NEW YORK CITY-Tents, sleeping bags and other belongings were cleared from the park due to public health concerns, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced early Tuesday morning. Click through for photos.

NEW YORK CITY-The partnership announced that it will develop a 250-key hotel and 315 rental apartments at 855 Sixth Ave. between 30th and 31st Streets.

WAYNE, PA-The deals bring the 34-acre complex to 84% occupancy, which Keystone SVP Rich Gottlieb says will inch even higher in Q1 2012.

NEW YORK CITY-The debt purchase comes shortly after RFR Hotel Group’s $275 million purchase of the 597-key Times Square hotel.

NEW YORK CITY-CubeSmart has acquired 16 sites throughout New York and Connecticut, including nine in the Bronx, five in Brooklyn and two in Queens.

NEW YORK CITY-A new report from REBNY shows that rents have risen by 36% along Lexington and 2nd Avenues thanks to the arrival of a Fairway Supermarket.

NEW YORK CITY-The New York-based chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Global Real Estate Finance Group gives GlobeSt.com’s Jacqueline Hlavenka the inside track about how the firm completed $1 billion in marquee loans in just one week.

NEW YORK CITY-Opinions of both supporters and opponents of Jamestown Properties’ mixed-use expansion plan for the site will be discussed at Holy Apostles Church at 296 9th Ave. on Thursday evening.