You can’t say that negotiating big lease deals are child’s play. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan has pulled out of talks to take about 70,000 square feet of space at the Essex Crossing development in the Lower East Side. “We had a wonderful conversation, but at the end of the day it didn’t work out,” the museum’s executive director Andy Ackerman told Crain’s. “Location, financing, timing—all those things have to line up.” The museum, located … [more]