A third of the way through their recent set at the East Village club Brownies, the ladies of Northern State-an all-white, all-female hip-hop group originally from Dix Hills, Long Island-were feeling the inevitable effects of jumping around in a small, crowded space under burning stage lights. Twenty-five-year-old D.J. Sprout (real name: Robyn Goodmark) was damp Read More
You might think of Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols as a power couple with everything: She's the co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America , and his signature movie has been recycled as a play starring Kathleen Turner on Broadway.
But, apparently, there was something missing: a power apartment with a terrace overlooking Central Park. They've been Read MoreIn 1999, Frank Newman, chairman of Bankers Trust Corp., was essentially forced out of his job when his company was acquired by Deutsche Bank. When the deal was completed, Mr. Newman received $55 million in severance pay plus $11 million every year until 2003.
Three years later, according to brokers, he has been offered almost $13.7 Read MoreRob Dodd, a 25-year-old aspiring actor, moved to Los Angeles on Feb. 1 after four years in the East Village. On Feb. 5, he and a friend went hiking in Tamescal Canyon. After two hours, he took a break and sat on a rock.
"I didn't see the snake. It bit me on the thumb, Read MoreWith greatest-hits collections and antiques, Barbra Streisand usually comes out on the winning end of a deal. But not in real estate. In April, Ms. Streisand signed a contract to sell her 8,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at the Ardsley, 320 Central Park West. Sources say a contract for around $4 million was signed in early March, Read More
Come this summer, when a man approaches a woman in a bar and asks
for her number, she may just say, as she fiddles with her hair and dives back into her martini glass, "Have your shrink call my shrink." By then, eligible New Yorkers in therapy-and, let's face it, even Tara Reid is reportedly in Read MoreIn mid-March, private
investor Peter Knobel sold his renovated mansion at 20 East 73rd Street for $17 million. The property is spectacular-a 22-foot-wide building located on a prime block between Fifth and Madison avenues. And Mr. Knobel invested $7 million, putting in a wine cellar and basement basketball court. But when he got such a high Read MoreOn March 29, Jodie Foster opens in a film about a recently divorced mother who picks up and leaves tranquil Greenwich, Conn., with her daughter for a state-of-the-art townhouse on Manhattan's Upper West Side. On their very first night under their new roof, three violent intruders break in, and mother and daughter scramble into a Read More
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Four years after buying a two-acre spread north of Montauk Highway in East Hampton for $950,000, Mr. Bradley recently paid $1.35 million for the 2.77-acre place next-door. "The Read MoreDespite its reputation for a tough board and apartments that owners are loath to relinquish, 770 Park Avenue, a Rosario Candela–designed building near 73rd Street, is seeing several units change hands. And the magic number that gets you into the co-op building seems to be $8 million.
David E.R. Dangoor, the Swedish executive vice president of Read MoreWhen erstwhile Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro
decided to build a swimming pool on the property of her Fire Island summer home in 1988-claiming that, as a celebrity, she wasn't getting enough privacy at the local public beach in Saltaire-her preservation-minded neighbors in the small, exclusive community raised the roof. Ultimately, celebrity-and a good deal of Read MoreArtist David Salle was one of the grandfathers of Tribeca, buying
a loft there in the early 80's, transforming it into an architectural masterpiece-it has been cited as an early example of the revival of the mid-century style that now won't die-and remaining there for almost two decades. But it seems that Tribeca has lost its Read More" Honey !
You were absolutely precious !" It was a late Saturday afternoon, and the 9-year-old actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg was trying to escape through a swarm of adoring matinee goers at the American Airlines Theater in Times Square, where she currently co-stars as Little Mary in Claire Booth Luce's The Women. "Oh sweetie, you Read MoreOn Friday, Sept. 21, in a second-floor suite of the Pierre Hotel, at a company-wide meeting of the Corcoran Group, chairwoman Barbara Corcoran scrapped the agenda-introducing a new advertising campaign-and instead addressed rumors that the company was being sold.
"She didn't give us any detail about who the buyer was, but she said the company was Read More
