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SoulCycle Spinning Tycoon Julie Rice Rides Into UWS Co-op

Buying a five-bedroom Upper West Side co-op is quite a step up—or rather, a climb up a simulated vertical incline—for SoulCycle co-founder Julie Rice.

Ms. Rice and husband Spencer, who works in marketing at Civic Entertainment group, have just purchased a $3.8 million apartment at 310 West End Avenue. The couple’s duplex loft at 130 Jane Street in the West Village, most recently asking $2.3 million, is in contract. And while it looks picture perfect (right down to the astro-turfed patio), with just two-bedrooms and a open, all-in-one floor plan, it was clearly the starter home of a spinning guru. (Albeit, it was a step up from the friend’s rent-controlled apartment that the family first stayed in when they moved from L.A.) Read More

Teenage Delegate on Palin’s Daughter

Eighteen-year-old McCain delegate Spencer Rice of Onondaga County doesn’t "approve" of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter having a child, but doesn’t think it should affect the campaign.

“I’m hoping it never happens to me,” he said.