White Man Can’t Jump
With thanks to Radar Online for pointing it out, a priceless moment from the Democratic primary campaign: UPDATE: Texas state senator Kirk Watson finds the mind he lost night… sort of. Again, my thanks to Radar.
I’m Not Goin’ To China/I Say ‘No No No’
Valentine’s Day is battered Blackstone Group Chairman and 740 Park resident Stephen Schwarzman‘s 61st Birthday. In his honor (and certainly not to remind anyone of his fab 60th Birthday blowout), today’s New York Post has an online poll (scroll down, on the right side of the page) about how he should spend the night. Unfortunately, […]
Closed at $32 million!
The New York Post’s Braden Keil reveals that the late Janet Mosler Coleman’s apartment at 740 Park has closed almost instantaneously for the price first reported here: $32 million. The lucky new owners? David and Tamara Winn. She’s a daughter of uber-rich guy Ira Rennert. A sidelight: When David Ganek bought from Rand Araskog several […]
Department of Factual Hyperbole (cont’d)
Finally read all the way through James Stewart‘s New Yorker profile of Steve Schwarzman last night and my fact quibbles notwithstanding, must say it’s pretty good. As Andrew Ross Sorkin points out on Dealbook, Stewart has nailed down longstanding rumors of Schwarzman’s rift with his partner Pete Peterson, and done a more-than-respectable job of eliciting […]
Department of Factual Hyperbole
How the mighty have stumbled! No, I’m not talking about the Pats, or Blackstone Group’s stock price (see item just below), but rather, the fabled fact-checkers at The New Yorker, who e-mailed me last week while checking James Stewart‘s just-published profile of Blackstone chairman Steve Schwarzman. The fact-checker wanted to know if it was true […]
Black-eye-stone
With nothing else to post this morning (Britney? Gag. Hillary vs. Barack? Not soup yet), it seems a good time to check in on Blackstone Group, run by 740 Park’s most famous resident, Steve Schwarzman. It’s trading at 18.25 a share, a full dollar above its all-time low. Yay! But more than 50% below its […]
Baby on Board
The head of the co-op board at 740 Park, Charles Porter Stevenson Jr. and his wife, former New York Times reporter Alex Kuczynski are having a baby, sort of, according to Liz Smith. Actually, someone else is having it for them. And La Liz does not reveal if the zygote is comprised of either Kucz […]
Foreverland
My latest column for Contribute Magazine (Jan/Feb 2008 issue) is about the quest for secular immortality. (All you pdf-phobics be warned: it’s a pdf file and takes a moment to load.)
Boney Morony
The excavation of Washington Square Park has turned up a new horror: skeletons. A curbed commenter wonders if they are chicken bones left behind by one of the park’s uprooted denizens. I am thinking it sounds more like the opening scene of a novel. Anyone want to read 666 Washington Square????
Better Than a Mosler Safe
Recession? Not on Park Avenue. The low-floor duplex apartment (#4/5A) at 740 Park Avenue owned by the estate of the late Mosler Safe heiress Janet Mosler Coleman has been sold for what one city broker describes as the “ridiculous” price of $32 million. The building’s original “Jewish” apartment, the first one ever occupied by a […]