Manhattan Transfers

Ms. Paxson couldn't leave the mid-Atlantic region altogether.

Brown University President Christina Paxson Celebrates New Job With Fi-Di Condo

Providence, Rhode Island is a lovely city, but let’s face it: the place can’t hold a candle to New York. This fact has apparently not escaped the whip smart Christina Paxson. Ms. Paxson, who was selected as the next president of Brown University this spring and husband Ari Gabinet have purchased a condo at 88 Greenwich Street, according to city records. Read More

Bloomberg Defeats Social Promotion

New York City schoolchildren have a friend in Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though you wouldn’t know it from all the grandstanding and bellyaching coming from the teachers’ union and United Parents Associations in the wake of the passing of the Mayor’s plan to end the social promotion of failing third-graders. Unlike the education bureaucrats who have Read More