By Staff 7/24/06 8:30am

Monday: This Morning, Everyone’s A Loser (Especially Brokers, Bartha)


Prez Stringer! (Community Media)

  • Brokers have it so bad these days. Sure, sky-high rents help boost brokers’ fees, but apparently they also boost the “incentive to avoid” those fees in the first place. The solution? William B. May agent David Francis Calderazzo points out that “a broker can make a person’s life very miserable Read More

    • By Gabriel Sherman 4/18/05 12:00am

    William T. May Sues Agency On Century 21 Ads

    William Talcott May is the co-chairman of the storied real-estate brokerage founded by his great grandfather in 1866 and inheritor of the New York real-estate dynasty that bears his father’s name, William B. May.

    But when the 44-year-old eccentric bounded into City Bakery on West 18th Street on a recent Thursday morning, wearing a fire-truck-red Read More

    By Gabriel Sherman 5/31/04 12:00am

    Moonves Moves

    Leslie Moonves, the chairman and chief executive of the CBS division of the Viacom media empire, now has a sumptuous Park Avenue spread that’s just a short hop from the network’s West 52nd Street offices. Earlier this winter, according to real-estate sources familiar with the deal, Mr. Moonves, 54, purchased a nine-room apartment at 535 Read More

    By Brandt Gassman 6/24/02 12:00am

    Quogue-mire!

    The Town Board of Southampton is taking steps to curb what they say is the endless party at a gaggle of East Quogue share houses-made famous recently as one of the tangier locales in Barbara Kopple’s otherwise sweet “reality mini-series,” The Hamptons .

    DavidGilmartin,thetownattorneyfor Southampton, which has jurisdiction in East Quogue, said that a group Read More

    By Deborah Netburn 11/27/00 12:00am

    Co-C.E.O. of Imax Shown the Door At 888 Park Avenue Board Nixes $13 Million Purchase By Imax Films Executive and Wife

    Four years ago, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy had a pretty hard

    time getting past the door at 888 Park Avenue. She was headed to a party in the

    apartment of her new sister-in-law, Caroline Kennedy, and her husband Ed

    Schlossberg, when the paparazzi practically blinded her as she struggled

    through the stone-columned entrance, wearing a long, Read More

    By Kate Kelly 6/14/99 12:00am

    Tommy Boy’s Big Address: Hilfiger O.K.’d At 820 Fifth

    Baggy-clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger has cracked the co-op board at 820 Fifth Avenue.

    In early June, a $10 million deal between Mr. Hilfiger and the estate of the late poet Louise Crane for the languishing fourth-floor apartment of 820 Fifth was approved by the board of the high-pedigree building. The apparent ease with which the Read More

    By Kate Kelly 5/31/99 12:00am

    John Kluge, Richard Feigen in $7 Million House Swap

    Communications magnate John Kluge agreed to purchase the duplex apartment of art dealer Richard Feigen at 953 Fifth Avenue for $7 million in May. Meanwhile, Mr. Feigen has signed a contract to purchase the maisonette apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue, just one block north, at 77th Street, for $6.5 million.

    “I got married recently, and Read More