{"id":43388,"date":"2025-11-18T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:52:12","slug":"new-york-divorce-lawyers-sign-direct-deal-with-sl-green-at-500-park-avenue-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43388\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Divorce Lawyers Sign Direct Deal With SL Green at 500 Park Avenue \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law firm specializing in high-stakes divorce litigation is moving from a sublease to a direct deal at 500 Park Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/rottenstreich-farley-bronstein-fisher-potter-hodas\/\" title=\"Rottenstreich Farley Bronstein Fisher Potter Hodas\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rottenstreich Farley Bronstein Fisher Potter Hodas<\/a>, which formed as the result of a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/02\/07\/the-top-lawyers-for-the-wealthys-most-complicated-divorces.html\">merger in 2023<\/a>, signed a lease for 18,820 square feet on the entire eighth floor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/sl-green-realty\/\" title=\"SL Green Realty\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SL Green Realty<\/a>-owned building, according to the landlord.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/11\/fs8-lease-fitness-studio-gid-three-waterline-square\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Fitness Brand FS8 to Open First NYC Studio at Three Waterline Square<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/16\/business\/financial-services-giant-gfi-group-doubling-space-at-55-water-st\/\">first reported the deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SL Green did not disclose the length of the lease. Asking rent in the building at the corner of East 59th Street and Park Avenue is $120 per square foot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith its unique look, history, and location, 500 Park Avenue feels more like a home than a commercial office space \u2014 to us and to our clients,\u201d Dan Rottenstreich, co-managing partner of the firm known by the somewhat more forgiving shorthand of RFB+Fisher Potter Hodas, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>SL Green\u2019s Steven Durels represented the landlord in-house while Benjamin Blumenthal and Ralph Chattah at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/noah-company\/\" title=\"Noah &amp; Company\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah &amp; Company<\/a> handled negotiations on behalf of the tenant.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal and Chattah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Rottenstreich Farley Bronstein and Fisher Potter &amp; Hodas is known as one of the top divorce law firms catering to the wealthy. The firm first <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globest.com\/2024\/08\/12\/citigroup-center-signs-46000-sf-of-lease-agreements\/\">occupied the space in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other tenants in the Plaza District building include Tom Ford Fashion, which signed a 11,118-square-foot lease to relocate its headquarters within the neighborhood <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/06\/tom-ford-fashion-500-park-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in June<\/a>, and bridal wear designer Vera Wang, which took a 26,708-square-foot lease for a showroom on the fifth floor <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/08\/vera-wang-takes-27k-sf-showroom-space-at-500-fifth-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in August 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hallum can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/11\/rottenstreich-farley-bronstein-fisher-potter-hodas-500-park-avenue\/mailto:mhallum@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mhallum@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A law firm specializing in high-stakes divorce litigation is moving from a sublease to a direct deal at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[24885,24886,24887,2361,75,84,83,9,24,63,2362,24888,24889],"class_list":["post-43388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-500-park-avenue","tag-benjamin-blumenthal","tag-dan-rottenstreich","tag-leases","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-office-leases","tag-ralph-chattah","tag-steven-durels-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43388","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=43388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}