Kicks on Page Six
Page Six got hold of the new Doubleday-Broadway catalog and offers a sneak peek at Rogues’ Gallery today. Mediabistro’s Galleycat likes it too. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, so to speak, please consider going here and pre-ordering a copy!
Model Mogul
Jerry Ford, co-founder with his wife Eileen of The Fords model agency and a genuinely nice guy, has died at age 83. He is the second pioneer of modern modeling to die this year, following the real first supermodel, Dorian Leigh. RIP, Jerry.
Hoving Into Sight
Tom Hoving is back on artnet with some (likely unwanted, but quite possibly needed) advice for the committee searching for a new director at the Metropolitan Musuem. My favorite candidate, the British Museum’s Neal MacGregor, turned them down. The smart money says that makes James Cuno of the Art Institute of Chicago the front-runner in […]
Village Under Seige Pt. 3
Here we go again. Nikos, the best little magazine store in the city, has been forced out of its home at Sixth Avenue and 11th Street. Today’s New York Sun blames rising rent, but isn’t it also turning tides? Nikos sold a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, mind-bending mish-mash of everything from obscure literary journals to magazines so […]
A Speight of Sales
Here’s the floor plan (above) and listing for Randolph and June Speight’s $35 million 15-room duplex at 740 Park . No photos yet.
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours
Here’s one for size obsessives. In Sunday’s Big Deal column in the Times, Josh Barbanel reveals that the empty 740 Park C-line apartment long owned by the late Randolph and June Speight is about to come on the market at $35 million, creating an opportunity to combine it with the just-listed-at-$38 million Peter Huang D-line […]