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Sealed With a $14 M. Kiss: Schiansi Mansion To Love, Live Again
It took seven years, but the mansion finally has a buyer. It has been a long, lonely wait for the Schiansi Mansion at 351 Riverside Drive. Though the 12,000-square-foot French Renaissance mansion is...
View Article‘The City Needs the Right African-American’: Rev. Butts Endorses Thompson...
Rev. Calvin Butts III, who notably endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s re-election bid four years ago, is officially throwing his support to the man Mr. Bloomberg defeated in this year’s mayoral race:...
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To Do Saturday: Serving of Salsa
Salsa-dance your way into the long holiday weekend. Salsa teacher Ivan Roliz gives an hour-long intro lesson at 8 p.m., and then it’s a full-on summer sexy, steamy sweaty salsa dance party until 11...
View ArticlePete King Says Obama Is ‘Abdicating His Responsibility’ on Syria
Rep. Pete King says President Barack Obama made a serious mistake today when he announced he’d seek congressional approval to attack Syria, which is accused of slaughtering its own people with chemical...
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To Do Sunday: Celebrate Tokyo and Electronic Music
Spend a night in Tokyo via J-Summit, which is hosting vol. 17 of its relief fund for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Dance to Japanese pop, and check out new Japanese artists over...
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To Do Monday: Lower Manhattan History Lesson
There was a time not too long ago when candidates for public office in America might downplay time spent in a foreign land battling alongside communist revolutionaries. But in the brave new world of...
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Morning Media Mix: Labor Day Edition
(Illustration by Lauren Payne) It's Labor Day. Which means you are either spending one last day drinking beer and eating dubiously cooked Hamburgers on some roof somewhere, in an office wishing you...
View ArticleOn the Market: Rich Babies Live In Fancy Nurseries; The Majority of Food...
Cribs, baby edition: Rich infants are getting ever fancier nurseries, devices. [WSJ] More than half of all food stamp recipients now live in the suburbs. [Atlantic Cities] Co-ops and condos sell off...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer Says He Did ‘Great Things’ With Vito Lopez
After being forced to resigned after a lurid sexual harassment scandal that tarnished powerful Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, now-City Council candidate Vito Lopez has become the leper of the...
View ArticleChristine Quinn Says ‘Wind Is Now at Our Back’ Despite Sagging Poll Numbers
According to recent polls, former mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn is in trouble. Some now have her in third place–trailing Public Advocate Bill de Blasio by as many as 15-points–and even ardent...
View ArticleBrands Now Snapchatting ‘Boobs and Butt’ Pics in Brave New Marketing Ploy
You can stop stressing out about how brands are going to monetize Snapchat. One online retailer has it all figured it out: just bombard you with naked pics until you want to buy its crap. Streetwear...
View ArticleOn the Market: Auction of 251 Park Delayed; Feil Real Estate Empire Shaken By...
Auction of the Ring and Extell-owned 251 Park has been mysteriously delayed. [Post] Hunter College president accused of fostering culture of fear and intimidation. [NYT] Feil siblings squabble over...
View ArticleTeens and Gamers Scatter as Country’s First Internet Addiction Program Opens
Stop making pouty faces into the Snapchat cam for just a sec and listen up: Internet addiction is real, and treatment for it has officially hit the U.S. No longer will you have to fly all the way to...
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Five Essay Prompts for Breaking Bad 5×12: ‘Rabid Dog’
Are there actually working pay phones anymore? These questions regard last night’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. Please answer the prompts with specific examples from LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE, though...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne) Jeff Bezos gave his first interview since deciding to buy The Washington Post to, naturally, The Washington Post. The Amazon founder "says he doesn’t have all the answers...
View ArticleBill Thompson Gets Some Blessings Before the Jewish New Year
As a yarmulke-wearing Bill Thompson showed on a muggy Monday night, the road to victory in the mayor’s race may be partially paved by men wearing frock coats and billowing beards. The ex-comptroller...
View ArticleHow the Candidates Are Getting Ready for Tonight’s Big Debate
This is it: The last chance for the Democratic mayoral candidates to face off before voters head to the polls a week from today. And like professional athletes ahead of a big game, each candidate has...
View Article18 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before September 9
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Opening: Sol LeWitt at Paula Cooper Gallery Paula Cooper Gallery will display Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #564: Complex forms with color ink washes superimposed, which has not been...
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Ali Wentworth Calls Out Husband George Stephanopoulos For Forgetting Her...
George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth and friends. (Patrick McMullan) This morning, George Stephanopoulos tweeted news of Katie Couric's engagement to financier John Molner. "Congrats to @katiecouric...
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On the Page: Marisha Pessl and J.M. Coetzee
Night Film: A Novel Marisha Pessl (Random House, 624 pp., $28.00) In Marisha Pessl’s new book, Night Film, the author has invented an entire universe of references and characters, starting with...
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