The Department of Homeless Services has begun a trial to determine whether a charitable city foundation, Homebase, is doing a good job at offering free counseling, emergency funds and job training to some of New York’s most vulnerable.
Homebase offers support to individuals and families who have fallen behind on rent and are close Read More
Sick of seeing, as we all are, contemporary art set against whitewashed walls and wooden floors? These gardens offer a better, more beautiful, vantage point.
“Fritz Haeg: Something for Everyone”
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street, Ridgefield, Conn.
Through Jan. 2, 2011
A home for Rocky, sans Bullwinkle. Sculptor Fritz Haeg’s Read More
— David Dabill, founder of advertising firm Toy and “a native New Yorker accidentally born in Fargo, North Dakota” (it happens), has just bought a seventh-floor apartment at 105 Fifth Avenue, the former home of fluoro-loving Democratic Leadership Council chairman Harold Ford Jr. Mr. Dabill, who bought the $1.3 million loft Read More
- Will Balliett, president at Thames & Hudson and author and editor of several books, among them a Mets fan’s almanac and an anthology of matrimonial advice from Flaubert and other romantic souls (as if Madame Bovary weren’t clear enough), has purchased an apartment at 600 West 111th Street, close to Read More
It’s August. France and Italy beckon, and so do some blockbuster art shows. Wave to us, metaphorically at least, from the vaporetto.
“Paris Is Well Worth a Mass”
Galleria degli Uffizi
6 Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence
Through Nov. 2
The Uffizi holds the world’s Read More
— Joel Ackerman, managing director at Warburg Pincus and board member at several other companies, according to Business Week, has bought on one of the Upper East Side’s most exclusive blocks. His new $7 million apartment at 17 East 79th Street, which sits between Madison and Fifth avenues, puts him just feet Read More
— New York City real estate heiress, Allison Bandier Koffman, has put down $4,318,275 on an Upper East Side home. The apartment occupies an entire floor of 141 East 72nd Street, a notoriously sought-after pre-war cooperative. Ms. Koffman, a Wharton-educated senior vice president at Sotheby’s Realty, has “real estate in her blood,” according to the company. The Read More
— Ira and Jody Schwartz, who recently bought an Upper East Side condo for over $10 million, according to Curbed, have sold their 200 East 74th Street apartment for $4.67 million to Michael Teitelbaum—though to precisely which of New York City’s apparently numerous Michael Teitelbaums we can’t say. The couple head an outerwear company Read More
— The Du Pont dynasty has added a Park Avenue condo to its coffers and Jameson Du Pont, the great–many times–granddaughter of Huguenot watchmaker Pierre Samuel, will evade the couch-surfing legacy that befalls her fellow New York City interns this summer. The Du Pont alternative to the traditional graduate dwelling is a $1.055 Read More
— Isabel Gillies-Lattman, Law & Order actress and author of Starbucks’ one-time favorite memoir, has moved further uptown to a four-bedroom apartment at 315 West 106th Street with her busband, Wall Street Journal writer Peter Lattman. They paid $2,291,162.50 for the Rosario Candela-designed property which overlooks Riverside Park.
— Lawrence Leibowitz, COO of the New Read More
