“Scoop and poop,” says Cindy Adams
My latest book, House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address, is coming in March 2014 from Atria Books, Cindy Adams reveals in her New York Post column today (scroll down past Bernie Kerik. Mixing up her Midases a bit (understandable in an era when there are so many making […]
Un-Truman Capote
Truman Capote once bragged to Architectural Digest how he’d designed his own beach house in Sagaponack on Eastern Long Island. Now, with that house–most recently owned by painter Ross Bleckner–on the market for $15 million, Unreal Estate (in Avenue’s June issue) reveals who really built it, and its storied B.C. past. Before Capote, that is.
Gibney’s 740 Park documentary in eye of PBS storm
Alex Gibney‘s documentary Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, based on my book 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building, aired worldwide last fall and is currently available for sale or rental in the iTunes store and on Hulu (as well as free online in the truncated-for-broadcast PBS version via […]
Twelfth Avenue flip-out
Michael Holtz (at right), the founder of the Smartflyer travel agency, owns four apartments in a West Side Highway condo, a fraction of the eleven he’s bought and sold in the last fifteen years (including one at Fifteen Central Park West and another in the boombastic One57). He’s the subject of my latest “On the […]
How do you really feel, Gwyneth?
Did someone say, how was your weekend? Well, busy. First we were unwillingly evacuated from our home. So I didn’t have time to post about NASCAR champ Jeff Gordon listing his apartment at 15 Central Park West, subject of my just-completed next book, or about France selling the home of its UN ambassador at 740 […]
In the shadow of Ext-hell’s One57
Wealth and powerlessness (the latter, mine) are the subject of an opinion piece, “In Manhattan Real Estate, Wealth and Power Are Relative,” that marks my return to the (online) pages of the New York Times.
A Spring Awakening of True Love on West End Avenue
Spring Awakening producer Tracy Aron‘s Clarence True-designed mansion on West End Avenue is the focus of my latest Unreal Estate column in Avenue Magazine, in better building lobbies now. You can also read it here. Listing is on the Corcoran web site.
Mo’ money, mo’ problems for Metropolitan Museum
In a followup to its revelation yesterday that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has charged admission for forty-plus years in violation of its lease, reporters Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein offer up Art of the $teal , a Sunday feature stuffed with more examples of the museum administration’s contempt for the public that owns its […]
Artful dodging at the Metropolitan Museum
The New York Post filed a Freedom of Information Act request to gain access to the long-hidden agreement that–Metropolitan Museum of Art officials have always alleged, most recently in statement by museum director Thomas Campbell–gave them the right to charge admission. But reporter Julia Marsh‘s story today reveals that no such agreement exists. The link […]
Mi Coachella: Sex dolls, French food and mud baths
I ran away to the circus two weekends back, or rather to Palm Springs and vicinity, where the Coachella circus had pitched its tents. My report on what I found is in tomorrow’s New York Post travel section. That’s Hope Springs, a lovely Desert Hot Springs resort, at right.