Joel Siegel's co-op at 82 Irving Place has been sold to an In Style editor Ariela Avram for $1.95 million, city records show. The tirelessly cheerful Good Morning America film critic died last summer at the age of 63 after a prolonged battle with colon cancer. His wife and the executor of his estate, Ena Swansea, signed the property deed.

Siegel had been fundraising for cancer research for decades before he was diagnosed following his first wife's death from brain cancer. He and Gene Wilder co-founded the first Gilda's Club cancer support group.

Two reporters who covered Rudy Giuliani when he was mayor gave their post-mortem on his presidential campaign on NY1 News last night.

“You can say to some extent Rudy was the victim of the surge," said Joel Siegel, formerly with the Daily News but now at ABC News. "In a way, things are improving, or seem to be improve in Iraq.”

Siegel continued, “He lost the rational of electing somebody who is very, very strong, or who is running on the argument of being strong on national security.”

“It seems to me,” said David Seifman, City Hall Bureau Chief for the New York Post, “that coverage of Rudy in the presidential race took off, from some extent, from his years at City Hall. I mean, he antagonized so many reporters that got their chance to get even this time around.

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