Today, The Observer reported that Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey was expected to be on the oversubscribed list of buyout-seekers.
However, according to an interview with the Boston Phoenix, Mr. Bailey is not leaving the paper.
Mr. Bailey has confirmed to The Observer that he did apply for the buyout, but that he Read More
Broadway Partners is looking for some money-men to help pay for its $5 billion portfolio buy from Beacon Capital Partners, which includes 237 Park Avenue and 100 Wall Street. The Observer reported the purchase last week.
The leading candidates are the usual suspects. Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, RBS Greenwich Capital and Wachovia are all Read More
Closure on Cloture
To the Editor:
I had to laugh out loud when I read Steve Kornacki’s article on the Senate maneuverings over the Iraq War debate [“Republican Senators Deepen a Hole for 2008,” Wise Guys, Feb. 12]. It’s hard to imagine that someone would think to criticize another, when they themselves are completely misinformed Read More
Noam Chomsky’s assistant comments below that there is an illness in the linguist’s family and that’s why he had to run, to make a plane back to Boston. Also I note that Chomsky gave good weight at an earlier event at Columbia the same day. I’m feeling bad about the meanspiritedness of my Read More
When it mercifully comes to a close 24 months from now, the George W. Bush Presidency will be remembered less for its painful policy blunders than its painstakingly directed set-piece iconography. The Bush aesthetic—in which the bullhorn atop 9/11 rubble and the aircraft-carrier landing feature prominently—peaked on Nov. 3, 2004, the afternoon of the post-re-election Read More
Yet another thing wherein New York dominates Boston, a city in Massachusetts on the Charles River–ownership of office buildings in Boston’s financial district.
Fifty-three percent of financial-district buildings are now owned by New York-based landlords, The Wall Street Journal reports. These include One Federal Street, bought by Tishman Speyer last year, and the Read More
According to a Democratic source, there’s been a shake-up in the last few days in Hillary Clinton’s fund-raising operation: six of Hillary Clinton’s fundraising staffers from her New York and Boston offices are no longer employed there, the source said, and her recently hired finance director, Jonathan Mantz, is looking to bring aboard two Read More
Pity the poor Manhattan housing market in 2006; it missed out on so many adjectives.
As markets around it melted—Miami, Phoenix, Boston, pretty much the whole of flyover country—Manhattan’s remained utterly, stubbornly successful.
You’ll have heard another story: that Manhattan’s housing market was red-hot in 2005 and was in 2006, like so many Read More
