Just as financier Ted Ammon’s widow, Generosa, was anticipating
an $8.5 million check for the apartment her husband owned at 1125 Fifth Avenue,
it turns out she’ll get a check for $1.5 million more.
In late January, when a
potential buyer for the co-op apartment, near 94th Street, had not returned a
signed $8.5 Read More
Assuming that comedian Chevy Chase doesn’t plan to pack his wife
Jayni and their three daughters into a station wagon and start off across the
country on a misguided quest to see the world’s greatest amusement park next
summer, East Enders are wondering where exactly the Hamptons regulars will be
tanning now that their 2.14-acre Read More
Teenage Fan Club
On a recent afternoon, Annemarie Iverson, the new editor of Seventeen magazine, welcomed a guest to
her big red office high above Seventh Avenue. Ms. Iverson, who is 37 years old,
has shiny blond hair and blue eyes, and she wore a white blouse and custom-made
Levi’s with fringy leather flaps that Read More
The fashion world may know Eric Rothfeld as the American behind
acid-washed jeans, but real-estate observers now know him as the biggest
spender of recent memory. With his bold $22 million offer on Jan. 11 to
purchase the third floor of quiet-but-hyper-exclusive 4 East 66th Street from
the British government, Mr. Rothfeld would easily be paying Read More
In the tower of the Carlyle Hotel, high above Madison Avenue,
Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece sits some days with her seamstress and
her advertising executives making and selling pretty dresses and sharp togs for
Manhattan’s little princes and princesses.
Over the last three months, sources tell The Observer , the wife of Greece’s Read More
Someone tell Rudy! In banner deals for 2001, two townhouses on East 69th Street between Fifth and Park avenues have gone into contract for $10.5 million and $11 million in the past month.
In November, a $10.5 million deal was signed to sell 46 East 69th Street, the home of the late Doris Magowan, daughter Read More
On Nov. 31, Joyce Leighton, president of the 75th Street Block Association, walked out of her co-op building at 7 East 75th Street and saw a photographer setting up a tripod across the street. He was preparing to take photographs of 10 East 75th Street, the eight-story townhouse that the Hewitt School had bought from Read More
Manhattan real-estate maven Barbara Corcoran has a reputation for
parlaying her high–profile style into profits, whether offering stiff-upper-lip
sermons about the resiliency of the real-estate market (“It’ll buck up in three
months or I’ll eat my hat!” she recently told The Observer ) or giving motivational speeches to her staff at a
Bermuda retreat.
” Honey !
You were absolutely precious !”
It was a late Saturday afternoon, and the 9-year-old actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg was trying to escape through a swarm
of adoring matinee goers at the
American Airlines Theater in Times Square, where she
currently co-stars as Little Mary in Claire Booth Luce’s The Women.
he estate of murdered financier Ted Ammon
has removed at least one legal obstacle in the sale of his co-op apartment at 1125
Fifth Avenue, at 94th
Street. According to an attorney for Ammon, Joseph Di Salvo of
McCarter & English, the financier’s $8.5 million lawsuit against the
building has been dropped. Another source involved Read More
