After taking a spill from her horse and being dumped by her boyfriend while bedridden, the mayor's younger daughter has just bought a new apartment, according to The Times.

Ms. Bloomberg has landed at 101 Central Park West, the stately 1930 neighbor to the twin-turreted Majestic. The Gray Lady reports that she "paid 'very close' to the $4.15 million asking price on the three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment" in the building.

The paper also notes that Ms. Bloomberg looked at more than 150 apartments before settling on this one. Fastidiousness must run in the family...

According to a StreetEasy listing, which went into contract in July and slipped off the market on November 5, the old apartment has been newly updated "by one of New York's premier interior designers." There are double-pane thermal windows, new appliances and fixtures, all with well preserved prewar details, such as "Oak herringbone walnut-stained hardwood floors and beautiful large custom Mahogany doors in every room."

The news that Ms. Bloomberg has left Soho, where she moved in 2008, is intriguing. Perhaps she is growing up--there is certainly room to start a family in this 2,100-square-foot palace fit for a princess--or maybe she just wanted to be closer to daddy.

Not too close of course, he's still across the park. 

The sellers, James Mitchell and Marcy Meier Braselton, bought the apartment in 2004 for $2.8 million, according to city records. They were represented by Corcoran's Deanna Kory and Meghan Kelly. According to the Times, Ms. Bloomberg's brokers were Dennis Mangone and Tim Nelson of Brown Harris Stevens.

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Mayor Bloomberg's daughter gave an exclusive interview to the New York Post in which she revealed that her boyfriend, Joey Cheek, dumped her four days after she was injured in a nasty equestrian accident Nov. 5. 

"The guy I was totally in love with decided that now would be an appropriate time to break up with me, which took me by surprise … I'm really surprised anyone would be so insensitive as to do it while I am down and out," Bloomberg said.

Cheek, 31, is a speedskater who medaled at the Winter Olympics in 2002 and 2006. He currently attends Princeton University. 

Bloomberg is currently healing from both her physical and mental injuries. She told the Post that she was taking a brief "mental-health break" in Manhattan for a night before returning to the Bloomberg family farm in Westchester County. In spite of the "insensitive" circumstances of their breakup, Bloomberg seems to be on relatively good terms with Cheek. 

"We'll probably be friends at some point down the line," she told the Post.

Cheek would do well to make nice with Bloomberg. It's never a good idea to anger a woman who has the ear of the tabloids. 

As of this writing, Cheek has not responded to a request for comment from The Observer. 

Georgina Bloomberg, who is 27-years-old, is a professional show jumper. She was hurt Friday night when her saddle came loose and she was tossed from her horse, which is appropriately named Radio City.

Although, she was briefly knocked unconscious, the young Bloomberg was able to walk out of the arena where the event was held on her own, According to her publicist, Kenneth Kraus, Bloomberg didn't go to the hospital until Saturday morning.

"It wasn't until the following morning that she had back pain and went to the hospital … I talked to her yesterday. She said her head was fine," Kraus told the Associated Press on Sunday.

Mayor Bloomberg's spokesman Stu Loeser also sent e-mailed a statement to the AP.

"The mayor is very concerned, as any father would be," Loeser said.

In the past, Mayor Bloomberg has encouraged his daughter's equestrian career. We'll see if this accident doesn't encourage the Mayor, who has been so protective of New Yorkers with his bans on smoking and fatty foods, to change his tune about his daughter's dangerous horseback riding habit.

When we happened upon the Mayor's youngest daughter, 27-year-old Georgina Bloomberg, we congratulated her on another formidable equestrian season -- Ms. Bloomberg took home $30,000 last month after winning the Bluegrass Festival Grand Prix in Kentucky. Did she have any time to follow the midterm elections between horse shows?

"I follow it as much as I have to, but I tend to stay out of politics as much as I possibly can," Ms. Bloomberg said. "I think as a politician's daughter, I have more of a sensitive side to it, and I sympathize a little bit more with them as people, not politicians. And it's hard to kind of watch that and see the negative ads, and things like that -- I don't just see the politicians, I see their families, and I see the way it affects their kids or their wives." Sounds reasonable to us!

In the spirit of the cause, multiple notables came prepped with their best doggie tales. American Ballet Theater principal Marcelo Gomes, who took the stage later in the evening with his dachshund, Lua, told us a slightly harrowing one: "I once pulled on my dog's tail really, really hard, and it broke. Well, it fractured," he said, which didn't seem much in keeping with the night's program. How long ago did this happen? "I was very, very young. I didn't know my strength at that moment. But it healed, thank God, and we're all very happy," Mr. Gomes said. "I was crying for about, like, a month or so." Thank goodness he's channeling his strength more productively these days.

Socialite and Interview magazine contributor Fabiola Beracasa currently owns three "death-row" dogs, whom she rescued from being euthanized at the eleventh hour. She promised to tell us a lighthearted anecdote about one in particular, Savannah, but it started out on a rather sobering note: "His temperament is, he's just the nicest dog in the world. And he had been shot in the mouth," she explained, then insisted, "This is a funny story!" And it was, eventually! Apparently Savannah needed to have a metal fixture put into his jaw for a few months to stabilize it while it healed. "So I'm walking down the street with my dog Savannah, who looks like Lady Gaga, because he's got this thing, right?" Ms. Beracasa continued.

"And I run into Terry Richardson, who I know... and he's like, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of your crazy Lady Gaga dog?' and I said sure. And then I'm flipping through French Vogue a few months later, and there's my crazy Lady Gaga dog, in French Vogue!" Ms. Beracasa laughed. "I told you it was worth it. So I run into Terry and I'm like, 'So listen. I've been trying to get into French Vogue my whole life!'"

French Vogue, listen up: it must be noted that Ms. Beracasa looked stunning in a knockout silver-spangled Valentino minidress with a bolero blazer covering her shoulders. "It's like a really strapless dress, and I believe in only showing one body part at once, at a time, you know?" Ms. Beracasa said. "A long sleeve, a short skirt, or vice versa. You know who taught me that? Margherita Missoni's a really good friend of mine, and her grandmother told her that." (Margherita's grandmother is Rosita Missoni, who co-founded the eponymous clothing line in the 1950s with her husband, Vittorio. We'd take her sartorial advice, too.)

The musician and committed animal-rights activist Moby, who emceed the event, insisted he had the best dog story of all. "When I was about ten years old, I was walking by my town dump in Darien, Connecticut... And I heard a little mew. And I looked in a box and in this box were five dead kittens who were about ten days old, and one barely-alive kitten," Moby explained. "So I picked up this barely-alive kitten, eyes closed, just mewing, and I ran home. My mom and I took it to the vet, and the vet said, 'Look, don't get attached to this cat, because he's very young, he's very sick, he won't survive.' And so we took him home, prepared for the cat to die. And our dachshund, George, became the mother to the cat and nursed the cat back to health... Where literally like, the cat would pee and poo all over itself, George would clean it up."

"So George became the cat's mom, and the cat lived to be 19 years old," he finished triumphantly. Awww.

Conan sells his Central Park West penthouse. [NYDN]

Wired releases much-ballyhooed iPad app. [NYT]

Peru frees New Yorker after 14 years. [NYT] 

Would-be subway hero flees the scene at Union Square. [NYT]

Silver proposes "millionaire tax" hike. [NYP]

Despite criticism, Facebook's doing fine. [BloombergBusinessweek]

Georgina Bloomberg wins $75,000 in horse race. [NYP]  

Want to buy a walrus penis? Fish and Wildlife knows a guy. [WSJ]

Wonkette loses a blogger to Gawker. [Village Voice]

Books with Barbra: Streisand speaks at BEA; meanwhile Houghton Mifflin Harcourt plans a bio. [NYP]

ABC Family will rerun Friday Night Lights! [WSJ]

Too Big to Fail is in the running for the U.K.'s biggest nonfiction prize. [Bloomberg]

The quote was pulled out of an upcoming profile of Ms. Bloomberg in Page Six Magazine, to be published Sunday. But it also prompted a question: What do we really know about the young Ms. Bloomberg?

We've read things over the years about her being a professional equestrian and, oh yes, she was part of Jamie Johnson's Born Rich documentary. But unlike, say, Ivanka Trump, we haven't exactly come to think of Ms. Bloomberg as a socialite, making appearances at everything from benefits and galas to movie premieres and sneaker launches. 

Here's a little guide to Ms. Bloomberg to prepare you for whatever else her Sunday profile might disclose. 

1. Most recently, she has been linked to Irish show-jumping star Cian O'Connor, 27, whom she met through her trainer. Prior to that, she dated another Irish horseman (also introduced to her by her trainer) named Declan Orpen. 

2. In 2007, Forbes named Ms. Bloomberg the fourth most intriguing billionaire heiress; she was outranked by Marta Ortega Perez, daughter of fashion entrepreneur Amancio Ortega; Delphine Arnault Gancia, daughter of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault; and Vanisha Mittal Bhatia, daughter of Indian industrialist Lakshmi Mittal. Ms. Bloomberg is reportedly worth $11.5 billion. 

3. Also in 2007 she told the New York Times about her life plans: "Devote 10 more years to a riding career that has produced two broken collarbones, two broken wrists, two concussions and a broken back along with ample trophies; establish a horse business; marry and start a family by 35." (The girl has a plan!)

4. From the same profile: her nickname is "George."  

5. Ms. Bloomberg spends time with her mother, Susan Brown, at a farmhouse in North Salem, N.Y., and also has apartments in New York City and Wellington, Fla. 

6. In Born Rich, then a 20-year-old Ms. Bloomberg, said, "Having the last name Bloomberg sucks."

7. She has a pierced tongue and once wore a $1600 gown while riding a horse. 

8. Ms. Bloomberg's trainer—the same one who introduced her to Mr. O'Connor—James Doyle, was once accused of abusing a former student, but was acquitted of all charges. The entire Bloomberg family attended the trial and hugged Mr. Doyle when the verdict was announced.

9. She attended—and may still attend—New York University, where she studies "Sports Managament."

10. Ms. Bloomberg started a charity called Rider's Closet in 2006 which collects used riding clothes for collegiate riding teams that are unable to afford them.

Philip Hymes viewed the arrival of the new squire in North Salem, N.Y., in 2001 with some concern. Mr. Hymes, 80, and his wife Virginia live in a low burnt-red wood house whose modest acre of property is enveloped on two sides by a sprawling, 26-acre estate that the Mayor-to-be purchased for $3.65 million in early 2001. The estate, Then called Salem Sunshine Farm, was best known for its connection to a 19th-century circus: The farm lodged the elephants. Now, however, it would be known for horses-Mr. Bloomberg had applied for a permit to keep 20. So Mr. Hymes looked uphill and worried about drainage: Rainwater flows down from the Mayor's hilly estate across Mr. Hymes' property and into his well. And 20 horses produce about a half ton of manure a day.

"If our well is contaminated by urine or feces, our entire property will be ruined," Mr. Hymes and his wife wrote to the North Salem Board of Appeals in a vain attempt to keep the horses out.

Mr. Bloomberg came to North Salem through his equestrian daughter, Georgina, who rode horses at the nearby Old Salem Farm. In February 2001, he closed on Salem Sunshine Farm and promptly renamed it Gotham North. Then he set about transforming it from a quiet country house into a prize property for Georgina and his ex-wife, Susan.

Mr. Hymes, a reedy-voiced man who works as a lighting designer, watched the goings-on up the hill with amazement. His red house looks north up Titicus Road to the estate's main residence, a four-bedroom stone Colonial-style farmhouse. Up the hill and to the south, Mr. Hymes used to see nothing but a small stable, a few sheds and dirt paths.

Then his neighbor's sprawling property was transformed. At the entrance, two stone pillars went up around a discreet, automatic white metal gate and a sign: "Construction Site. Private Property. No Trespassing." The path in from the road was paved all the way up to the stable. Down went five minor structures, and out went the old swimming pool. The only important building left standing on Gotham North was the white farmhouse, which got a $1.5 million renovation.

Then according to records at the North Salem Building Department, Mr. Bloomberg's workers expanded the place's rustic vocabulary to include "cabana" and "gazebo." And not just any cabana, either: This oak-floored beauty comes complete with an office, a wet bar and a plasma television, and stands beside a new, 40-by-20-foot pool, sloping gently from three feet to eight feet deep. The wooden gazebo, christened Sunset Pavilion, was put on a stone base and topped with copper. Landscapers brought in eight new full-grown trees to ring the structure.

What impressed Mr. Hymes most was the care taken of the land itself, an uneven stretch of country fringed with birch and red maple that bends steeply uphill at its southernmost end. International Equestrian Design, a Montreal firm, trucked in 600 cubic yards of mason sand, the fine, clean, soft aggregate found in children's sandboxes. Mixed with polypropylene fiber, the sand provides an ideal, resilient support for horses' hooves. The company also graded the land, mowed the grass and trimmed the hedges.

"It looks like Central Park done over," Mr. Hymes said recently. "It's taken care of like a French villa-there's no money held back and everything is pristine."

These days, Gotham North is regularly described as one of the most beautiful properties in North Salem, a tactful hamlet with no real center that sprawls around the Titicus Reservoir, which is part of the city's watershed. The town's population is just over 5,000, but it's been home to the famous since Ulysses S. Grant moved there after his Presidency. Current residents include David Letterman, who jogs not far from Mr. Bloomberg's house.

Mr. and Mrs. Hymes don't see much of their neighbors, Mr. Bloomberg least of all. The Mayor is, after all, embroiled in the many frustrations of Gotham, the maddening city 50 miles away where nothing ever seems to go as planned. Down in Gotham, Mr. Bloomberg faces the daily frustrations delivered by intransigent unions, silent ferry pilots and disloyal Republicans. The swarming press and ungrateful voters may not have been what the founder of Bloomberg L.P. had in mind when he decided to run for Mayor of New York.

His Mayoralty is far more popular around Gotham North, where both Mr. and Mrs. Hymes, though Democrats, are fans. Last August, the Bloombergs opened the house to neighbors at a benefit for the North Salem Bridle Trails Association. Mrs. Hymes pulled the Mayor aside from the steak, sushi and abundant liquor to tell him, "I think you're doing a great job."

"That makes two of us," Mr. Bloomberg replied.

Even the quiet grandeur of City Hall, with its renovated West Wing, might have a tough time competing with the crown jewel of Gotham North: the stable. Actually, the stable bears a resemblance to City Hall that can probably be dismissed as accidental (although the fact that Mr. Bloomberg owns Gotham North through a Delaware Corporation called Gotham Enterprises L.L.C. makes you wonder if the resemblance isn't deliberate).

With 18,000 square feet on two floors, the stable looks like a somewhat smaller scale model of City Hall, which has 57,000 square feet on three floors, according to the city's Art Commission. Like City Hall, it's a two-story building with a narrow middle section connecting two wings. In place of City Hall's white marble exterior, the stable is painted a shining white and topped with cedar shingles like the other buildings on the grounds. City Hall is topped by a white cupola; the stable's cupola is copper, but it also shines in the sun. And Gotham North's stable-constructed at a cost of $3,084,461-has a bonus: On the second floor are quarters for three grooms. Think how useful these experts in the disposal of horse manure would be around the seat of city government.

As for the occupants, can the members of the City Council-annual salary: $90,000-really compete with a squad of show horses priced at $100,000 and way up? Writing on a Web site two years ago, Georgina Bloomberg, now 20, listed the names of some of her steeds at the time: Rave, Dialog L, New Hope, Diplomacy, Action, Julius, Kahlua and Grand Cru.

A Horde of Horses?

Mr. Hymes wasn't the only one worried about the horses as Mr. Bloomberg negotiated for the house, and the 20-horse permit, in 2000.

Frances Sweeney from up the road wrote to the North Salem Board of Appeals that Mr. Bloomberg's "horde of horses" would mean activities "of a particularly smelly, noisy, unclean and disruptive nature."

Mr. Bloomberg closed the deal with a set of promises. No horse shows. No big lights for riding at night. And a huge, high-tech container on the west side of the stable-away from the Hymes house-to hold the manure while it's waiting to be trucked away.

All that work came at a fairly modest cost by the standards of a man whom Forbes valued at $4.9 billion. Mr. Bloomberg's man in Westchester, David Zublin, has filed papers indicating expenses of at least $6.4 million with the Buildings Department. (Mr. Zublin declined to talk to The Observer about the work. An aide to the Mayor said that Mr. Bloomberg would "burn in hell" before opening up Gotham North to the press.)

After the stable, the most impressive improvement at Gotham North was the "caretaker's cottage," a three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot white structure about the size of Mr. Hymes' house. With its modest, white exterior and shingled roof, the one-and-a-half-story building matches the rest of the estate.

"Even the help live in splendid quarters," said Philippe Radley, another next-door neighbor.

But like Gotham itself, Gotham North has its frustrations. The caretaker's cottage, lovely as it is and built at a cost of $645,000, has apparently been erected in the wrong place.

The cottage now stands roughly at the center of a triangle formed by the main house, the stable and an artificial pond directly up the hill from the Hymes residence. Apparently, it belongs a bit farther west, closer to Titicus Road and away from the horses and the people. But with a small porch over a bit of lattice-work and a door framed by old-fashioned lamps, the building doesn't look terribly mobile.

On Nov. 12, however, Mr. Zublin notified the North Salem Buildings Department that "we would like to move an existing house on the property."

The preliminary estimate of the project's cost is $500,000, but those estimates have a way of swelling-even tripling-at Gotham North. And it won't be an easy job to move the "cottage": There are the roof's cedar shingles to think of, and the tall chimney, and even the little weathercock that points west when the wind blows off the reservoir.

Mr. Hymes hasn't yet gotten word of the plans to move the house.

"It could happen. I would never know," he said.