Richistan Correspondent, JPMorgan Wife Buy $4.2 M. Flatiron Loft

Robert Frank emailed The Observer on Wednesday as to why he and his wife recently spent $4.2 million on a penthouse loft at 73 Fifth Avenue: ”We bought because this was an ideal family home at good value, to the degree that either exists in Manhattan. It wasn’t a reflection of our view on the market, which seems even more Read More

Penthouse at Trump-Converted 610 Park Quietly Asks $34.8 M.

The penthouse at 610 Park Avenue, a deluxe white-glove condo converted by Donald Trump, is a duplex gem hovering in the Upper East Side sky. The five-bedroom apartment, which features “one of the most beautiful private terraces in New York City,” is currently listed as a $75,000-per-month rental through Corcoran’s Carrie Chiang and Read More

Top Brokers Cattle-Called for Madoff

When brokers from the most posh Manhattan brokerages filed into a penthouse at 133 East 64th Street for a secret meeting earlier this month, the fact that the place had been seized two weeks earlier by U.S. marshals from contemporary America’s greatest financial villain was not the only thing on their minds.

What must have Read More

The Kid-King of New York

Location: Were you a precocious child?
Mr. Seligman: I definitely wasn’t an overachiever in school at all. I struggled in school a lot of the time, definitely had a hard time in certain classes, but if there was something I was passionate about, you couldn’t stop me. I was just a very hard worker. Read More