New York City’s real estate power players roamed the throbbing floor at the Fried Frank real estate department’s holiday party at Cipriani 42nd Street.
Jeff Sutton was all smiles over his $1.5 billion Fifth Avenue retail building sales. CBRE’s Mary Ann Tighe drew a crowd over her recent claim that Manhattan was running out of prime office space.
Park Tower’s George and Marian Klein reminisced with host Jonathan Mechanic how two years ago at the party, they signed the lease to move Fried Frank’s conference center into their 535 Madison Ave.
Institutional celebrants included Blackstone’s Michael Eglit and Michael Lascher, Brookfield’s Ben Brown, Goldman Sachs’ Andrew Jonas and Morgan Stanley’s Seth Weintrob.
Family members mingling under the vaulted ceiling included Bill and son Michael Rudin, Aby Rosen and sons Gaby and Charlie, Scott and Jonathan Resnick, and proud host Mechanic’s sons, Meadow Partners’ Marc Mechanic and hot tech startup Maybern’s Ross Mechanic.
Also there: US ambassador to France nominee Charles Kushner, Eli Gindi, Stephen B. Siegel, Mitch Konsker, John Cefaly, Darcy Stacom, Brian Waterman and Jimmy Kuhn.