Bloomberg Scott Rechler, chief executive officer of RXR Realty LLC, is stepping down as vice chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after almost five turbulent years as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top appointee at the agency. Rechler, 48, will be replaced by Steven M. Cohen, who formerly served as Cuomo’s senior-most adviser. Rechler …

  Bloomberg New York REIT Inc. shares had their biggest drop since they began trading more than two years ago after analysts questioned whether the planned sale of the company to closely held JBG Cos. is in the best interest of investors. “The jury is out and New York REIT’s board owes its shareholders a lot more transparency quantitatively why …

  Bloomberg In 1900, two years before he would be named the president of American Radiator (the predecessor to American Standard), Clarence Wolley built a Tuscan-style estate in Greenwich, Conn. Now its latest owners, Andrew and Judith Ban, entrepreneurs who founded the wholesale jewelry line Leslie’s Jewelry, are putting the house on the market for $12.995 million after living in …