Aging New York literati may still be praying for a savior to swoop in and save Elaine’s, but Graydon Carter will not be making any eleventh-hour power purchases.
The Upper East Side ink-stained parlor announced it would close this Thursday, May 26, pouring its last martini nearly 50 years after the pugnacious and huge-hearted Read More
A couple of weeks ago, The Observer got wind that Upper East Side legend Elaine Kaufman’s 86th Street co-op was going to be sold. Or was it?
In her will, Kaufman left the two-bedroom penthouse, where she lived for 25 years, to Elaine’s restaurant manager, Diane Becker, sources confirmed. But co-executors Ms. Becker and her Read More
Elaine Kaufman had 400 custom-made dresses and ran a restaurant internationally famed for a heady sort of Upper East Side glamour. Her penthouse around the corner was comparatively unremarkable.
Kaufman, who died in December, left her eponymous restaurant at 88th Street and Second Avenue to its manager, Diane Becker. But her 86th Street co-op could Read More
