–A lot of people “were prepared to hate Nell Freudenberger,” according to Curtis Sittenfeld’s catty article titled “Too Young, Too Pretty, Too Successful.” The news that Ms. Freudenberger has bought a $2.3 million Park Slope townhouse probably won’t help.
One of The New Yorker’s recently anointed prodigies, Ms. Freudenberger (35, by the way), Read More
It seemed, at first, to happen as an afterthought. Trouble with contractors–and lawyers–kept developer Alfred Taubman from delivering apartments in the converted office building at 838 Fifth Avenue on schedule. And those who had bought the apartments–including Charles Bronfman, the chief executive at Seagram’s, who’d plunked down $18 million for a 5,500-square-foot duplex in October Read More
Just weeks after his nephew Edgar Bronfman Jr. incensed company employees by posing for The New York Times inside his $4.4 million (plus three years’ worth of renovations) town house at 15 East 64th Street, Seagram Company Ltd. co-chairman Charles Bronfman has signed a contract to pay close to $18 million for a duplex penthouse Read More
