By Matt Chaban 3/08/12 10:40am

Dust Bin

An original floorplan—so much space!

Huguette Clark’s Massive Home Has a Broker, Smaller Price Tag—Only $45 M. to $60 M.

For almost a year now, Upper East Side brokers have been falling all over themselves to win the right to sell mysterious mining heiress Huguette Clark’s massive Fifth Avenue spread, with its 42 rooms and estimated price tag of $60 million to $70 million. Well, the battle is over, and now that people have actually seen the place, they are not sure it is worth quite so much. Who’s to blame? Those pesky co-op boards, of course. Read More

By Emily Witt 10/26/11 8:00am

orthography

Greenman, spelling champion.

Ben Greenman Beats Nancy Franklin and Jonathan Burnham in Literary Spelling Bee, Occupies Alphabet

The contestants represented New York’s spelling elite. Many of them had whole careers’ worth of spelling behind them, elevated reputations and steady salaries underpinned by the public’s faith in their agility with words.

Now, sitting in two rows before an audience on the third floor of the Standard Hotel, wearing comically large name tags and sparkly bumblebee antennae that bobbled gently as they fidgeted, they awaited the bloodletting. Read More

By Matt Haber 12/01/08 5:29pm

Happy Tina Fey Day!

What else do you call a day when the comedic actress and writer is seemingly everywhere all at once?

First up, Vanity Fair, which enlisted The Times‘ Maureen Dowd to profile Ms. Fey, whom the magazine’s cover trumpets as "A New American Sweetheart!" (Punctuation theirs.) The magazine’s Web site also features one of Read More