Michael Recanati and Ira Statfeld have a problem: The gay power couple that has given tens of thousands of dollars to local and national Democratic causes would like to raise their 10-year-old son, Rafe, in the bucolic Hamptons.
But the boy, who was formerly enrolled at the Dalton School on the Upper East Side and Read More
Remember when being an airline stewardess was chicly and utterly the only thing that mattered, and then one day it wasn’t? Well, guess what? The exact same thing has happened with fashion models. Ten years ago, models were it , and Linda, Christy and Naomi were more iconically potent than Golda Meir, Judy Garland and Read More
The signs appeared a while back on utility poles on and around Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, standing out amid the urgent pleas for lost kittens and $1,500 one-bedrooms. “PLEASE HELP FIND LOST BLANKET,” the red type read. “The blanket is fleece, red, and falling apart because it is very much loved.”
The person behind Read More
The auditorium was only half-filled when the trim and tidy
little man stepped up to the podium at Cablevision headquarters in Bethpage,
Long Island. It was almost 10 a.m., time for the shareholders’ meeting to
commence. “Good morning, everybody. I’m Chuck Dolan, chairman of the
Cablevision Corporation and a director-candidate for Class B shareholders,” he Read More
Not fornicating with your loved one as often as you used to? Need to Jackie Collins up your love life? Maybe it’s time to blow your tax refund on a long, sensual, high-service weekend at the Ocean Club, the latest resort aimed at spoiled and champagne-flute-wielding New Yorkers. Located on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Read More
Like a few other team owners in our neighborhood, Dr. McMullen has decided that the building his team currently calls home, the Continental Airlines Arena in the Meadowlands sports complex, just isn’t good enough. “Time has passed it by,” he said, which, in team-owner patois, means that the 17-year-old arena doesn’t have the retail operations Read More
James Dolan, the chief executive of Cablevision Systems Corporation-the corporate behemoth that owns Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers-paid a visit to his building to see his employees play a little hockey on Sunday, Dec. 21.
What he saw and heard must have disturbed him.
What he saw Read More
There are few people in the United States who have less in common than Jeff Gordon, the champion stock car driver, and Sylvia Miles, the Manhattan actress and party fixture. But there they were on Dec. 3, breathing the same smoky air, at the new China Club just off Times Square.
Mr. Gordon is a Read More
