By Spencer Morgan 12/17/08 12:28am

Christmas at The Carlyle

Spend a weekend at the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue and East 76th Street. You have to listen closely.

Bop, bop bop. Bop, bop bop. Around 8:30, Friday night at the Café Carlyle, home of the legendary late lounge singer Bobby Short, the five-piece band was getting the ball rolling for the room’s new Read More

By David Foxley 12/05/07 2:42pm

Socialites Lunch at Carlyle to Celebrate Pomegranate Skin Cream!

At the Carlyle Hotel on Monday, ubiquitous New York socialites Marjorie Gubelmann, Jennifer Creel and Byrdie Bell celebrated the launch of Rodial’s Glamatox—a skin cream that calls itself “the glamorous alternative to Botox.” (Katie Holmes, Gisele Bundchen and Uma Thurman have all succumbed to the charms of Rodial skincare products, which use “Pomegranate Ellagic Tannin, Read More

By Staff 3/26/07 5:45pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

  • Two weeks ago, Chris Knight closed on Shelter Island’s 23-room fixer-uper Shorewood Manor. Now it’s on the market for $33 million, which makes Mr. Knight a bad, bad man. [Forbes]
  • Manifesto of the Week: Slate‘s “The Renter’s Manifesto: Why home ownership causes unemployment.” [Slate]
  • Being an asset manager is a bore, except Read More

    • By Staff 1/30/07 4:13pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • Edward Lee Cave [pictured above, with posse] is a true Old School Broker. Why do his clients like him? “[T]hey knew I know how to live. That’s why I sell prewar buildings, each of which is a private club that represents a way of life — because I’ve lived in those buildings, I understand Read More

    • By Staff 2/07/06 8:41am

    Short on Sale

    Next week, Christie’s is auctioning off 250 personal items from Bobby Short’s Upper East Side home.

    The famed singer and pianist, who performed at the Cafe Carlyle for more than 35 years, died last March. Lot highlights from the auction include the talent’s black lacquer Bechstein grand piano, his Cartier wristwatch and Read More