POM (not so) Wonderful
“Lies and gross exaggerations,” is how Linda and Stewart Resnick of Beverly Hills characterized Unreal Estate–which ends with their astonishing story–in a mass email condemnation shortly before its release late last year. They cited no specifics (of course) and the book nonetheless spent 15 weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. And today, news […]
Curate this!
Editor, merchandiser, organizer, choreographer. Why, I ask in my latest Crain’s New York Business column, do they suddenly all want to be curators?
Next stop, Sternville?
Robert A.M. Stern long ago put his mark on New York real estate with his monumental set of books about the city’s changing architectural face. Now, he may be about to put his mark on a micro-neighborhood. Following his huge success with 15 Central Park West (subject of my next book for The Free Press), […]
Unreal Estate is “Entirely Un-Put-Downable,” says Darlings author
I just bought a new novel called The Darlings by Cristina Alger (at right, from Penguin Press), so it was a double thrill to discover she’d told Jeff Glor of AuthorTalk at cbsnews.com that she is reading Unreal Estate. “I always find his books entirely un-put-downable,” Alger said. I expect to return the compliment soon.
What’s a half-a-million at 740 Park? About one-third the taxman’s bill.
So, it turns out that the sale of Courtney Sale Ross‘ double duplex apartment at 740 Park–first reported here–was indeed closed for “about $52 million,” as reported elsewhere–$52.5 million to be precise–and not the asking price of $60 million, as Gripepad initially heard. The buyers, reports Kim Velsey of the New York Observer, are Howard […]
EZ-Money Men
Robert Stiller, founder of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, was ousted as its chairman this week after stock sales that violated its rules. Stiller and Burt Rubin, his partner in an earlier entrepreneurial venture, EZ-Wider Rolling Paper, were two of the characters who didn’t make the final cut in my history of the Baby Boom, first […]
The Art of the Dis
Monday night’s Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum garnered less press attention than in previous years, but from the armchair view of one of the uninvited, the celebrity petting zoo was still a spectacle worthy of Rome. My favorite snapshot was of Marc Jacobs in a lacy see-through Comme des Garcons dress, Colonial-style buckled […]
Unfit to Serve?
What do Rupert Murdoch and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. have in common these days? More than you might think, I propose in “Time’s up, news moguls,” my latest Commentary in Crain’s New York Business. The image, however, is from an old Vanity Fair.