Trailing Manhattan: Brooklyn and Queens offices didn’t entice private sector

Outer borough offices didn’t have the Manhattan magic.  Brooklyn and Queens office landlords spent much of 2025 courting the same tenants that kept the outer boroughs afloat since the pandemic: government agencies, schools and mission-driven groups. Private-sector users remained scarce, and the boroughs again lagged Manhattan’s healthier leasing market. Long Island City and parts of Brooklyn continued to draw big-footprint tenants, but the surge of Midtown leasing still hasn’t translated across the river. Brokers say outer borough availability remains high and deal flow uneven, even as education and public-service users quietly make up a growing slice of new leases. Here […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.