{"id":210756,"date":"2026-04-27T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:32:15","slug":"cushman-wakefields-101-park-ave-at-98-after-three-new-leases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210756\/","title":{"rendered":"Cushman &#038; Wakefield&#8217;s 101 Park Ave. at 98% after three new leases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three new signings at H.J. Kalikow\u2019s 101 Park Ave. totaling 77,400 square feet have brought the\u00a0tower at East 40th Street near Grand Central Terminal to 98% leased.<\/p>\n<p>In something of a coup, Peter Kalikow and his\u00a0Cushman &amp; Wakefield leasing team of John Cefaly and Nicholas Dysenchuk snared a former One Vanderbilt tenant \u2014 Cipher Digital, which took the entire top floor\u2019s 26,400 square feet for its relocated headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Kalikow said, \u201cThe top floor of 101 Park is a very special place with expansive views in an efficient, column-free environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, wealth-management firm Corient expanded by \u00a024,600 square feet, bringing its footprint in the tower to nearly 100,000 sf. And law firm Sills Cummis &amp; Gross took 26,400 \u00a0for a relocation within the building.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what Gary Barnett has in mind for the former Friars Club building at 57 East 55th St., which his Extell Development Corp. bought for $19 million, the Commercial Observer reported on Friday. But it can only be good even though the tiny\u00a0 limestone building\u2019s treasure-trove of show business artifacts was sold at auction a few weeks ago. Like the Church of Sweden on East 48th Street and the former home of La Grenouille on East 52nd Street, it evokes a long-gone, more gracious\u00a0 New York era.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39203506\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/04-20-21-features-inside-18131794.jpg\" alt=\"The Friars Club building at 57 East 55th Street in New York City at night.\" class=\"wp-image-39203506\"  \/>Exterior of the former Friars Club building at 57 East 55th St. Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The Friars exterior is a designated city landmark, so Extell can\u2019t make changes without Landmarks Preservation Commission approval. The property is sandwiched between two tall towers and too narrow to support a large redevelopment. We look forward to the next chapter, whatever it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three new signings at H.J. Kalikow\u2019s 101 Park Ave. totaling 77,400 square feet have brought the\u00a0tower at East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,2361,75,84,83,9,24,63,3273,467,1491,3274],"class_list":["post-210756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-business","tag-leases","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-office-buildings","tag-park-avenue","tag-real-estate","tag-realty-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}