Tishman Speyer Properties LP

With Donations, Cuomo is Like a Mini-Romney

This is the promo video for the Committee to Save New York, the outrageously-named pro-Cuomo PAC that loves Andrew. The Governor urged the creation of the fundraising committee before he stepped into office and the monies gathered have supported the advertising of his first term's achievements thus ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Dan Garodnick Q&A: The Senate Bill That Would Bail Out Landlords and Gut Court Ruling on Stuy Town Rents

David ShankboneIn 2009, a landmark state appeals court ruling found that the owners of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village had illegally deregulated 4,400 apartments while enjoying special tax breaks from the city. Its impact wasn't quite clear; no one was sure what the legal rents of those apartme ... More >>

Pedro Espada Jr.: No One's More Loyal -- to Landlords

By Sara Gates Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. defected from the Democrats and then defected from the Republicans during last year's Albany madness, but he'll always be loyal to his landlord pals. Last month, Espada launched a trial balloon for legislation that would ostensibly "freeze rent ... More >>

Stuy Town owners miss mortgage payment

​The Tishman Speyer/Black Rock Realty partnership which bet $5.4 billion that they could convert Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to market rate housing in a booming real estate market that no longer exists moved one step closer to a total loss on Friday when it missed a $16 million mo ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Rats, drug dealers, hookers, a gambling "casino' in one of the apartments: 2320 Aqueduct Avenue in the Bronx sounds like a terrible building. It used to be bad when one of the Voice's perennial "10 Worst Landlords" owned it. Then he sold out to fancy new owners -- including a Tishman Speyer a ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Honor Roll: NYC's Unsung Heroes

Lauding the oft-overlooked people in a city of celebrity

Stuy Town/Peter Cooper mortgage changes hands

​Tishman Speyer and BlackRock, the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, turned over the main mortgage for the 11,200-unit complex to a "special servicer". Special servicers are given the power to renegotiate the terms of a failing loan and possibly sell the assets t ... More >>

Stuy Town Tenants Don't Get a Break on November Rents, Despite Ruling

After last week's landmark Stuyvesant Town decision -- in which a state appeals court found that the mega-developer Tishman Speyer had misused city tax breaks and illegally converted to market rate thousands of rent-controlled apartments in the historic complex -- one would expect some confusion. Bu ... More >>

The Mayor's Press Pass

The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

Tishman Loses Stuy Town Fight; May Have to Pay $200 Million, Default

When Tishman Speyer Properties took thousands of units in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- longtime middle-class bastions on the edge of the hyper-gentrified East Village -- out of regulation and raised rents, tenants sued and a court found that the properties could not be deregulated, b ... More >>

After Stuy Town Decision, Experts See Real Estate Market "Collapse." Really?

When a state appeals court decision came down today that private equity-backed realty company Tishman Speyer illegally converted thousands of Stuyvesant Town tenants into luxury units, the company pleaded with the judge that the ruling could be a death blow. Tishman and its partner, the firm Black ... More >>

Stuy Town Owners Back in Court to Defend Jacked-Up Rents

After nearly three years of veritable civil war between two powerful real estate executives and thousands of tenants, the owners of the historic downtown residential complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, will appear in court again today. Landlords Jerry and Rob Speyer, and their part ... More >>

Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

The End of the Landmark Eatery Era?

(photo courtesy tavernonthegreen.com)The fates of two of the city's landmark restaurants are growing ever bleaker. An untold number of tourists may soon be hungry and disappointed. It seems the Rainbow Room drama has come to an end. Court documents show that the Cipriani family has agreed to clear o ... More >>

The Hudson Railyard Bids Are In

Yankee Lobbyists on Taxpayers' Tab

Circling the bases: Documents reveal city paid the team's lobbyists and execs—for lobbying city and state officials

Landlords Vote With Bucks

Where the Real Estate Dollars Are Going

Campaign Cash

Vallone Leads Pack in Real Estate Dollars