Danny Meyer: Real Estate Mover, Shaker
As arguably the most influential New York restaurateur of the past 30 years, Danny Meyer has altered Manhattan’s culinary map and helped redraw its real estate borders. Starting with Union Square Café...
View ArticleHistory Suggests Most of Bill de Blasio’s Hires Will Come After Christmas
With just over three weeks to go before he takes office on January 1, Bill de Blasio is taking things slowly. The mayor-elect has yet to announce the vast majority of the most important hiring...
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Rebecca Black Confronts Fear of Mortality; Days of Week in Saturday (Video)
Rebecca Black, 'Saturday'"I don't want this Saturday to end." Rebecca Black, controversial songstress, has come out with perhaps her most mature work yet in 'Saturday,' which picks up from where her...
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Tom Junod and Mark Warren Take Down Paul Raeburn’s Takedown
Paul Raeburn. (Photo via Twitter) Esquire’s star writer Tom Junod and senior editor Mark Warren have teamed up to put a good deal of NMA hardware on the shelf. In the latest issue of the Hearst...
View ArticleAllThingsD Editors Reportedly Near Deal With NBCUniversal to Fund New Site
When AllThingsD completes its diaspora from parent company News Corp. early next year, NBCUniversal is reportedly going to invest in the revamped, renamed tech blog and conference business. Bloomberg...
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The Spoils of Preppiness: Nautica Founder’s Flatiron Townhouse Snags a Buyer
Limestone courtesy of Texas. The townhouse at 25 East 22nd Street has played host, over the years, to a number of bold-faced and progressive personages. On a Tuesday in the spring of 1897, the New York...
View ArticleProtest Planned Against Last-Minute Bloomberg Push for Mandatory Flu Vaccines
Autism advocates are set to protest tomorrow against a quiet effort by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration to require flu vaccinations for all New York City schoolchildren. On Wednesday, with just...
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The Price Is Wrong: An Ill-fated Shopping Spree at Art Basel Miami
Tara Sokolow-Benmeleh, Antonia Wright, Ruben Millares and Marcella Novela. “How many events do you have?” New York curator and art consultant Tim Goossens asked Shindigger, as he surveyed our...
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Being John Goodman
Though he won’t roll on Shabbos, John Goodman will gladly work with the Coen brothers. John Goodman sounded drained when we got him on the phone. He had just been subjected to five separate interviews,...
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Technical Foul in an East Side Co-op
Basketball: court or co-op? (Photo by Getty Images) With the clocks set back and the temperature dropping, kids and grownups alike are turning their attention to indoor activities. I have replaced my...
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Off Broadway: Imogen Lloyd Webber Buys Ilan Bracha’s Turtle Bay Duplex for...
Imogen Lloyd Webber (Patrick McMullan) A "petite polymath," in the words of the New York Post, Imogen Lloyd Webber has a pedigree to match. Ms. Lloyd Webber is daughter of Broadway impresario and...
View ArticlePols Begin Push to Legalize Marijuana in New York State
Riding high on optimism, State Senator Liz Krueger and a bevy of Democratic pols began a public push today to legalize and tax marijuana in New York State. Ms. Krueger will soon introduce legislation...
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Tourists Love NYC … When Their Feet Don’t Get Amputated
But how much? It's been a big day in tourism. On the one hand, the mayor's office announced that 54.3 million of them (an all-time high record!) came to the Big Apple in 2013. On the other hand, Sian...
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Halftime at the Met: James Levine Falters With Falstaff, but Ambrogio Maestri...
Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff. (Photo by Catherine Ashmore) When James Levine returned to the Met in September to conduct Così fan tutte, after two seasons sidelined by illness and injuries, critics and...
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Hail to King: Beautiful Explores the Complicated Life of Carole King
The Shirelles (Carly Hughes, Alysha Deslorieux, Rashidra Scott, and Ashley Blanchet, from left,) in 'Beautiful.' Were Paul Blake the kind of person who took “no” for an answer, Broadway would never...
View ArticlePeebles Pays $160 M. for 346 Broadway
The Peebles Corporation has closed on the $160 million purchase of 346 Broadway in Tribeca, making it the largest single building sale in the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s history,...
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Prominent Real Estate Lawyer Leonard Grunstein Pleads Guilty to Perjury In SV...
Mr. Grunstein has plead guilty to perjury. (leonardgrunstein.com) Leonard Grunstein, a prominent real estate attorney known for his work on the Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village case, pleaded guilty...
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How to Become The Woman Upstairs: Listen to a Claire Messud Audio Book
I’ve never been a big fan of audio books. Central to my reading experience is the rustle of pages, the contemplation of the shapes of letters, appreciation of various fonts. I’m a connoisseur of the...
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A New Yorkers’ Guide to Practical Fake Sign Language
A bilingual person, flipping you off (stock.xchang) I don’t know why there is such a fuss over this fake South African sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial. New Yorkers use made up...
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Fox News Fact-Check: ‘Santa Just IS White’
The Kelly Files. (Fox News) Oh lordy. It's been awhile since we've had a Fox News segment as glorious as last night's The Kelly Files, which took Slate's Aisha Harris to task for claiming that Santa...
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