Tragically, the Rockefellers didn’t make it into The Observer‘s
The Brown Harris Stevens listing–which is now offline–clocks the apartment at 11.5 rooms, and brags that the place was renovated by high-brow classicist
Don’t expect any last-minute attacks on Hillary Clinton from John Spencer in these waning days of the campaign.
“We’re running a campaign on principles,” Spencer’s spokesman Rob Ryan told me. “We’re talking about issues that are core republican issues, and we’re talking about Senator Clinton’s failure to properly serve the people of New York.” Read More
As an Iranian-American artist who was effectively exiled from her homeland, Shirin Neshat was happy to be included in an exhibition of artists from the Islamic world. But when the opportunity came—Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking opened at the Museum of Modern Art on Feb. 26—Ms. Neshat was upset.
Without Boundary is the Read More
Michael Bloomberg is not a man who confuses the trappings of power for power. But on the eve of his re-election, as he stood on the observation deck on the Empire State Building, at the top of the city, the symbolism of his mastery was irresistible. The new Bloomberg L.P. tower stood out behind him; Read More
Since his early withdrawal from the 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Andrew Cuomo has been reaching out to old adversaries and devoting himself and his campaign war chest to rallying opposition to the death penalty and the Rockefeller drug laws.
But as the 2006 statewide elections draw closer, that relatively low-profile work is taking on added significance Read More
The stirrings around the Republican nomination to face, probably, Eliot Spitzer, are growing, and it looks like a three-way contest: Tom Golisano, Bill Weld, and some wild-card tycoon — in the wildest fantasies of GOP insiders, make it Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons.
First, here’s some unexpected news from the AP:
Tom Golisano says Read More
As a first-time candidate for public office in 2001, Michael Bloomberg said that the Mayor should have control over all public-transportation projects in the five boroughs, much like the control he sought, and won, over the city’s schools. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a Politburo-like behemoth designed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1967 as a way Read More
For the first time in more than a century, there are no Republican legislators on the island of Manhattan.
In a campaign that remained in the balance for days after Election Day, Democrat Jonathan Bing, a 32-year-old lawyer, is all but certain to prevail over Republican Gail Hilson, a former cosmetics executive, in a little-noticed Read More
I’ve probably spent more time
in dancing school than anyone since Arthur Murray-not recently, but when I was
a kid. It started in second grade, when my parents sent me to John Barclay’s
dancing classes at the Colony Club. I remember little of the experience. I’ve
successfully managed to block it out in that miraculous Read More
It seemed, at first, to happen as an afterthought. Trouble with contractors–and lawyers–kept developer Alfred Taubman from delivering apartments in the converted office building at 838 Fifth Avenue on schedule. And those who had bought the apartments–including Charles Bronfman, the chief executive at Seagram’s, who’d plunked down $18 million for a 5,500-square-foot duplex in October Read More
