Big names feast on small plates at revamped REBNY gala

The city’s actual estate elite largely cheered REBNY’s hipped-up, spiced-up once-a-year gala, which designed a splash above the Hudson River.

The gathering dubbed “New York For good: A Celebration of Our City” was REBNY’s initially these gathering due to the fact 2019. The celebration honored TF Cornerstone’s Tom Elghanayan, Fetner Properties’ Hal Fetner, CBRE’s Darcy Stacom, Douglaston Development’s Jeff Levine and the Gotham Organization’s David Picket, among some others.

Attendees spending $1,400 a ticket mingled and nibbled on little plates served up by chefs these kinds of as Daniel Boulud, Michael Lomonaco and J.J. Johnson. The edibles and the appear-as-you-are gown code ended up a significantly cry from the stuffy mid-winter season black-tie affairs at the New York Hilton.

So was the location on the sixth flooring of Glasshouse, which has huge windows and an open outside deck — that friends experienced to flee when a transient rain spritz popped up.

Visitors included government committee users Douglas Durst, CBRE’s Mary Ann Tighe, JLL’s Bob Knakal, Cushman & Wakefield’s Bruce Mosler, SL Green’s Laura Jackson and Boston Property’s Hilary Spann. We also spotted Marcus & Millichap’s Eric Anton Branton Realty’s Woody Heller, Cushman’s Joanne Podell, and RXR Realty’s Scott Rechler and Frank Pusinelli, and the Hire Stabilization Association’s Frank P. Ricci.

Boulud, who supervised menu offerings together with citrus-marinated shrimp and sweet corn veloute from his Le Pavillon, mingled with happy company in his chef’s whites.

It wasn’t all about food stuff and fun. My colleague Lois Weiss studies that Gov. Kathy Hochul fulfilled privately with REBNY officers to discuss conversion of aged workplace buildings to housing and the cancellation of the 421a tax abatement method.

MTA chairman Janno Lieber talked up his agency’s part in facilitating building of JP Morgan Chase’s 270 Park Ave. and Boston Properties’ 347 Madison Ave., exactly where supporting columns have to have to be snaked all-around tracks that run underneath.

Eric Adams’ chief advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin came in the mayor’s stead for the reason that Adams experienced to deal with the situation of a police officer who was shot before that working day.

Despite the fact that the event was loaded with laughter and optimism, a couple visitors complained that the roam-the-floor format manufactured it tough to enjoy the dishes. “There was no place to put   dishes down except for some very small table stands,” mentioned 1. “For $1,400 a ticket I want a spot to sit down.”