By Kim Velsey 2/01 4:58pm

Manhattan Transfers

Catch her in Carnegie Hill. (ABC/Donna Svennevik)

Seeking Better Real Estate, Cynthia McFadden Buys $5 M. Carnegie Hill Townhouse

When we saw that Nightline co-host Cynthia McFadden had sold her three-bedroom co-op at 129 East 69th Street last week, we wondered where she would be moving. Like the 11:35 p.m. time slot on ABC, a pre-war co-op in a white glove Lenox Hill building is prime real estate.

The answer is Carnegie Hill (and, if you’re watching ABC, it’s 12:35 a.m.). The famed journalist tells The Observer that she and her teenaged son are upgrading to a four-story brownstone on the Upper East Side neighborhood. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/10/12 5:16pm

Tech

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Paging Margaret Sullivan: David Pogue’s Creepy Christmas Involves Underage Girls, Unintelligible Accents, and Brain-Controlled Cat Ears [Video]

So we already knew that David Pogue was a little bit…off. The New York Times reporter has a reputation for being both the most famous tech writer in the country as well as the most controversial. He’s been accused of shilling for Apple and FoxConn, which produces Apple products, and possibly dating one of their publicists. These are all pretty sketchy things.

But nothing explains this Christmas video he made for CBS Sunday Morning, where he appears as a weekend tech consultant correspondent in a strange, non-conflict of interest arrangement. In the video he plays Techno Claus who for some reason sounds a lot like Mike Myers’s Linda Richman in “Coffee Talk.” And that’s just the beginning. Read More

By Kim Velsey 11/20/12 10:04am

Real Estate on TV

The show was nowhere near as racy and edgy as the posters might lead a person to believe.

The Axe Falls: ABC Chops 666 Park Avenue From Lineup

It looks like 666 Park Avenue learned the hard way that the only thing harder to find than a sprawling rent-controlled apartment was renewal for another 13 episodes.

The supernatural evening soap opera, which was shameless when it came to the inaccurate portrayal of  Manhattan real estate, has been evicted from ABC’s Sunday night lineup for a lackluster performance, according to Variety.

There’s nothing scarier than failing to attract viewers. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/18/12 8:50am

Big Apple Idolatry

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Big Apple Idolatry: Bushnell Settles Sex Score, Paul Rudd’s Lucky Strike, and Baldwin’s Beef Fetish

- Fresh off his Broadway run in Chicago, Usher will be kicking his feet up in one of those swivel pods on the third season of The Voice. He and Shakira will be taking over for Christina Aguilera and Cee-Lo Green, who are vacating their judges’ chairs on NBC’s hit music contest. Of coorse, Usher has an ace card up his sleeve to win over any waffling young talent. It’s two words, and rhymes with Bustin Tweezer. Read More

By Drew Grant 1/26/12 5:52pm

McDonald's

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Not-So-Breaking News: McDonald’s Consumed in the Dead of Night (Video)

Changing tactics after the abysmal failure of their sponsored hashtag campaign on Twitter, McDonald’s has now released their quarterly reports that indicate that most people consume their burgers and fries between midnight and 5 a.m. It’s a brilliant statistic to release, since it’s basically McDonald’s gloating that despite what everyone says about them, they’re still the go-to meal for late-night drunks. Read More