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Sleeping Spaces: Lower Manhattan Lodging Market Picks Up
Rendering of a guestroom at Fairfield Inn & Suites, at 161 Front Street. (Glen Coben Architecture & Design) While portions of lower Manhattan were still in recovery mode from Supersorm Sandy...
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Chinatown Civic Leader Says Cuomo Administration Grilled Him Before Astorino...
Rob Astorino (left) at the Lin Sing Association with Eddie Chiu (center). A Chinatown civic leader claimed today that a member of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office interrogated him before Republican rival Rob...
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Former Councilman Erik Dilan Will Run for State Assembly: Sources
Erik Dilan (far right) standing next to Councilman Rafael Espinal. (Photo: Facebook) Erik Dilan, a former Brooklyn councilman, will run for a vacant assembly seat that overlaps with his old City...
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Robert McCormick’s Daughter ‘Appalled’ by NYT Magazine Cover Story
The Times Magazine cover story. Robert McCormick’s daughter, Susannah, has responded to John Jeremiah Sullivan’s recent New York Times Magazine cover story, which relies on an interview transcript...
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Dos Equis Reschedules Cinco de Mayo
As the clock struck noon in New York, a crowd began to gather around Flatiron Plaza. The air was chilly and the sun covered by clouds, but that didn’t stop a rash of 20-somethings wearing Ray-Bans,...
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Head Over Heels: ‘Casa Valentina’ and ‘Cabaret’ Ride Broadway’s Drag Wave
Reed Birney in Casa Valentina. (Photo by Matthew Murphy) It’s all over but the votes. The final Broadway competitors for the Tony Awards have met the deadline and results of the final tally will be...
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Belle Époque: Slavery finds an Unlikely Foe in Amma Asante’s Moving Film
Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Matthew Goode in Belle. Elegant and understated, Belle is a true story about the effects of slavery on 18th-century England, told in the style of a sweeping romantic saga by Jane...
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Teenage Wasteland: Gia Coppola’s Directorial Debut Examines Adolescent Ennui
James Franco and Emma Roberts in Palo Alto. Cobbled from a book of autobiographical short stories by ubiquitous polymath James Franco about his California hometown, Palo Alto was directed by Francis...
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Caught in the Web: The Latest ‘Spider-Man’ Is a Tangled Retread of Old Material
Spider-Man is played by Andrew Garfield this time around. I don’t know why fans and reviewers alike call The Amazing Spider-Man 2 a sequel. This knuckle-headed bore is the fifth (and silliest) movie...
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John Liu Mulling Challenge Against Tony Avella: Sources
John Liu. John Liu is mulling a run against State Senator Tony Avella, three sources familiar with Mr. Liu’s plans told the Observer this afternoon. Mr. Liu, the former city comptroller and mayoral...
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The Knife Cuts Deep
Are you ready to shake the habitual? I mean really shake the shit out of it until it dies a horrible death? Do you enjoy watching concepts from gender studies class come to life to dark,...
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Yahoo’s Original TV Content: The Return of ‘Kraft Television Theatre’?
Katie Couric (left) and Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer. (Getty Images) Back in ye old 1948, the hottest thing to watch on television was NBC’s Kraft Television Theatre, an hour-long “televised...
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NYC Neocon Bigs Meet Behind Closed Doors
Andrew, Jonathan and James Tisch at the reopening of the newly renovated Loews Regency Hotel earlier this year. (Getty Images This morning at the Regency, Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, sat by...
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Trio of KW Brokers Score $13M to Redevelop UES Gloria Vanderbilt Home
Gloria Vanderbilt. (Patrick McMullan) A trio of investors redeveloping an historic Upper East Side townhouse into condominiums has closed $13 million in acquisition financing from Madison Realty...
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Moving on Up…Philly Comcast Exec Buys on Central Park South for $10.5 M.
Barbara and Peter Georgescu. (Patrick McMullan) We’ve heard a lot lately about disruptions in the cable business: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Aereo…the list goes on. And yet, for all the attendant grumbling...
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De Blasio and Bloomberg Haven’t Spoken Since Mayor’s Inauguration
Then Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and Mayor Michael Bloomberg meeting at City Hall last November. (Photo: John Moore/Getty) Mayor Bill de Blasio has not spoken to his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, in...
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Welcome to the Dollhouse? Heather Matarazzo’s UES Studio Can be All Yours for...
Heather Matarazzo. (Patrick McMullan) Remember Dawn Wiener, the painfully-awkward, lovesick protagonist of Todd Solondz’s breakout feature Welcome to the Dollhouse? Have you ever wished you could see...
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Geraldo Rivera Compares Current Minimum Wage to Slavery
Geraldo Rivera. (Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty) Talk show host Geraldo Rivera and liberal Councilman Jumaane Williams found at least one area of common ground today: the minimum wage. During an interview...
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Foreshadowing: Tina Brown Fell During NewsBeast Merger Meeting
Barry Diller and Tina Brown, back in 2007. (Patrick McMullan) Feature writers always hope for the perfect scene or anecdote that embodies the larger theme of a piece. In Politico Magazine‘s tick-tock...
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Astorino Says Cuomo Wants to Grill ‘Every Person I’ve Ever Talked To in My Life’
Rob Astorino. (Photo: Facebook) Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino says he’s ready for an all-out Democratic blitz.. In an interview with radio host and New York Post columnist Fred Dicker...
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