Home for the Holidays
My favorite pink paper is still hot and bothered about 740 Park. This week, Max Abelson of the New York Observer calls it “a lip-smacking 562-page biography of the Upper East Side’s supreme co-op.”
Alex K: You’ve Got Mail
Last week’s kerfluffle over a Gawker prank —splicing my outgoing voicemail message to a sound bite from a radio interview with 740 Park First Lady Alexandra Kuczynski, wife of 740 co-op board president Charles Porter Stevenson Jr. —seems to have unexpectedly long legs. This morning brought an explanation from David Patrick Columbia’s New York Social […]
Berlin in Brooklyn
In the run-up to his performances at St. Ann’s Warehouse this weekend, Lou Reed has been complaining that his 1974 recording, Berlin, was roundly savaged by the critics. Not this one. In a review in Crawdaddy! in January 1974, I wrote, “With the release of Berlin, Lou Reed, ex-child pianist and ex-lead vocalist of the […]
Canadian Club
FQ, the Canadian fashion magazine, excerpts 740 Park in its fall “Film Fame Fortune” issue. Click to see the pdf.