By Kim Velsey 4/10 9:35am

Rent Checks

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Qaddafi's preferred pied-a-terre

Yours For $30,000 A Month: The UES Townhouse Coveted By Muammar Qaddafi

Dictators tend to be clear about what they like and what they don’t. Besides nukes and Fiats, Col. Muammar Qaddafi very much liked the gilded-age mansion at 5 East 78th Street.

The now-dead Libyan dictator was never able to call the Upper East Side townhouse home after being rebuffed by broker Jason Haber in 2009, but the extravagant space is now back on the market as a $30,000 per month rental.

But don’t let the apartment’s near run-in with a repressive regime dissuade you. It’s no wonder Qaddafi took a a liking to this place! Read More

By Elise Knutsen 1/16 12:43pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

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Quite a grand escalier, if we do say so.

Joan Rivers Relists Ridiculous Apartment

Although Joan Rivers’s Versailles-inspired apartment at 1 East 62nd Street didn’t sell the last time it hit the market, The Queen of Mean has just put her fiercest foot forward, re-listing the place with a significant price hike. Although it flopped in 2009 with a $25 million ask, Ms. Rivers has put the place back Read More

By Joseph Alexiou 3/19/10 9:43pm

Loving the Li’l Ol’ Ladies

The delightful late-career resurgence of Betty White (popular Super Bowl commercial, Facebook campaign for her to host SNL, now scheduled for May 8, Mother’s Day) has got us thinking about other gero-comical women who refuse to rest on their well-earned laurels. Bless them!

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By Em Whitney 2/17/09 3:50am

Events Roundup: Tuesday, February 17, 2009

1:30 p.m. Tim Gunn will screen his new video short: "Fashion Victims," followed by Q&A with P.E.T.A. senior vice president Dan Mathews. At the Bryant Park Hotel screening room, 40 West 40th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

6 p.m. Film presentation on psychiatrist, philosopher and author Frantz Fanon. At Founders Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Read More