It hasn't been a banner year for Aby Rosen. His townhouse sold for $6 million less than the asking price, he juggled bad boom-time buys, and "half of Israel" cursed him with jackhammers and other threats for a hotel development in the Holy... MORE >
“You stopped me right before I could walk in and get too liquored up!” prolific restaurateur Danny Meyer told the Daily Transom as he arrived at the Central Park Conservancy's "Taste of Summer" benefit on Wednesday night, June 3.... MORE >
Nightlife impresario Nur Khan was bummed that rock singer Chris Cornell had pulled the plug on him. “Am I upset that we’re not doing the gig tonight? Yeah, it would’ve been really cool,” Mr. Khan told the Daily Transom. “But we’re going to shoot for something in... MORE >
Reading about an overdesigned interior in the Upper East Side ("...built by bending plywood over wooden ribs and lacquering the surface, the finished wrapper creates a calm, cool atmosphere") is only shocking when it's an interior of a dentist's office. Actually, though, it's a teeth-whitening clinic. [See above] [Metropolis] The 9/11 memorial is finished! But not the big one. (This Anglophile memorial is the "British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square.") [N.Y.] New York City is getting... MORE >
This Thanksgiving, paterfamilias Julian Schnabel gathered the clan to his Montauk home for the feast... MORE >
If you're in the market for a $10 million Ian Schrager apartment, you'll be sad to know that Icelandic billionaire Jon Asgeir Johannesson has snatched up the second-to-top floor at the Gramercy Park Hotel. (Click on the floorplan above to enlarge.) According to the GPH Web site, the floor-through apartment has 2,988 square feet (there are also 738 feet outdoors). The library/bedroom and dining room both face the park--and there's a wood-burning fireplace in... MORE >
So what if Bill Clinton tied New York traffic in knots just over a month ago with the Clinton Global... MORE >
Schrager and 54 pal The posh Chapin School is expanding at East End Avenue and 84th Street (their science labs weren't nice enough, apparently). But Community Board 8 hasn't been so pleased with the Chapinites: "I just wish the school, trying to teach citizenship to these young ladies," said a board member, "would practice some citizenship itself by meeting with the neighbors." Who cares about neighbors? A brief visit to the school's website reveals, "Everyone... MORE >
Former Apprentice contestant David Gould is on a one-man crusade to stop construction at Ian Schrager's much-touted 50 Gramercy Park North at Gramercy Park Hotel. Plans are currently underway to build 23 luxurious condos, with a wealth of amenities. In 2001, Mr. Gould—a trained physician who now works in health care private equity—moved next door into 4 Lexington Avenue, originally the Russell Sage Foundation. He gut-renovated two units, which were later combined. In addition, Mr. Gould... MORE >
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