SIDNEY KIMMEL SECURES CONDO AT 50 C.P.S. FOR $29 MILLLION There are six full-floor apartments still up for grabs atop the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 50 Central Park South. They start at $21 million and 5,800 square feet, but so far, no one seems to be getting nervous–least of all Sidney Kimmel.
Mr. Kimmel, the Read More
FORMER PUBLISHER SELLS HOUSE THAT’S SPLIT INTO TWO LAVISH PADS During a week of magazine foldings– Offspring on Jan. 3, George on Jan. 4–former Hearst Magazines president D. Claeys Bahrenburg folded his tent on East 94th Street. On Jan. 3, Mr. Bahrenburg, 53, who resigned as the chairman of Petersen Publications two years ago, put Read More
On a recent, freezing December night, I met a great guy at a bar in midtown. He was thick-haired and handsome, smart with a good sense of humor and, on top of that, he was an excellent dancer. As I waited inthe coat check line, we flirted and exchanged business cards. A few hours later, Read More
On Christmas Eve, when many of the bland restaurants cluttering Third Avenue from 75th to 85th streets had closed their barren dining rooms, Calliope was brimming with lockjawed cheer. From the outside, the seven-month-old restaurant on 81st Street and Third Avenue looked as nondescript as its neighbors. But inside, basking in the glow of the Read More
Louis Cappelli, 49, lives in a rented apartment on the Upper
East Side and dates 30-year-old actress Kylie Travis. Last year he developed
New Roc City, a $180 million entertainment complex in New Rochelle, N.Y., with
apartments next to the IMAX theater and a skating rink that is supposed to
resemble Central Park. But he Read More
Glenn McDermott lives downtown. He is round-faced, affable and casual, and he likes to share tales of his years scuffling to make it in the music business, hanging around the margins of fame and partying with the likes of David Bowie and Mick Jagger. “He’s as anarchic as you can be and still be a Read More
It’s the kind of dilemma a lot of 21-year-old women in New York might like to face: What do you do if you come from a fabulously wealthy establishment family, brought up in a tradition of good manners, good works and no publicity, but your best friends are Young Society’s wild girls, dancing on table-tops Read More
On Saturday night, August 5, in Southampton, behind the tall hedges of a large white house on Gin Lane, about 60 people were dining on red meat at elegantly set tables, draped with peach satin tablecloths, which had been placed around the sprawling lawn. The men wore button-down shirts tucked into pleated pants, the women Read More
Max LeRoy, 25, never thought he’d go into the family business until last Oct. 3, the night before his father, restaurateur Warner LeRoy, lifted the curtain on his $20 million renovation of the Russian Tea Room to an invitation-only crowd that included Barbara Walters, cosmetics executive Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer and socialite Gayfryd Steinberg.
The Read More
NOW IF THEY COULD JUST GET THEIR HANDS ON 778 PARK PAD Linda and James Robinson have not yet taken possession of Greenwich, Conn. investment banker Clifton Robbins’ ninth-floor apartment at 778 Park Avenue. But that has not stopped them from selling their home, just down the street at 550 Park Avenue.
On July 10, Read More
