It’s hard to leave home if your dad is the billionaire Mayor of New York, especially if he has a 7,500-square-foot Beaux-Arts townhouse on East 79th Street. But 27-year-old Emma Bloomberg needn’t worry: According to city records, she and her new husband have paid $2.45 million for a Tribeca condo. It’s an artsy loft with Read More
Dennis Foy is a difficult guy to pin down. A pioneer of New American Cuisine in the late 70’s, he’s spent the last 30 years shuttling between restaurants in New York City and New Jersey. In the late 80’s, he opened Mondrian in midtown (with Tom Colicchio as sous chef), and in the 90’s, he Read More
The Observer‘s crackerjack media reporter (and former Manhattan Transfers columnist) Michael Calderone this week reported on New York magazine’s likely move from Midtown to (gasp!) Hudson Square.
“Our lease is up in September,” said a New York spokesperson. “So we are exploring a number of different options for a space, including negotiating with Read MoreYou periodically hear rumors that New York’s iconic petty extortionist, the Squeegee Man, has reemerged at this park crossing or that tunnel entrance, but I don’t think I’d actually seen one since sometime in the 1990s.
There he was though yesterday, a wiry guy in a checked shirt, working the line of cars Read More
As most farmers know, the surest way to cure a sheep dog from chasing chickens is to tie him up in a bag with a dead one for a couple of hours. Similarly, I hoped that an evening in a noisy, smoke-filled room among yuppies puffing away with their ties flung over their shoulders might Read More
