By Kim Velsey 10/11/12 7:59pm

Feuds

National Arts Club apartments will return to the market.

National Arts Club Reclaims Its Real Estate

They don’t look very good right now, but ten Gramercy Park apartments formerly controlled by ex-president Aldon James and his brother John will soon be returning to the market. Relatively soon, that is, following gut renovations that were much-needed after the apartments’ time in the hands of the two hoarders.

Last week, Real Estate Weekly reported that the National Arts Club had finally reached a settlement with the Attorney General’s office allowing it to tidy up the club’s governance, financial controls and the filthy apartments. Today a state appeals court upheld the National Arts Club’s decision to boot the James brothers, the New York Post reported. Read More

By Staff 6/14/06 10:46am

Booker, Booker, Booker

It’s a New York political blog, but it’s worth diverting your attention for a moment to the sweet-smelling state across the river to ponder what Cory Booker managed to do yesterday.

He carried carried six of six council candidates to victory yesterday in Newark’s runoff elections, ensuring that his allies will be sitting in each Read More

By Elisabeth Franck 1/14/02 12:00am

Hauling Off Dozens of Cartons, D.A. Rifles National Arts Club

Friday, Jan. 4, was “artist pick-up day” at the National Arts Club’s Gothic Revival building at 15 Gramercy Park South, the day that some 70 artists-all members of the 104-year-old New York institution-arrived to reclaim their works after the club’s popular annual show of exhibiting members.

When the artists began arriving that morning, however, Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 4/26/99 12:00am

Yale Golden Boy Lures the Big Fish

“I’m too overwhelmed and flattered and touched and on the verge of tears …,” said James Prosek at the Explorers Club on the evening of April 14, and he looked like he meant it. The tall, boyish 23-year-old writer and fish painter was being feted for his third book, The Complete Angler , a literary Read More