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Peggy Siegel's tennis group was here Monday. A bevy of blondes and one or two brunettes took over a round center table in the Grill. I delivered a pink-and-plum-colored spring bouquet to their table, because I decided the ladies deserved some fresh florals. You can tell spring is in the air because half of the women had sunglasses perched on their heads throughout... MORE >
A signed photo of Regis Philbin in his pre-retirement years of taut jowls and salt and pepper hair greets guests near the entrance to Rao's on East 114th Street. Next to him the top half of a dutch door is open, drawing the eye into the steaming kitchen of the legendary Italian eatery, a stainless steel cauldron the size of Rhode Island gurgling across several stovetop... MORE >
On the final night of Fashion Week, New York's sartorial royalty skipped the final few Fall 2011 shows in order to get a peek at Set in Style, the new Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition at the... MORE >
The Momofuku Milk Bar Lemon Tree Hugger cookie was one shade blonder than Anna Wintour's convex bob. A gradient difference that was exaggerated when Ms. Wintour lifted a torn off edge of the cookie to her bob-parallel lips. The individually wrapped cookies delineated each assigned seat at the Band of Outsiders runway show on Saturday evening. Seated with daughter Bee Shaffer and across from fellow Vogue helmswoman, Grace Coddington, the editrix waited patiently while... MORE >
The murderer was very good-looking. As he walked into the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel around 6 p.m. that Friday night, he was freshly showered and wore a dark suit and a purple tie. Though by no means the only young European man to stride through the lobby that night, he must have turned a few heads. A woman waiting there recognized Renato Seabra. Wanda Pires, a friend of Mr. Seabra's travel companion, Carlos Castro... MORE >
In the lobby of the poppy red Palazzo Chupi, the art dealer Vito Schnabel, who was just arriving home, greeted his father, the artist Julian Schnabel, who was just leaving. "Where are you going?" the son asked. Wind rushed inside as the large wooden doors swung shut behind the younger Mr. Schnabel. "To the boys' game. I'm going to try to watch a bit of it." Next to his father's bearish being, the 24-year-old shrunk into the Carvaggio-like... MORE >
Come the end of this week, a coterie of top brokers (like the game Mafia, no one will outwardly admit to having been tapped, but the usual suspects are presumed) will vie for the Petrossian of Candela caviar: the high-floor, five-bedroom duplex at 770 Park Avenue belonging to convicted felon Hassan Nemazee. Nemazee is serving a 12-year sentence at a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, for bilking three major banks out of more than... MORE >
After a rollercoaster ride on the market that included a 59 percent price-cut, brokerage swaps and the oddest combination of memorial and open-house in the history of Candela-designed co-ops, little regarding the late William F. Buckley Jr.'s 778 Park Avenue maisonette could raise eyebrows. That is until a Tuesday morning closing sealed Mark and Renee Rockefeller's purchase of the opulently decorated duplex, which has its own 73 East 73rd address. ... MORE >
A motley Manhattan crew turned out on the chilly first evening of December for the premiere of All Good Things, the Kirsten Dunst-starring feature inspired by the murder of Kathy Durst, wife of Robert Durst, scion of the Time Square real estate family. A New York crowd for a New York story, the guests ranged from Nora Ephron to Rodarte's Mulleavy sisters to onetime Rich Girls star Ally... MORE >
"You should be shaking!" Physique 57 co-founder Tanya Becker belted out to her grimacing class. A chorus of socked feet swanned through the air like a synchronized swimming formation poised for an aerial view. Instead of Esther Williams, Ms. Becker led the... MORE >
"Where would you like to go?" a construction worker asked. Everyone was in hard hats. "Uh, we're going to 37, take us to--" someone started to say. "Heaven!" Frank Gehry chimed in. "We'd like to go to heaven. Press heaven!" As the recently installed elevator at 8 Spruce Street floated soundlessly upward, Mr. Gehry, the building's architect, stood facing the closed doors, his hands laced together in front of... MORE >
Theater czar Hal Prince is a master of production, but even his near-$10 million price chop at peerless 834 Fifth Avenue pales in comparison to the expected yet gasp-inducing cut downstairs. Leslie and Abigail Wexner's fifth- and sixth-floor duplex was quietly listed for $60 million in January 2009, eerily mid-crash. Though never officially on the market, the Thierry Despont-designed home, with a corner living room fronting the park, was quietly peddled to A-listers through... MORE >
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While everyone was eagle-eyed on the upstairs Astor listing and downstairs Buckley maisonette, David S. Winter was busy taking a shine to the fifth-floor apartment which city records report he purchased for $26 million, with wife Elizabeth, making it the third highest price ever paid in the handsome Candela-designed... MORE >
Martin Broughton doesn't like to take his shoes off. At least not when passing through airport security. The CEO of British Airways recently made headlines publicly deriding the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for demanding excessive security measures from U.K.... MORE >
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