Feeding and breeding in the East Sixties
This month, the Unreal Estate column in Avenue magazine looks at the evolution of the restaurant rows of East Sixtieth and East Sixty-first streets in Manhattan, now revived as a haven of gastronomy for this still-new century. Read it and eat.
Pearlstine a second time
Norman Pearlstine, the brilliant editor who left the Wall Street Journal in 1995 to head up Time Inc, then left Time for Bloomberg, is returning to Time for a second stint as it’s top editorial executive, reports Crains New York Business. Back when he first joined Time, I profiled him for Esquire in a story […]
All is vanity, nothing is fair…
The slogan above was Tina Brown‘s mantra when she took over Vanity Fair in the ’80s and made it the hottest magazine in the world. This week, I was reminded of it when Vanity Fair turned up the heat on 15CPW penthouse owner and hedge fund firebrand Dan Loeb, with a feature story by William […]
Lou Reed, R.I.P.
Lou Reed died this morning in Southampton, New York, at age 71. This is from the 1993 Velvet Underground reunion tour, courtesy YouTube.
Beijing “It” couple ankles Fifteen Central Park West
Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, the married heads of SOHO China (pictured from China Daily), the third-largest property company in China, were recently profiled on 60 Minutes, but their new American renown is apparently not enough to keep them at Fifteen Central Park West. They have listed their six-room pied-a-terre, unit #2A, with Brown Harris […]
Met Museum lease amended: Better late than never!
Forty-plus years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art instituted its Pay What You Want But You Must Pay Something admission policy, it has finally been formalized by the city of New York, which has amended the museum’s lease to allow it. And so, one of the museum board’s long-standing misstatements (the lease was already amended […]
Deborah Turbeville, R.I.P.
Just heard that the brilliant photographer Deborah Turbeville died yesterday after an eight-month battle with lung cancer. She was listening to Rachmaninoff on her iPod when she passed away, her agent Marek Milewicz said. A former model and fashion editor, Turbeville brought a unique point of view to fashion photography, and her pictures, always beautiful, […]
Outrageous praise
Peter Pennoyer, the chairman of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, a distinguished architect himself, and the co-author (often with 15CPW architect Robert A.M. Stern) of books on Grosvenor Atterbury, Delano & Aldrich and Warren & Wetmore, has penned an advance endorsement of House of Outrageous Fortune: “Michael Gross captures the phenomenon that is […]
House of Outrageous Fortune A-Rod scoop: A shot heard ’round the world
Richard Johnson‘s exclusive scoop in his new New York Post column on revelations in House of Outrageous Fortune about Alex A-Rod Rodriguez‘s Fifteen Central Park West escapades traveled around the world last night and ended up on two front pages here in the embattled Yankee slugger’s home base. Good to have you back, RJ. Or […]
Vornado, Extell, Stern: You read it here first
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is one of Gripepad’s favorite magazines, proving the value of print week in and week out. Last night, midweek, it issued a news alert that New York developers Extell and Vornado had confirmed that they’d made peace in a bitter dispute over two development lots and that Vornado would use Robert A.M. Stern […]