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4 By Daniel Geiger 12/07/11 1:30pm

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Wheeling and dealing at Del Posto.

After Hours: Real Estate Brokers Look For After-After-After ICSC Party

It’s ICSC week in New York City and while many in the retail business consider the event secondary to the larger conference held by the organization in Las Vegas each May, for many Manhattan real estate brokers, the conference is the most important of the year—and not necessarily just because of its jam-packed daytime roster of speakers and seminars.

In establishments from the New York Times’s four-star-rated Del Posto to the Dream Hotel in Lower Manhattan, buttoned-up retail brokers will be wining and dining potential clients during a two-day orgy of after-hour soirees, dinners and suds-soaked meetings, all designed with the deal in mind.

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By Becky Bosshart 5/24/10 8:21pm

GAMBLING

ICSC Opening Mantra: Everyone Smile!

Maligned by politicians (including the president-twice) and busted by the boom, Las Vegas isn't the place you'd think there'd be a lot of optimism.

But Joanne Podell, a Cushman & Wakefield executive vice president, smiled as she headed to her dinner table at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel. Here she'd feast on filet Read More

By Max Abelson 3/10/10 1:19am

New York City’s Assassination Connection

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, a sturdy and completely bald Israeli named Yuval Tal was in Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the nightly entertainment includes the Chippendales and Penn & Teller.

Mr. Tal, behind a microphone in a blazer and open-collar shirt, was one of five international visionaries, as the brochure for the Read More

By Irina Aleksander 12/16/09 1:00am

The Not-Quite Madams

Tiger Woods' fourteen (and counting) alleged mistresses include a hooker, a bartender, a “reality”-show star, a cocktail server, a Las Vegas nightclub manager, a British TV presenter, an Orlando diner waitress, a bikini model, and a couple of porn stars: transient “glamour” occupations, inflated body parts and alliterative names all confusedly blending together.

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By Staff 12/16/09 1:00am

The Not-Quite Madams

Tiger Woods' fourteen (and counting) alleged mistresses include a hooker, a bartender, a “reality”-show star, a cocktail server, a Las Vegas nightclub manager, a British TV presenter, an Orlando diner waitress, a bikini model, and a couple of porn stars: transient “glamour” occupations, inflated body parts and alliterative names all confusedly blending together.

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By Dana Rubinstein 5/21/09 4:10pm

Snore! New Yorkers Say Vegas Retail Confab a Snoozer

“All the New Yorkers are walking around looking tired,” said David Firestein, president of Northwest Atlantic Real Estate Services, speaking by cell on Tuesday from Las Vegas, where the temperature stubbornly remained in the triple digits and sweaty brokers gossiped about absent retailers, a depressing lack of raucous parties and an overall air of Read More

By Max Abelson 4/16/07 12:00am

Ian Schrager: Viewing Studio 54 From Age 60

Location: You recently turned 60. What’s that like? Schrager: I never went through anything on any birthday, but this one I realize that I’m nearing the endgame! So it’s been a little bit more of an issue for me than the other birthdays. Looking back, what do you feel most proud of? My most important Read More

By Staff 4/06/07 3:29pm

The Starbucks of Sandwich Shops Returns to Flatiron District

'Wichcraft has returned to Flatiron. The upscale sandwich shop, started by Craft restaurant owner Tom Colicchio, opened an outpost earlier this week just west of Broadway on 20th Street. The store is the chain's eighth location in the city. In 2003, 'wichcraft opened its first outlet on 19th Street between Park Avenue and Broadway just Read More

By Rebecca Steinitz 2/26/07 12:00am

Seligson’s Booby Trap

Susan Seligson wants you to know that she has big breasts. Really big breasts. “Massive boobs,” if you will: “fleshy torpedoes, exploding from my narrow shoulders, hovering ominously above my tiny waist.” Ms. Seligson wants you to empathize with her, too. She wants you to feel the pain of ill-fitting bra straps digging into tender Read More

By Staff 1/18/07 11:04am

Hello, Park City, At Last

Spencer Morgan has arrived in Park City, Utah. Look out, hot tubs of Sundance! Our trusty Transom reporter took the glam low-rent flight, of course, with a lay-over in Las Vegas. Some seriously lame situation at JFK caused him to miss his connecting flight. Naturally, he made the most of his six hours in Vegas, Read More


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