Dear Diary,
I broke a perfectly good winning streak -- a four-session-long, 266-point gain -- all because some underqualified clerks have been throwing away, improperly signing and generally making a mess of foreclosure documents for the banks.
The close losses always hurt the most, and it's hard to imagine a closer call than today's finish. In Read More
There's a new font at the Open, and it might look familiar. American Express, one of the tournament's major sponsors, seems to be cribbing from the Obama campaign's well-received graphic design, especially its use of Gotham font. "It’s substantial yet friendly," branding expert Brian Collins said about Gotham to The New York Times. Just Read More
There’s no question—Beyoncé Knowles enjoys a truly ridonkulous lifestyle. What with Jay-Z as your man, hotness as your bod, Sirens as your voice and gold buillon as your pennies, it must feel like the sun rises and sets in your gilt bidet. So don’t let this American Express commercial make you think any differently. Nobody—no Read More
Back in the heady days of 2003, no one seemed to want to talk about how much the World Trade Center memorial would cost. No one tried to keep costs down, and the amount to be raised privately was a well-kept secret. People argued over whether to give extra recognition to police officers and firefighters. Read More
The first quarter fund-raising numbers are beginning to trickle in, and once again Hillary Clinton is the big winner, raising a hefty $2 million a month each month from January through March. In a distant second place: Rick Santorum, whose war chest now holds $10 million, thanks to large GOP cash infusions -- and Read More
There are some risks attached to changing the TV channel at your local bar—not all of them involving some drunk cracking a bottle over your head because he objects to your choice of programming—as one 27-year-old First Avenue resident discovered on Feb. 17. The victim says that she got up from her seat at Citibar, Read More
There are some risks attached to changing the TV channel at your local bar—not all of them involving some drunk cracking a bottle over your head because he objects to your choice of programming—as one 27-year-old First Avenue resident discovered on Feb. 17.
The victim says that she got up from her seat at Citibar, Read MoreChannel 4's very well-sourced Jonathan Dienst(the same guy who had last fall's terror warning story) laid out the story behind the Central Labor Council raid just now, which appears to have focused on Council president Brian McLaughlin and a set of electrical contractors who -- Diesnt reports -- allegedly conspired with him to rip Read More
You know those pain-in-the-ass (literally) counter stools they have at places like Starbucks and your corner pizzeria? Their lack of comfort is the least of their liabilities, as a man discovered on Jan. 10 when he visited the Bagel Shoppe at 1421 Second Avenue. The victim, a 43-year-old East 69th Street resident, was minding his Read More
The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation announced today that it had surpassed the $100 million mark—the first indication of how much progress it has made towards its $500 million private fundraising goal. Biggest single donor ($25 million): AIG’s Starr Foundation, which is still chaired by Hank Greenberg even though he no longer runs the Read More
Lately, “good news” at Ground Zero has really just been the undoing of bad news: Goldman Sachs, Freedom Tower. At a lunch before the New York Building Congress today, the Governor delivered the first truly good news in a while: American Express is taking another 200,000 square feet in the World Financial Center. Of course, Read More
One likes to think of Asian restaurants as oases of almost Zen-like calm amid the sharp-elbowed cacophony of Western life. That may be true in the front of the house, but behind the scenes the staff apparently has no greater monopoly on transcendental peace and understanding than the average unenlightened Manhattan native or Brooklynite. The Read More
Crain's is reporting that Larry Silverstein has his first lease at 7 World Trade Center. And it's not some wimpy government office, either: "According to sources close to the deal, a unit of the American Express Co. is in the final stages of negotiating a 15-year lease for about 20,000 square feet at the Read More
The ladies of Park Avenue have a big problem. Yes, they can't help it. They're insatiable (and some might say insufferable, but that's for another piece); most therapists assume it's an addiction. On the Upper East Side, it's an unsurprising kind of moral failing: the state of being a handbag whore. (She's the kind of Read More
The ladies of Park Avenue have a big problem. Yes, they can't help it. They're insatiable (and some might say insufferable, but that's for another piece); most therapists assume it's an addiction. On the Upper East Side, it's an unsurprising kind of moral failing: the state of being a handbag whore. (She's the kind of Read More
