Take your boyfriend on a shopping jaunt along Fifth Avenue,
and here are some of the things you might find him wiggling into: slim
“stretch” tan slacks, 98 percent cotton and 2 percent spandex, $68 at Banana
Republic on 50th Street; a port-wine pique shirt, short-sleeved and very tight,
$48 at Armani Exchange on 51st; Read More
WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE AFTER STARBUCKS AND THE GAP? It’s hard to believe that Leonard Riggio and James Hopping are neighbors. Mr. Riggio is the chief executive and founder of Barnes & Noble, and his Bridgehampton mansion is a lush, stucco Architectural Digest number with a formal sculpture garden. Mr. Hopping, a retired real Read More
When Andrew Sasson, the owner of the Jet East nightclub in Southampton, allegedly chauffeured his ex-girlfriend, publicist Lizzie Grubman, from the bloody mess she’d made at Conscience Point to his Bridgehampton house on July 7, he gave his competitors just the opening they needed. For Mr. Sasson may have made Jet East the most lucrative Read More
Less than 24 hours after 30-year-old publicist Lizzie Grubman put her Mercedes in reverse and allegedly plowed into a bouncer and a group of 15 people who were waiting to get past the velvet ropes at Southampton’s Conscience Point Inn, the damage to the well-worn Cape Cod-style nightclub had been patched up and painted over Read More
On May 2, 118 Manhattan real-estate firms announced that they could not work together–even to attract apartment buyers. The firms said they would disable their fledging joint Web site, a failed attempt at a comprehensive listing of available property in the city.
What they didn’t say was that, while they were squabbling over how to Read More
Four years ago, the name Moomba epitomized fin-de-siècle New York nightlife. It
was the place where the celebrity of that moment, Leonardo DiCaprio, often celebrated his post- Titanic fame in the ridiculously exclusive third-floor V.I.P. room;
the place that a steady stream of gossip-column items depicted as almost too
hip and happening to be true. Read More
Carolyn LeRoy pulled open the door to her father’s
apartment. She was wearing slippers and complaining about the weather-the penthouse’s
360 degrees of windows usually offer stellar views. The day before, Ms. LeRoy
had held what would be the last gathering at the 8,200-square-foot home of
Warner LeRoy, the legendary owner of the Russian Tea Read More
On Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., Jill Kopelman stepped out of a
chauffeured Mercedes station wagon at the School of American Ballet at Lincoln
Center, where a black-tie awards dinner was honoring legendary ballerina Maria
Tallchief and Richard S. Braddock, chairmanof Priceline.com. Ms. Kopelman, 26,
and her mother, Coco, were there as longtime S.A.B. supporters, Read More
Cox Communications Inc. heiress Margaretta (Retta) Taylor is buying a townhouse at 2 Sutton Square, just a few blocks from her mother’s apartment at 1 Sutton Place South and East 56th Street, but she’ll probably send the butler if she needs to borrow a cup of milk or, more likely, some aspirin, in the coming Read More
Right around the time that George W. Bush was announcing his candidacy for President, Joseph W. Luter III, the chief executive of Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor, went on a multimillion-dollar apartment-buying binge. Mr. Luter’s shopping spree finally ended on Jan. 16, just four days before Mr. Bush was Read More
