New York City's 2026 Legionnaires' disease outbreak has put cooling towers and rooftop mechanical systems back in the spotlight. It has been a serious public-health event. The outbreak began on Manhattan's Upper East Side in early July. The NYC Health Department ultimately ordered 76 buildings to clean and disinfect cooling towers after positive initial PCR
Yesterday we wrote about how destination restaurants are becoming part of the identity and leasing strategy of New York’s best office buildings. That creates opportunity. It also creates a management challenge. Once a restaurant is part of the building experience, pest control can no longer be treated as something that happens only inside the restaurant.
For years, the retail strategy at many New York office buildings was fairly straightforward: find a financially strong tenant, sign a long-term lease and collect the rent. A bank branch or national retailer could be a terrific credit tenant, even if nobody working upstairs viewed it as much of an amenity. That's changing. In a
How Transportation, Sport and Pop Music Turned New Jersey Into a Shared Stage Confessions on a World Cup Dance Floor “We’re gonna have a celebration, all across the world.” — Madonna, “Holiday” 🎉 Today, our muse and Lucky Star, Madonna, ⭐ will be at the center of the world’s biggest Holiday. For one day, the
June Transportation Report: Summer Escape Has Fine Print 🚆🌊🍹 A summer sendoff from the BOMA transportation desk We all earned a summer vacation. With strong drinks and a New Wave soundtrack! First about the report (album) covers! We're so grateful to the teams who run our BOMA chapters, with thought it was time to feature
⚽ Full Capacity, Full Price: The World Cup Comes to the NY/NJ Transportation System The 2026 FIFA World Cup is a few short weeks away, and in the New York region the transportation story is in full gear. NJ Transit fares. Penn Station restrictions. Work-from-home recommendations. No general parking at MetLife Stadium. Rising ticket prices.
NYC Transportation Report: Congestion Pricing, Gateway Tunnel, and Major Transit News — March 2026 Also including a special behind-the-scenes look at how the BOMA NY transportation report is written and the major transportation developments shaping New York this month. By Glenn Waldorf, Bell Environmental Services | BOMA NY Transportation Report | March 2026 Editor’s Note: This
🎶 Goodbye MTV, Craving the Next Engine of Communal Motion January 2026 BOMA NY & NJ Transportation Report We began our January 2026 BOMA NY and BOMA NJ Transportation Reports with an unexpected but fitting cultural milestone: the end of MTV as we knew it. Paramount shut down several MTV music channels at the close
36 Miles to the Client, a Clean Desk, and the Cost of Inertia 🚗☕🕶️ “It’s 36 miles to the client. We’ve got a full tank of gas. Half a cup of coffee. It’s dark. And yes… I’m wearing sunglasses.” 😎 We are not on a mission from God like Jake and Elwood in The Blues
Editor's Note: Most posts on this blog are about practical pest control approaches and topics so your building is a welcoming and hospitable place that's free of problems. That’s the work Bell Environmental does every day, and it’s what most readers come here for. We also work to help our BOMA NY and BOMA NJ Commercial
