It Rhymes With Bitch
The residents of 740 Park make a respectable showing on this year’s new Forbes 400. New neighbor David Koch clocks in at #9, Steve Schwarzman at #40, Ronald Lauder at #108 and Israel Englander at #317. Ex-residents on the list include #28 Ronald O. Perelman, #57 Henry Kravis, Edgar Bronfman Sr. tied with Lauder at […]
Hedge Hogs
In the next issue of Contribute, the philanthropy magazine, my “Scene” column takes a gimlet-eyed view of the generosity of some of today’s hedge fund and private equity kajillionaires. (Caveat Lector: It’s a pdf file.) The column is featured on today’s Page Six under the headline Hoard The Bacon.
The Liesl Deal
In today’s New York Times ‘Books of Style’ column, critic Liesl Schillinger calls 740 Park “compulsively readable .” So, for that matter, is her column.
Rich and Richer
Michael Shnayerson writes of the intense rivalry between and “parallel personal lives” of Steve Schwarzman and Henry Kravis, the private equity titans, in “Talk of the Town” in the new issue of Vanity Fair — and 740 Park, where the first used to live and the second still does, gets mentioned enough to qualify as […]
Think Print
Author Gay Talese and New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan ponder the future of print journalism, and discuss the Captain Queeg-like tendencies of a former New York Times editor, the down side of e-mail, and the great need for a great book on the coming presidential election campaign in the BG Conversation in the fall […]
Weill-y Coyote
Deal Book at the Times had a real-estate scoop last night. Sandy Weill, it reports, has bought an apartment at 15 Central Park West. This roadrunner reported the same thing back in July, as noted on the blog Real Deal, but never mind. Andrew Ross Sorkin adds a tasty tid-bit: Weill paid $42.4 million for […]
The New Medici
Two new books are now in the works about the controversial trade in antiquities and the role museums play in it, but anyone interested in the subject should indulge right now in the paperback of Peter Watson and Cecelia Todeschini’s The Medici Conspiracy — a true-crime book that reads like a case-file thriller. Here’s a […]
Goldberger Standard
I love the fact that Paul Goldberger’s review of 740 P… oops… 15 Central Park West in the new New Yorker name-checks 740 Park twice and its architect Rosario Candela six times. A commenter on curbed.com, referring to Goldberger’s dismissal of last year’s trend in luxury apartment construction — “glass is the new white brick” […]
Brooke Astor, RIP
Brooke Astor died this afternoon at age 105. Expect well-deserved reverential obituaries tomorrow and shortly thereafter, more acute, albeit posthumous, embarassment due to the unseemly (and uncharacteristically publicized) family squabble over what remains of Vincent Astor’s fortune.
Yo Mike, An Idle Thought
I have to give Adam Sandler credit. He doesn’t claim to be pro-environment. But the politicians of New York do, so I wish they were walking on Central Park South tonight, where Sandler is making a future Oscar winner called “You Don’t Mess With Zoltan.” Fifteen or twenty huge trucks are there, idling in the […]