Big Yin Buys Big Apartment for $3.85 M.

Despite his illustriously shaggy hair and dirty mouth, sexagenarian Scottish comedian Billy Connolly isn’t (yet) a humor icon in America. Maybe that will change for New Yorkers: He and his wife Pamela, a comedienne turned psychotherapist, have bought an apartment in the Flatiron district.

According to city records, they paid $3.85 million for a 10th-story Read More

Being Spike Jonze

Indie-darling filmmaker Spike Jonze just bought an apartment at the Forward Building—the new Lower East Side condo that’s turned from a center of lefty Yiddish culture into a home for hip Hollywood.

According to the deed, Mr. Jonze paid $2,647,450.

What distinguishes his 2,590-square-foot eighth-floor apartment?

“Slamming river views,” said celebrity broker Michael Bolla, who’s Read More