NEW YORK CITY — Greystone has acquired a retail development site at 108 Chambers St. in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood. Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. sold the property for $17 million. Located on the corner of Church and Chambers streets, the site features a 2,000-square-foot building with ground-floor retail space and approximately 12,000 square feet of air rights.
NEW YORK CITY — Hodges Ward Elliot (HWE) has brokered the sale of The New York EDITION hotel, located at 5 Madison Ave. in New York City. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) purchased the hotel for $343 million from Marriott International. In 2013, Marriott announced its intention to sell three EDITION hotels — London, Miami and New York — to ADIA for a total of $816 million while maintaining long-term management agreements. This sale marks the final closing of that agreement. The Miami Beach EDITION sold in February 2015 and The London EDITION closed in 2014. HWE represented Marriott in all three transactions.
MONSEY, N.Y. — Cronheim Mortgage has arranged $8.5 million in financing for 69-P Edison Court, a 328-unit apartment complex located in Monsey. The 10-year loan, which was provided by Voya Insurance and Annuity Co., features a 3.1 percent interest rate. Constructed in 1973, the 13-building property features a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units featuring hardwood floors, air conditioning, walk-in closets, and a patio, balcony or deck. Dev Morris and Andrew Stewart of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the financing for the undisclosed borrower.
NEW YORK CITY — Cignature Realty Associates has brokered the sale of a three-building apartment community located at 1345-1349 Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattanville for $7.7 million. The five-story buildings feature 25 apartments and six storefronts. Peter Vanderpool and Lazer Sternhell of Cignature Realty Associates represented the seller, Brooklyn-based 1345 Amsterdam Avenue Owner LLC, and the buyer, Manhattan-based 1345 Amsterdam Avenue LLC, in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Kushner Cos. has acquired a 16-building portfolio of Manhattan and Brooklyn multifamily properties for $131.5 million from Stone Street Properties and HIG Realty Partners. The portfolio, which also includes five retail stores, consists of 14 Manhattan buildings totaling 251 units in the Upper East Side, Murray Hill, East Village and Greenwich Village, and two buildings, totaling 40 units, in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill district.
NEW YORK CITY — American Realty Capital New York City REIT Inc., a public non-traded REIT, has acquired an office property located at 123 William St. in downtown Manhattan, for $253 million, or $470 per square foot. The 27-story building features 545,000 square feet of rentable space. The acquisition was funded with a combination of cash and mortgage financing.
NEW YORK CITY — CPEX Real Estate has brokered the sales of two development sites, totaling 350,000 buildable square feet, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Hudson Cos. purchased the sites for a combined $23 million and plans to develop 520-unit multifamily property on the sites. In the first deal, Hudson Cos. purchased a five-parcel, 36,430-square-foot site at 1295-1299 Nostrand Ave. and 306-310 Clarkson Ave. for $10 million, or $69 per buildable square foot. The site offers 145,720 buildable square feet. The seller was a family that had owned the properties since the early 1980s. In the second transaction, Hudson Cos. acquired the adjacent properties, 318-350 Clarkson Ave., from Health Science Center at Brooklyn for $13 million, or $65 per buildable square foot. The site offers 200,000 buildable square feet. Sean Kelly, Timothy King and Brian Leary of CPEX represented the sellers in each transaction and procured the buyer.
NEW YORK CITY — Ariel Property Advisors has arranged the sale of a retail property located at 3860 East Tremont Ave. in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. acquired the 15,000-square-foot property for $5.1 million. The vacant property features 23,618 square feet of air rights, 38,618 buildable square feet, 40 on-site parking spaces and an advertising tower. Jason Gold, Victor Sozio and Scot Hirschfield of Ariel Properties represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer in the deal.
NEW YORK CITY — Kinsey Capital has arranged the sale of a mixed-use property, located at 808 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. An affiliate of ICON Realty Management purchased the property for $9.7 million, or $1,500 per square foot. Fig & Chain occupies the retail portion of the building. Brent Glodowski and James Kinsey of Kinsey Capital were the sole brokers in the transaction.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a mixed-use building, located at 2147 Second Ave. in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood. The nine-story building sold for $7.5 million, or $465 per square foot, in an all-cash transaction. The newly constructed 16,128-square-foot property features 16 residential units and 1,950 square feet of ground-level commercial space. Lev Kimyagarov of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, while Edmond Levy of Cornerstone Real Estate Investments represented the seller in the transaction. The names of the seller and buyer were not released.