A downtown mix of artists and fashion-world people gathered at the Bowery Hotel Thursday night. Their excuse? ART ROCKS, a benefit for the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. It was said that Rolling Stone Keith Richards would be "toasting" his daughter Alexandra, an artist-model who had a piece in in the silent auction, but he never Read More
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, the post-work crowd on 42nd Street was treated to a procession of coquettish cocktail dresses and floor-sweeping evening gowns worn by Manhattan’s uptown set as they exited their chauffeured cars–or pedicabs as we saw in Read More
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
Hip-hop court jester Flavor Flav may be the newest reality-TV sensation (see The Surreal Life and Strange Love, if you can stomach it) but one person isn’t buying the act: Chuck D, Flav’s former comrade in the seminal rap group Public Enemy.
“You gotta understand, when somebody says, ‘Yo, yo, what do you think of Read More
TENANTS CAN’T TOLERATE ONE MORE MOLDING GOING IN $14.5 MILLION CONDO Back in January, Howard Solomon, the chairman of Forest Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company, signed a contract to buy a $14.5 million condominium at 817 Fifth Avenue for his son, David Solomon. The apartment–a triplex maisonette–had been put on the market in late October by Read More
