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Public relations executive Juda Engelmayer concedes that he has lost his fight against "Wikiminimalists" to keep LoHo (Lower Houston, a.k.a. the Lower East Side) in Wikipedia.

"I tried to appeal, it won't work," he writes in an e-mail. The LoHo entry is just a shell of itself, linking to a debate over the debate to delete the entry, in which one of the victors explains:

If the "20 articles" were from reliable sources and documented the name as being in wide use, rather than minor passing mentions and blog postings and one article mentioning this as a neologism, and if anything demonstrated that the term has been influential in anything except naming one agency, then the references would have overruled any number of "delete" votes that didn't give a valid policy reason.

All right. Everybody back to work!

- Matthew Schuerman

Pretty in pink

The bidding for Bob Guccione's grand and gaudy and gorgeous Beaux-Arts townhouse at 14-16 East 76th Street is finally over.

But does the 17,000-square-foot mansion have a new owner? Nope.

According to Corcoran's website, the place is now being listed for $59 million--$14,000,000 more than the minimum bid.

If it seems like a hefty price tag, take solace in the memory of that original $99 million asking price. Furthur reasons to celebrate, via Wikipedia's bio of Bobby G:

In contrast to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion, whose phenomenal parties are the stuff of legend, life at Guccione's mansion was remarkably sedate even during the hedonistic 1970s. Reportedly Guccione once had a party guest thrown out simply for jumping into the swimming pool fully clothed.

Stay tuned for updates from the listing brokers Leighton Candler and Lisa Simonsen...  read more »

- Max Abelson

Today CBS News reports that Kimberly Dozier is headed home, talking "animatedly." CBS has regularly covered the correspondent's injury in Iraq, and the death of her two crew-members.

I'm a little surprised by the silence surrounding anchor Bob Woodruff's injuries from ABC News. Obviously, Woodruff was more grievously injured. But can we know a little more? Wikipedia says his absence has stirred opportunistic positioning at the network, as well you might understand. The Times has respected ABC's privacy, perhaps in deference to a news organization still staggering from Peter Jennings's death. I wonder if this is a Jim Brady like situation, career-ending. A journalist friend I asked about the issue snapped back at me, "Let him heal in peace." Heal, please heal. But am I wrong to want a little more information?

It's worth adding one footnote to today's Post story on the tight relationship between Margarita Lopez and groups affiliated with the Church of Scientology. (Short version: She steers city funds into their, er, unconventional health programs; they give her campaign money.)

Margarita is a proudly out lesbian, but Scientology has a rather, well, complicated relationship with homosexuality, detailed in this Wikipedia entry. The bottom line is that they appear to see it as a curable condition, though the group seems to be getting more pro-gay.  read more »

The church's late founder, L. Ron Hubbard, had this to say:

"The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically."

The renewal--or gentrification--of Red Hook continues apace!

The Real Estate has infiltrated the fabled neighborhood that sits off the Buttermilk Channel (where, according to Wikipedia, low tide would allow farmers to herd their cows over for grazing on Governors' Island), to bring you news of this four-story apartment building currently being constructed at 152 Beard Street, at Van Brunt Street.

This stretch of the Hook was rezoned in 2002 to allow mixed-use, residential/light-industrial development. One of the first projects to enjoy this designation was developer Greg O'Connell's still-under-renovation Civil War-era luxury-condo building, two blocks away at 480-500 Van Brunt Street, right smack on the harbor shores.

According to our source, who asked not to be named, when 152 Beard Street is complete, it will feature six units with a grand total of 10,372 square feet. 152 Beard Street Corporation will be asking for market rent, which, in this rapidly developing neighborhood, could be quite high--especially after the gigantic Fairway finally opens (God knows when) and NY Water Taxi runs a schedule more copacetic to Wall Street workers.  read more »

Our source says that the ground floor will still be an auto shop, which might dampen rental rates if interested tenants are persnickity. Amenities in the 'hood already include low-priced (but expensive-tasting) French bistro 360, trendy diner Hope & Anchor and the new and ultra-delicious Baked cafe. Plus, this property is just around the corner from the fabled Sunny's bar.

- Matthew Grace