By Elise Knutsen 8/16/11 6:48pm

Shindigger

Baldwin and Schumer.

Art and Auction in East Hampton

The swans in Town Pond paddled on serenely, unfazed by the crowds filing up James Lane toward Guild Hall. The birds, evidently, are accustomed to such revelry. The event, last Saturday, was a celebration of Richard Prince’s exhibition “Covering Pollock,” currently on display at the Hall’s gallery. The work, Mr. Prince’s latest, consists of black-and-white photographs of Jackson Pollock obscured by images of models, ’80s punk stars and various forms of old-school erotica. Inside, groups of curious viewers—some of them peering over their spectacles at the prints—made polite banter about the graphic images. Read More

By Mark Wellborn 9/05/07 9:21pm

It Was The Summer of Big Deals!

The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper.

But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real estate, the summer of 2007 was one of the Read More

By Max Abelson 5/30/07 12:43am

New York, Straight Up and Neat

Location: As an heir to the Bronfman family’s Seagram liquor fortune, you could kick back on an island somewhere for the rest of your life. Why go into real estate?

Bronfman: Real estate is very creative, it’s very exciting, it’s challenging—it defines skylines. It’s very interesting; there’s a lot of stuff that goes into Read More

By Anna Schneider-Mayerson 5/09/07 1:25am

The Battle of Bronfman

You’d hardly think that a relatively small Jewish philanthropic organization could be worth all the fuss.

But for two American-Jewish dynasties who covet control of the World Jewish Congress, the Bronfmans and the Lauders, Monday, May 7, will go down as the day that saw one family’s ambitions collapse in a heap, while another’s Read More

By Staff 5/07/07 9:43pm

Report: Edgar Bronfman Sr. Steps Down from Post at World Jewish Congress

Following months of turmoil, Seagram’s heir Edgar Bronfman Sr. has stepped down as president of the World Jewish Congress, a post he occupied for nearly 30 years, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports.

In March, following a prolonged investigation into the organization’s activities by the New York State Attorney General’s office, Mr. Bronfman fired Read More

By Anna Schneider-Mayerson 5/07/07 5:28pm

Memo from Old Rumsfeld Aide May Sink Bronfman Heir

The World Jewish Congress, the influential Jewish organization headed by billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr., has been on the brink of self-destruction for several years. Since 2004, when allegations of financial mismanagement by one of the organization’s most venerable leaders sparked an investigation by the New York Attorney General, the organization has been plagued by internal Read More

By Blair Golson 10/13/03 12:00am

White Elephants Crash

When Woody Allen put his massive East 92nd Street townhouse on the market for the ungodly sum of $27 million two weeks ago, he was throwing a Hail Mary pass in an arena that hasn’t been particularly kind to trophy properties recently.

In the last two months, Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. took his $40 Read More

By Blair Golson 8/05/02 12:00am

Burden Sells Party Pad

Manhattan socialites will soon have one more fabulous address to scratch out of their black books: Susan Burden, widow of the businessman, politician and Vanderbilt heir Carter Burden, has put her stately 11-room co-op at 1020 Fifth Avenue on the market for $23.5 million.

The apartment was famously redone in the 1980′s by elite design Read More

By Carmela Ciuraru 10/18/99 12:00am

Charles Bronfman Buys 838 Fifth Penthouse From Alfred Taubman

Just weeks after his nephew Edgar Bronfman Jr. incensed company employees by posing for The New York Times inside his $4.4 million (plus three years’ worth of renovations) town house at 15 East 64th Street, Seagram Company Ltd. co-chairman Charles Bronfman has signed a contract to pay close to $18 million for a duplex penthouse Read More