Mortimer Zuckerman

Now Mort Zuckerman will have to write his monthly rent checks to a rival.    read more »

Hip Clothier Sheds Threads, Declares Art for Art's Sake "The last time local clothier Brooklyn Industries tried to make an ambitious artistic statement in its storefronts, the effort only inspired area graffiti artists. Now, one year (and thousands of dollars in property damage) later, the small-but-expanding chain's owners have come back with a plan to look a lot less like sell-outs: In one location, they're not planning on selling anything--except their image." Go to Counter Espionage by Chris Shott. Daily News Hub Sells for $700 Million "Now, Mort Zuckerman will have to write his monthly rent checks to a rival. The home of Mr. Zuckerman's prized asset, the Daily News, is in contract for more than $700 million, according to a source with knowledge of the deal." New York Life Building Fills with Tenants "The New York Life Building is not having any trouble finding tenants. And, unlike so many of its iconic peers, it's not turning residential, either. Totally the opposite: The building is now fully leased, after filling 300,000 available square feet in the last 18 months." Go to Commercial Breaks by John Koblin. Spitzer Aide as Transit Savior: Arise Again, Moynihan Station! "Just a matter of hours after Gov. Spitzer won [in November], Patrick Foye, not even announced as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, began to chart the course of an entirely new office district with a double-headed train station. Since then, Mr. Foye and others who work for him have been moving forward quickly to get Moynihan Station back on track after its demise in the final months of the Pataki administration, expanding the scope of any project to include the so-called Plan B, which would involve a new Penn Station as well." Go to story by Matthew Schuerman. It's a Long, Long Sales Haul for Manhattan Condos "At the dawn of 2000, when the idea that the average sales price for a Manhattan apartment could top a million dollars was but a glimmer in the eyes of brokers, it took 118 days, on average, to unload a condo. Not anymore. According to appraisal firm Miller Samuel, which prepares a quarterly market report for brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman, by the start of 2007, the average number of days it took to sell a condo shot up more than 60 percent from barely two years earlier." Go to The Lab by Tom Acitelli. Wendy Wasserstein's Garret Windows Go for $5.22 M. "It's been one year since the playwright Wendy Wasserstein died at the age of 55, and her old apartment, on the 11th floor of 75 Central Park West, has now been sold for $5.22 million." Did Lehman Estate Get Close to $32 M. at 2 East 67th? "Back in 1978, after the death of her colossal art collector husband Robert Lehman, Lee Anz Lehman bought herself the ninth floor of 2 East 67th Street. The queenly apartment will soon change hands after nearly 30 years: according to the Corcoran Web site, where the apartment was listed for $32 million, her estate has now signed a contract to sell the co-op." Go to Manhattan Transfers by Max Abelson.

"It is completely false that I have anything to do with the Giuliani campaign," said Daily News chairman and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman.

On Jan 24, Politico's Ben Smith published a PDF of Rudy Giuliani's 127-page campaign dossier, a secret battle plan. Smith had also reported on the brief while working at the Daily News earlier this month.

In the document, Zuckerman is listed in the "Prospective Leadership" category, alongside NewsCorp chief Rupert Murdoch and several captains of industry. And Zuckerman is also penciled in on Giuliani's October calendar. (Incidentally, Zuckerman's name does not appear in the Daily News' Jan. 2 cover story.)

"How my name got on the list, I don't know," Zuckerman said.

But did the Daily News not publish the full document on their own Web site because Zuckerman's name appears on the list of targeted donors?

"Nobody made the decision not to publish it, other than a normal editorial decision," said Zuckerman.

Daily News Editor-in-Chief Martin Dunn is away this week, and Senior Executive Editor Robert Sapio did not return calls for comment.

When Politico first published the Giuliani dossier, private phone numbers were listed, too. They have since been redacted.

"I've been called a number of times," said Zuckerman. "I think the technical term is pissed off."

-Michael Calderone

As a pack of New York officials sweated through their shirts at an outdoor rally on Monday, Hillary  read more »

Bravo's Tabloid Wars--that docu-reality-miniseries peek into Mort Zuckerman's Daily News ant farm--hits TVs July 24, the summer after it was filmed. Today brings the press kit, complete with a mock newspaper touting the series' many dramatic attractions ("Married gossip columnists George Rush and Joanna Malloy balance family life and work when their son's sudden injury leaves Rush to cover a Gotti family party solo"..."Columnist Lenore Skenazy scours the city for 'intriguing oddballs'").  read more »

The most excitement, though, comes from the back page roundup of the series' principal characters. Here's Michael Cooke, Editor-in-Chief--"Currently, Cooke is back in the windy city where he is vice president of editorial operations for the Chicago group of papers at Sun-Times parent company, Hollinger Inc." There's Hudson "Hud" Morgan, Junior Gossip Columnist To Lloyd Grove--"Morgan is currently an associate editor at Men's Vogue." Forget the real-life news-chasing story lines. Maybe Bravo shoulda just modeled the program on Survivor.

Latest predictable odd couple, if that's not an oxymoron:

Chuck Schumer and Al D'Amato at a 1,000-a-plate fund-raiser at Mort Zuckerman's Fifth Avenue home.

The object is to raise money for Montana Sen. Max Baucus' 2008 re-election bid.

Which is actually what makes it curious. We know D'Amato will endorse a Democrat if the Republican's a loser. But why does he have to help raise money for Democrats in Montana? Or maybe they're just old Hill friends?

D'Amato, Schumer team up for Baucus - UnderTheDome (second item) - Tom McGeveran

On the afternoon of Dec.  read more »

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Martin Dunn had only been on the job for a few hours when the Staten Island Ferry-the vessel on whic  read more »

Martin Dunn, who headed the Daily News as editor in chief following one of the most turbulent period  read more »

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Martin Dunn, who headed the Daily News as editor in chief following one of the most turbulent period  read more »

Since 1996, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues has been performed in over 40 countries and translate  read more »

Months before the news broke in August 2000 that Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman was separat  read more »

Minor Had Major-League NeedFor Meds and Love Gloves  read more »

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LOS ANGELES–A young blond woman stood on the corner of Figueroa and Olympic on Monday night.  read more »

It was why Mortimer B. Zuckerman had bought the New York Daily News .  read more »

Daily News editor Debby Krenek stood in the newsroom on the evening of March 23 and told her glum st  read more »

The appointment, on Jan.  read more »

So just what's Harold Evans doing now that he's no longer going to be editorial director of Mortimer  read more »

David Bradley, the new owner of the 142-year-old Atlantic Monthly , is a budding magazine mogul.  read more »

On April 22, Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman met secretly with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police  read more »

As the Daily News prepares to deploy its new Sunday edition on March 28 to the tune of $2 million, o  read more »

For a newspaper built on a tabloid history of enduring unkind cuts, the week of March 15 brought som  read more »

T.S. Eliot might have called his poem The Waste Hamptons :August is the cruelest month,  read more »

With great fanfare, a development team led by publishing magnate Mortimer Zuckerman announced in lat  read more »

The merger of the legendary editor Harold Evans and the would-be benevolent press lord Mortimer Zuck  read more »

After a blazing run as president and editor in chief of Random House, Harold Evans, 69, is going to  read more »