The New York Post's Keith J. Kelly speculates aloud on what it means for a Conde Nast magazine to be moved from the headquarters at 4 Times Square to 485 Lexington Avenue, where the publishing empire has auxilary office space:

Last year, House & Garden was shut down just a year after moving its offices into that building. This week it was Golf for Women.

"If any magazine gets moved into here, it probably means they are getting ready to shut down," said one source.

One more title and it's an official trend!

Ron Galotti, the former Condé Nast exec who was the inspiration for Sex and the City's Mr. Big, has gotten a bit of press this past week. There's an item in WWD's Memo Pad today in which he surveys the red-carpet crowd at last week's movie Sex and the City premiere.  read more »

Tom Florio, the publisher of the Vogue titles at Conde Nast, has picked up a new hobby. Today's Intelligencer in New York reports that Mr. Florio has a thing for ... gondola racing!  read more »

It's on the record now.

Condé Nast editorial director Tom Wallace gave the company's loudest and most forceful public support for Joanne Lipman, the editor of Portfolio. In a story in today's Women's Wear Daily written by Stephanie Smith, Wallace says the following: that the company "love[s]" Joanne Lipman; that she's an "ingenious" editor; that she's absolutely safe in her job; that the company is "extremely pleased" with the magazine.  read more »

Conde Nast was one of the tangential losers in the West Side rail yards bidding. The magazine publishing giant was the anchor tenant for the Durst-Vornado bid, and that bid, of course, lost yesterday to Tishman Speyer's.

But! John Koblin, at our brother blog Media Mob, reports that Conde Nast C.O.O. John Bellando sent out an internal memo this morning telling employees that the company was still looking to build a new tower--somewhere--by 2016.

From the memo:  read more »

Si Newhouse's plan for a new skyscraper on the far West Side with Douglas Durst is dead in the water, but is there something else out there?

Conde Nast C.O.O. John Bellando sent out an internal email this morning reassuring employees that all hope isn't lost. At least for a new skyscraper somewhere. Here's the memo:  read more »

Steven Florio, former C.E.O. and president of Conde Nast, died yesterday after a heart attack. He was 58.

Vogue editor Anna Wintour described the Conde Nast landscape under Florio's reign like this to WWD: "It was a smaller world. It was much less involved in the Internet. The company wasn't as large as it is now, and he ran it based on relationships he had. It was more like an old boys' network."  read more »

The Observer's John Koblin, on our sister blog The Media Mob, breaks the news this morning that House & Garden magazine will fold after its December issue hits stands.

Conde Nast, the magazine's publisher, just doesn't see money in the title any more.

We can't help but wonder whether the slumping national housing market--and all the attendant industries that relied upon it, from landscaping to contracting to brokering--had something to do with the magazine's folding.

Conde Nast's House & Garden has folded.

"We have announced this morning that with the December issue we will cease publication," said Maurie Perl, spokeswoman for Conde Nast to The Observer this morning.

“Our investment in House & Garden throughout the years has been substantial and we no longer believe it is a viable business investment for the company," said Charles Townsend, President & CEO of Condé Nast in a statement.  read more »

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has joined Stephen Ross's Related Companies in its bid for the Hudson Yards project, a source familiar with the bid said.

If Stephen Ross' Related won the bid to develop on the far West Side, News Corp. would move its headquarters from its Sixth Avenue tower and into a new tower in Hudson Yards, the source said. Last week, The Observer reported that Conde Nast would leave 4 Times Square for a new, 1.5-million-square-foot tower if Douglas Durst and Vornado won a bid; and it was also reported that Morgan Stanley had teamed up with Tishman Speyer.  read more »