Around the town: events seminars meetings talks.

Discrimination Seminar

Jan. 22 -- Ganfer & Shore, LLP will hold a breakfast seminar devotes to discrimination in cooperative and condominium approval process from to 10 a.m. Steven J. Shore, Esq., of Ganfer & Shore, Andrew H. Marks, president and CEO of MLW Services, and Anthony Angelico, director of operations with Goodstein Management, will be the featured speakers at the event. The seminar will take place at the Harmonie Club, at 4 E. 60th St. For registration and additional information please call Amarilys Garcia at [phone].

Baruch College Forum

Jan. 22 -- The School of Public Affairs at Baruch College will hold a breakfast forum starting at 8 a.m. David A. Grossman, Donald D. Kummerfeld, James R. Brigham, Jr., Alair Townsend, Paul L. Dickstein, and others will participate in the event. The forum will take place at Baruch's Vertical Campus, at 55 Lexington Ave. For registration and additional information please call Juda S. Engelmayer at [phone] or at [phone].

NYARM Dinner and Learning Session

Jan. 22 -- The New York Association of Realty Managers holds its monthly membership meeting, starting with a pre-dinner LEARNING SESSION from 4:30 to 6 p.m. featuring the opening class for the Required Ethics course needed to achieve NYARM certification. The course will be followed by the popular 6 to 7 p.m. open bar networking. Dinner will be from 6 to 8:15 p.m. consisting of an in depth orientation on the upcoming classes offered at Local 32BJ's Training Program for building staff. Credit will be given to all participants for certification. Manhattan Club @ Rosie O'Grady's 7th Ave & 52 St., NYC. All-inclusive Fee: $60 members; $120 non-members. RSVP required. Contact executive director Margie Russell, via www.nyarm.org, [e-mail] or [phone]. Credit cards accepted.

Housing Panel

Jan. 23 - The City Club of New York presents a televised discussion called "The Financial Squeeze on Housing" with an authoritative panel from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street.) Panelists include Professor Michael Schill, NYU Law School and Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; Dan Margulies, Director of Community Housing Improvement Program, the landlord industry group; Victor Bach, Senior Housing Policy Analyst, Community Service Society. The panel will be moderated by Mindy H. Stern, esq. of Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP. The reception is 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. and the program is 7:30 8:30 p.m. Admission is $22. Credit cards accepted. You must make a reservation by phone by calling The City Club of New York at [phone].

CoreNet Global Lunch

Jan. 23 - CoreNet Global New York is sponsoring a luncheon that will feature a panel discussion on the evolving role of end-users and service providers from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue at 45th Street in Terrace Room. Thomas W. Bogle, managing director, real estate advisory services at Ernst & Young, will moderate the panel. Panelists will include Raymond P. Meglio, vice president, corporate real estate at Thomson Financial; Michael T. Cohen, president and CEO of GVA Williams; Cher Zucker-Maltese, vice president, corporate real estate at Prudential Financial; and John Santora, executive vice president of Cushman and Wakefield. For more information or to register, contact Gerry Diamond at [e-mail]. Registration is also available on CoreNet Global's web site (chapters.core-netglobal.org).

Building Congress Breakfast

Jan. 30 - The New York Building Congress will holds its annual membership meeting and construction industry breakfast, starting at 8 a.m. Joel I. Klein, chancellor of the Department of Education, will be the featured speaker at the event. The breakfast will take place at the Westin New York, at 270 W. 43rd St. Members: free of charge. Non-members: $60 per person. For registration and additional information please call [phone].

AREW Breakfast

Jan. 31 -- The Association of Real Estate Women will hold a breakfast with an industry leaders from 9 to 10 a.m. Louise M. Matthews, director of corporate real estate with the Colgate Palmolive Corporation, will be the featured speaker at the event. The breakfast will take place on the second floor of 300 Park Ave. Members: free of charge. For registration and additional information please call [phone].

NRC Lunch

Feb. 3 - Charles A. Brass, president, NYC Housing Development Corporation, will be the guest speaker at a National Realty Club luncheon at noon at the Williams Club, 24 East 39"' St. The cost is $40 for members and $65 for nonmembers. To make reservations call [phone] or email [e-mail]. Nonmembers must prepay to National Realty Club Inc., 380 Lexington Ave., Suite 1700, New York, NY 10168.

REBNY Seminar

Feb. 4 - The seminar committee of the Real Estate Board of New York will sponsor a negotiation seminar entitled "Changing Times, Changing Terms" 8 a.m. at Citigroup, 399 Park Ave. The panel moderator will be Michael R. Laginestra, vice chairman of Insignia/ESG. The panel will include Jonathan L. Mechanic, chairman of Fried Frank's real estate department; Robert Nash, a partner in the real estate department of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP; Peter Riguardi, president of the N.Y. region of Jones Lang LaSalle Americas and David R. Greenbaum, president of Vornado Office, a division of Vornado Realty Trust. The cost of the event is $20 for REBNY members and $30 for non-members. To register call Angela Hussain at [phone] by Jan. 29.

AREW Networking Reception

Feb. 4 -- The Association of Real Estate Women will holds its monthly networking reception from 11:30 a.m. to 2. p.m. Veronica W. Hackett, principal of the Clarett Group, will be the featured speaker at the event. The reception will take place at the Harvard Club, at 27 W. 44th St. Members: Free of charge. Non-members: $75 per person. For registration and additional information please call [phone].

IREM Course

Feb. 6 -- The Greater New York Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management is offering a course titled Introduction to Real Estate Management, which will meet on Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. beginning on Feb. 6 and ending on April 24 at NYU's Midtown Center, 11 West 42nd St. The cost is $625, which includes a registration and textbook fee. To register or for more information, please call [phone] or visit www.iremnyc.org

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