Midtown Manhattan: Cheaper Than Hong Kong

NAI Global, a network of some 300 commercial real-estate firms, released an enormous report today (which we hope to link to here shortly in PDF form).

But the highlight appears to be its ranking of the top 10 most expensive markets for retail space in the world. Midtown Manhattan is the only New York market Read More

Thanks, Mates! Down Under, is New Wild West

Australian actors did so well at the Golden Globe Awards that Tom Hanks made Vegemite jokes and Steven Spielberg compared the talent to the British invasion of the 40′s. The Australian press is now predicting more success at the Oscars and playing nervous stage mother to the latest offspring from “Aussiewood”: Naomi Watts, the star Read More

Dingo Dudes Do the Deuce: Aussie Game Boys Invade Times Square

Gary Berman and sidekick Mike Schreiber, aspiring night-life impresarios, were lost.

The pair of South Africans-turned-Australians (who are now trying to turn into Manhattanites) were walking uptown through Times Square. They were looking for the Whiskey Bar in the Paramount Hotel, on West 46th Street. Disoriented, the two took out their Palm Pilots and called Read More