Kab Yong Bang through the entity Big Bang 45 LLC paid $6.8 million to Dennis Anastasis and Eleana Kokotos through the entity Anastasis Bros., Inc. for the adjacent retail buildings (K2) at 45-31, 45-37 and 45-43 Bell Boulevard in Bayside, Queens. The expected use is cash flowing. The deal closed on September 25, 2024 and was recorded on September 30, 2024. The three properties have…
Bobby Cayre’s Aurora Capital Associates through the entity 34 Gansevoort Partners LLC paid $7.5 million to Arizona State Retirement System through the entity Cholla 34 LLC for the mixed-use retail building (K4) at 34 Gansevoort Street on the border of the Meatpacking District and the West Village, Manhattan. The expected use is cash flowing. An affiliate of L3 Capital bought it from the Sitt family…
Jonathan Ohebshalom’s Sky Management through the entity Gulch 3 LLC paid $11.8 million to SMA Equities through the entity 303 Brow De LLC for the 22-unit residential walkup building (C7) at 305 Broome Street in Lower East Side, Manhattan. The expected use is cash flowing. The deal closed on September 24, 2024 and was recorded on September 30, 2024. The property has 18,055 square feet…
Ashkenazy Acquisition acquired an interest from Eddie Gindi, Raymond Gindi, and Isaac Gindi through the entity G-Cross Bronx Partners valued for the purposes of city transaction taxes at $20.3 million, for a 49.9 percent stake in the retail building (K6) at 961 East 174th Street in East Morrisania, Bronx. The parties recently settles a multi-year dispute over their holdings, as The Real Deal reported last…
Flagstar Bank filed a $48.95 million pre-foreclosure action alleging payment defaults on a four-building portfolio composed of 65 Seaman Avenue, 144 Sherman Avenue, and 40 Arden Street in Manhattan and 119-20 Union Turnpike in Queens. Case LINK Court filings represent the position of one party and are not necessarily accurate or complete. The complaint identified Alexander Hajibay and Michael Aryeh as guarantors. Alexander Hajibay through…
Mark Harounian filed a lawsuit yesterday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan asking a judge to order his father Jacob Harounian and his wife Violet to turn over $2 million as a partial satisfaction of an $8.9 million judgment the court handed down in 2023. That was the result of a 2017 suit Mark filed alleging his father Jacob took $5 million from…
A securitized loan trust through a judicial foreclosure auction in August took title to a Garment District office building at 29 West 35th Street that secured a $41 million defaulted loan, court records show. The total judgment was $57.6 million, and the winning bid was $22 million. The sale was held at the State Supreme Court House in Lower Manhattan on August 21, 2024. This…
Hersel Torkian’s Torkian Group paid $25 million to Robert Lemle’s Copperwood Real Estate and a partner for three adjacent properties that make up a development site at 1382 to 1386 Second Avenue in Lenox Hill, at the corner of 71st Street. In addition Torkian Group paid $3.76 million for air rights from a neighboring property, 1388 Second Avenue, that is also owned by Copperwood Real…
The trustee for 11 loans totaling $25.5 million that are secured by Brooklyn rental buildings that Yoel Goldman of All Year Management acquired, alleges they are in default and filed 11 pre-foreclosure actions in Brooklyn State Supreme Court for each of them last week. The loans range from $980,000 to $3.33 million, and most of the properties are less than 10 units. The trustee, U.S….
Lender Mack Real Estate Group alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday that principals of the Chetrit Group have defaulted on a $31.5 mezzanine loan secured by an interest in the stalled hotel redevelopment at 250 West 43rd Street in Times Square, Manhattan, and that $6.5 million is due immediately. The filing comes about three weeks after Mack Real Estate Group sued a Chetrit Group principal…
ASLD Realty through the entity CI Notes LLC bought a note with an original principal of $3.3 million from Flushing Bank secured by Yakov Jon Basmanov’s mixed-use building (K4) at 815 Westchester Avenue in Longwood, Bronx, and three adjacent lots. The deal closed on September 23, 2024 and was recorded on September 27, 2024. The prior lender was Flushing Bank which held debt that had…
Israel Chaim Hirsch and Chayim Rosenfeld through the entity Cyh Milford St LLC as borrower signed a refi loan with lender IceCap Group through the entity Ice Lender Holdings, LLC valued at $8 million for the industrial building (F5) at 22 Milford Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Moses Rabinowitz submitted a major alteration application for a conversion of the commercial (COM) building to a…
Joel Silberstein through the entity 226 Gardens LLC paid $1.5 million to Ilush Pulatov through the entity 709 East 226 LLC for the three-unit mixed-use building (S3) at 709 East 226th Street in Wakefield, Bronx. The expected use is cash flowing. The deal closed on September 23, 2024 and was recorded on September 27, 2024. The property has 4,422 square feet of built space and…
Jacob Friedman through the entity Y & O Realty LLC paid $2.5 million to Ronny Shmoel through the entity 1635 Realty LLC for the industrial building (E9) at 1635 McDonald Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn. The expected use is cash flowing. This property is one of three adjacent properties that Ronny Shmoel has owned. The other two, 1629 McDonald Avenue and 1625 McDonald Avenue just to…
The entity Didco Urban Renewal Company, associated with Ivor Braka, David Braka, and Benjamin Braka, paid $8 million to Aetna Realty through the entity 344 Bowery Retail LLC for the retail condo at 344 Bowery in NoHo, Manhattan. The expected use is cash flowing. Aetna Realty is also affiliated with the Braka family. The deal closed on September 25, 2024 and was recorded on September…
Peter Hungerford’s PH Realty Capital and Rockledge paid $49.5 million to Sentinel Real Estate for six rental buildings in Brooklyn including 1511-1521 Brightwater Avenue and 200-210 Brighton 15th Street in Brighton Beach, and 165 East 19th Street, 120 East 19th Street, 287 East 18th Street and 1803 Beverley Road in Flatbush in six transactions. In the first, PH Realty Capital and Rockledge through the entity…
The entities that own three Garment District properties, 28 West 36th Street, 32 West 39th Street and 36 West 39th Street, which together secure a $52 million loan from the Lightstone Group, were placed into chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in two separate filings. The bankruptcies come as a May 2024 state court proceeding in a related action 652669/2024 had been reviewing the appointment…
Namdar Realty Group bought two notes with original principals of $1.5 million each secured by in notes secured by two East Village rental buildings, 324 East 14th Street and 75 Second Avenue, in two separate transactions. Namdar already owns additional debt on both the buildings. In the first, Namdar Realty Group through the entity East 14th Street Holdings LLC bought a note with an original…
Skyland Management through the entity 120 Lexington Ave. Corp. as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Hakimian Partners through the entity Hakimian Partners LLC valued at $7.5 million for four properties, composing one vacant development lot at 120-126 Lexington Avenue, at the corner of East 28th Street in NoMad, Manhattan. The deal closed on September 20, 2024 and was recorded on September 26, 2024….
Victor Gjonaj paid $18 million to Robert Miller for two rental buildings at 94-20 66th Avenue and 94-19 66th Avenue, each with 54 units, located across 66th Avenue from each other in Rego Park, Queens, in two transactions. In the first, Victor Gjonaj through the entity 94-20 Rego Park LLC paid $9 million to Robert Miller through the entity 94-20 Realty Co., LLC for the…
