Ever wonder why Starbucks opens so many locations so near one another? Because the tactic works, apparently. People, simply put, will not wait in long lines for their caffeine fixes.
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday noted Starbucks’ success in West Coast cities like Vancouver and San Francisco:
No matter how badly people wanted Read MoreThere are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of their music. If the challenge is worth it, what seemed at first annoying or bewildering later seems essential. In the case of Destroyer, the obstacle is the voice of singer and songwriter Dan Bejar. A native of Vancouver, Mr. Read More
There are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of their music. If the challenge is worth it, what seemed at first annoying or bewildering later seems essential. In the case of Destroyer, the obstacle is the voice of singer and songwriter Dan Bejar. A native of Vancouver, Mr. Read More
NAI Global, a network of some 300 commercial real-estate firms, released an enormous report today (which we hope to link to here shortly in PDF form).
But the highlight appears to be its ranking of the top 10 most expensive markets for retail space in the world. Midtown Manhattan is the only New York market Read More
Here at The Real Estate, we revel in our New York provincialism. But on an irregular basis, we like to range a little further and relay what we’re reading about deals further afield. To wit:
In her half-century-plus in Manhattan, Pat Buckley has been known as a socialite, a fashion icon, a lady who lunches, a social X-ray, a grande dame, a superb hostess and the woman behind the man behind modern conservatism.
Friends call her stunning, larger than life, down to earth, a personage, a force majeure, arch, unpretentious, Read More
Isabel Coixet’s My Life Without Me , based on Nanci Kincaid’s short story “Pretending the Bed Is a Raft,” confirms the stature of one of the most gifted young actresses in the world today. At the age of 24, Canadian actress Sarah Polley has been blessed with a heroic and brilliantly written role that could’ve Read More
Although Debbie Rochon has appeared in over 70 movies, she walks the streets of Manhattan without being recognized. That may be because she’s been topless in nearly half of those movies. But if the average New York movie buff has never heard her name, if the couple gripping double lattes at the Angelika is not Read More
