Why, Exactly, Is Rudy Paying $6.8 M.?

If the recent big-bucks ending to the Donna and Rudy divorce saga revealed one thing about relations between the sexes, it’s that we still tend to see money as women’s reward for giving love-or their compensation for losing it. “Donna Makes the Creep Pay,” as a Post headline put it. Men, after all, are by Read More

Rudy’s Divorce Lawyer Felder Performs a Glorious Ode to Lying

In the morning light of this revitalized city, the New York Post ‘s May 15 cover headline felt oddly antique. “Cruella DeHanover” read the 96-point type plastered beneath agiant deer-in-the-headlights photo of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s estranged wife, Donna Hanover. The Post ‘s front page usually delivers a caffeinated kick that rivals the breakfast coffee, but Read More

Recent Transactions in the Real Estate Market

Upper East Side

Park Avenue in the East 70′s

Four-bed, five-bath, 4,000-square-foot prewar co-op.

Asking: $3 million. Selling: $2.8 million.

Maintenance: $4,000; 35 percent tax-deductible.

Time on market: two weeks.

THE GYPSIES OF PARK AVENUE Life’s rough: You live in an elegant eight-room apartment, but the family’s getting bigger. You put it on the Read More