Everybody Loves Eliot

Spitzer got up early today.

He was jogging out of Central Park and onto Madison Avenue at six in the morning when he ran into some journalists. He joked to a CBS reporter that the closer he came to being governor, the more people told him what to do.

He showed up at the school Read More

Events for September 9-10, 2006

Tomorrow, Hillary Clinton joins Eliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, David Paterson, and Alan Hevesi as “the labor ticket” to kick off the Labor Day Parade and Primary Day GOTV. The presser starts at 10:30 and the fun kicks off from Fifth Ave and 44th Street.

Unite Here representatives endorse Hillary Clinton at 45th Street between Madison Read More

[em]The Times[/em] on Ralph Lauren on Madison


Ralph likes Madison

The Times‘ critical shopper Alex Kuczynski waxes philosophical about Ralph Lauren’s voracious appetite for that WASPy block of Madison between 71st and 72nd.

Who knew things had gotten so bad “in the last couple of years”? Who knew the Episcopalians were resisitng? Who knew Joan Didion cared?

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Café Infidélité

The Affair Restaurant is the setting—or one of the settings—for that stage of adultery that comes after the relationship is no longer just about screwing and before it is later again just about screwing.

And so the quintessential Affair Restaurant always feels comfortably familiar during a fraught, ankle-tangling supper at the bar, but then Read More

Upper East Side Getting Green (and Leafy)

Last night, Community Board 8 approved plans for two new greenmarkets on the Upper East Side. The first, at P.S. 6, on East 81st Street between Madison and Park, still needs approval from the school’s principal and custodian, and then authorization from the city’s Department of Education. The second, at St. Stephen of Hungary Read More

A Dress Appears, As If In A Dream….

LAURIE: I made my once-yearly visit to Barneys the other day. Or rather, I made my once-yearly visit to the 8th floor, a.k.a. Barneys Co-Op, a.k.a the only floor on which I do not get the sense that they are calling security on me–me with my broken-zippered windbreaker and the slight, sweaty sheen I get Read More

Showhouse Flipper Strikes Again


Flip this!

Recently, it seemed that almost every townhouse on the block of East 67th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues was up for grabs.

Last month (yes, now that we’ve moved down to the Flatiron District we don’t get up there as often as we should), The Real Estate strolled the tony Read More

The Revolution Begins— On the Upper East Side!

Chalk one up for the evildoers: A man told the police that he was walking past 203 East 89th Street at 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 1 when he spotted a political protest in progress. A male, described as approximately 18 years old, 5-foot-8, 120 pounds and with short black hair, was scrawling “Bush sucks cock” Read More

Enlightened Self-Interest

Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2005 *
To:* *444 Madison *
Subject:* from Adam Moss

everybody,

i am happy to announce that ben wasserstein will soon be joining our staff. as many of you know, ben is now an associate editor of vitals, where he helps edit/assign all the text (there’s more of it Read More