740 Feud
Two former residents of 740 Park — Ronald Lauder and Edgar Bronfman — are in the news, duking it out over leadership at the World Jewish Congress, says the New York Post’s Page Six. Lauder recently left his soon-to-be-ex-wife behind in the grand double-duplex apartment 740 developer James T. Lee built for himself. Bronfman’s triplex […]
St. Schwarzman’s Day
Steve Schwarzman, current owner of the best little apartment in Manhattan (at 740 Park, of course), turns sixty on St. Valentine’s Day, and his wife is giving him a suitably restrained party — for 1,500 people, at the Park Avenue Armory. Landon Thomas Jr., the snarkiest writer for the New York Times Business page, gives […]
Corrections Pt. 2
This just in from a granddaughter of Walter Hull Aldridge, the mining magnate whose 740 Park apartment was later sold to screenwriter William Goldman, who described seeing Aldridge being taken to a nursing home when he went for his first look at the apartment: “I am one of the granddaughters of Walter Hull Aldridge, President […]
Plumber’s Crack
New York magazine digs deep into the dirt in front of 740 Park today to uncover what lies buried in the imagination of a plumber. Alas, neither the unpublished photographic evidence here, here, here and here, nor the testimony of their eyewitness, who did work beneath 740’s doormat, does much to advance the magazine’s thesis […]
Burch, Treed
In Michael Shnayerson’s compelling profile of the beautiful blonde fashion-PR-turned-fashion-ingenue Tory Burch, “An Empire of Her Own,” in the February 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, Burch says she and her soon-to-be-ex-husband Chris only looked at the most famous duplex at 740 Park , formerly owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Saul Steinberg, as “a […]
Bohos Bounced As Bankers Ball Downtown
The blogger Bankers Ball chimes in on my post on downtown vs. midtown: “There are more and more signs that downtown is becoming tres passe, and the hip ones are all moving to greener pastures.”