New York Law Journal

• Poor Jerry Seinfeld had to learn the hard way that Manhattan brokers don't broker on the Sabbath. A judge has ruled that he'll have to pay the normal $100,000 fee (give or take) for his new $3.95 million townhouse on West 82nd Street. Larry David would be proud. [New York Law Journal, via Gawker]
• Thank god. New York has made it onto Forbes' list of Most Expensive Rentals. Our local honors go to the $70,000-per-month Trump International penthouse, where panoramic views do not at all make up for the harsh fact that it would cost $840,000 to live there for one year. [Forbes]
• Meet a New Yorker named Fitz-Greene Halleck: He has his own statue in Central Park, and he may or may not have been a big fan of Grand Central Station. [L Magazine]
• As if Costas Kondylis' 3,854 Trump high-rises weren't enough (see above), he's designing the richly-named Platinum at 247 West 46th Street. Sadly, the "crazed fireplace lobby decor" is a deal breaker. [Curbed]
- Max Abelson
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June 4, 20064:45 a.m.

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In a piece of news that should probably count for more than it actually will in the race to become the state's top public lawyer, Denise O'Donnell obliterated all comers in a reader poll in the New York Law Journal.

From the Journal's write-up, which is available to subscribers only:

Ms. O'Donnell, a former federal prosecutor who now practices with Hodgson Russ in Buffalo, garnered over 70 percent of the votes from an audience probably comprised largely of lawyers and judges. She annihilated her five competitors, including Democratic frontrunners Mark Green and Andrew Cuomo, and the likely Republican candidate, Jeanine Pirro.

One O'Donnell aide estimated the significance of the development in an email from Buffalo: "Even if we don't get it from the state committee, we've got the lawyers overwhelmingly."