We traversed 2010 across the deal doldrums into multiple blend-and-extend leases, a handful of office turnovers, and ended on a high note — with the Google purchase of 111 Eighth Ave.

The end of 2009 had left us down in the dumps with defaulting developers and stalled construction sites. This trend continued throughout 2010 as those wanting to renegotiate their commercial mortgages were forced to default to send the loan to special servicing.

Here’s a roundup of our annual Golden Brick Awards:

WINNING BRICK: Boston Properties, for sweeping up 510 Madison Ave. by cutting a deal with Harry Macklowe to buy the newly constructed boutique office tower, resolving litigation with tenant Jay Goldstein and signing other tenants at over $100 a square foot.

TRY TRY AGAIN BRICK: SL Green Realty Corp., which bought the loan on Macklowe’s 510 Madison Ave. expecting to foreclose when Boston Properties took control of the building and paid off the mortgage.

SLG still made off with $64 million in profits but decided it might be better to team up on the developer’s side and did a deal with Joseph Moinian so he could retain 3 Columbus.

PERSEVERVANCE BRICK: Joseph Moinian, for successfully renegotiating loans on three buildings. A large lease with William Morris for 3 Columbus died when loan owner Deutsche Bank sold the loan to Steve Ross of Related Companies — even becoming a partner in the loan — all with an eye on foreclosing, tearing down the recently renovated tower and constructing a new residential building.

Moinian made the deal with SL Green Realty Corp. to pay off the loan, but now a demand for a $54 million prepayment penalty is still under litigation and the tower’s fate is uncertain.

SPOILER BRICK: Related’s Ross for buying the loan on 3 Columbus and continuing to litigate over the pre-payment penalty.

SPOILER BRICK (2d Place): Vornado Realty Trust, for pushing the City Council to approve the massive and bulky 15 Penn Plaza, which, once constructed, will spoil the skyline views of the Empire State Building.

GREEN BRICK: Anthony Malkin for making the Empire State Building a model of energy efficiency and good “chi.”

OOPSIE BRICK: Tishman Speyer Properties, for losing $50 million on Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village while partners redlined $2.4 billion, misunderstanding the intensity of the city’s rent stabilized apartment dwellers while trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

SALES BRICK OF THE YEAR: Tenant Google’s selection as the all-cash buyer of 111 Eighth Ave. for over $1.77 billion was a win for Taconic Partners, Jamestown and the New York State Retirement Systems along with broker Douglas Harmon of Eastdil Secured and the city, which gains tax money and a tenant bent on city job expansion.

MUSICAL BROKERS BRICK OF THE YEAR: The Fearless Foursome of Richard Baxter, Ron Cohen, Scott Latham and Jon Caplan, who left Cushman & Wakefield for Jones Lang LaSalle, leaving C&W to claim JLL’s displaced Nat Rockett, who coincidentally had left C&W for JLL when the Foursome first joined.

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The pain meds for my ankle got to my head last week and I never included the growing law firm BuckleySandler’s able broker, Greg Taubin, senior managing director of Studley, in the deal credits.

Taubin went through a 12-month process to replace its current and small 505 Fifth Ave. sublease with a direct lease for 17,372 square feet on the 31st floor of the Durst’s 1133 Ave. of the Americas.

The Washington, DC-based firm was founded in March, 2009 with just a “handful” of lawyers and now numbers 120.

“We were negotiating on several spaces but 1133 Ave. of the Americas fit the bill on all the factors and has one of the best landlords in New York,” Taubin noted.

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Christopher Albanese told us he teamed up with Richard Born and Ira Drukier for the $19.35 million investment purchase of the Chelsea Art Museum at 154 Eleventh Ave., aka 556 W. 22nd St.

The trio was waiting in the wings and stepped in to buy the three-story building out of bankruptcy when another deal fell apart.

They signed the contract within two days and closed two weeks later for all cash on Dec. 15.

They are now interviewing retail brokers to expand the pool of possible tenants to move in when the museum moves out at the end of 2011.

The 27,000-square-fo ot property can be expanded to 50,000 feet.

“We looked at it for a condo play but decided it was a better investment.” A new mortgage is also under negotiation, Albanese said. [email protected]