Carole King must live nearby. (MTA) The MTA is going beyond the call (literally as phone calls and angry messages are filling up their inboxes) of duty to ensure that residents on the Upper East Side are getting a good night’s sleep. After repeated com... »
Fashion designer and beer heiress Daphne Guinness is asking $14 million for her four-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue, which has been on the market since January. Read More »
The Gagosian stronghold of 980 Madison Avenue will soon be home to three new galleries: Higher Pictures, the photography gallery now located a few blocks south on Madison; Yoshii Gallery, which is renewing its lease in the building and designing a new ... »
Mr. Matchmaker, won't you make me a match? (Eugene Mim/PatrickMcMullan) A social event for a matchmaker on the day after Valentine’s Day struck Transom as having more than a slight whiff of desperation about it. Or was it hopefulness? We were expecting... »
The Times has the best, most detailed article yet written about the alleged forged paintings that a little known Long Island art dealer, Glafira Rosales, was selling through Knoedler & Company, the 165-year-old Upper East Side gallery that closed abrup... »
The Manhattan District Attorney's office yesterday opened up its manslaughter trial against the owner of a construction crane involved in a 2008 accident that killed two workers, and prosecutors said it was that man's greed that lead to the fatal crane... »
Two-dozen advocacy groups are forming a coalition designed to pressure would-be 2013 contenders on stop-and-frisk and police accountability. The NYPD apparently spied on Muslims in Newark as well. When told of this fact, Mayor Corey Booker responded, "... »
Staten Island’s Michael Grimm emerged from obscurity two years ago to win a seat in Congress based in part on his compelling personal narrative. Mr. Grimm is a former Marine and a onetime FBI agent. At a time of national anxiety over global terrorism, ... »
Don't trip on the trap (NY Times) Although The Observer has only been privileged of seeing the kind of trap door found on the bottom of an infant’s onesie, there are some New Yorkers who have, in fact, encountered the real deal. Secret passageways, tra... »
Mr. Sunshine State. (Forbes) Madison Avenue has a new neighbor, one who knows quite a bit about real estate. Developer Don Peebles of the Peebles Corporation has way up, from Miami to the Upper East Side, to open his first office in New York, according... »
The Sherry Netherland at 781 Fifth Avenue Roy F. Zurkowski was one of the lucky few in the world who was able to make millions off precisely what made him most happy: fitness. In the '80s, Mr. Zurkowski became one of the original iron-pumping kingpins,... »
A source tells Betabeat that Mayor Bloomberg has a "big announcement" about the city's tech campus slated for his 11.30am appearance at Tumblr's 21st Street offices today. Does that mean the New York City Economic Development Corporation is finally rev... »
Despite his strong poll numbers, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says he's not running for mayor next year because he doesn't want to deal with "the abuse" heaped upon occupants of Gracie Mansion. "To be mayor you've got to have heat, you ne... »
For the past month, fashionable New Yorkers and art world connoisseurs have been streaming through a storefront at 980 Madison Avenue to pick up spotty souvenirs from a Gagosian-branded "spot shop" opened to coincide with the globe-spanning 11-gallery ... »
In an interview with the Cornell Daily Sun, Provost Ken Fuchs revealed plans to make the tech campus on Roosevelt Island, a 50-50 partnership between Cornell University and Israel's Technion, even more of a "global institute." Over the next six months,... »
