By Kim Velsey 8/14/12 10:15am

Manhattan Transfers

Not a lot of visual noise going on here.

Pump Up the Volume! Harman CEO Dinesh Paliwal Buys Pad At the Plaza

Greenwich can be lovely: it’s quiet. The houses are huge. The lawns come in lush expanses rather than pots or postage stamps. But it’s too quiet for some, or at least Dinesh Paliwal wanted a richer soundscape than what the tony suburb had to offer.

Mr. Paliwal, the president and CEO of audio systems giant Harman International, has purchased a two-bedroom, 2.5-bath apartment at the Plaza, according to city records. He and wife Ila are either picking up a new pied-a-terre or getting the hell out of the suburbs altogether. Read More

By Kim Velsey 7/19/12 11:31am

Manhattan Transfers

Going to the suburbs.

Elisabeth and Tim Hasselbeck Sell UWS Condo At a Loss, Flee To The Suburbs

We all knew this moment would come—after all, what was conservative View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck doing on the Upper West Side in the first place? Now she and ex-NFL-er husband Tim Hasselbeck have finally offloaded their four-bedroom condo at Ariel West, Gary Barnett’s glassy tower at 245 West 99th Street.

Sure, the couple took a loss on the place. They paid $3.3 million for the condo in 2008 and only got $3.1 million in this sale, city records show. But at least they got out! The couple is moving to Greenwich, Conn. with their three children, where they can count on a backyard, a three-story house and at least a few neighbors who have similar political leanings. Read More

By Foster Kamer 11/29/11 7:35pm

AS SEEN ON FACEBOOK!

Greg Skidmore, Asset Manager, Lottery Winner, Facebook user.

Lottery-Winning Greenwich Asset Manager Sees ‘Excitement’ in Occupy Greenwich Movement

It’s a story practically tailored to inflame the current climate of frustration towards the financial sector cultivated by the Occupy Wall Street movement. On Monday, news broke of Greg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson together winning a record-breaking $254.2 Powerball jackpot off of a single Connecticut lottery ticket. This wouldn’t be much for the press if the trio weren’t wealth managers employed by the Greenwich-based Belpointe Asset Management, which, of course, they are. Read More