By Stephen Jacob Smith 4/22 7:04pm

Manhattan Transfers

With an in-home diet that's "95 percent raw," we doubt Ms. Huss will be getting much use from the oven and microwave.

Ten-dollar Juices Buy Erica Huss a $2.25 M. Pad At One Brooklyn Bridge Park

What does a $65-a-day juice habit buy you? As a consumer, you might not come away with much more than hunger pangs and the ability to fit into your old high school clothes if you keep it up for long enough. If you’re juice purveyor Erica Huss, co-founder of Blueprint Cleanse, on the other hand, it buys quite a bit: a $2.25 million waterfront condo in Brooklyn Heights, to be exact.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses may be gone, but the suspension-of-disbelief remains: Ms. Huss just picked up a massive two-bedroom-plus-den at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to city records. Read More

By Hunter Walker 4/11/12 10:33am

Politics

Illustration: Jason Seiler

Run, Rabbi, Run! Shmuley Boteach Goes From Neverland to Capitol Hill

“One thing about smart cars, there’s no room for error,” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach said as he piloted his 99-inch-long convertible along 10th Avenue. “I’m a little person, I like little things,” he said cheerily.

Mr. Boteach took directions from a GPS system as we zipped across Manhattan to the Lincoln Tunnel last week. Our window was at bumper level with the surrounding traffic as the rabbi made the sharp turns and tight maneuvers required for escaping Midtown. Wearing a Bluetooth headset and juggling a pair of cell phones to maximize his multitasking, Mr. Boteach said he often takes calls on the move. When he’s not driving, he opts for a much larger headset that offers better reception.

“It’s military grade,” Mr. Boteach tells us. “It’s like a landline.”

Always a busy man, the rabbi balances his career as a widely published author and Oprah-approved spiritual guru with a family of nine children and the daily demands of religious worship.

Now he’s running for Congress. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 8/29/11 3:06pm

Manhattan Transfers

176 Perry Street (Photo from StreetEasy)

Bob Giraldi, Michael Jackson’s Director on ‘Beat It,’ Sells in Richard Meier’s 176 Perry

The director of Michael Jackson’s 1980s touchstone “Beat It” video has sold his West Village condo for $7.35 million. Bob Giraldi, who also directed the infamous Pepsi commercial in which MJ’s hair caught fire, has since moved on to different things, co-founding online mag StarChefs.com with co-producer and co-signer on the Perry Street deed, Patti Greaney. Read More

By Richard Siklos 6/23/10 12:58am

Year 1 A.M. (After Michael)

Do you remember where you were when you heard that Michael Jackson died?

That’s a retro question nowadays-the kind of thing that is earnestly said about John Lennon or Elvis Presley. For this generation, obviously, the answer is: You were at your computer and read it on TMZ. It’s hard to believe that a Read More

By Max Abelson 2/11/10 7:27pm

The Observer 100 Index: Week Four

One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it. We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. Sadly, last week was atrocious: By Friday, despite unexpectedly nice news about unemployment, the Dow Read More

By Rex Reed 1/06/10 12:59am

Farewell My Lovelies

When it comes to goodbyes, 2009 was catastrophic. So before we bid adios to the old man with the scythe and welcome the new kid with his year to grow, let’s retrieve the rest of the leftover New Year’s Eve bubbly from the back shelf of the fridge and drink one last toast to the Read More

By Christopher Rosen 10/30/09 1:00pm

Opening This Weekend: This Is Thriller Night!

When Zack and Miri Make A Porno and The Haunting of Molly Hartley could only combine for just over $15 million in box office grosses on this weekend last year, Hollywood learned a harsh lesson: don’t open movies on Halloween! In an effort to rectify that error in judgment, this Halloween we’re being treated to Read More