“The difference between you and me,” shouts Carmela Soprano at her husband, Tony, on the HBO series, “is I’m going to heaven when I die.”
The difference between the actors-Edie Falco, who plays Carmela, and James Gandolfini, who plays Tony-is now about five blocks, since both have recently purchased property in the far West Village. Read More
Come this summer, when a man approaches a woman in a bar and asks
for her number, she may just say, as she fiddles with her hair and dives back
into her martini glass, “Have your shrink call my shrink.”
By then, eligible New Yorkers in therapy-and, let’s face it, even
Tara Reid is Read More
With greatest-hits collections and antiques, Barbra Streisand usually comes out on the winning end of a deal. But not in real estate. In April, Ms. Streisand signed a contract to sell her 8,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at the Ardsley, 320 Central Park West. Sources say a contract for around $4 million was signed in early March, Read More
In mid-March, private
investor Peter Knobel sold his renovated mansion at 20 East 73rd Street for $17
million. The property is spectacular-a 22-foot-wide building located on a prime
block between Fifth and Madison avenues. And Mr. Knobel invested $7 million,
putting in a wine cellar and basement basketball court. But when he got such a Read More
On March 29, Jodie Foster opens in a film about a recently divorced mother who picks up and leaves tranquil Greenwich, Conn., with her daughter for a state-of-the-art townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. On their very first night under their new roof, three violent intruders break in, and mother and daughter scramble into a Read More
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Every Tuesday night during my senior year at college, about 10 people Read More
Ed Bradley Jr., co-editor of CBS’s 60 Minutes for more than 20 years and a rabid Knicks fan, is also a Hamptons fixture-or at least a fringe character.
Four years after buying a two-acre spread north of Montauk Highway in East Hampton for $950,000, Mr. Bradley recently paid $1.35 million for the 2.77-acre place next-door. Read More
Despite its reputation for a tough board and apartments that owners are loath to relinquish, 770 Park Avenue, a Rosario Candela–designed building near 73rd Street, is seeing several units change hands. And the magic number that gets you into the co-op building seems to be $8 million.
David E.R. Dangoor, the Swedish executive vice president Read More
Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore and Harvey Fierstein were standing on the curb in front of an ornate, four-story brownstone at 240 Berkeley Place in Park Slope waiting for something.
Then the front door to the house opened and a couple emerged.
“It’s a dream house. It’s so quiet,” said the woman, coming down the Read More
It may seem as if actor Harrison Ford is constantly moaning to
the press that he’s never so happy as when he’s on his ranch in Jackson Hole,
Wyo., but the 59-year-old actor has just bought another apartment in Manhattan.
With kids in school in the city, Mr. Ford and his estranged wife,
Melissa Read More
