By Elise Knutsen 1/27 5:38pm

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Think about the maintenance on that white carpet.

Holy Park! Denise Rich’s 20-Room Penthouse Asking Record $65 M.

While some say co-ops have seen their day and are now fading from the forefront of the luxury market, don’t count the standard blue-blood abodes out yet! Songwriter Denise Rich has put her co-op on the market for the staggering price of $65 million, The Post reports, making it the most expensive co-op on the market.

Evidently, the 20-room spread at 785 Fifth Avenue is too big for Ms. Rich, who lives in the apartment alone. With seven full bedrooms and 11 baths, we’re inclined to believe her. Read More

By NYO Staff 7/07/03 12:00am

Thank You, Kate

The Mondel Chocolates shop, on the corner of 114th Street and Broadway, runs roughly the length of its one long, dual-bulbed fluorescent light fixture, which casts a glare over countless handwritten signs listing the infrequently changed prices for Mondel chocolates, and on a sepia-toned list on the wall in the back corner of the cramped Read More

By NYO Staff 9/23/02 12:00am

Secretary Scribe Is Hell on Heels

When Erin Cressida Wilson walks the red carpet at Secretary ‘s Sept. 18 premiere at Clearview’s Chelsea West theater, she’ll be wearing “simple” Hermès pants and an Armani shirt with “witchy, slutty shoes that counteract the conservatism of the rest.”

That kind of contrast is part of what appealed to the Duke University writing professor Read More

By Elisabeth Franck 9/09/02 12:00am

Angry Art Dealer Schachter Builds West Village ‘Bilbao’

Forty-year-old art dealer Kenny Schachter took in the Spartan splendor of his new Greenwich Village art gallery and smiled an infectious smile. Uptown in Chelsea, and on the East Side, things were looking grim. From Mr. Schachter’s perspective, the mood reminded him of the early 90′s, when scores of galleries went bankrupt and hundreds of Read More

By NYO Staff 4/09/01 12:00am

Henry Kissinger’s Crush on Oprah

Henry the K Loves O

The Literacy Partners cocktail party at Le Cirque 2000 on March 28 was slogging along on a damp mixture of limp handshakes, soggy crabcakes and Dewar’s when a young woman in black exclaimed: “Whoa! Isn’t that, like, um, the evilest man on Earth?”

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Read More