“Wrestlers are tenacious, hard-working, no-nonsense, tough SOBs,” Fortress Investment Group principal Mike Novogratz told The Observer over the telephone last Monday. It was the beginning of a hectic week. In one corner, Spanish banks were teetering their way to a fresh round of European bailouts. In the other, looming Greek elections led headline writers to Read More
As the Manhattan Borough President’s race heads into its hectic final days, a couple of real estate tidbits pass across the radar.
For one, longshot former Council Member Stan Michels is circulating a press release attacking frontrunner Scott Stringer for accepting, by his tally, more than $200,000 from people involved in the real Read More
SIDNEY KIMMEL SECURES CONDO AT 50 C.P.S. FOR $29 MILLLION There are six full-floor apartments still up for grabs atop the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 50 Central Park South. They start at $21 million and 5,800 square feet, but so far, no one seems to be getting nervous–least of all Sidney Kimmel.
Mr. Kimmel, the Read More
Once upon a time, the hotel life in Manhattan was for eccentrics-pampered people with gads of money who felt more at home in a home away from home. It was for Cole Porter and Solomon Guggenheim and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Today, it’s for everybody willing to pay to have their life catered by Jean Georges-even Read More
