JOSEPH Moinian, Joseph Chetrit and Edward Minskoff have tapped the city’s dominant investment adviser, Douglas Harmon at Eastdil Secured to market two buildings in which the three men are partners: 1450 Broadway and 500-512 Seventh Ave.

Sources tell us that Harmon has been quietly peddling the two Midtown buildings for about a month to select suitors.

He didn’t return a call for comment.

The 42-story, 400,000 foot tower at 1450 Broadway, on the southeast corner of West 41st Street, will likely trade for around $500 a foot.

It will likely be more difficult to price what is essentially a leasehold interest in the “wedding cake” shaped, 45-story building on Seventh Avenue.

Its 1.2 million feet take up the entire blockfront from West 37th Street to West 38th Street and has Russell Simmons’ fashion company Phat Farm housed in its penthouse floors.

The next owner will be making fixed-rent payment of about $500,000 per year for the next 40 years to the Goldman Estate which owns the land under the building.

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At the same time, Eastdil Secured has begun marketing the 1.765 million foot 1301 Avenue of the Americas as the first of the Macklowe-Equity Office portfolio to hit the market.

The Rock Center West trophy, also known as the Credit Lynonnais Building, comes with financing from Deutsche Bank, which is taking over six properties in the deal worked out with Macklowe Properties.

Overheard just last week: A young boy walking by the building with his family wanted to know why the statues in the fountains didn’t have any arms.

“It’s called art,” the dad said.

We suspect the new owner can change the art.

Cushman & Wakefield’s Fearless Foursome of Richard Baxter, Ron Cohen, Scott Latham and Jon Caplan has also started marketing the two smallest of the Macklowe-Equity buildings – 850 Third Ave. and Park Avenue Tower at 65 E. 55th St. – as a package.

Final pricing is likely to be $1 billion to $1.2 billion, advised a source who noted these too are being offered with financing through Deutsche Bank to ensure any deal gets done.

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GM Building Rumor of the Week: Mort Zuckerman of Boston Properties may have “laid down his pencil” and is taking a break from negotiating for the white marble edifice.

Talks had included a Middle Eastern partner and Zuckerman personally dropping in equity.

The partner may still be making a deal.

However, don’t count out the tenacity of the building’s owners, led by Harry Macklowe, or their ingenuity to get a deal done that suits their needs.

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The Capital Grille is spreading its skirt steaks.

The eatery, which we revealed just last week signed up for the Time-Life Building at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, has now inked a downtown deal with Silverstein Properties for its national landmark building at 120 Broadway.

Larry Silverstein actually referred to the deal himself at the start of a recent Downtown Association breakfast, but it was lost in the discussion of his Four Seasons Hotel and condo.

Sources said the asking rent was $750,000 for 16,500 feet on the ground, mezzanine and concourse levels.

“The space is unique,” said Amira Yunis of Newmark Knight Frank, who with colleague Jared Lack represented the Darden Restaurants ownership for what will be its third Capital Grille in the city.

“When I did a tour I walked behind the old bank vault and found over 3,000 feet that could be combined to make the space work,” said Yunis.

Jedd Nero and Michael Kadosh of CB Richard Ellis Retail Services worked closely with Silverstein Properties’ Catherine T. Giliberti to arrange the 15-year lease.

The tenant was also willing to work through the long Landmarks process.

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No good works go unpunished.

Last week we told you about Michael Waldman of North Manhattan Construction Corp. who is developing a 100,000 foot rental building on land at 37-41 Hillside Ave. that is owned by the Rocky Mount Baptist Church congregation in Washington Heights.

The plan included replacing the one-story church with a 15,000 foot circular creation designed by Mario A. Canteros.

Now it seems a lawsuit was filed in February by Deborah A. Schwartz Real Estate to collect a $192,000 brokerage commission based on a 3 percent commission and a $6.4 million sales price.

“They had someone who had given them an offer and wanted to know if it was good or not,” said Deborah Schwartz. “[Salesperson Alan Ballinger] said we would not act as consultant but would find another buyer. And we did.”

Talks, the complaint states, started in August 2006 and went on until the end of November 2006 when the brokers were excluded.

Davin Goldsztajn of Philips Lytle who is representing the church and North Manhattan said, “There is a dispute as to the amount of the commission owed and we are engaged in attempts to settle the matter.”

Goldsztajn also said the sales price is wrong.

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