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Ruben Luna signs $8M acquisition loan with Key Food co-op for grocery building in Washington Heights

Ruben Luna through the entity Diluna Property LLC as borrower signed an acquisition loan with lender Key Food Stores Co-Operative valued at $8 million for the $18 million purchase of the retail building (K1) at 1221 Saint Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The property spans the entire block front of Saint Nicholas Avenue from 171st Street to 172nd Street. The owner bought the property…

James Ross signs $18M refi loan with Securian Financial for 142-unit rental in Hell’s Kitchen

James Ross of Rossrock LLC, through the entity Rossmil Associates as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Securian Financial Group through the entity Minnesota Life Insurance Company valued at $18 million for the 142-unit residential elevator building (D7) at 350 West 51st Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The deal closed on March 15, 2024 and was recorded on March 20, 2024. The prior lender…

RW Real Estate signs $24M construction loan for 58-unit Crown Heights project

RW Real Estate Group through the entity Rw 705 Franklin LLC as borrower signed a construction loan with lender Provident Bank valued at $24 million for the 58-unit development at 705-711 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. On the lot, there is one active new building construction project for a 58-unit, 47,094 square-foot residential (R-2) building. The project was submitted by RW Real Estate Group…

RYCO Capital signs $78.7M refi for nine properties in Manhattan

RYCO Capital through the entity 502 Laguardia LLC (and others) as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Webster Bank valued at $78.7 million for nine properties with 97 residential units including the 24-unit residential walkup building (C7) at 142 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, 24-unit residential walkup building (C7) at 140 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, and 16-unit residential walkup…

Postal Realty Trust pays $3.5M for post office in Fordham Manor

Postal Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust focused on assets leased to the United States Postal Service,  through the entity Eastern Postal Realty Holdings, LLC paid $3.5 million to Castagna Realty through the entity Riedda Realty Co. for the specialty building (Z3) at 2553 Jerome Avenue in Fordham Manor, Bronx. The deal closed on March 15, 2024 and was recorded on March 20, 2024….

NineDot Energy pays $6.95M for commercial in Marine Park, second city purchase

NineDot Energy, a community distributed energy developer, through the entity Trillium Vesper Landco LLC paid $3.8 million to Lighting Palace for three commercial buildings at 2138 Flatbush Avenue, 2148 Flatbush Avenue and 2142 Flatbush Avenue in Marine Park, Brooklyn, in three separate transactions. This was the alternative power company NineDot Energy’s second purchase in New York City. Lender SolaREIT financed the acquisition with a $7.1…

West Village townhouse with 3 units sells for $11M

The entity Lomond LLC through signatory Matthew McClure, paid $11 million to for the three-unit building (C0) at 61 Charles Street in the West Village, Manhattan. The deal closed on March 13, 2024 and was recorded on March 20, 2024. The property has 4,080 square feet of built space and 532 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 4,617 square feet…

Billionaire Regeneron co-founder pays $9.6M for foreclosed Tribeca mixed-use

UPDATED, 4:50 p.m., March 20, 2024: The co-founder and president of the $105 billion drug company Regeneron, George Yancopoulos, paid $9.6 million for a five-story, mixed-use office and residential building at 44 Hudson Street in Tribeca, Manhattan. He bought the building through the entity 44 Hudson Holdings LLC, closing on the purchase March 11, 2024, two weeks after signing the contract on February 28, 2024….

Omar Holding signs $8.8M refi for retail in Soundview

Maha Omar through the entity Omar Holding Corp. as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Suffolk Federal Credit Union valued at $8.8 million for the retail building (K1) at 1600 Westchester Avenue in Soundview, Bronx. The deal closed on March 14, 2024 and was recorded on March 19, 2024. The prior lender was TD Bank which held debt that had an original loan amount…

Simone Development signs $9.6M refi for office in Westchester Square

Simone Development Companies through the entity 2510 Westchester Avenue Associate LLC as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Webster Bank valued at $9.6 million for the office building (O2) at 2510 Westchester Avenue in Westchester Square, Bronx. The deal closed on February 29, 2024 and was recorded on March 19, 2024. The prior lender was Blackstone Group which held debt that had an original…

GTJ REIT signs $113.5M refi loan with Blackstone, AIG for six industrial properties in NYC

GTJ REIT, which focuses mostly on industrial assets, through the entity GWL 23-85 87th LLC as borrower signed a refi loan with lender Blackstone Group and AIG through the entity American General Life Insurance Company valued at $113.5 million for six industrial properties including the industrial building (G8) at 23-25 87th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, industrial building (G1) at 612 Wortman Avenue in East…

Meir Laufer pays $2.1M for retail in Borough Park

Meir Laufer through the entity Corner 15 LLC paid $2.1 million to Sonnia Torres through the entity Hi-Rise Realty Corp for the retail building (K1) at 3601 15th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The deal closed on March 14, 2024 and was recorded on March 19, 2024. The property has 2,700 square feet of built space and 3,947 square feet of additional air rights for…

Michael Weiner pays $2.6M for newly enlarged 3-family in Bushwick

Michael Weiner through the entity Iceberg Lounge LLC paid $2.6 million to Roman Mushayev through the entity Bmr Equities, Inc. for the three-unit building (C0) at 1137 Jefferson Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The deal closed on March 14, 2024 and was recorded on March 19, 2024. The property has 3,375 square feet of built space and 1,180 square feet of additional air rights for a…

Elliot Sohayegh pays $2.6M to Related for 8-unit walkup in Greenpoint

Elliot Sohayegh through the entity NYC Chris Holdings LLC paid $2.6 million to Related Companies through the entity Nysandy8 Brooklyn 6 LLC for the eight-unit residential walkup building (C1) at 141 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The deal closed on March 7, 2024 and was recorded on March 19, 2024. The property has 7,500 square feet of built space according to a PincusCo analysis of…

$10M bankruptcy filed to block foreclosure of 11-unit East Harlem rental

The developers of an 11-unit rental building dubbed the Apollo at 231 East 123rd Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, placed the property in bankruptcy protection yesterday, a day before the property that has a judgment totaling $10.7 million was set to sell at auction, but the asset was not valued at more than $10 million. The property owners, Alex Halimi and Saul Mazor, filed the…

Watermark Capital inks lease at Carroll Gardens church property for $3M resi conversion

Wolfe Landau of Watermark Capital Group and Shulem Kessler signed a lease February 5, 2024, for the parish hall building of St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, at 433 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, with a term of 49 years. The developer plans to spend $3 million converting the 21,108-square-foot building into residential rental apartments, according to the filing the church made yesterday, as part…

Cohabs pays $3.8M to Cycamore Capital for 4-family in Bedford Stuyvesant

Cohabs through the entity 235 Bainbridge LLC paid $3.8 million to Cycamore Capital through the entity 235 Bainbridge Street LLC for the four-unit building (C3) at 235 Bainbridge Street in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The deal closed on February 28, 2024 and was recorded on March 15, 2024. The property has 6,300 square feet of built space according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The…

Manetta Enterprises signs $20M construction loan for 32-unit project in Greenpoint

Manetta Enterprises through the entity Rimani Realty LLC as borrower signed a construction loan with lender Ponce Bank valued at $20 million for a 32-unit rental project on three tax parcels including the industrial building (E1) at 15 Clay Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, specialty building (Z9) at 56 Commercial Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and specialty building (Z9) at 40 Commercial Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The…

Midas Hospitality signs $25.2M construction completion loan with Acres for hotel in Downtown Brooklyn

Midas Hospitality through the entity Midas Brooklyn, LLC as borrower signed a construction completion loan with lender Acres Capital through the entity Acres Loan Origination, LLC valued at $25.2 million for the hotel building (H3) at 291 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn. The deal closed on March 6, 2024 and was recorded on March 18, 2024. The property has 48,495 square feet of built…

McSam Hotel Group signs $28M construction loan for hotel in Times Square

McSam Hotel Group and Gene Kaufman through the entity GK West 47th LLC as borrower signed a renovation construction loan with lender Maxim Capital Group through the entity Maxim Credit Group, LLC valued at $28 million for the conversion of the former office building at 224 West 47th Street in Times Square, Manhattan, into a hotel. On the lot, there is one active major alteration…