After 20 months on the market, the labyrinthine and ornate parlor-floor apartment in the Berwind Mansion co-op, listed for $9.495 million, has been sold.
According to a source with knowledge of the deal, commercial real-estate developer Howard Ronson bought the 110-foot-long space in the 111-year-old mansion, using the pseudonym Twin-828 L.L.C.
So Mr. Ronson won’t Read More
Among silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of star in 1928, and was practically out of the movie business by 1930, rendered unemployable by either her stubborn integrity (according to Brooks) Read More
Among silent stars, Louise Brooks had the shortest career and the longest afterlife. Actually, it was a tiny career. From evocative, charming supporting parts in 1926, she became a strange sort of star in 1928, and was practically out of the movie business by 1930, rendered unemployable by either her stubborn integrity (according to Brooks) Read More
Keying off her recent hiring of evangelical outreach expert Burns Strider, Hotline has an interesting mini-analysis of Hillary Clinton’s faith, calling it “the only part of her life that hasn’t undergone rigorous scrutiny.”
“Though Strider, as a onetime staff member for Nancy Pelosi, is squarely in the liberal camp, Clinton is part Read More
It’s freshman orientation week in Washington, when all the newly elected Representatives get to meet the party leaders and get intensive training on how to put a staff and congressional office together.
The freshman get to bring along one person — a sort of chief-of-staff-in-training, to help out and learn the ropes. John Hall Read More
If you’re sick of the endless comparisons between 2006 and 1994, read no further. But one underlooked aspect of the ’94 GOP revolution may be playing out this year too: Regional realignment.
Yes, Bill Clinton’s unpopularity – Time once used its cover to label him “The Incredible Shrinking President”, in case you forgot – was Read More
The Terry McDonell era has begun with a rumble at Sports Illustrated .
Mr. McDonell’s first cover as Sports Illustrated ‘s managing editor-a sweaty, shirtless shot of retired N.B.A. great Charles Barkley busting from broken chains and shackles-has infuriated not only some readers, but also minority employees and others within Mr. McDonell’s company, Time Read More
The nasty power struggle between cousins Philip and Howard Milstein over their family’s real estate and banking empire is getting uglier, with new allegations that Howard Milstein used funds from family assets he controlled-the Douglas Elliman residential real estate brokerage and the Milford Plaza Hotel-to finance ventures into sports, real estate and the Internet.
On Read More
In 1983, Paul and Seymour Milstein took a gamble on 42nd Street. Hoping for an inside track on Times Square’s redevelopment, the brothers, in partnership with the family of Manhattan real estate baron Jack Weiler, set down $5 million for a 40,000-square-foot parking lot at the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
Through ups Read More
The appointment, on Jan. 18, of Les Goodstein as president and chief operating officer of the Daily News is part of what insiders at Mortimer Zuckerman’s media holdings have taken to calling “Fred and Mort’s divorce.”
Fred Drasner, Mr. Zuckerman’s business partner who ran the day-to-day operations of the paper as its chief executive and Read More
