Margot Megan Slade

Dec. 31, 2006

8 a.m.

8 pounds, 6 ounces

New York Downtown Hospital

Husband-and-wife architects James and Hayes Slade, both 40, have built quite a family in the 18 years they’ve been married: Ana, 14, Santi, 13, Stella, 2, and now this beautiful little bald, pinkish addition, the news of which prompted cheers and hugs Read More

Spitzer, Silver and June O'Neill

Eliot Spitzer spent the morning and afternoon yesterday speaking to the Assembly Democratic Conference at the Embassy Suite in Battery Park City, where “the relationship between Shelly and Eliot was clearly cordial,” one Democratic lawmaker who was there emailed to say.

Another legislator who attended the get-together said that talk among the rank and file Read More

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Built

In an otherwise critical sound-off on Atlantic Yards, Municipal Art Society head Kent Barwick tells StreetsBlog that there is still, in his eyes, hope for the mega-complex.

“I don’t think this project is substantially designed in its later phases,” he said, pointing out that it could be a decade before construction begins on Read More

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday


A new BP condo

  • It will take $310 million to build a 152-unit condo south of Battery Park City. On the plus side, the building may get a “platinum rating” from the Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. One block away, the Ritz-Carlton is shaking in its un-green (but expensive) Read More

  • Countdown to Bliss

    Demetria Collins and Joshua Irwin

    Met: July 2005

    Engaged: Oct. 2, 2006

    Projected Wedding Date: June 3, 2007

    If the ring fits, you must get hitched! Joshua Irwin, 34, a personal injury attorney at the Cochran Firm, founded by the late Johnnie Cochran, is betrothed to Demetria Collins, 27, an urban planner for Manhattan Borough Read More

    Tuesday: Brooklyn Oil, the Green Terminator, Naked Maggie?


    Arnold salutes NYC? [Deider]

  • Schwarzenegger has taken Mayor Bloomberg into his warm, shapely bosom–but it’s Governor Pataki that Arnold takes to see Battery Park City’s Solaire, the green 27-story tower finished in 2003. (NY Times)
  • The Brooklyn Paper officially apologizes for their semi-nude photo of Maggie Gyllenhaal: “Its placement on Page One Read More

  • Events for October 3-4, 2006

    Tonight, George and Libby Pataki will host a reception for Jeanine Pirro at the Marriott Eastside Hotel.

    Tomorrow, Shelly Silver speaks at the Association for a Better New York Breakfast at the Ritz Carlton New York-Battery Park.

    The U.S. Court of Appeals will hear an argument from lawyers representing a Muslim man who is suing Read More

    Events for September 30-October 2, 2006

    September 11th family members and rescue and recovery workers walk from Battery Park to Ground Zero for the 5th annual WTC We Remember Walk.

    John Faso attends the Congress of Racial Equality Festival in Union Square before heading over to the Yonkers River Festival.

    The Red Cross holds a forum on the basics Read More

    Ringler’s Letter

    So we got a copy of Port Authority Executive Director Ken Ringler’s letter that Bill Thompson found so “inappropriate and offensive.” Was it maybe Ringler suggesting that Thompson was “suffering from serious misinformation with regard to the Port Authority’s financial commitment to Ground Zero” which set the City Comptroller off?

    The whole thing, Read More