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 Nate Freeman 12/14/10 5:00pm

Obits

A Social History of Richard Holbrooke, Bulldozer of Manhattan

On April 24, 1941, Richard Holbrooke was born in Manhattan. And though he spent his last hours yesterday in Washington, D.C. and much of his diplomat’s life crossing borders fighting oppressive rulers tooth-and-nail, he always remained a New Yorker.

And as a testament to that birthright, Holbrooke was a foreign affairs genius who, when he Read More

By Steve Kornacki 10/05/09 12:20am

The Revenge of Anthony Zinni

I don’t mean to suggest that Anthony Zinni, the highly decorated retired Marine general and one-time CENTCOM commander, was airing a personal grudge when he went on Face the Nation on Sunday and urged the Obama administration to quit dawdling and to heed General Stanley McChrystal’s request for new American troops in Read More

By Jason Horowitz 6/18/08 7:29pm

Richardson Pushes for Holbrooke Inclusion on the Obama Team

Governor Bill Richardson said today that he has spoken with former U.N. Ambassador Dick Holbrooke, a Clinton loyalist, about supporting Barack Obama and said that he will suggest to the Obama campaign that they include Holbrooke on Obama’s foreign policy team.

At a Council on Foreign Relations event today, I asked Richardson why he thought Read More

By Jason Horowitz 12:03am

Best And Brightest Of Clinton Hands Seek Obama Treaty

Robert Einhorn is a hot property.

An expert at the Center for Strategic and International studies, he currently chairs Hillary Clinton’s advisory group on nonproliferation and arms control, a critical political issue as Iran has emerged as a source of bitter conflict between Barack Obama and John McCain.

The Obama campaign already has Read More

By Staff 8/15/06 1:09pm

MondoWeiss

The death the other day in Lebanon of Uri Grossman, 20, an Israeli soldier and the son of the novelist David Grossman, who has been a peace activist in Israel, underscores a big difference between Israeli society and ours: In Israel, the children of the elite serve in the armed forces. If the 20-year-old Read More

By Staff 4/17/06 10:29pm

Sympathy for Rumsfeld

I’m developing sudden sympathy for Rumsfeld. When Richard Holbrooke comes out for his resignation, as he did on Hardball tonight, it means the conventional wisdom has completely come around to that position. Rummy must go. Holbrooke is the biggest wind-sniffer in Washington. He’s charging Rumsfeld with having mismanaged the war in Afghanistan, and the war Read More