Kent Swig’s Misuse of Loan Hangs Wife/Kids Out to Dry, Lawsuit Claims
Kent Swig’s alleged misuse of a home loan led his estranged wife Elizabeth to nearly lose their apartment to foreclosure, leaving her running to her famous daddy, real estate giant Harry Macklowe, for...
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The Artist Givenchy Is Present
"To illustrate the relationship between fashion and art," they claim. Last we checked in with Marina Abramović, the Montenegrin grand dame of performance art had just picked up a $2.65 million...
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Martin Amis Might Hate Brooklyn Hipsters, But Probably Not
Martin Amis (Wikimedia Commons) Martin Amis has become another soldier in a war against the sub-species known as “Brooklyn Hipsters.” The London Evening Standard has a new piece about the British...
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Hedge Fund Honcho John Thaler Makes 3.4% Annual Return on the Upper East Side
Modest façade yields modest returns. John Thaler is best known for his tech-heavy hedge fund picks, but this morning he cashed out on a more old world investment: real estate. The JAT Capital manager...
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Jonathan Krim Will Head The Wall Street Journal‘s San Francisco Bureau
Jonathan Krim (Photo via Twitter). Jonathan Krim has been named the technology Editor and San Francisco Bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, announced a memo that went out this...
View ArticleBloomberg’s Last Budget
No significant tax hikes, no spike in city spending: that’s a formula for economic growth. And that’s what New York has grown accustomed to during the Mike Bloomberg era in City Hall. The mayor...
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In the Company of Others: Nikolai and the Others Intrigues but Never Seduces
Morris and Kunken in 'Nikolai and the Others.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Richard Nelson, Tony-winning book writer, Obie-winning playwright and former Yale Drama playwriting chair, is today best known for...
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Alder Statesman: Ten Years in the Making, Wylie Dufresne’s New Restaurant Was...
The bar and dining room at Alder. The chef Wylie Dufresne looks a bit like a character out of The Far Side. He is still boyish at 42, with indoor-only onionskin, anachronistic muttonchops, bookish...
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Gatsby Takes Manhattan: Leo, Jay-Z and Baz Turn NYC into a Two-Week Pop-Up
Early last Thursday morning, Leonardo DiCaprio was sitting in the basement of The Darby as a long line of girls came toward him carrying bursting bottles of champagne affixed with firecrackers. Jay-Z...
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Parks and Rap: One Year After Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch’s Death, Brooklyn Renames...
Adam Horovitz, a.k.a. Ad-Rock. Last Friday, one year to the day after the death of the Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch, the Transom stood at the far west end of Atlantic Avenue, in a small but familiar...
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Watch Your Headgear: Ladies Break Out the Big Guns for The Hat Luncheon
Natalie Ross and Michelle-Marie Heinemann. On the first Wednesday in May, a rather large tent pops up behind the Vanderbilt Gate on Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets with the sole purpose of...
View ArticleAnchors Away: Achieving a Summery Home Without Drifting Out to Sea
“No more coral!” declares Mary Kate McGrath, picking up a party napkin emblazoned with the twiggy red theme so ubiquitous of late. We’re on a shopping trip in Tribeca, scouting warm-weather home...
View ArticleThe Unmighty Quinn: City Council Members Sense New Opportunities in Mayoral...
Bronx City Councilman Fernando Cabrera was ready to defy established order. He sensed that Speaker Christine Quinn was losing her grip on the legislative body. “I’m scared,” he told Politicker at the...
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Public Institutions In Private Developments: Plans For a Smaller, If Sleeker,...
The old Donnell Library. These last few years have been challenging ones for both the New York and Brooklyn public libraries. Anemic funding and dwindling resources have collided not only with the need...
View Article$41.6 M. Cézanne Still Life Leads Sotheby’s to Solid $230 M. Imp-Mod Haul
The spring auction season kicked off tonight with a well-stocked Impressionist and modern sale at Sotheby’s that brought in $230 million for the house across 71 lots. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer, never...
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Fashion’s Fight Out: Model and Designer Lace ‘Em Up on West 27th Street
Designer Kelechi Odu trades jabs with model Charlie Himmelstein. (Photo by: Federico de Francesco) Fashion is a knockabout business, but it’s rare for a model to actually deck the designer during a...
View ArticleOngoing Investigations Revealed Against More New York Lawmakers
This afternoon, courts released a sentencing document for State Senator Shirley Huntley, detailing her cooperation with federal authorities in the wake of her arrest in a bribery scheme. After a slew...
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Layoffs Hit The Daily News
Today is layoff day at The Daily News, reports Capital NY, who put the number at around 15--columnists Albor Ruiz and Joanna Molloy and reporters Christiana Boyle and Robert Gearty among them. Rumors...
View ArticleNYC Unveils Sex Ed App to Help Teens Find Birth Control and STD Screenings
New York City tweens who can’t stand the thought of having their gross gym teacher stand in the front of the classroom and explain to them that if they have sex they’ll get AIDS and die may breathe a...
View ArticleMichael Arrington Files Suit Against Jenn Allen, Alleging Defamation
After a fraught public spat that included rape and abuse allegations and captured tech watchers on both coasts, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has filed a law suit against his former girlfriend,...
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