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Carnegie Hill

Tuesday: Less Atlantic Yards, Less Krispy Kreme, More Kiddie Condos

One Carnegie Hill: creep-ola

  • Wowzers. City officials say Forest City Ratner is reducing the bulk of Atlantic Yards "by 6 to 8 percent," which means a potential downsize of 500,000 to 700,000 square-feet. Plus, the big Yards tower--dubbed Miss Brooklyn, of course--may not be the tallest in the borough! (That makes designer Frank Gehry quite Read More

Woody Buys $25.9 M Townhouse

Fresh off his critical success with Match Point, director Woody Allen is treating himself to a Designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1901, the stunning 16-room home includes 11-foot ceilings, ornate moldings, 10 fireplaces, and a Georgian staircase. In addition, there are five bedrooms, formal dining room, library, family room, media room, staff room, and Read More

Max Herbert Freud

Aug. 5, 2005 3:13 a.m. 8 pounds St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center Valerie Russo, 37-year-old deputy commissioner for the Administration for Children’s Services of New York City, has taken a break worrying about the city’s kids to focus on her own darling firstborn. “I think being a mother will influence how I feel about work when Read More

Max Herbert Freud

Aug. 5, 2005

3:13 a.m. 8 pounds St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center Valerie Russo, 37-year-old deputy commissioner for the Administration for Children’s Services of New York City, has taken a break worrying about the city’s kids to focus on her own darling firstborn. “I think being a mother will influence how I feel about work when I Read More

The Princess at the Carlyle: She’s Not Sleeping, She’s Sewing

In the tower of the Carlyle Hotel, high above Madison Avenue,

Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece sits some days with her seamstress and her advertising executives making and selling pretty dresses and sharp togs for Manhattan's little princes and princesses. Over the last three months, sources tell The Observer , the wife of Greece's exiled Prince Read More

Manhattan Community Boards

Carnegie Hill: Is Citi Builder Trying to Wear Us Down?

Like a pair of punch-drunk fighters circling each other in a 10th-round grudge match, representatives of Citibank-which has sought, for nearly three years, to realize its plan for the construction of a residential tower above the bank's Carnegie Hill branch-faced off again with residents opposing Read More

Oops, They Did It Again! And Carnegie Hill Still Says No

Give Citibank credit for its tenacity. It couldn't have been easy for its representatives to stand before a packed auditorium at the March 21 meeting of Board 8, trying to convince stone-faced board members and neighbors for the second time that the bank's proposal to rebuild its Carnegie Hill branch with a residential tower above Read More