The View From Here: Manhattan in August
In Crain’s New York Business this week, my column is a paean to summer in the city.
Is it Arborcide?
Gripepad has a certain nostalgia for its old home on the rim of Washington Square Park, so it often follows events there. Now, Washington Square Park Blog reports a mysterious rash of tree deaths there (the one above was photographed yesterday), even as the never-ending renovation of the park continues. What–or who–is killing the trees? […]
Like a Virgin
My first public appearance in support of Unreal Estate will be at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble on November 2nd, pub date plus one. I hear I’m amusing. At least on the subject of the board of the Metropolitan Museum. November 2, 2012 at 150 East 86th Street.
Why Didn’t the Book Business Think of This?
Thanks to Galleycat.
Unreal Countdown
Unreal Estate Countdown
Nouvelle Nouvel
Since I was just speaking of my hopes for Jean Nouvel‘s MoMA tower here, how nice to have new renderings appear as if on command on the New York Observer’s web site.
Edifice Rex
Does New York need more tall buildings like Extell’s One57 (abuilding, above)? My latest column in Crain’s New York Business looks to the skies.
“No House Too Big”
Blairsden, the 62,000 square foot 38-room Peapack, New Jersey mansion built by C. Ledyard Blair, heir to the Union Pacific fortune and a former resident of 740 Park, is on the market. Built in about 1900 at a cost of $2 million, it’s also a relative bargain at $4.9 million, even if it now sits […]
Unreal Tour (Take Two)
After several blogs picked up the flying tour of the homes featured in Unreal Estate, viewers spotted two mistakes in the video. A corrected version has now been posted on Youtube.
Hoarse for Horses
The other day, an anti-carriage-horse protester tried to get me to sign a petition outside the Plaza. When I said I like the Central Park carriage horses, she followed me up the block screaming. In an editorial today, the New York Times reveals that the American Girl store was recently invaded by protesters decrying a […]