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 […]
Shrouded Sale at 740
There’s another apartment for sale at 740 Park, currently hidden behind a black shroud (anyone know why? please e-mail me!). Peter Huang, a Chinese-born investment banker whose ex-wife Nancy once shook up the house by inviting the likes of Chic’s Nile Rodgers, Kid Creole and Fab Five Freddie to party there (earning herself a nasty […]
Rupert Rocks
Say what you will about Rupert Murdoch: There’s something very interesting going on when the Wall Street Journal prominantly features a blistering attack on Wall Street.
Summer Rules
After a few quiet months, it’s back in the news for 740 Park just at the start of the long summer slump. First came Page Six Magazine’s dissection of its co-op board. Today, the New York Observer rumors that Leonard Blavatnick, the 740 Park reject (David Koch lives in the apartment he wanted) has bought […]
RIP Dorian Leigh
Dorian Leigh, the real first supermodel, has died at age 91. Her life is told in full in Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. (Contact sheet by Milton Greene)
Sibling Revelry II
Oh, sister! Jane Gross, who is mine, has just launched her new blog, The New Old Age, at nytimes.com. You can teach a print dog new tricks!
R.I.P. Clay Felker
Clay Felker, the inventor of the modern city magazine and spiritual father of New Journalism, died today. One of the smaller publications referred to in his Times
In the Belly of the Beast
I got to this late but can’t resist. Last week’s Home section of the Times had a very funny story about a real estate marketing party at the Park Avenue maisonette of the late William F. and Pat Buckley, which has just come on the market. The Times captioned the photo above saying only that […]
Model Life (and death)
The death of fashion model Ruslana Korshunova set my phone ringing. This is what I had to say on the subject to The Telegraph in London. “People generalise about fashion models to their own peril. We can’t draw conclusions about one from the last. The occupational hazards of modelling are well known – there are […]