The opulent Upper East Side duplex owned
by Tyco International that had been home to its former chief executive, L. Dennis
Kozlowski, has gone to contract, according to a real-estate source familiar
with the proceedings. The apartment, in the exclusive limestone co-op at 950
Fifth Avenue, carried a $24.95 million asking price and was being Read More
On Feb. 20, the duplex co-op at 950 Fifth Avenue owned by former Tyco International chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski had $3 million slashed off its stratospheric $28 million asking price, as the lavish residence failed to interest potential buyers since it hit the market in November, brokers close to the apartment said.
Mr. Kozlowski Read More
If the 90′s were all about excess, the 2000′s are all about putting excess on trial. And with this wave, as with the last one, innocent people are getting caught in the middle. I’m talking, of course, about New York jurors, the people who once enjoyed easygoing, dim-sum-filled jury duties as a brief respite from Read More
Here’s what we already liked about North Korean Kim Jong Il : those chipmunk cheeks, that Wayne Newton pouf of hair, that Prince Hal-ish, starved-for-respect nuclear aggression. Here’s what we really like: He shows up early for photo shoots. Kim arrived on set more than half an hour before schedule accompanied by his niece, Kimmie-a Read More
The daughter of late shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos is listing her father’s old apartment at 820 Fifth Avenue for upwards of $25 million. Mr. Niarchos, who spent decades engaged in a game of professional and personal one-upmanship with shipping rival Aristotle Onassis, died in 1996 from a stroke. His daughter, Maria, took possession of the Read More
TEN-ROOM PAD FACING THE PARK SELLS WITHOUT HELP FROM NEIGHBOR Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Sklar are still trying to schedule a move into the Beresford, a 22-story Emery Roth building at 211 Central Park West. So is the would-be buyer of another apartment in the same building, the one formerly owned by Sesame Street co-creator Read More
MEANWHILE, DELL HAS BROKER COMBING MANHATTAN FOR HIM Stephen Schwartzman pleaded his case to the co-op board of 740 Park Avenue at 4 P.M. on April 10. If things went well for the financier, he would become the heir to the historied 34-room triplex apartment once owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and being passed Read More
