Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't need an introduction to know he was among friends at the Jewish Community Relations Council Gala Tuesday night.
But Janice Shorenstein, the group's president, obliged anyway, presenting him as "someone all of you know, the wonderful Michael Bloomberg!"
And Bloomberg delivered, reminding a 500-person crowd eating kosher hot dogs Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t need an introduction to know he was among friends at the Jewish Community Relations Council Gala Tuesday night.
But Janice Shorenstein, the group’s president, obliged anyway, presenting him as “someone all of you know, the wonderful Michael Bloomberg!”
And Bloomberg delivered, reminding a 500-person crowd eating kosher hot dogs Read More
“Have you seen Jennifer Connelly?” a reporter for local CW affiliate WPIX-Channel 11 asked legendary rocker Lou Reed.
The 67-year-old former Velvet Underground frontman, clad in comfy running shoes, jeans and a gray sweatshirt, and standing with wife Laurie Anderson, simply shrugged and turned back to a video presentation that was playing—something about a Read More
On the southwest corner of the intersection of Mulberry and Houston streets, a dapper golden toddler presides over the flow of cars and people, perched on the handsome Romanesque Puck building. For the last 20 months, his view has included the rising 290 Mulberry, a new brick creation that shares nothing besides a Read More
Beth Rosner and Stuyvesant Town go way back—she was born there, after all. Her family moved out when she was a baby, but she later moved back into a rent-stabilized apartment while working as a theater agent in the city. Finally, returning to New York in 2003 after a stint overseas, she took a market-rate Read More
Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel, showed up to a panel at the 92nd Street Y wearing a $39 suit. Except it had been marked down from $800, and it did double duty Thursday night as an explanatory device for the state of the Manhattan residential real estate market.
The message? Read More
With the announcement of two major leases at coupled with being relatively new to the game—dies hard. “They’re a tough landlord,” said one tenant-side broker who asked to remain anonymous. “In this market, I’ve got options. And I’m going to drive them towards landlords who have been really solid members of the community for a long Read More
The residents of 47 East 3rd Street, after a five-year losing battle to keep their homes, may at least get some karmic revenge.
“You are looking at a personal residence,” State Senator Daniel Squadron said Thursday of the five-story, red-brick tenement behind him, in kicking off a drive to limit the practice of “owner-occupancy” evictions. Read More
Tim Mahoney, the chief executive officer of BIDS Trading, wears cuff links shaped like frogs with crowns. A friend gave them to him when Mr. Mahoney launched his business, with the message that at the heart of every ugly start-up is a prince.
Mr. Mahoney’s company is what Wall Street types know as a Read More
Get on the bus.
That’s the message Economic Development Corporation head Seth Pinsky had for attendees of a panel on Coney Island at the Municipal Art Society on Wednesday night.
“If you really want to do something to help Coney Island, the only viable option that’s on the table right now is Read More
