–Master dealmaker Christine Wasserstein once sold her $27.5 million place at 1030 Fifth Avenue in a single fateful week in May 2008. Now, she has worked her magic as a buyer. The pyschoanalyst, who got her old apartment in her divorce from deceased New York publisher Bruce Wasserstein, has bought a place just next door, Read More
Manhattan Media, owner of New York Press, announced today that it has bought Dan’s Papers, the free Hampton’s weekly, from Brown Publishing.
The eponymous Dan Rattiner will remain the paper’s president and editor-in-chief. When Brown Publishing filed for bankruptcy in May, Mr. Rattiner assured readers that his paper wasn’t going anwhere
“Brown’s bankruptcy Read More
Apparently frustrated Manhattanites aren’t the only ones crawling eastbound along Montauk Highway in the heat of the summer, now at least their art can inch along next to them.
A few summers ago, with the advent of Petney–the Jitney-comparable branch of Pet Taxi–pet owners traveling east by no-dogs-allowed means were afforded the option of sending Read More
WHEN GORE VIDAL is on a tear, outrage and wit blend to produce a new, delicious and deadly substance, like sulfuric Champagne or a napalm martini. Consider, for example, an especially corrosive—and funny—essay on the twinned destiny of gays and Jews, "Pink Triangle and Yellow Star," originally published in The Nation in 1981 and newly Read More
The New York Sun reports this morning that Dan Rattiner, who recently sold his iconic Hamptons magazine Dan's Papers to News Communications, Inc., is preparing his memoirs for publication next spring:
Yesterday, Mr. Rattiner said he had recently settled on a title, "In the Hamptons: My 50 Years With the Fisherman, Farmers, Artists, Billionaires and Read More
We missed this report from Friday's editions of Newsday:
Dan Rattiner, an East End fixture for decades as publisher of Dan's Papers — a free paper whose quirkly blend of personality and local coverage has led some to call it the Bible of the Hamptons — will lose his remaining stake in Dan's Papers Read More
