By Kim Velsey 6/28/12 3:14pm

Manhattan Transfers

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Kati Marton moves to Riverside Drive

Goodbye Beresford: Journalist Kati Marton Embeds Herself In Riverside Drive Co-op

We can’t be sure what sold Kati Marton on the two-bedroom co-op at 33 Riverside Drive, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the building’s storied past had something to do with it. After all, 33 Riverside Drive, where George and Ira Gershwin lived in adjoining penthouses that they opened for legendary parties, has obvious journalistic appeal.

But the 14th-floor apartment that Ms. Marton purchased for $2.9 million from Daniel B. Cohen is certainly appealing in its own right. The Hungarian-American author, foreign correspondent and NPR luminary was quick to jump on the airy apartment, which spent only 20 days on the market listed with Donna Olshan of Olshan Realty. Read More

By Staff 4/14/06 12:04am

The God That Failed

After Peter Jennings’s death I made the Pepsi switch to NBC because Brian Williams seems real and knows how to turn a phrase. Tonight, though, he lost me with a report on a movie about Flight 93, a movie in which NBC has a financial interest.

What a manipulative piece of pap. The Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 9/26/05 12:00am

Fertility on the Tube: NBC Pops One Out

Admit it! Countless of you baby-mad Manhattan women have already TiVo’d Inconceivable, that show about a high-end fertility clinic (is there any other kind?) which premieres Sept. 23 on NBC.

But those anticipating a sober probing of Petri dishes, a nuanced exploration of the serious issues that arise when doctors “play God” with syringes and Read More

By Rebecca Dana 8/15/05 12:00am

Jennings’ Finest 60 Hours, As We Watched Them

“I have to take you back to before 9-11,” Peter Jennings told a reporter from the Orlando Sentinel in 2003. “I used to go downtown a lot. What always pleased me, as a New Yorker, is that so many came to find that New York was different from what they anticipated. It was softer, more Read More