While murmurs of a downturn contort brokers’ usually plasticene enthusiasm for the state of the real-estate market, Kelly Ripa continues to smile and rake it in as though it’s all just a bad dream grown-ups have.
Last summer, the perky talk-show host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, bought a Soho duplex for $9.5 million. It Read More
Oct. 8, 2005
5:21 p.m.
8 pounds, 13 ounces
Tisch Hospital
Mama look a boo-boo! Though he was named in part for folk singer Woody Guthrie, this little boy enjoys bouncing around his Stuyvesant Town one-bedroom to the tunes of calypso singer Harry Belafonte, balanced on the hip of mother Leah Kalotay, 33, a freelance Read More
In the late 1950’s, Harry Belafonte was on top of the world. In 1956, he had recorded the album Calypso—the first ever to sell over one million copies—and had ignited a Jamaican music craze. Awards, accolades, celebrity and its attendant glamour followed in spades.
But none of this was enough to impress a landlord on Read More
In the late 1950’s, Harry Belafonte was on top of the world. In 1956, he had recorded the album Calypso—the first ever to sell over one million copies—and had ignited a Jamaican music craze. Awards, accolades, celebrity and its attendant glamour followed in spades.
But none of this was enough to impress a landlord on Read More
Michael Calderone waxes nostalgic about pre-Civil Rights Act Manhattan, when the Upper West Side was cheap, and its landlords discriminatory. Rejected by the owner of a 13-story building, Harry Belafonte bought the entire thing and turned it into a co-op. The Calypso singer is asking $15 million for his 21-room, 8-bedroom apartment now–Diego Rivera Read More
Arianna Huffington will be trying on Freddy Ferrer’s old platform as the guest of honor (along with Harry Belafonte) at the Drum Major Institute’s annual benefit on June 8.
Testing the waters, perhaps? That blog isn’t working out so well…
(Yes, Monday is the day on which we float improbable rumors. Read More
