Model Scoop
Today’s WWD spotlights the re-release of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. “The book explores the lives of models and digs up dirt on the vast sums of money, sex, drugs, and back-stabbing that comes with the business,” says fashion’s leading trade newspaper.
Ah, the irony of it
Who’d have thought that the conquering hero who revived Ground Zero would turn out to be Si Newhouse? My latest column in Crain’s New York Business celebrates the mighty magazine mogul who represents just about everything Jihadists hate.
Exclusive Sneak Preview: Unreal Estate
I’m doing my first talk about Unreal Estate at a gourmet dinner in one of the favorite bolt-holes of Angelenos, Las Ventanas Al Paraiso in San Jose del Cabo on the Baja peninsula on October 22. As part of its Hot Type program, galleys–advance reading copies–are given to guests before the book’s release. You can […]
Who’s Afraid of Luxury Real Estate?
A few months back a genius told me she was convinced that luxury real estate had run its course as a subject of fascination. So how come even the Daily Mail in London thinks the spurious tale of the possible foreclosure of Kent and Elizabeth Swig‘s apartment at 740 Park is big news? This story […]
Guess Again at 740 Park
Yesterday, The New York Observer named several 740 Park households that were hit by the headwinds of economic distress in recent years. Today, there’s the first new listing in a long time at the storied tower, and none of the Observered names are involved. Computer gaming mogul Gregory Fischbach and wife Linda, a former fashion […]
The Never-Ending 740 Saga
In today’s New York Observer, Elise Knutsen looks at 740 Park and some of the families there who’ve felt the effects of the Great Recession.
The View From Here: Manhattan in August
In Crain’s New York Business this week, my column is a paean to summer in the city.
Is it Arborcide?
Gripepad has a certain nostalgia for its old home on the rim of Washington Square Park, so it often follows events there. Now, Washington Square Park Blog reports a mysterious rash of tree deaths there (the one above was photographed yesterday), even as the never-ending renovation of the park continues. What–or who–is killing the trees? […]
Like a Virgin
My first public appearance in support of Unreal Estate will be at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble on November 2nd, pub date plus one. I hear I’m amusing. At least on the subject of the board of the Metropolitan Museum. November 2, 2012 at 150 East 86th Street.
Why Didn’t the Book Business Think of This?
Thanks to Galleycat.