Arianna On Top
The latest Bergdorf Goodman Conversation , starring Arianna Huffington and Harry Shearer, couldn’t come at a better time, with the news just in from Portfolio.com that The Huffington Post has passed Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report in traffic. It’s a pdf and will take a minute to load.
I Love New York
(Thanks, Wendy!)
Reading is Fundamental
I guess Blackstone Group chairman and 740 Park resident Steve Schwarzman has been reading his press after all. Today’s Times announced that he was entering the philanthropic pantheon at the very top, donating $100 million to the New York Public Library to totally transform the 42nd Street main library into a modern facility that will […]
We Are #37???
How the mighty have fallen. The richest New Yorker, per Forbes Magazine, is 740 Park resident David Koch, #37 on the just-released lost of the world’s billionaires (and the tenth richest American) — and profiled in today’s New York Post.
The Intriguing Mrs. Hearst
I just read on New York Social Diary that Vanity Fair has an article in the works on Veronica Hearst, the window of Randolph Hearst, who is now embroiled in a big money mess. Check back here later this week, since I was the first writer ever to profile her, back in the days when […]
Hole in the Heart
A view from above the rationalization of Washington Square Park. (Photo: Ryan Hagen)
Steve-a-rino
Someone else is picking on Steve Schwarzman for a change.
Dem Bones
The Villager has pictures of the human remains unearthed in the renovation that has closed most of Washington Square Park. A commenter on curbed.com asks if “in a few weeks we should be on the look out for half a dozen or so crazy old people carrying signs around the park acting like it’s 1968 […]
New York Post
I saw Keith Kelly’s piece on New York magazine’s circulation coup with nekkid LiLo and Serena Torrey, the New York spokesman’s addendum, and wrote an addendum of my own. Thereby losing my virginity as a Poynter sister… er, commenter. Coincidentally, I’m selling a vintage New York magazine jean jacket on ebay Bid ’em up, Bruce.
“They like me. They really like me!”
A commenter on Cathy Horyn‘s runway blog at nytimes.com just called me one of “the most inflammatory, disliked and therefore valuable writers in the business.” Awwwwww…