Law Firm Flees Cramped Midtown Digs For 7 Hanover Square
Google Gobbles More Space In West Chelsea
It’s Another Record for SoHo—130 Prince Sells for $112 M.
Fussy Pussycat to Hungry Hotelier: Hands Off Old New York! Me-OW!
Stories in The Week’s Observer…
If This Walls Could Talk …
The Geezer Roués
Ellin Saltzman Sells Apt 12A in Carlyle House for $4.7 M.
Columbia Brings In Political Fixer Lynch To Build Grass-Roots Push for Plan
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The Dormification Of Manhattan
Lydia, Oh Lydia: Hearst Heiress Tells Of Tuscan Travels
Billy Joel’s Skirt Steaks – Slurp!
No Res-hair-vations! Aaron Eckhart’s Massive Mop Leaves Zeta-Jones All Frizzy in Foodie Flick
Miller’s Tailoring: Stars Dig Sienna’s Duds
Events for August 1, 2007
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
Summer Abroad, on Park Avenue
Zach Braff Looks to Buy Tom O’Horgan’s Village Loft
NYC, Con Ed Lease Space in Queens Tower
He Took the Fifth But Buys on E. 57th: Tilney Drops $2.3 M. in Condo Purchase
Architect Peter Eisenman Sells West Village Co-Op to Night Crawler for $3.2 M.
Columbia Expansion Foe Faces Ouster
Neighbors Cry ‘Forgery!’ As Fat Baby Bar Owner Howls
Corcoran Sells Herself (One More Time…)
Bloomberg Boosts the Arts
Memo to Clinton, Schumer: Block Bush’s Saudi Sale
The Empty Musings of Newt Gingrich
YouBoobs: Hillary and Obama’s Silly Squabble
Gonzales Must Be Impeached
Slowly But Surely, Giuliani Creeps Away From Bush
Clarification
The Dems Gotta Compromise
Standing Up For Silver
Top 10 Sexual Fantasies of Women at the Beatrice Inn
It’s Like YouTube Without the Cute Kitties
O Come All Ye Famous! Peggy Siegal Issues Ultimatum to East Hampton
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 6th, 2007
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Pirro, Murdoch
Hamptons Househusbands
J-Lo Glows
Matt Damon, That Hard-Working Beaver, Ends Bourne Trilogy With a Bang
The Book on Blair: A Key Aide’s Diaries
Torricelli on Judith Miller
Our Kind of Town Chicago Is
Yoo Hoo! Nobu! An Early Peek at Ian Schrager’s Wakiya
Ziiiip! The Great Pants Crisis of 2007
Meet the New Mets Mentor: Rickey Henderson
Heaven-Sent: Stay Cool, Close to God
Shakespeare in Love
Light Summer Classics; a Hearty Russian Ring Cycle
The New York School’s Left Bank Campus
Sale of Atlantic Bank Building Official
Cheney Undisclosed: Flattering Biography Never Lifts the Veil
Should Old Acquaintance Be Revived? Probably; Also: Blurring Broadway Not-for-Profit
Hooray for Celebrity Breakdowns: At Least Britney, Lindsay Et Al. Resist Siren Call of the Logo Wall
Philippe Starck Is So About the Outer-Boroughs
Secrets and Gossip on the Banks of the Potomac
Love at Sea
Austen in Love
Ingmar Bergman: The Island of His Mind
Bancrofts: We’re Not Done Yet!
More Advice for Spitzer
Wednesday, August 8th
Tuesday, August 7th
Can Democrats Capitalize on Alaska G.O.P. Mess?
Monday, August 6th
Sunday, August 5th
Saturday, August 4th
Friday, August 3rd
Thursday, August 2nd
Wednesday, August 1st
Pay-to-play fight in Eighth District
Bryant Park Loves the 90’s
McGettigan on pay-to-play
Romney campaign names New Jersey lawyer as fundraising co-chair
Obama’s Terrorism Speech
Darren’s Law
Koch to Spitzer: Testify and Reflect
Hearst Closes Quickly on Another Columbus Circle Property
Bancrofts Approve Deal, Dow Jones to Sell to Murdoch
CHARLES STILE
Clinton raises almost $400k at N.J. events
Gennaro Fined $2,000
Report: Rupert’s Dow Jones Takeover a “Done Deal”
Poll: Spitzer Down
The Morning Read: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
On the YouTube: SCTV’s Ingmar Bergman Spoof
Return of the Indie Bookseller? Brooklyn’s BookCourt Expands
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Liz Claiborne’s Fire Sale
Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni Dead at 94
‘Brinksmanship’ In Overnight Negotiations to Sell Dow Jones
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
JOSEPH CONIGLIO
LESLIE DEVEREAUX
VERNON W. HILL II
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Do you agree or disagree with The Record’s call for State Sen. Joseph Coniglio to drop out of his race for re-election?
Harlem to Get First Luxury Hotel
Bancrofts Blow 5 p.m. Deadline
You click, we listen
Robert Gibson Leaves CBRE for Cushman & Wakefield
Rivals Karcher and Beck tag team on illegal immigration
Comments Made Easy
The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
Joe Bruno is Not Satisfied
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Clinton, Cooper
Events for July 31, 2007
Goo-Goos Press Spitzer to Comply
Trump on Bloomberg: ‘Come On Up, Michael’
Maloney Debunks Special Counsel Powers
N.Y. Sun Raises Cover Price to $1
Trump Praises Bloomberg, “One of the Great Mayors”
GOP Wants a Cuomo Investigation, Not an Apology
Spitzer Hands Over Documents
Dem Money Man on Spitzer “Misstep,” Institutional Independence
King of Soho Building Sells for $28.15 M.
Cupid due in court next month
Cupid
Tom Snyder, Talk-Show Genius, Dead at 71
Goo-Goos Ready to Join the Spitzer Chorus
Van Drew continues to engage Asselta on monetization debate
Burlco GOP hits back on ethics
Poll: Spitzer Wrong on Bruno, Right on Albany
Clinton nixes rally with Sires rival in Jersey City
MUST READ: ALFRED DOBLIN
In District 22, both Senate candidates have a small taint of scandal
Divided Bancrofts Given 5 p.m. Deadline To Decide on Murdoch’s Offer
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
The Morning Read: Monday, July 30, 2007
Ingmar Bergman Dead at 89
Newark City Councilman Ronald Rice, Jr.
From hallowed ground, Newark fights for a future
Seriously, this is just a what-if hypothetical
Kean is heavy favorite to oust Lance as Senate GOP leader
Record of Hackensack
Will Rasinski get a pilots license?
Assuming there is no new news from federal prosecutors before November, who wins the 38th district State Senate race?
Monday, July 30, 2007
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EVESHAM
PHILLIPSBURG
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Orrin Hatch Lays an Egg
Meet Homer Simpson’s great-great-grandfather
Report: Boxer is Corzine’s pick for Comptroller
“The world is not in the mood for that”
Should the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards reopen Steve Lonegan’s ethics complaint against Joe Coniglio?
Should Singer lose his license?
JOSEPH CONIGLIO
JERSEY JOURNAL POLITICAL INSIDER
JON CORZINE
Democrats might consider an insurance policy on their U.S. Senators
Strom Thurmond celebrated his 100th birthday while serving in the U.S. Senate in December, 2002.
Events for July 28-29, 2007
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Bloomberg, Baum
The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Biden Responds to Rudy’s Attacks
Clocktower Closes
Denver Bancrofts Set to Vote Against Murdoch Offer
Denver Bancrofts Set to Vote Against Murdoch Offer
Denver Bancrofts Set to Vote Against Murdoch Offer
Oddo: G.O.P. Shouldn’t Overplay Spitzer Mess
Poll: Cuomo Soars, Spitzer Doesn’t Sink
Vibe Rater: Grey Dog Coffee, 90 University Place
Madden’s GOP opponent drops out
Westbrook Buys Paramount Hotel for $152 M.
Allen wants ethics panel to revisit complaint against Coniglio
The Barack Attack on Hillary, Abbreviated
Koch, Gotbaum, Waiter’s Torso
Spitzer and the Press, Part 2
Friday, July 27, 2007
So Much for the Clinton-Obama Ticket
The Morning Read: Friday, July 27, 2007
More GOP defections in South Jersey
Del Tufo still has his job
The Round-Up: Friday
Rothman’s Obama gambit
Skipper and Mr. Marvelous Seek Hot Sex in Southampton Hedges
Will Borg be as tough on Coniglio as Hidlay was on Bennett?
Payne’s play of race card unfair to Cryan
Paramus Mayor could be next Senator
Clinton in N.J. on Monday for Fulop event
McCullough defends Katz against GOP attacks
Somerset GOP asks Kean for help with parks scandal
Payne slaps Cryan on call for James’ ouster
JOSEPH CONIGLIO
SOMERSET COUNTY
PASSAIC COUNTY
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Edison mayor backs Obama
When sex and scandal had class
The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Dopp, Diaz
State Sen. Joseph Coniglio is the target of a federal corruption investigation
The curse of the 38th
New Inquiry into Spitzer Scandal, Still No Exit Strategy
Coniglio
Nexis Lexis Log
Coniglio’s troubles could boost Colletti
Events for July 27, 2007
Will Ferriero dump Coniglio?
#92 helping Coniglio
BREAKING NEWS
If Joe Coniglio drops his bid for re-election to the State Senate, who would Joe Ferriero pick to replace him?
Star-Ledger: Coniglio is target of federal probe
Obama Tacks Left
Spitzer Faces the Press
Fun with Spitzer and Dicker [Updated]
Lawyer says McGettigan knew he represented porn industry
GOP leader says no to Cavicchia
Tishmans Buy Plots Near New Times Tower—But What Will They Build?
Queens, Long Island Second-Quarter Numbers Now Online
Summer reading: the 1910 U.S. Senate race
Obama Jabs at Hillary, Again, Over War Vote
The Del Cecato Primary
More on Cuomo as the New Spitzer
Get Blair Berk! Lohan’s Lawyer is Hollywood Helper
Poll: City Backs Congestion Pricing, With a Condition
The Morning Read: Thursday, July 26, 2007
The Round-Up: Thursday
National Chains Descend Upon Brooklyn’s Smith Street
McHose emerges as leading conservative legislator
McHose irritated by clean elections program
Winners & Losers
Winners & Losers
Oink! Oink! Paul Moriarty
Who is New Jersey’s most effective County Executive?
Thursday, July 26, 2007
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WHEN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE LAWMAKERS
STUART RABNER
WASHINGTON
HOBOKEN
GERRY MCCANN
No, Really: Giuliani and Romney are Winning
A most unlikely performer rocks the Apollo
The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Dopp, Clarke
Events for July 26, 2007
Municipal Art Society President to Step Down
City Council OKs Five Neighborhood Rezonings as Part of PlaNYC
Spigot Turned on (Briefly) for Tax-Exempt Bonds
Shuffling the Deck in Spitzerland
Big BIDS Are Better
Plummer Meets the Police
Democrats see opportunity in Eighth District
Bill Thompson Open to Bi-Partisan Probe of Spitzer
Edwards on the Long Term American Presence in Iraq
Democrat: Bruno, Ditch the Plane
Obama right on foreign policy question, Rothman says
Rothman endorses Obama
Cavicchia declared himself a Republican this year
In Defense of Spitzer
‘Worst’ Landlord’s Scion Brokers Himself Into $1.39 M. Condo
Gallagher Arrives at Work
Talk of Frelinghuysen primary challenge is usually just that
Also in the Observer on July 25
The Cavicchia story
Filling Spitzer’s Shoes, and Delivering a Boot
Ex-Secret Service chief may challenge Frelinghuysen
The Morning Read: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Pennacchio wants Corzine to hold monetization town meeting
Porn lawyer emerges as issue in County Exec race
If Rodney Frelinghuysen ran for U.S. Senate, who would the Republicans nominate for his House seat?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
MONETIZATION
ALBIO SIRES
TRENTON
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Political Congestion
John Edwards Is Mad As Hell And Ready To Lead
Rupert’s Big Teeth
Sacré Bleu Jean? Denim Legend François Girbaud N’est Pas Pumped About His Company’s Hip-Hop Image
Dawson’s Crocs: Michelle Williams Waltzes Matilda As Tipsy, Sour Moms Yearn for Vanished Youth
Hot to Trotter: Martha Stewart Teetotals at James Beard House’s Hamptons Jamboree
Have the Big Shots Blown Off the Box? Bawdy Boîte Lets Mom and Pop Pay to Play
Sweet Fancy Moses! Wet Hot American Summer Director Thumps Bible
Stories in This Week’s Observer
Nasty Checks Into The Chelsea Hotel
Rob Tornoe
Modern art in seven minutes flat
Rob Tornoe
Cuomo Slugs Spitzer, Catches Gov. Off-Guard
Boom! Newmark’s Brokers In Exile After Steam Explosion
Baroni goes door-to-door for clean elections
Assemblyman Bill Baroni is the GOP candidate for State Senate in the 14th district
SL Green, Tishman Speyer Cashing In on Phantom Hikes
Speyers Leasing a Swanky Block of 30 Rock
Spitzer Aides on the Bruno Affair
A Jade Fireplace Will Cast Warm Glow On $7.1 M. Beekman Place Duplex
This Snake Oil … Err, Drink … Will Change Your Life … Burp!
$6.5 M. Soho Loft Seller Misses the Help: ‘Like Little Puppies Wagging Their Tails’
‘Money Is No Object’ as NYU B-School Couple Drops $11.7 M. at Park Imperial
Has the Fizz Left the Bottle? Worrying Signs for Manhattan Real Estate
Neighbors to Synagogue: Enough With the High-Rise
Astrologers Agree: Obama Faces Machiavellian Enemy
An Aussie Fires Up the Grill: Nick Mathers at Full Speed
It Takes a Pillage, Part VII
Events for July 25, 2007
The Klute ’Do
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Clinton, Skurnik
At Dow Jones Headquarters, Murdoch Portrait Gets Graffiti
Has Spitzer Blown It?
Time for Shelly to Go
Holliday, Mathias Plan for SL Green’s Future
Do You Believe in Life After Law?
John Edwards and Nature
Profits vs. Partners
Murdoch’s Crackpot Minion
Keith Richards Book at $7 Million! Going … Going …
GVA Williams Reps Book Worms, FSG
Why Is Chris Dodd Running?
Local governments reduced to begging
A Brave New Affluent Downtown Brooklyn
Follow the Ideology
Elect Mass Transit
Health Department Responds
Why Rush Limbaugh Loves Cindy Sheehan
How Average Voters Can Give $3 Billion
McCarren Pool Gets a Little LPC
Chocolatier Takes Space at 11 Madison
Wanted: New Finance Director for Christine Quinn
“I’m Hard to Get, John T.”
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Viva Rialto!
Two-Faced
Beauty and the Journalist—But Who’s the Real Beast?
Roberts Rules His Roost
The Laptop Who Came to Dinner
Get the Lez Out
Sonic Youth? Not So Much.
Gould Goes Gumshoe (Again)
The Big Problem with Xanadu? It Isn’t Bad Enough to Achieve Greatness
Teenage Wasteland
Foodie Flick
Surrender to Jack Donahue—He Will Haunt You
They Aren’t Sluts—Just Missbehavin’
Painters Shape Up for Summer
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 30th, 2007
Sheed Reveals The Soul Behind The Great American Songbook
Ortiz takes the plunge
Before Gladwell Blinked, This Guy Followed Gut
In local race, Democrats appear to be on verge of sinking in the Great Swamp
Rangel’s Big, Big Party
Bruno Rubs It In
Siegel on Giuliani’s Machiavellian Qualities
Queens Home Sales Jump in the Spring; Prices Steady
SL Green in the News!
For John Edwards, Some Personal Details are Fair Game
One Friendly Face, At Least, For Spitzer
YouTube Debate Transcript
BILL CAHIR
Who’s the ethics champion?
Sheinkopf: It’s an Anti-Spitzer Alliance
Quintana and Walker will run together in 29th
CHARLES STILE
Where are they now?
The Morning Read: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
New Republic Investigates Its Anonymous Baghdad Correspondent
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Dan’s Papers Sells For Over $19 M.
Journal Hatchling Leaps From Nest, ‘Confident’ Alma Mater Will Survive Murdoch
Key Bancroft Now Opposes Dow Jones Deal; Greenspan Offer Still on the Table
DeCarlo committed to the Greens, with Nader or without him
Remember the guy who promised to change the way business is done in Trenton?
If Donald Payne did not seek re-election in 2008, who would the Democrats nominate to succeed him?
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Corzine interviewing State Treasurer candidates
SHARPE JAMES
BERNARD KENNY
ROB ORTIZ
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Bancrofts End Day One of Murdoch Talks
A pioneer of punk returns with a grown-up sound
BCRO chooses youth
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Cuomo, Affleck
Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore
The fight for Jersey’s Shining Star
Bencivengo
Events for July 24, 2007 [updated]
The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
Wolfson on Bill O’Reilly Tomorrow
More on When Spitzer Knew
Walmart Executive Offices Head to Times Square
Andrew Cuomo Scolds Eliot Spitzer Over Bruno Allegations
Spitzer Plays Defense
Harry Potter and the End of Enchantment
Ortiz wins
Bancrofts To Make Announcement About Dow Jones Today
Hairspray Upsets Natural Order; Sunshine’s Future Bright
On the Agenda for Spitzer Tonight…
Harvey Named Interim Director of Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center
Spitzer Responds by Suspending Aide Indefinitely
Back to Albany?
The Cuomo Report
Barron: Pro-Black, Anti-NY Post
Schumer to Lead Rally to Keep Birthplace of Hip Hop Affordable
The Spitzer Loan
Cushman & Wakefield Finishes Buying Sonnenblick-Goldman
Poll: Bloomberg Flips Florida from Red to Blue
The Morning Read: Monday, July 23, 2007
Will Spielberg, Geffen Walk From Dreamworks?
Adler mulls race vs. Saxton
Report: Harry Potter Earned $150 M. in 24 Hours
Monday, July 23, 2007
Bernard Kenny
U.S. Health care system
BURLINGTON COUNTY
Who wins the tonight’s race for Bergen County Republican Chairman?
Today’s news from PoliticsNJ.com
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
A Surefire Yankee Prospect, Maybe
The Unspectacular Harry Reid
A glimpse of Web 3.0
ruiz
The factory worker’s daughter
New poll: Bush approval rating at 18% in New Jersey
New poll shows Corzine’s job approval rating down
A Michael Brown moment
REGENA THOMAS
Should Roberto Rivera-Soto resign from the New Jersey Supreme Court?
JERSEY JOURNAL POLITICAL INSIDER
Will Rivera-Soto be reappointed in 2011?
ROBERTO RIVERA-SOTO
Ferguson on a fundraising tear
Events for July 21-23, 2007
Report: Public Cost of New Yankee Stadium Up $217 M.
The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Elsewhere: Clinton, Hevesi, Sheinin
Dow Jones Defends Steiger: ‘Conflicting Worries, Conflicting Hopes,’ But No Conflict
‘One If By Land’ Chef To Open New Restaurant in Soho
Charles Barron Announces
Vibe Rater: Hill Country Barbecue Market, 30 West 26th Street
Kenny to have surgery
Spokesperson: Fields Has Nothing to Do With It
Virginia Fields Fined $70K
Five months after Beck, Karcher seeks Bryant’s ouster
989 Sixth Avenue Sells for $49 M.
The Padavan and Wright Show
A Test for the Brooklyn Machine
Gun Guy Pitches Softball, Bloomberg Hits It
Dumb Emmys Inspire No Chatter
Horse Franchise Decision Pushed
Forbes Selling 60 Fifth, Plans to Build New Headquarters
The Death Eater Vote
Clinton and Giuliani on top in NJ
The Morning Read: Friday, July 20, 2007
TV Critics Power List
The Round-Up: Friday
Holtzbrinck Walks From Dow Jones Board
Family Feudal: Redstone, 84, Losing Heir at Viacom
With a slap on the wrist, Justice Rivera-Soto is censured
Friday, July 20, 2007
TRENTON
BERNARD KENNY
SCOTT GARRETT
ALFRED P. DOBLIN
JON CORZINE
SOMERSET PARKS COMMISSION
TOM MORAN
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If Mike Ferguson ran for U.S. Senate, who would the Republicans nominate for his House seat?
The A-list movie nobody saw
Blue-State G.O.P. Senators: Who Will Survive?
Forbes to Announce Sale of 60 Fifth Avenue
Events for July 20, 2007
Elsewhere: Bloomberg, Smith, Silver
The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Bill Clinton’s Blog Day
Foye’s E.S.D.C. Targets Empire Zones
Babes Flee Land of Wives for Night of Topless Fun
Crumbs Bake Shop Opening Wall Street Location
Bloomberg Bullish, Silver Sluggish on Congestion Pricing
McCain on Failures, Going Out With Bloggers
Spitzer’s “Affirmative” Politics on Congestion Pricing
Congestion Pricing Deal Reached
Former Monmouth County officials to be sentenced
Bloomberg: Moving Forward, Still Mad About the Delay
Supreme Court rules on ethics issue
Columbia University Buying Up A Storm
Paterson housing inspector pleads guilty to taking bribes
Congestion Pricing Announcement
Report: Kenny may have been hit by a car after all
Fiscal Praise for Bloomberg and the Council
One Opponent’s Take on the Mayor’s Negotiating Skills
Moinian Closes on 417 Fifth Avenue for $125 M.
A Take-It-Or-Leave-It Moment for Rudy on Abortion
Republicans Who Question the War, But Not George Bush
Bloomberg’s Commute
DiCaprio Series to Anchor Green Cable Channel
The Morning Read: Thursday, July 19, 2007
Ewan McGregor Sells New Smell
The Magnificent Bancrofts: Giant Dow Jones Family Breaking Up Over Sale
S.E.C. to Probe Dow Jones Director on Insider Trading
Report: Goldman, KKR Prepare $24 B. Bid For Macy’s
CHARLES STILE
N.J. judiciary official arrested in Dateline sting of predators
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Congressman threatens to bite Scott Garrett “like a mink”
If Rush Holt ran for U.S. Senate, who would the Democrats nominate for his House seat?
JOHN LYNCH
BERNARD KENNY
CAMPAIGN ’08
CAMPAIGN ’07
CORY BOOKER
DAVID A. WAKS
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING: REFORM MEANS DICEY POLITICS
The Round-Up: Thursday
Vice President Harry Truman swears in Milton Young as a U.S. Senator, April, 1945
On John F. Kennedy’s ticket, Bill Guy was elected Governor in 1960
Ex-rival of aging Senator says age should not be issue for Lautenberg
Milton R. Young, left, and William L. Guy
Milton R. Young, top, and William L. Guy
David Waks dies
The biggest band in rock — literally — gets bigger
One Dead, Dozens Injured At Explosion Near Grand Central
Events for July 19, 2007
The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
Elsewhere: Bloomberg, Spitzer, Richardson
Madison Catches Fifth in Retail Rents (Well, Almost)
Staffer: No Assembly Session Tomorrow
Mark Penn Lawsuit Settled
Statement of Senate Majority Leader Bernard Kenny’s Family
Mercurio: Bloomberg’s Loss May Be a Win
Get Aussie Fare, Models at Nick Mathers’ New West Village Restaurant
Albany Leaders Disclose
SL Green Buys Into Lipstick Building
Kuehner may drop Assembly bid
Jersey Journal: Kenny hit by car
Lerner’s firm, eleven years later: still no women partners
More Expansion Preparation? Columbia Closes on Another Manhattanville Property
Albany Republicans Play Jeopardy
Taxing the Smokers (More)
Potentially useless trivia for a July afternoon
The Round-Up: Wednesday
In This Week’s Observer: July 18
Campaign Finance Architect Switches Sides
Five of seven Democratic Congressmen would be interested in succeeding Lautenberg
The Morning Read: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Stories in This Week’s Observer
Torricelli on Lady Bird
A great candidate, Sheeran never craved high office
James Sheeran
More warts in genteel Somerset County
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
If Bill Pascrell ran for U.S. Senate, who would the Democrats nominate for his House seat?
CAMPAIGN ’07
CAMPAIGN ’08
LESLY DEVEREAUX
JOE CRYAN
WASHINGTON
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Mediabistro Sells For $23 M.
Rob Tornoe
Tornoe
The Transformer
This Will Only Hoyt A Little …
Vigil Over Bancrofts Begins
John Edwards Says: Empirically, You Know I’m Strong!
What Obama ’08 Will Tell Us About America
Bloomberg Mourns Congestion Pricing
An Architect of Public Campaign Financing Switches Sides
Christine Quinn, Real Estate Insider
Good Grief, Another Hotel for Lower Manhattan
Timberlake Brings Babyback to Upper East Side
Harry Macklowe and the Mystery of 450 Park
Mort Gets His: Inks Lucrative Lease in 599 Lexington
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Leaving Union Square
Does the Health Department Have a Borough Bias?
Imagining the ultimate wilderness
Scholastic Won’t Confirm Leaked Potter Book Is Real: ‘Read the Book’ at 12:01 A.M. Friday
Events for July 18, 2007
Wanted: Tibetan Nannies
Jerry’s Girl
Once Again, Bush Beats McCain
Rudy Takes the Lead From … Nobody
How Green Was My Party? Lauren Bush Blooms at East Hampton Eco-fete
Pass the Haggis: ‘Sassy’ Sacco To Star With Connery In Scottish Cartoon
Hamptons Heat Up! Cash-Addled Club Owners Claw for Celebrity Customers
Kitchen Casanova
Musings of Osama Jr.
Gwyneth’s Kid Brother Buys ‘Lusty Victorian Flat’ for $2.12 M.
Trump Rival in 220 Riverside Boulevard Buys $2.17 M. Village Spread
Former Peacenik, Panthers Hangout Now $3 M. Condo for Texas Tycoon
Retired Ranger Leetch Unloads West Side Pad, Waterfall Included, for $3.71 M.
Washingtons and the Cherry Tree
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
Scholastic Offices ‘A Madhouse’ After Harry Potter Book Leaks to Web
Elsewhere: Bloomberg, Obama, Murdoch
Southern Exposure
Governing Principles
No Pass for Bruno
Spitzer Defended
Cuomo Sues Exxon for Greenpoint Oil Spill
Water, Water, Everywhere
New York’s Little Schools Make Big Brains
Jim Webb’s Window of Opportunity
Diaz Attacks “Arrogant” Bloomberg
Bush Wins by Copying Clinton
Dear NYU Expansion Critics: ‘Move to Sioux City!’
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No More Cukes!
Hosta—Ya Basta!
He’s on Boyle, Baby!
Maltese Starts Early
Biden On Hedge Fund Dispute: Irrelevant
Bar Band Hits the Big Time, Sorta: Meet the Untroubled Troubadours of 1.800.OKCable
To Catch a Plebe! On French-Riviera Adventure, I Get Totally Eurotrashed
15 Central Park West
The Pisher Kings
Raney Does Doris
In Summer Heat, Hairspray Is a Welcome Spritz
Frugal Gourmet
License to Ill
Leconte Lightens Up With Sweet Lesson in Love
Is It Art, Or….
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 23rd, 2007
Forget Iran and North Korea—Worry Instead About Russia and Pakistan
Bloomberg Says Albany Lacks ‘Guts’
Guided Tour of the Met, With the Employees on Exhibit
Marano to confront freeholders
Coetzee’s Master Class in Literary Criticism
Cuomo’s Numbers
Bruno Picks Up Bloomberg’s Message, Whacks Assembly Inaction
Is Paul Steiger Running Coverage of Murdoch Bid?
Soto, We’re Not in Kansas!
Does Assembly ‘Failure’ Mean the End of Congestion Pricing?
Control of the Atlantic Freeholder Board could come down to a GOP-leaning district
Polling Ray Kelly?
Dems may have an issue in GOP Somerset
Bruno’s High Legal Bills
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Waiting for a chance to run
Dow Jones Board To Vote On Murdoch Deal
Schroeder proudly flies banner
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
If Frank Pallone ran for U.S. Senate, who would the Democrats nominate for his House seat?
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MONETIZATION
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Fresh Lease Moves New Times Tower Toward Full
A sweet and magical . . . bank ad?
Dem Congressmen raising money, just in case
The Left Marches On Part 4: “Asset Monetization” will fund Dag’s Vision
Will what worked once, work again in Hamilton?
Events for July 17, 2007
Elsewhere: Clinton, Hevesi, Lovett
The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
Rose’s Turn To Hear Final Tune
421a Deal Breaks Down
Some 2009 Numbers
Senate Committee Authorizes Congestion Pricing
Last-Minute Bloomberg
A Democratic Opening in Tennessee?
Broadway Partners Comes Out of Brief Hibernation With Chicago Buy
Manhattan Box Office: Cat Ladies Purr for Potter; Dead Air for Talk
At Trial Lawyer Forum, Hillary Is the Anti-Cheney
The Fluidity of Congestion Pricing
AIMCO Drops $53 M. on Harlem Property Package
Smith Not Looking to Take Any Chances on Congestion Pricing
Hillary’s Apostles
Drafting Bloomberg
Mayor on Congestion Pricing: A Deadline Is a Deadline Is a Deadline
Bloomberg Making The Congestion Case in Albany
Pennacchio rips Lautenberg on foreign policy
Will Lady Black Write Conrad Trial Memoir?
Campaign Finance Numbers from Albany
Happy Feat: Self-Help Author Helps Self, With Penguins
Judge in James case is political veteran
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! CNN Slugs Michael Moore
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! CNN Slugs Michael Moore
Dow Jones Deal Draws Near, Despite Manic Scuttling Efforts
Cryan to James: Quit Senate seat now
James Ottaway’s Dow Jones Odyssey
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
Graham Runs Into an Angry Webb Down Iraq Memory Lane
Obama Channels Haile Rivera
The Morning Read: Monday, July 16, 2007
Congressional cash on hand rundown
Hazelbaker advances in McCain camp
Gov. Jon Corzine
N.J.’s congressional delegation
FBI’s Newark division
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Ex-Democratic leader dies
Reports of Lastings’ Flaws Are Greatly Exaggerated
The Zen approach to Web video
Bauer to leave Corzine cabinet
Lady Bird Johnson
Legacy Time For Robert Novak
The Anti-War Conscience of the G.O.P.
Vibe Rater: PDT, Basement of 113 St. Marks Place
The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Events for July 14-16, 2007 [updated]
TV Guide Heads (Slightly) Downtown
It’s Shvo-er and Out for Gallego
Elsewhere: Spitzer, Bruno, Rivera
New York’s Priciest Apartment: A Plaza Spread Officially Goes for Record $51.5 M.
Not Asked, Yet Answered: Perez Hilton’s TV Show
Giuliani’s Big Foreign Policy Speech
Conrad Black Found Guilty On Four Counts
Ray Kelly on ’09: ‘We’ll See’
Spitzer Unveils New West Side Development Scheme
Columbia Students, Grab Your Bibs!
Changing the Funding Premise for Congestion Pricing
Iraqi Times Reporter Killed in Baghdad
Ariyan declines TV forum with Cardinale
The BCRO fake-out
Scenes from a Bronx Dinner
The Round-Up: Friday
The Morning Read: Friday, July 13, 2007
Events for July 13, 2007
Rumor Mongers: Perez Hilton to Take Rosie’s View Chair?
Jones Dumps C.E.O. Amid Barneys Sale
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Should Sharpe James resign from the State Senate?
In Palestinian Territories, Tragedy Made for Children’s TV
A forgotten Billy Wilder masterpiece now on DVD
Christie
Warner resigns
Two Staffers Leaving The Real Deal
“The stench of corruption”
The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Downtown Babes Meet Old Greenwich Gals
Elsewhere: Clinton, Spitzer, James
If You Tour 995 Fifth, You Will Buy
Aloha Also Means Goodbye for Bank in Trader Joe’s Way
Columbia Renounces (Some) Eminent Domain
Weiner High, Thompson Low
The West Side Rail Yards RFP Is Coming
Gambling on Colton
Pushing for Congestion Pricing, Coverage
Congestion Pricing Deadline Looms–Or Moves?
Rudy Gets Testy in NH
Silver’s Meeting on Deadline Day
Ironic
Three non-vacancies
Chetrit Drops $26 M. for Lenox Hill Hospital Properties
Rivera’s Dinner with Obama
James
Sharpe James indicted on 33 counts of corruption
Poll: Bloomberg Means Good News for Democrats in 2008
So Far, Obama Has Been Good For Hillary
The Morning Read: Thursday, July 12, 2007
Manhattan Lawsuit Claims Ladies’ Nights Discriminate
Poet LeRoi Jones, now Amiri Baraka, in 1968
The post-riot Community Council election
Imperiale
Dems slam McCullough for racist joke
Barneys Suitor Losing Money On UNIQLO Store
The Round-Up: Thursday
Judith Regan Tapes Touted in $20 M. Murdoch Suit
Fox Business Channel Sees Oct. 15 Launch
Murdoch Says Bancrofts ‘Keep Changing Their Minds’
The Newark Tradition
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Sharpe James Update
New Jersey’s tolerant tradition on corruption
A graphic novel that actually makes you think
Mayor Seeks to Reform 421a Reform
Hail, hail, the band’s all here
Events for July 12, 2007
Elsewhere: Bloomberg, Clarke, Spano
The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday
Giggly Gere Gets Record $12 M. for Townhouse (with Temple)
Trader Joe’s Is Coming to Brooklyn
Congestion Pricing Foe Endorses Bloomberg ’08 Run
Silver on Bloomberg’s Deadline
The Armenian factor
So Much for Breaking with Bush
Singh gets labor backing
Star-Ledger: Christie plans Thursday announcement on James
Poll: Greater New York, But Not Manhattan, Opposed to Congestion Pricing
Julie Satow Follows the Sun
Warner expected to step down tomorrow
Thor Equities Closes on Warhol’s Old Space for $28.4 M.
Is Rick Merkt looking for a $1,300 haircut?
Merkt
Putting Spitzer’s Rules to the Test
Lautenberg was in first grade when suffragette Lillian Feickert ran for U.S. Senate
The Women’s Project of New Jersey, Inc.
A Dinkins Birthday Party
Estabrook gains early advantage in endorsement contest
Speyers Buy Back Chunk of 30 Rock for $222 M.
Anne Evans Estabrook
Estabrook forms exploratory committee
Bad polls, no worries
Penn’s Intercepted Emails
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The Round-Up: Wednesday
The Morning Read: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Asselta attacks Van Drew over monetization
Asselta slams Van Drew on monetization
Little Ship of Bitterness Sidles Up To H.M.S. Murdoch
We’ve seen Katie Couric’s. What’s he hiding?
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Rob Tornoe
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Gore to the Fore
The Rudy Doctrine: Does World View Go Beyond Bronx?
The New Victorians
Burkle and Greenspan Gather Journal Kiddies for ESOP Fable
Kurt Vonnegut’s Final Interview(s)
Longing for Iraq
The McCain Campaign Seeks a Mulligan
Barneys’ Life In Turnaround
As Former Employees Plotted, Mark Penn Watched
Opie, Spawn of Imus, Scores Trump Place Condo for $3.35 M.
Communists Capitalize on Village Sale—Get $1.87 M. for Loft
Say Ni! John Cleese Closes on $1.4 M. Upper East Side Co-Op
Bronfman Gets $50 M.–Plus for East Side Townhouse
On the City’s Final Frontier—the Waterfront
The Top Dealmakers in Manhattan’s Topmost Office Market
Pop! As Jane Magazine Folds, Bubbles Burst on SOAPnet Show
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Kristin Gore’s Writing Process
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VSL// Sweet, smart, cool, beautiful brand-new music
Manhattan Is the New Lilliput
Three Men Meet, Quietly, on Congestion Pricing
It’s Eight and Out for Billiards Licensing Law
Yankees on TV? Let’s Go to the Lower East Side and Watch!
Bloomberg’s People Give Red Hook Second Look as Shipping Port
Events for July 11, 2007
The Baby Billionaires Preschool
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
Losing Weight, Gaining a Manuscript
Did the Math
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It’s Not Funny
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Title Search
Thomas Heftler’s Legacy
Albany Ties Up Traffic
The Arrogant Governor
The Lonely Business of Defending America
A Testament to Garden State Democracy
We’d Like Mike if He Ran in ’08
Holier Than Whom, Exactly?
Sam Chang Buys Whitehouse Hotel for $7.8 M.
Williams
Wednesday, July 18th
Forget the Fluff
Monday, July 16th
Stender getting ready for round two
Sunday, July 15th
Saturday, July 14th
Friday, July 13th
Thursday, July 12th
Wednesday, July 11th
Squashed Hopes
Garden Style: Bikini, Boots or Button-down?
Play It Again, Xanadu
It’s Just Puppy Love: Romance Among the Folk-Rockers
Violence of the Lambs
Bruce Willis’ Live Free or Die Hard Explodes With Tenderness
Bay Bombs Again
A Bad Seed Sprouts on the Upper West Side
Move Over, Sarah Silverman!
Midtown Kitchen Nightmare
Nothin’ Like the Old School
The Varone Company: Stylish, Kinetic, Ravishing
Ortiz touts endorsements while opponents keep theirs secret
Grilling Gordon
Our Critic’s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of July 16th, 2007
A Romp Through the D.C. Underbrush
Carter Pierces the Heart of Whiteness
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Learning to Ride a Bicycle—and Love—at 35
Parkside Hires a Commissioner
Sitting Pretty in NH
Bush & Nixon
Richard Nixon Library Photo
Still Standing By the McCain Campaign: Rudy Giuliani
Sonny McCullough won a special election convention for Bill Gormley’s State Senate seat last February
Whelan
Clarke Gets Over Wolfson, Endorses Hillary
In Atlantic Senate contest, the brawl goes on
The End of the McCain Campaign As We Knew It
Saul Out, Danis (Back) In
History bodes well for Lautenberg
Bodine urges spending cuts
Gallagher’s Office Raided by Police
The Morning Read: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
New congressional districts for 2008? In New Jersey, you never know
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Menendez press aide headed to DSCC
If Steve Rothman ran for U.S. Senate in 2008, who would get the Democratic nomination for his 9th district House seat?
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H.U.D. Re-Rejects Starrett City Bid
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The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
Cuomo Gathering Info on the Spitzer, Bruno Allegations
Al Gore
Bloomberg Signals Turn on Jersey-Brooklyn Tunnel
The Silver Countdown
Spitzer on Public-Private Traveling
Downtown Alliance Endorses Congestion Pricing
[em]Jane[/em] Magazine Folds
Republican Congressman: Hillary Would Be “Effective President”
Stonehenge Gobbles Another Apartment Building for $39 M.
Bergen GOP sets election
Manhattan Box Office: Transformers Electric; Herzog Sells Out?
Universal Music C.E.O. Closes on $10 M. Plaza Condo
New Marshall Blog
Menendez approvals low
Sharpton and Rangel on the Racial Politics of Waste
Bloomberg on Brodsky’s “Piece of Paper”
Gusciora seeks Gore delegates for 2008
Al Gore
New Jersey voters can’t seem to make up their minds about Lautenberg
Midtown Finishes Second to Charlotte in Office Vacancy Race; Downtown Gets the Bronze
Imus to Return in January?
Videos: Congestion Pricing, Rudy, Hillary
The Morning Read: Monday, July 9, 2007
Chuck Hagel: Bloomberg Republican
Lipstick Building Sells for $648.5 M.
Burkle To Meet With Dow Jones Today
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Pennacchio mulling U.S. Senate bid
Early polls always have Lautenberg in trouble
The Round-Up: Monday
Quinnipiac: Lautenberg is vulnerable
Leasing talk takes toll on Corzine
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Corzine signs Global Warming Response Act
$10 for an $8 Tax
Elsewhere: Burn Rates, Insider Trades, Ron Paul
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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday
Ron Paul, Political Machine
No Scooter Bounce
Weiner’s Roast
The Start of Bloomberg ’08
Jacksons Split On Obama
Plummer Denied, Speaks from the Heart
The Democrats’ Favorite Balladeer
The Return of Pop Warner
Torricelli on Mount Laurel
Battleground ’07
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New poll due Monday
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Failure to Address the Issues
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What Has Two Wheels, Wears Seersucker And Makes a Sucker of Me? A Bicycle Boy
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Events For Friday, July 6, 2007
Elsewhere: Fighting in the Sandbox
The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
The End of the Beginning for Spitzer
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Finger-Pointing, Albany Edition
Giuliani Camp Speaks
The Round-Up: Thursday
Events For Thursday, July 5, 2007
The Blackberry Bramble
Poll: Bloomberg a Major Factor in NJ
Family Man Al Gore
The Morning Read: Thursday, July 5, 2007
Giuliani leads in N.J.
Luis Quintana
Gore to attend Corzine bill signing
Quintana the street fighter says he’s ready to graduate
ANOTHER BIG CAMPAIGN ISSUE: A NEWSCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA
Not This American Life
Happy Independence Day!
The Morning Read: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Libby at Liberty!
Rob Tornoe
Swimming for your life
Events for July 4, 2007
Elsewhere: Attack of the Ten-Foot Senator
Page Six on Harold Ford
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Dems have fundraising advantage in 12th
Rudy’s Out Front
You Never Sausage A Mayor!
The Viola Plummer Saga Continues
Marciante wants BPU post
It’s That Kind of Day
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Red Jersey USA
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Rethinking the Alito Nomination
Burlco GOP moves to dump Warner
Redistricting 2011: What if New Jersey loses a seat?
The Morning Read: Tuesday, July 3, 2007
A Petition Circulates in Brooklyn
Quinnipiac poll to be released on Thursday
BFF
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Paul Swibinski’s Tribute to Byron Baer
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Dunlap, the fixer, is back
First the iPhone and now this?
Elsewhere: Scooting Out Of Trouble
Terry, Terry, Quite Contrary
Libby Pardon On The Way?
Events for Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Spitzer on NY1: Talks, Laughs, and Denies
McCain Won’t Quit
The Rev. Al Moderates
Bobblehead Bloomberg
George Bush = Neville Chamberlain
Manhattan Box Office: Bruce, Not Rats, Rule the City
The Cost of an Assembly Seat in Manhattan
How They’re Spending That Cash
Guarino campaign releases poll
Redistricting 2011: Ray Lesniak walking on water
Donald Trump
Redistricting 2011: How to save Karcher or Beck
Events for Monday, July 2, 2007
The Morning Read: Monday, July 2, 2007
Altitude Drop For Lieberman the Hawk
GOP candidates qualify for maximum public funds
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