By Michael Ewing 3/26 4:27pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Oh, please, honey. I don't want one townhouse. I want TWO.

Quintessential Villagers Moving to Brooklyn? Sarah Jessica Parker Eying Neighboring Heights Townhouses Asking $19 M.

The human embodiment of our very own Carrie Bradshaw might be moving to Brooklyn. Oh, how the times have changed since the writer lived in her rent-controlled apartment on the Upper East Side in 1994.

Now, the Observer has chased Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, her husband, around town tracking their real estate decisions. (It wasn’t that hard; the Observer created her mind.) The real estate desk might have even blown her cover with 88 CPW, but it appeared that she never really left the West Village. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/12/11 3:59pm

Things that won't die

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"The Carrie Diaries" on the CW?

While the Sex and the City prequel film is still up in the air, rumors today abound that the CW will be coming to rescue young Americans from having to think about relationships in anything other than metaphors about chocolate. Think: a TV adaptation of The Carrie Diaries, Candace Bushnell’s teen tale of the iconic Bradshaw during her senior year of high school. Obviously, this show will be produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, they of Gossip Girl and The O.C. fame. Who knows the inner-workings of rich teenagers better than those two.

And yet…we have reservations. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/20/11 12:16am

Shindigger

Shindigger: Something Fishy in Chelsea

Neptune would have felt right at home at the Riverkeeper’s Fisherman’s Ball at Chelsea Piers-the bar was decorated with giant metal fish and fishermen’s caps, the tables were bedecked with fish-printed needlepoint tablecloth, the windows overlooked the foggy Hudson. It was reminiscent of a down-market Maine rental cabin. Naturally, they served sushi. (Were we at Read More