The Transom stood at the end of a $40,000 ping-pong table inside Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall, paddle in hand. Two players representing Verizon (a self-described “M&A guy” and “venture capital guy”) stood at the other side, ready to spar. Fittingly, the table (an all-black “collector’s piece”) was the practice surface for that afternoon’s event, a Wall Street ping-pong tournament benefiting Big Brothers, Big Sisters of New York City. Read More
Tonight in West Chelsea, 125 galleries will stay open until 8 p.m. for the second annual Chelsea Art Walk. Unfortunately, many of the neighborhood’s blue-chip galleries will not be participating. (Arrive before 6 p.m. to catch them during normal business hours.) Nevertheless, The Observer sorted through Read More
They summer in the colonies, the writers of New York, scattering forth to the hills as the days grow more sultry: to Yaddo, to MacDowell, to Millay and Ledig House! They go to work, of course, to work uninterruptedly and produce literary classics, and then, after all that exhaustive working, to play Ping-Pong and drink. Read More
Franck Raharinosy (the prince of Madagascar) and Jonathan Bricklin, partners in SPiN New York, the Ping-Pong social club on East 23rd Street, have been taking meetings with TV networks to shop a reality show about their club.
“It will focus on some of the interesting personalities in table tennis and the growing of our Read More
The Prince of Madagascar lives in a penthouse apartment at the National Arts Club, overlooking the barren trees and locked gates of Gramercy Park. The Prince loves Ping-Pong. His mission is to properly introduce Ping-Pong to Manhattan; he’s plotting Ping-Pong establishments all over the city.
So went the tale around a Read More
