On a cold, miserable afternoon in mid-November, Ben Bronfman stepped out of a cab in front of the United Nations and walked through the security checkpoint, past the clusters of tourists in the lobby, and up to the Delegates Dining Room on the third floor, where there was a fancy luncheon to ramp things up Read More
You’d think that a senior executive and scion of a great family business that bears his name would be extra careful about the way he conducts himself. But if you think that, then you haven’t met William Clay Ford Jr., the 45-year-old chairman and chief executive of Ford Motor Co., the American car giant founded Read More
Manhattan socialites will soon have one more fabulous address to scratch out of their black books: Susan Burden, widow of the businessman, politician and Vanderbilt heir Carter Burden, has put her stately 11-room co-op at 1020 Fifth Avenue on the market for $23.5 million.
The apartment was famously redone in the 1980′s by elite design Read More
The friend who drove me to Brasserie for dinner was not in great shape. The previous evening he had been to a banquet at the Puck Building in SoHo put on by Slow Food, a worthy anti-McDonald’s movement founded in Italy. But the dishes at the dinner took so long to come out that he Read More
Just weeks after his nephew Edgar Bronfman Jr. incensed company employees by posing for The New York Times inside his $4.4 million (plus three years’ worth of renovations) town house at 15 East 64th Street, Seagram Company Ltd. co-chairman Charles Bronfman has signed a contract to pay close to $18 million for a duplex penthouse Read More
