Dan’s Papers Sells For Over $19 M.

We missed this report from Friday's editions of Newsday:

Dan Rattiner, an East End fixture for decades as publisher of Dan's Papers — a free paper whose quirkly blend of personality and local coverage has led some to call it the Bible of the Hamptons — will lose his remaining stake in Dan's Read More

Hoist One In Soho!

It’s the celebration of the death of Chelsea,” said James Cruickshank, co-owner of the Anchor—a bar hiding in wait on an isolated wedge of Soho. It was a little after 11 p.m. last Thursday, and the 23-year-old entrepreneur had just entered the bar, near the intersection of Spring and Greenwich streets, with his friend and Read More

Midtown: The New Village?

After a 17-year stay, journalist Michael Gross has fled Greenwich Village, selling his parlor-floor apartment at 69 Washington Place. According to city records, hip-hop D.J. Mark Ronson paid $1.8 million for the six-room place.

Mr. Gross wrote last October’s 740 Park, a lip-smacking 562-page biography of the Upper East Side’s supreme co-op.

“I was infected Read More

Hamptons 2000: Here Come the Kids!

It was Saturday, May 6, a weirdly warm 85 degrees, and Noah Tepperberg, 24, and Jason Strauss, 26, the co-owners of the one-year-old Southampton nightclub Conscience Point, were trying to decide how to mark the entrance to the six-bedroom house on Noyack Street they’d bought for $640,000 five days earlier.

“Maybe a sculpture?” asked Mr. Read More

“Old Trees” Still Costs $48 M.

Today, the New York Post follows up on the story of a $48 million Southampton mansion, that broke yesterday on The Real Estate.

The 10.5 acre property–known as “Old Trees”–may not have had open houses already, but plenty of celebrities recently passed through.

Last weekend at “Old Trees,” [Owner Donald] Read More

Southampton Mansion Asking $48 Million

Out on the East End, where many New Yorkers dream of being right about now, there is a high-priced mansion soon hitting the luxury market.

In Southampton, telecommunications mogul Donald Burns is preparing to list his massive house on Lake Agawam for $48 million, according to a source with knowledge of the listing. Read More

Maggie and Peter in Tribeca?

The New York Post reports today that Maggie Gyllenhaal, and her fiancee Peter Sarsgaard have been checking out a $2.7 million Tribeca condo. At this time, the contract has not been signed. But considering that the attractive couple just announced they were getting married earlier this month, and that Ms. Gyllenhaal Read More