On the Market: Rockers Beg for Hip Hop Cash; Going to the Movies Gets...
A jewel, a sugar wafer and a pox of panes—good, bad and ugly on 57th Street. [NYT]Needy indie rockers ask Jay-Z for $1 million to save ailing venue. [Brokelyn]Some New Yorkers don't mind living with...
View ArticleThe Trophy Craze That Wasn’t: The Biggest Real Estate Deals of 2013
In time, porcelain chips, silver tarnishes, silk fades and even the bubbliest trophy market goes flat. Nothing lasts forever, least of all the giddy highs of the ultra-luxury housing market,...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne) The Brits just think that a Gin and Tonic can solve any problem, even declining newspaper sales. The Times of London is selling branded small-batch gin. The label...
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What to Give Based On Preferred Publication
Getting somebody a gift is a test of how well you really know that person. And let’s face it. Most of us don’t pay that much attention to other people. Fortunately for the self-involved, knowing what...
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What To Get For Your Favorite Booze Lover
Forget scented candles, cashmere socks and gift baskets full of weird chutneys and gross no-refrigeration necessary cheeses. This year, get your loved ones (and not so loved ones) a gift they'll...
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Saturday Night Live Promotes Holiday Home Sex With ‘Twin Bed’ (Video)
Now it's a whole thing with Jean. (NBC) There were a lot of lovely parts on this weekend's Saturday Night Live episode with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, many of them music-related. (Our personal...
View ArticleDe Blasio Appoints Goldman’s Alicia Glen as Deputy Mayor
Mayor-elect Bill de Blaio has made another major hire, appointing Goldman Sachs’s Alicia Glen as his Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development. Ms. Glen has spent the past 12 years heading the...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Mum on Whether He’ll Keep Spitzer-Dating Spox
The latest Eliot Spitzer controversy may just steamroll a promising spokeswoman’s next big move. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio would not confirm to reporters today whether Lis Smith, the spokeswoman two...
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It’s All Power and Light: Fixture Family Unloads Park Ave. Condo for $16.5 M.
David Littman (Hudson Valley Lighting) In 2012, Thompson Dean, a co-managing partner of the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners, was offered a price on a Roy Lichtenstein painting that a...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne) Stan Brooks, a radio reporter at 1010WINS for more than 40 years, died at age 86. (The New York Times) WME super agent Ari Emanuel is making a bid to get his clients,...
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New Standards Seal the Promise of Payroll Cards for Unbanked New Yorkers
Fernando Ferrer is a proponent of payroll cards. (Photo: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images) Growing up in The South Bronx, I learned early on that no matter how close some things are, they may remain out...
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What To Get The Bon Vivant On Your List
From the showrooms at Salone del Mobile to the design fairs of Miami and bright lights of New York, we discover and experiences some of the most fabulous grown-up toys and indulgences. For this holiday...
View ArticleChiara de Blasio Releases Video Admitting Drug, Alcohol Problems
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara de Blasio, released a video today acknowledging her struggle with long-rumored substance abuse problems. In the video, which was sent out in an email...
View ArticleEx-Anthony Weiner Campaign Manager Among Those Tapped to Join New...
Scott Stringer, the city’s next comptroller, slayed one scandal-scarred pol on his road to victory. Now he’s bringing on board the ex-staffer of another randy Democrat. Camille Joseph, who served as...
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What to Get the Real Estate Mogul on Your List
If that most irksome of holiday types—the man who has everything—can be said to have sub-categories, the real estate development mogul must rank with the most rarefied and, indeed, the most difficult...
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Christmas Eve on the A Train is NSFW
Bringing the hos Even on the A train, it was a shocking sight. This morning, Christmas Eve commuters mingled with last-minute shoppers and parents with scrubbed young children, dressed to the nines to...
View ArticleMarty Markowitz Looks Back
Marty Markowitz first knew he wanted to become Brooklyn’s borough president when he was in his teens. But if it hadn’t been for an event that threatened to kill his political career long before he ran,...
View ArticleMarty Markowitz Has a Christmas Song
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is just a week away from his departure, but he has one last Christmas message for the Borough of Kings. Here, in full, is Mr. Markowitz’s new Christmas song,...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer Announces Divorce From Wife
Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his wife, who stood by him after his prostitution scandal, are finally getting a divorce. “We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end and we have agreed not to...
View ArticleTo Do Wednesday: Jewish Music on Christmas Day
Kosher gospel music on Christmas Day? Why not? Joshua Nelson, a black Jew inspired by listening to Mahalia Jackson as a child, fuses traditional Jewish religious lyrics with gospel style to create his...
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