Hampton Sheet on #HOOF
“Michael Gross spares no details as he dishes the dirt in this realestate tell-all…a vivid portrait of a New York divided between old money and new, skillfully and intellectually chronicling a secret history of America’s greatest city—required reading for all New Yorkers.” —Victoria Kelsey, Hampton Sheet
The Other Side of Paradise
The new issue of Departures includes my story on the eastern Riviera, a relatively undiscovered stretch of beach and hill towns with all the pleasures of St.-Tropez, but far fewer negatives. The body of the story is still locked–I’ll post a link here once it can be read–but a sidebar on some of the pleasures […]
House ad in The Week
This ad for House of Outrageous Fortune appears in the latest issue of The Week magazine. Click the pic to see it full size.
Someone can talk for a horse, of course
Nice to see that all of New York’s newspapers have finally joined the crusade to save New York’s venerable Central Park carriage horses. Though some only started paying attention once public opinion swung against newish Mayor Bill DeBlasio, one, the New York Post, has been on the side of the horses and those who love […]
House of Outrageous Fortune Celebrated at 15CPW
Carol Strone and William D. Cohan Avis Richards and Caroline Leiberman of 15CPW Allison and Leonard Stern Co-hosts Tamar Lurie and Wendy J. Sarasohn Roy Kean, Lavinia Brance Snyder and host Ranan Lurie Richard Johnson Co-hosts Randi Schatz and Richard Burns Michelle and Asher Edelman Lyn Paulsin Gay and Nan Talese Elizabeth Stribling Ed and […]
Back East
Gripepad has been understandably obsessed with the West Side (and one building there in particular) of late. But life goes on and this month’s Avenue magazine features the latest Unreal Estate column on a carriage house built for the founder of Remington Typewriter. Listed when the column was written, it is already in contract, but […]
Dan Loeb hedges his bet
Noted without comment: Hedgie superstar Dan Loeb‘s email campaign (with fellow financier Barry Rosenstein) to banish a planned House of Outrageous Fortune book party from the building that’s the book’s subject, Fifteen Central Park West, failed on Monday. He backs off in Richard Johnson’s column in tomorrow’s New York Post, claiming through a spokesperson that […]
“Filled with inside stuff,” says David Patrick Columbia of New York Social Diary
Writing in today’s New York Social Diary, David Patrick Columbia says House of Outrageous Fortune is “filled with inside stuff on the people and their houses and their spouses and their louses. Michael is highly skilled at delivering what is called gossip by some, but most frequently fact (and eventually history) known by others-in-the-know. His […]
#HOOF has “the best dirt,” says New York Magazine
My favorite alma mater, New York Magazine, highlights some of the juicier tid-bits from House of Outrageous Fortune in this story by S. Jhoanna Robeldo. Meantime, the New York Post reports that investors in Sotheby’s are giving 15CPW’s chief resident party-pooper Daniel Loeb bad reviews.
Another rave review from the New York Times
“Michael Gross, America’s answer to Robin Leach, takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust in his dishy ‘House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address’,” writes Sam Roberts in Sunday’s New York Times. “What’s remarkable is the degree of access Mr. Gross was granted or finagled, a reflection […]