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By The Editors 11/16/11 9:48am

Opening Shot

Evelyn Lauder.

Guiltiest Pleasures

The sad passing of Evelyn Lauder this week has us wearing our pink ribbons proudly (and also buying up half of Estée Lauder’s cosmetic counter at Bloomingdale’s). The cancer survivor, advocate and entrepreneur was one hell of a lady. You’d have to be to have Estée Lauder as a mother-in-law (we imagine her as the perfume magnate version of Anna Wintour’s surrogate in The Devil Wears Prada). But even a real Mommy Dearest couldn’t hold a candle this week to Patti Labelle. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 10/31/11 5:40pm

Manhattan Transfers

Claremont House.

Giuliani’s Right Hand Man and Dorrian’s Daughter Sell UES Digs

For decades, Dorrian's has stood sentry on the Upper East Side, the quintessential prepster hangout and high schoolers' mecca. Carol Dorrian Carbonetti, daughter of the bar's proprietor Jack Dorrian, has lived not so very far away with her politico husband, Tony Carbonetti. But unlike the bar that has watched over many a debauched youth, the Carbonettis are on the move. The couple has sold their uptown digs at 52 East 72nd Street. Read More

By Matt Chaban 10/17/11 11:45am

Scary Stories

They've come... for your condo!

Colson Whitehead Unleashes Zombie Plague on Gentrification Plague

Colson Whitehead’s new book, Zone One comes out tomorrow. The world has been overtaken by that cultural virus of the moment, zombies , and the zone in question is Lower Manhattan. It is the job of the protagonist to clear the area of the dead and undead, and many metaphors are obviously implicit: 9/11, the financial crisis, Occupy Wall Street.

But it turns out that Mr. Whitehead’s biggest concern appears to be gentrification, as the native New Yorker revealed in an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition today. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 5/05/11 5:14pm

Presidential Visits

Obama at Ground Zero

Barack Obama laid a reef wreath at Ground Zero a moment ago. In visits to a fire house and police station, the president was accompanied by former mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Obama took a moment to chat with Mayor Bloomberg, NY Governor Cuomo and NJ Governor Christie, at Ground Zero.

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By David Freedlander 4/04/11 4:16pm

Campaign 2012

In Arkansas, Giuliani Talks 2012, 9/11

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani was at the University of Arkansas over the weekend and he was (inevitably) asked about his plans for 2012:

Says Hizzoner: "My concern about 2012 is -- because I'm a Republican -- to make sure that the Republican party fields a candidate that can win. And if I think that I can help by Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/22/11 7:19pm

War

Obama’s Action in Libya Raises Questions with Nadler, Weiner

"I think what he did was illegal and unconstitutional."

That was Jerry Nadler, the liberal Democratic congressman, in an interview this weekend, referring to President Obama and the military intervention in Libya.

Those concerns were also raised on a conference call Saturday, where other liberals, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, raised constitutional questions about Mr. Obama's Read More

By Christian Lorentzen 1/26/11 3:11am

Internal Memo

Internal Memo: Rudy Giuliani

I'm considering another run for president and weighing the pros and the cons. On the pro side, there's power, fame, the chance to secure my legacy in history and thus ensure that I am remembered in the national consciousness for something more than a few cameo appearances on Seinfeld, as well as the chance to Read More