This program is available for office or retail tenants expanding or renewing leases downtown or coming to downtown from outside the city or from elsewhere in Manhattan below 96th Street.
The idea, he said, is to try first to attract tenants expanding in or relocating to New Jersey that need from 100,000 to 500,000 square feet, before dividing the building into smaller blocks of space.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the building's owner– Empire State Building Associates, headed by real estate mogul Peter Malkin Peter Malkin –signed 38 new leases; 32 tenants renewed their leases, and nine tenants have expanded their space.
Quinn flipped through her record of "preventing the layoff of teachers," of fighting for the "rights of tenants," of "expanding manufacturing jobs in Brooklyn during the recession," of "tangible results that have made people's lives better".
David Levy, a principal at Adams & Company, which includes two commercial buildings on West 33rd Street in the 27-building Manhattan portfolio it manages for an investor, said, "It has become such a vibrant area that tenants are expanding off of 32nd Street".
After staging a Senate leadership coup, he became majority leader and helped kill legislation that would have greatly expanded tenants' rights and rent stabilization.
But the Legislature was also at odds over New York's rent regulations, after Republicans in the State Senate balked at the broader tenant protections and expanded oversight of landlords that are being sought by Mr. Cuomo and Assembly Democrats.
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Wall Street also expanded and tenants once again began looking for space downtown, where rents by comparison were cheaper and space more plentiful.
They lived in Manhattan rentals -- first in a small one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village, then in a bigger one-bedroom on East 63rd Street and then in a two-bedroom on East 79th Street that became a three-bedroom when the next-door tenant moved and they expanded into that apartment.
