans the third and fourth floors of the four-story, 27,933-square-foot property between Fifth and Lenox Avenues, according to information provided by Lee & Associates NYC, the tenant’s broker. Click here to read the full article from Commercial Observer.

Lee & Associates NYC, previously focused on retail and office leasing and having recently formed an investment division, has now branched into residential services. Joel Herskowitz, an investor in Lee & Associates NYC and the COO, who was instrumental in bringing the company to Manhattan in November 2011, will oversee management of the new division. Previously, Herskowitz served as a senior director at Cushman & Wakefield from 2008 to 2010, president and CEO of Grubb…

At a time when investment sales firms are finding their footing, the seven-year-old leasing-heavy Lee & Associates NYC has joined the investment sales fray with a new nine-person division. Click here to read the full announcement from Commercial Observer.

Mark Kapnick, Executive Vice President/Principal, at Lee & Associates NYC has arranged a 950-square-foot, two-year lease at 68 Prince Street, between Lafayette and Crosby Streets, for NOBULL, an athletic footwear, apparel and accessories brand designed for the serious athlete. The space also includes 510 square feet on the lower level. This will be the first store location for the company. Click here to read the full story from CityBizList.