By Kim Velsey 11/27/12 8:59am

Manhattan Transfers

Attractive but not entirely warm or convincing. The perfect pad for Harrison Ford?

Harrison Ford Finally Finds a Buyer for His Pricey Chelsea Condo

Who knew that locating a buyer for a $16 million loft conversion in Chelsea would be as hard as finding the Ark of the Covenant? Indiana Jones, a.k.a. Harrison Ford, has certainly had a lot of trouble pinning down buyers for his four-bedroom, 4.5-bath spread at 206 West 17th Street.

The actor first listed his 5,664-square-foot condo for $16 million back in December 2010. Now, some two years later, Mr. Ford is finally in contract, according to the Olshan Luxury Market report. Certainly, it’s not the longest time a property has lingered on the market. But let’s face it, this place was not moving at the speed of light, or even the speed of a competently-wielded light saber. Read More

By Matt Chaban and Elise Knutsen 10/28/11 11:30am

Machers

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Madonna, 152 East 81st Street

Dirty Old Men Downtown: 10 Uptown Guys in Search of Love and a Decent Loft

Earlier this week, the Village got a new neighbor: Alec Baldwin bought a new downtown home at Devonshire House, taking over the massive duplex penthouse. He appears to be making room in the city’s hipper environs for his new girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas, who will likely prefer the neighborhood to his previous home in the star-studded 300 Central Park West.

It’s a well-worn path. Indeed, Mr. Baldwin is only the latest in a line of older uptown dudes to to head downtown in search of love. Read More

By Rex Reed 7/26/11 7:13pm

movies

Ford and Craig.

Cowboys & Aliens Plays High Camp at High Noon

Cowboys & Aliens is one of the silliest movies ever made, but so many otherwise serious people have attached their names to it that, as Arthur Miller wrote in Death of a Salesman, attention must be paid. Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard are among the tangle of producers whose credits stretch from here to the Read More

By Rex Reed 2/24/09 6:12pm

Not Born in the U.S.A.

Crossing Over
Running time 113 minutes
Written and directed by Wayne Kramer
Starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Alice Eve, Alice Braga, Cliff Curtis, Jim Sturgess, Summer Bishil

Crossing Over is another of those multilayered movies with myriad plots cross-cut editorially in ways that sometimes seem confusing until Read More