By Kim Velsey 12/10/12 6:23pm

Manhattan Transfers

The untamed loft.

Sale of Sebastian Junger’s Hell’s Kitchen Condo Stirs Up The Perfect Storm

Not many condo boards exercise their right of first refusal, but it seems that the board of 315 West 36th Street may have taken a disliking to the potential buyer of Sebastian Junger‘s two-bedroom condo.

The board of the Hell’s Kitchen condo bought the nonfiction scribe out for just under his $1.27 million ask, according to city records, paying $1.23 million.  It’s almost exactly the price he wanted, so we don’t suppose Mr. Junger minded selling to the board too much and he made a tidy profit given that he spent only $750,000 on the apartment back in 2003. Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 6/23/10 1:27am

The War Not at Home

Movies about our current wars have been well-documented box office disasters (do you remember seeing Stop Loss, In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, The Kingdom, Rendition, or Home of the Brave?). The Hurt Locker may have taken home the Academy Award for Best Picture, but it still grossed less money than a summer blockbuster’s opening Read More

By Staff 7/13/05 8:05am

Making Big Bucks in Magazines Is Easy—and Fun!

In January, FishbowlNY attempted to crack the complex economics of Vanity Fair‘s writer-payment system:

We don’t know how much Peter Biskind gets paid to write for Vanity Fair. Or Fran Lebowitz. Or Sebastian Junger. Or Michael Wolff. But we can guess.

Admirable guesstimates of contributors’ individual salaries followed.

Well, guess no more: A Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 2/16/04 12:00am

The Perfect Dorm

Sebastian Junger has braved some manly challenges-from forest fires in the western U.S to war zones in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the dangerous diamond trade in Sierra Leone-in his career as an author and TV reporter. His next challenge? Interior decorating!

The 41-year-old Perfect Storm author recently purchased an apartment at 315 West 36th Street Read More

By NYO Staff 9/23/02 12:00am

Community Boards

Board Tells Junger’s Half King:

Put a Lid on the Racket

Best-selling Perfect Storm author and daredevil investigative reporter Sebastian Junger has risked life and limb to get the story on atrocities in war-ravaged countries from Afghanistan to Bosnia. He has received the National Magazine Award for his 1999 reporting on the war in Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 5/14/01 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 9th

Hair today? Though New York women showed no hesitancy about gleefully nuding up during the recent heat wave, it’s still 50 days till summer that hot, withering time of year that brainwashes otherwise normal, law-abiding New Yorkers into thinking there is something appealing about spending your weekends in overpriced, overcrowded, socially B-list (oops, Read More

By NYO Staff 12/18/00 12:00am

Elegy for The $treet

On Dec. 7, the grim news came that Fox had canceled The Street –pardon me, The $treet . Apparently the slinky stock-market soap, the latest offering from producer Darren Star, was ranked 101st in the ratings, averaging 5,083,000 viewers per episode.

You Nielsen idiots . You were watching The West Wing . Don’t you get Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/03/00 12:00am

Disaster Flick With Feelings: Clooney as Ahab-like Auteur

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm , from a screenplay by Bill Wittliff, based on the book by Sebastian Junger, is one of very few recent screen spectacles that can properly be described as “heroic” and even “Homeric.” An omnipotent Nature is the Nemesis here, and the special-effects gurus have performed their appointed tasks with distinction, Read More