After shuttering some locations just two years ago, Starbucks is now ready to pour its caffeinated concoctions from several new city locations.

The first new 1,200 square foot coffee outlet will open on the 43rd Street side of One Bryant Park just a few sips west of Avenue of the Americas. According to Jordan Barowitz of the Durst Organization, the Starbucks will be very noticeable as its glass storefront “pops” out from the building — an architectural design created to enhance the visibility of any renting retailer.

David Firestein of Northwest Atlantic Partners represents Starbucks in this area while John Grotto Jr. of the Durst Organization represented the ownership.

Back in 2009, Starbucks was hit by the recession and had to close 300 stores worldwide and lay off more than 1,000 people. But now, invigorated by a wider product offering of teas, coffees and home beverage accessories, Starbucks is on a push to add to its 16,000 locations worldwide. Several deals are in the works here.

“We’re continuing to look for new deals, but with that said, with as many as I’ve got in Manhattan, there is not that much low lying fruit left,” said Firestein in an interview last month. “But the landscape continues to change in Manhattan, and other areas of the city are starting to develop.”

Starbucks has also signed a lease for 1,470 square feet at the new One Jackson Square residential building on Greenwich Avenue where Karen Bellantoni and Pam Haber of Robert K. Futterman & Assoc. represented the developer Hines. That store opens in June.

There are also leases out on several other high-profile locations in Manhattan. “Landlords like the Dursts and Hines are interested in Starbucks both for the credit of their signature, as well as the use, which they see as an amenity for their tenants,” Firestein said in an e-mail yesterday.

Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz is now scheduled to speak at the gigantic International Council of Shopping Centers REcon event in Las Vegas at the end of May where he will talk about global expansion plans.

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The Penguin Group USA, a unit of Pearson, has signed a 15-year renewal at 345 Hudson St. for 136,000 square feet. The company occupies the 4th, 14th and 15th floors of the 17-story building with 897,000 square feet.

Richard Berzine of Richard Berzine & Co. represented the Pearson division. Jason Pizer and Tom Lynch of Trinity Real Estate represented the ownership.

Other tenants of the building include CBS Radio East and Weinstein Holding.

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The newly formed United Nations Women is setting up shop at 220 E. 42nd St. where it will lease 71,204 square feet on the 17th, 18th and 19th floors. Additionally a transition team will settle into 13,746 square feet on the 4th floor — for a total of 84,950 square feet.

Ironically, the site, the landmarked News Building is known worldwide as Superman’s headquarters and will now cater to Superwomen.

The deal has been percolating since last year and was made possible because another UN agency moved out. The UN’s broker, Andrew Roos of Colliers International, represented the United Nations Population Fund in a move out of the building to 605 Third Ave. last year.

This move was to a block of space vacated by Pfizer that allowed the UN to move from six floors to three floors and use newer infrastructure and furniture that was already in place. “We were looking to renew but also looking for other solutions and this was an opportunity that was too good to pass by,” said Roos.

While that deal left a hole at the E. 42nd Street building, the UNFPA agency also had left its own infrastructure and furniture, which Roos knew had residual value to other UN agencies as it met UN specs.

That provided an opening for Roos to bring the UN Development Programme to lease 43,000 square feet on the 20th, 21st and 23rd floors last fall.

Meanwhile, it took time to actually form UN Women, which has a $500 million budget and was brewed from several other UN agencies. It is now headed by Michelle Bachelet, the former Chilean president. “It is dedicated to gender equality and the empowering of women around the world,” said Roos. “Just like UN ICEF advocates for children, this agency will advocate for women. They have a big job ahead of them.”

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