Lately, “good news” at Ground Zero has really just been the undoing of bad news: Goldman Sachs, Freedom Tower. At a lunch before the New York Building Congress today, the Governor delivered the first truly good news in a while: American Express is taking another 200,000 square feet in the World Financial Center.
Of course, Read More
One likes to think of Asian restaurants as oases of almost Zen-like calm amid the sharp-elbowed cacophony of Western life. That may be true in the front of the house, but behind the scenes the staff apparently has no greater monopoly on transcendental peace and understanding than the average unenlightened Manhattan native or Brooklynite.
The Read More
Crain’s is reporting that Larry Silverstein has his first lease at 7 World Trade Center.
And it’s not some wimpy government office, either:
“According to sources close to the deal, a unit of the American Express Co. is in the final stages of negotiating a 15-year lease for about 20,000 square feet at the Read More
The ladies of Park Avenue have a big problem. Yes, they can’t help it. They’re insatiable (and some might say insufferable, but that’s for another piece); most therapists assume it’s an addiction. On the Upper East Side, it’s an unsurprising kind of moral failing: the state of being a handbag whore. (She’s the kind of Read More
The ladies of Park Avenue have a big problem. Yes, they can’t help it. They’re insatiable (and some might say insufferable, but that’s for another piece); most therapists assume it’s an addiction. On the Upper East Side, it’s an unsurprising kind of moral failing: the state of being a handbag whore. (She’s the kind of Read More
It’s difficult for a hard-working New Yorker not to resent the hordes of British secretaries hogging up tables at restaurants and shouting at each other in Cockney accents from stall to stall in department-store fitting rooms, pockets crammed with fists-full of our weakling dollars. (O.K., that’s enough of that: We’re supposed to love the Brits Read More
The Village Voice does some more digging on the question we looked at last week: Whether charitable donations to NYC2012, the Olympic bid committee, buy influence with the city.
The new information they have comes from Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s schedule, obtained through the Freedom of Information Law, which show — surprise! Read More
N.Y.’ers Like a Good Laugh,
But This Joke Did Not Ignite
There are three kinds of bomb scares-well, at least three. There are those involving innocent objects (such as attaché cases or even paper bags) that in this diabolical age are mistakenly suspected of being explosive devices. Then there are actual bombs packed with Read More
Perp Tempts Fate By
Staging Heist at Doughnut Shop
Some crooks have ice water running through their veins. But the guy who robbed the Dunkin’ Donuts at 1225 First Avenue on Jan. 20 apparently had anti-freeze coursing through his arteries-so cool was he when he unexpectedly crossed paths with a couple of cops, his Read More
With Helpers Like These,
Who Needs Hinderers? The problem with being able to afford lots of household help is that when your jewelry goes missing, it’s hard to sort through all the possible suspects: maids, nannies, drivers, personal assistants, yoga instructors, etc.
That’s the dilemma Diandra Douglas, gal about town and former wife of Read More
