A good habit: Houses, not heroin
Hollywood hyphenate Sandy Gallin has a bad Hamptons house habit. He buys ’em and flips ’em and I flip out over his latest production in my latest Unreal Estate column in the latest issue of Avenue (at the Beach). Read it before it’s too late.
On Kimye: “Hell is truth seen too late.” –Thomas Hobbes
Two and a half years ago, long before Kimye was a glimmer in Anna Wintour‘s eye for fashion, I wrote a column called “Discarding the Kards,” wondering what the rise of a certain reality-TV family meant, and bemoaning the “Culture of Stupid” they symbolized. Last week, those chickens came home to roost, as evidenced by […]
Pirhana power: Under the radar with Barry Rosenstein
“He lays off 6,000 grocery store employees but details about his life are [a] ‘tragic invasion of privacy’?” says an email I got this morning from a reader of the New York Post’s latest excerpt from House of Outrageous Fortune. This time, the focus has shifted from hookers and holdouts to one of the most […]
Bitter family squabble ends with $48 million sale at 15CPW
The children of Richard Ullman, who went from pharmacist to pharmaceutical benefits mogul before dying of cancer in 2011, has left Fifteen Central Park West with a $24 million profit after doubling its money with the sale of Ullman’s duplex penthouse in the uber-condo’s front, or “House,” building. The sale, reported last night by The […]
International acclaim for House of Outrageous Fortune
House of Outrageous Fortune has attracted attention in Norway and Spain. The book “reveals the names of the tenants of the property and some of its best kept secrets,” writes Estela Deck in Expansion. “Gives readers a rare glimpse of life inside the sand-colored walls,” writes Morten Bertelsen in Dagens Naeringsliv.
Another sale (and multi-million-dollar profit) at 15CPW
Apartment 15K at 15CPW, a three-bedroom spread with a balcony, albeit one without a park view, has sold for a second time for just over $13 million. It was first purchased off plans by Evan Cole, co-founder of ABC Home, who sold it a month after taking possession in March 2008. As reported in House […]
Another record for Rybolovlev: the world’s costliest divorce. Also, a Met Museum book update, and RIP Arthur Gelb
The buyer of New York’s most expensive apartment, an $88 million penthouse at Fifteen Central Park West, the former Russian fertilizer oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, is now the world’s unluckiest divorcee, after a Swiss court ordered him to pay his ex-wife Elena Rybolovleva precisely half his fortune, down to the penny…a sum just over $4.5 billion. […]
Copycat condo? A mystery at Robert A.M. Stern’s 220 Central Park South.
If I was Arthur or Will Zeckendorf, I’d want to sue somebody. In the run-up to the publication of House of Outrageous Fortune, I saw but didn’t dwell on a scoop on curbed.com revealing renderings of Fifteen Central Park West architect Robert A.M. Stern’s design for competing developer Vornado’s new 220 Central Park South condominium, […]
Back to the future, Yucatan style
Kin Sol Soleil is a brand new boutique hotel that harkens back to the Yucatan coast before it was rebranded the Riviera Maya. Visit it, North Akumal, and some of the best restaurants in the area, new and old, in today’s New York Post.
“Reveals the building’s secrets and identifies its residents en masse for the first time”
The new issue of Global Citizen magazine looks inside “House of Outrageous Fortune” in a story by Daniel Bates. Click the cover above and then turn to page 50.