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Pamela Liebman. (Illustration by Joao Maio Pinto)

Pamela Liebman: Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award Recipient

On a family trip to Miami when Pamela Liebman was 4, what interested her the most were not the white sand beaches or the clear blue water, but the buildings. “What are those?” asked the future chief executive of the Corcoran Group, Manhattan’s top real estate brokerage firm.

“That’s a condominium,” her mother replied. She said she spent the rest of the trip rolling the word “condominium” off her tongue.

“I think I was predestined to go into real estate,” she said. Years later, when visiting her realtor aunt in Beverly Hills, she said the interest still hadn’t flagged. All the other kids wanted to swim the pool. “I just wanted to go look at the houses,” she said. Read More

By Chloe Malle 9/21/10 10:48pm

Hot! Supermodel Shayk’s Perry Street Condo

Earlier today Curbed reported soccer superstar Thierry Henry’s tremendous $9 million penthouse purchase at 39 Crosby Street; however, city records reveal that the Red Bulls’ striker  isn’t the only fast-footed World Cup alum to likely start spending more time in downtown Manhattan.

Russian supermodel Irina Shayk (listed on the deed with her full Read More

By Alexandra Peers 8/11/10 5:14pm

food culture

The Sandwich King Packs Meat

NYC’s Wine & Food Festival is aiming this year to “Celebrate the charm of the Meatpacking District,” which we’re not quite sure it has, and promised that a new event to be held there over Columbus Day weekend will crown New York’s “Sandwich King.”

All told, 40 of the events in the annual chowdown’s four-day Read More

By Chloe Malle 8/06/10 8:22pm

Close! Beresford Corner Nabs $10.2 M., Under Asking

In early May, sometime around Mother’s Day, while the rest of New York City flocked to farmers’ markets for the season’s first peonies, real estate nerds and professionals were glued to their computer screens hung up on a certain Corcoran listing which mysteriously changed from “On the Market” to the nebulous “No Longer Available” on Read More

By Chloe Malle 6/30/10 4:19pm

By George, He Bought It! Stephanopoulos Spends $6.5 M. on UES

In a 1994 Friends episode, Monica, Rachel and Phoebe, in their realistically rent-controlled, balconied Village apartment, receive G. Stephanopoulos‘ pizza order—mushroom, green pepper and onion—instead of their own low-fat crust, lots of cheese. Monica eagerly asks the frightened delivery boy if the mistaken orderer from across the street is a “small Mediterranean guy with curiously Read More

By Chloe Malle 5/12/10 8:57pm

Ex-Lehmanite Sells at 15 CPW for $7.1 M.

When David Bizer paid a cool $5.3 million for his apartment at acclaim-famed 15 Central Park West in December of 2007, he worked for Lehman Brothers, because, well, it still existed. Now, more than two years and one fallen former employer later, Mr. Bizer has sold his high-floor two-bedroom for $7.1 million (he now works Read More

By Chloe Malle 4/28/10 4:29pm

The Vanity Listings

Astronomical asking prices are nothing new to the world of Manhattan luxury real estate. Indeed, the island boasts some of the highest prices per foot of any locale worldwide. And, yet, people often get what they ask for.

So, what makes some sales prices silly and others legitimate? Who knows? What is agreed upon, however, Read More