The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Expands to New York Area, Starting With Store in Fort Greene
The Los Angeles-based specialty beverage brand The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is expanding to New York, with the first store having opened Aug. 28 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene. Franchisee Hudson River Coffee & Tea plans to open a number of stores across the New York metro area, including a second Brooklyn… Read more »
Four Things To Know Before Making the Switch from Residential Real Estate to CRE
by Neil A. Dolgin For New York City’s ultra-competitive residential brokerage community, these are uncertain times. Amidst an already-softened sales market and growing concerns about a lack of affordable housing that have led to swifter rent stabilization measures and the possibility of a recession pending the outcome of the presidential election, it is also grappling… Read more »
The Hottest Restaurants in Queens
UPDATED: When the Covid-19 situation subsides, here is the Queens Heatmap, a guide to new and recently reviewed restaurants in the mighty borough of Queens. Here are the places that the critics, bloggers, and restaurant obsessives are buzzing about, according to NY.Eater.Com. Keep note, and we’ll be back inside restaurants and bars all together in… Read more »
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Inc. Named a 2019 CoStar Power Broker!
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates, Inc.(KDA), one of the New York metropolitan region’s leading commercial and industrial real estate firms, has been named a 2019 CoStar Power Broker, the industry’s most prestigious award from CoStar Group, honoring the very best brokers and brokerages in commercial real estate. KDA won this award based on overall transaction volume as… Read more »
Food and beverage sector gains ground in warehouse leasing
Home of the Blue Point Brewery and event space with 100,000sf of space on nearly 10 acres at Patchogue Lake, with great water views and an iconic clock tower as it’s focal point. A recent multi-million-dollar renovation was made to accommodate the brewery which is equipped with an entertainment venue as well as tasting rooms… Read more »
One Year Later: Looking Back at Amazon Ditching Queens
After Amazon decided they wouldn’t move their HQ2 to Long Island City after all, effectively breaking the NYC real estate industry’s heart, Queens is getting back to business with steady leases. “Amazon taught us a lot. It was proof that the LIC waterfront can be a strong commercial destination, but one of the main criticisms… Read more »
Stability Amid Uncertainty: 2020 U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook
2020 could be a pivotal year for the U.S. commercial real estate industry, with geopolitical, economic and local regulatory issues in keen focus, according to analysts at CBRE. Despite transformational changes, CBRE’s 2020 U.S. Outlook predicts a very good year for commercial real estate. Resilient economic activity, strong property fundamentals, low interest rates and the… Read more »
Watch Kalmon and Neil Dolgin on Building NY: NY Life Stories – CUNY-TV – Jan 26th
Watch Sunday, January 26 on CUNY-TV (12pm noon) Building NY: NY Life Stories The Dolgin Family; Four Generations of a family business As told by Kalmon Dolgin & Neil Dolgin, Co-Presidents, Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Watch as Kalmon and Neil Dolgin tell the 116-year story of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates. A new 30-minute interview by host Michael… Read more »
Meet Our Brokers – Fred Rufrano and James Dario Jr.
Fred Rufrano and James Dario Jr. have logged 55 years working at Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates. They bring wide-ranging experience to our clients. We recently interviewed them. KDA: When did you join Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates? James: I started in 1995 …. 25 years; it went by pretty fast. It feels like it passed by in a… Read more »
Dolgin Family Featured on ‘Building New York – New York Life Stories’
Our own Neil A. Dolgin and Kalmon Dolgin, co-presidents, were recently interviewed by host Michael Stoler on Building New York – New York Life Stories, a TV show that profiles the lives of individuals who have had an impact on the business and community affairs of the Tri-State region. Over the course of a 30-minute… Read more »
Kalmon Dolgin Interviewed on The Stoler Report
Kalmon Dolgin, co-president, recently taped a panel discussion on the Outlook on Industrial Market in 2020 with host Michael Stoler for The Stoler Report (CUNY-TV). Watch here. Guests: Kalmon Dolgin Co-President, Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates Andrea Himmel Director, Strategic Acquisitions , Himmel + Meringoff Properties Dan Marks Partner, TerraCRG John Ritter Executive Vice President, Sholom & Zuckerbrot Since 1968,… Read more »
Think You Have the Leadership Gene? Answer These 6 Questions to Find Out
Leadership is both a gift from birth and a learned skill. For anyone who has led large teams in business, you know there are certain methods and best practices that are important. Over-communicating with employees, clearly setting expectations, leading by example–you can learn these things at any leadership seminar. Yet, for anyone in leadership, you… Read more »
Commercial Market Much Stronger Than Headlines Imply
Over the past decade, New York City has experienced a period of strong economic growth driving an increase in jobs, commercial investment, and unprecedented demand to live and work in the five boroughs. As a result of this economic expansion our commercial real estate market continues to thrive and poised for success for the remainder… Read more »
Private Companies Have Another Year To Deal With New Lease Accounting Standards, And They’ll Probably Need It
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has given U.S. private companies and nonprofits another year to start treating their operating leases as liabilities on their balance sheets. Now they have to do so beginning in their first fiscal year after Dec. 15, 2020, rather than after Dec. 15, 2019, as originally planned. BISNOW Photo by Helloquence… Read more »
The Giraffe Test
THE GIRAFFE TEST… This test is to ascertain your ability to pay attention and apply what you experience going forward. If you get one right you are doing ok if you get none right you better go for counseling. There are 4 questions. 1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? Stop and… Read more »
This Brooklyn Pizza Is the 2nd Best In The Country
Nine Brooklyn spots and 22 NYC eateries made this year’s list of the 101 best slices across the U.S., but only one took the runner-up rank. Lucali, a Brooklyn pizza joint on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens, has nearly dethroned Connecticut’s long-reigning pizza champ, jumping ranks to land in second place in The Daily Meal’s… Read more »