Riddled In Buyer’s Remorse
It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Housing clearance rates remained soft across the country over the weekend, particularly in the nation’s biggest markets of Melbourne and Sydney, which showed no signs of recovering from their torpor. The Australian reported many homes continue to sell for well under what their owners had hoped to [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 22:58:03
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My Pretentious Life
grandiose, hoity-toity, puffy, self-important, flamboyant, ostentatious, splashy, ambitious, arrogant, arty, bombastic, ... the drive back to The Hamptons. I relish a night in the City and delight in dining at Donald’s place. Yes ... for my exotic destinations. Recently, I took holiday in Bali with a few of my girlfriends. vacation [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 11:38:30
What of the Banker Lifestyle?
Models and bottles, you are but a distant memory. Remember those innocent days of AJ “models and bottles” and Aleksey Vayner? ... Hamptons airport traffic, and bankers’ multimillion dollar homes crowding the market: At the Majestic ... the most magnificently renovated grand apartment to become available on Central Park West in years.” James [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 16:41:18
Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 08/31/08
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers: --James H. Herbert II, the chairman and chief executive of the First Republic Bank, listed his penthouse at Trump Parc East on Central Park South, shown above, earlier this month for $38 million, nearly four times what he paid back in 2005. The listing is here [more...]
Date: 2008-08-31 09:02:00
You Know It’s a Bear Market on Wall Street When…
A real bear market is supposed to start after major market indexes decline at least 20%. By that measure, the bear isn’t here. But who’s kidding who? ... place. Even though you bought your apartment less than two years ago, have no children ... about the drive time from New York City to the Hamptons. With the roads empty, it finally takes the hour [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 16:38:08
“Busy on sunday at 11? “I’m hosting a blow job workshop.”
Hey New Yorkers, It’s my birthday, I can post what I want to… Starting with…A “blow job workshop” sunday brunch invite! Let’s Rock! ... at my apartment. It’s for an hour and it’s $50 per person. The teacher is a female and a published author ... Preppie Handbook? They didn’t all grow up in Manhattan, but they’re from the world I write [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 12:00:15
As Good As It Gets
I joshed a bit the other day about our precarious place in the tachycardiac economic universe, prompted by yet another edition of the ongoing black humor fest Bill D. and I have been engaged in now for, oh, about 20 years. Things are admittedly a bit terrifying of late, which in its own way is reassuring. Hear me out [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 04:03:17
Action Adventuress - Lake Bell Tells all
From tackling the waves to trying out a good old-fashioned orgy, screen siren Lake Bell is game for anything. By Marshall Heyman ... customer,” the New York-born-and-bred actress says, a humorously mocking tone in her voice. “ ... and Jon Voigt in the New York cop drama Pride and Glory, playing wife to Farrell and sister to Norton [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 20:14:18
Are You Still Hungry?
If my unmitigated envy of Buffy and Jody's life in a high-rise apartment sparked my initial desire to move to New York back in elementary school, ... with Truman and Liza and Bianca at Studio 54 in the '70s, I was pretty convinced New York City held ... to be with him every time I picked up a magazine only made me more convinced that New York [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:00:00
Lifestyles of the Not-So-Rich-Anymore
Michael Schnayerson’s very long and somewhat rambling account of the panic through the eyes of over-extended bankers in Vanity Fair may be the most insightful take on the whole mess. Or it may just be schaden-porn, a great way to both ogle over-spending while feeling superior to it. You’ll have to read it and decide for yourself [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 10:00:32
Now That's Rich
It has been said if your household income is less than $150,000 a year-- you are considered Middle Class. So over $150K, you're rich! ... , he spends about $200 on drinks with his friends. And the apartment that he shares with roommates costs him $3000 a month in Manhattan. He also have house in the Hamptons that he rents in the summer [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 15:42:00
MADONNA AND ALEX RODRIGUEZ: HOUSE HUNTING!
MADONNA AND ALEX RODRIGUEZ: HOUSE HUNTING! Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 New York’s hottest brand new sort-of-confirmed celeb integrate, ... -chasing slugger have been “discreetly seeking during properties in between Fifth as good as Park avenues ... seeking in a Hamptons. Smack Dat! Pose! A-Rod, duration, continues to try to unpack a home [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 16:25:32
Madonna (With Messed Up Face) On Britney
I'm sorry I left you hanging all day yesterday. It took me awhile to decide how I felt about Britney's documentary ... also looking in the Hamptons. Madonna's flack didn't return a call or e-mail, but A-Rod's reps ... to the Post's Braden Keil. A-Rod is also willing to rent it unfurnished for $50,000 a month. Madonna [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 13:28:26
Some Of Me
The point of divulging information about myself is because I think it's fun to find things out about people. Regarding politics? No, not at all. I hate knowing and I hate sharing. I don't want to know about which way people are voting and why. I care to not know. Yes, I prefer to stick my head in the ground with this one thing, please [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 12:22:24
Carrier and Company
When New York's fashion elite need help designing their homes, husband-and wife duo Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller, ... fabulous West Village apartment. I love everything about this room. The brown oriental toile print ... that envelops it. West_village-1 This is Peterson's living room. It has a Hamptons summer home kind [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 13:12:00
Purple Violets 2007 FESTiVAL DVDRip XviD-NODLABS
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. Noodlabs released Dvd rip of the movie Purple Violets ... in the Hamptons, he longs to write works of greater literary value. Murphy, his lawyer and best friend ... years ago, and she still holds a major grudge. When Patti sells Murphy a new apartment, and Brian [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 00:12:20
Guest Post: Men and Women: Different but the Same
Complicated Women” entry, I’m guessing Big is the type of guy most men NEVER want to be. The idea that there’s a Sex and the City girl in all of us--that we have to be one of the four--well, that’s also wrong. First of all, everyone wants to be Carrie. Watch and learn: See more funny videos at Funny or Die Secondly, women are complicated [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 05:08:01
STEFAN BOUBLIL - LUNCHTIME CHATS
Picture 22 There is a global design company in New York that is unlike anything I've seen in that they can play with any surface or setting ... in france, i chose to become a new yorker at the age of 20. after studying philosophy, theology, photography, and filmmaking at, respectively, the sorbonne, parsons school of design and new york [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 21:26:57
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting!
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting! Posted by: Free Britney On: Comments: 0 New York's hottest new sort-of-confirmed celebrity couple, ... source said they were also looking in the Hamptons. Smack Dat! Pose! A-Rod, meanwhile, continues ... million. The Rod is also willing to rent it for $50,000 a month. What a steal. Madonna, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:55:45
Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 10/26/08
Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 10/26/08 Posted by: in Real Estate News Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers: –Since August, billionaire art collector Eli Broad has been trying to sell a six-room, two-bedroom tower apartment at the Sherry-Netherland, the Fifth Avenue hotel, shown above [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 20:19:55
The Past 2 Months of My Life
Okay here I go... Let's start back in August. So about 4 days before we packed up our home in Boston I got sick with the stomach flu ... on a Friday. We drove the Uhaul to the Harrises in Carmel, NY where we unloaded ... we again packed our bags and our car and headed for Montauk for Harris Family Camp. But about 2 hours [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 03:59:13
Alec Baldwin Resisted Impulse To Leave Foul-Mouthed Message On Death's Answering Machine [Dark Nights Of The Soul]
We hardly consider it overstatement to declare this The Golden Age of What's Going On in Alec Baldwin's Noggin, ... into and overdose there? When I returned to New York, the thought of jumping out the window ... , the recent 8,000+ word profile in the New Yorker, in which we learned that something about the Hamptons air [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 16:15:00
Manhattan State of the Market
A: I'll give you guys a quick take on what I see out there right now, and what I expect based on the view ... apartments you might buy is usually not a priority. Rather, weekends at the hamptons and trips upstate ... that hit the market. That said, those properties with incredible views, layouts, outdoor space [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 16:22:45
Extra, Extra
Photograph by urbanblitz on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: A minor wall collapse at 23 Street And 37 Ave in Queens, ... for humans, Rachael Ray is expanding into dog food. Are massive apartment renovations worth it? And carpooling is encouraged at an Obama fund-raiser in the Hamptons. Add to digg Email this Article [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 23:19:53
Post Hamptons Depression
I just completed something I hadn’t partaken in since before Memorial Day – a weekend in Manhattan ... in my apartment it had to be a weekday, right? Wrong. I came face to face with the reality ... around wondering what to do with myself, the tranquility of my apartment began to freak [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 11:44:00
Dear Ina, We Are Happy to House-Sit
From Required Eating inahousetour.jpg Photos from House Beautiful Ina Garten has the reverse schedule of the average Manhattan apartment owner with a Hamptons summer estate—she spends most of her year "summering" on Long Island, while ... interviewed Garten and toured her 1920s one-bedroom apartment. Inside, the ceilings are high [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 21:14:09
financial woes - but not if you are the owner
Establishment: CORE: club Location: 66 east 55th street, ny, ny This place has had numerous issues since they opened ... - like the members who were convinced to join. The owner - would spend her summer in the hamptons ... the summer the clubs revenues fell so low that the bugdet was slashed and nothing could be purchased [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 04:24:39
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION NOT ABOUT MAKING NICE
BY DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA Another beautiful August weekend in New York just past. Senator Obama chose his Vice-President, Senator Biden. Even the non-political ones were talking about it. The new drama appears to be what will happen with the Clintons at the Convention which opens today in Denver. Oh-oh, the Clintons!! [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 08:07:37
Thanksgiving and Reputation
PHOTO: Are We Really Thankful? 2008 has been a rough year for many and especially the last few months ... at Lehman Brothers and has a beautiful and supportive wife, three kids in college, a large apartment in Manhattan and a beautiful home and large sailboat in the Hamptons. I am not worried as much [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 00:23:33
A Little Floor Plan Porn
SELLERS: William (Bill) and Clementina (Tina) FlahertyLOCATION: 1040 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYPRICE: $43,000,000SIZE: 3 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms (plus staff room and bath)DESCRIPTION: Seventeen stories above Fifth Avenue this duplex penthouse crowns a notable building designed by Rosario Candela in 1930 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 12:48:00
Friday Diversion: Michael Jackson Surrenders Neverland
Here is this week’s roundup of celebrity real estate news: Actor Hugh Jackman buys Sun Microsystem cofounder William Joy’s 12-room, 11, ... million-plus divorce settlement, is buying an estate in New York’s Hamptons. Michael Jackson gives ... 000 square-foot triplex in New York City (pictured left) for $21 million — $19 million less than [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 11:55:00
Manhattan RE: The Sky Is Not Falling, People!
I rolled my eyes when I saw the cover of the NY Times Real Estate section on Sunday, "Foreclosure Makes Its Move on Manhattan." Are they serious? The Times has clearly run out of things to write about. We all know negativity sells papers, but this article was really a stretch [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 15:27:46
If the luxury goods advertising market slows down in 2009 how is the IHT going to remain a viable financial concern?
What's this a picture of?The IHT's 2008 Christmas party? No.A group of market players who punted on NYT Company Stock dropping below $5 in 2008, celebrating last weekend after Friday 21st November saw that stock trade at a low of $4.95? No. (No as in no, it's not a picture of investors celebrating that event but yes, as in yes, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 10:13:00
Madonna & Alex Rodriguez Go House Hunting
MADONNA and Alex Rodriguez are quietly shopping for love nests on the Upper East Side and on the East End, sources told Page Six ... and hard to come by,” our spy added. Another source said they were also looking in the Hamptons ... is also willing to rent it unfurnished for $50,000 a month. Madonna, meanwhile, is hanging [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 12:55:04
"UK home sales boosted by desperate vendors"
Today's Financial Times describes a new sign of how bad things are in the real estate market in London. People are so desperate to keep their deals alive that they are buying houses they do not want ... sale, but as the example shows, some are increasing their exposure. From the Financial Times [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 05:25:14
Bachelor Pad August Update
Everyone has been asking about the Bachelor Pad so I guess an update is in order ... to his apartment revealed no curtain or liner. (I can only imagine the reason why but let's ... that but me anyway. "No more wire hangers!"While I was in the Hamptons last week, I picked up this wonderful [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 20:55:00
Objects of Lust: Everything Michael Bruno Owns
Another highlight of yesterday's SF20 show was the keynote address by 1stdibs founder and president Michael Bruno ... on our house.)The best part, though, was the slideshow of images from Bruno's incredibly chic homes ... flea market -- and that at first, he was 1stdibs best -- and only -- customer.Now, the Hamptons [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 11:19:00
Wardrobe Guru
The day I met Stacey Mayesh, I was crossing Madison Avenue and 60th street with a friend. It was very cold and I was in a hurry to get indoors and relax over a warm vegetable soup at Fred’s, Barney’s restaurant. And there she is not very tall, bumping into my friend [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 06:56:26
HERB AND DOROTHY
A new documentary film by Megumi Sasaki has begun making the rounds at film festivals ... of contemporary art. So far the film has played at the Hamptons International Film Festival and at SILVERDOCS ... to the point where every inch of their Manhattan apartment was filled. They could have sold a small part [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 22:08:42
Manhatten Video Tape--the first 20 pages.
This is the first 20 or so pages of my Novel called Manhattan Video Tape. Please read and give me some feedback. I am about half done with it but it is all in pieces and needs to be transcribed, edited and added to.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Manhattan Video Tapethe first 20 or so pages [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 20:14:00
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting!
New York's hottest new sort-of-confirmed celebrity couple, Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, ... looking in the Hamptons. Smack Dat! Pose! A-Rod, meanwhile, continues to try to unload the home ... to rent it for $50,000 a month. What a steal. Madonna, meanwhile, is hanging on to her posh Central [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:55:45
Copywriting Notes - Makepeace And Bencivenga Part 1
One of the aims of the “Copywriting Notes” series of posts is to look further into the mindset that’s required to be a successful copywriter. You see, to be a successful copywriter yourself, you need to be able to think the way top copywriters do. The best way to learn to do that is to spend one-on-one time with a top copywriter [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 03:51:04
Musical chairs
9 November, 2008 Does This Song Match My Sofa?By Kate Murphy October 30, 2008 New York Times IMAGINE walking into an airy Upper East Side apartment with 18th-century antiques, gilt mirrors and chintz upholstery. Now imagine Metallica playing on the sound system [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 09:52:12
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting!
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting! New York's hottest new sort-of-confirmed celeb couple, Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, ... looking in the Hamptons. Smack Dat! Pose! A-Rod, meanwhile, continues to try to unload ... willing to rent it for $50,000 a month. What a steal. Madonna, meanwhile, is hanging on to her posh [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:55:45
Giving Your Pet A Proper Adoption
Giving Your Pet A Proper Adoption November 18th, 2008 Powered By CbproAds Giving Your Pet A Proper Adoption There is a severe overpopulation ... care and are being abused by their owners tend to escape from their mistreated homes and tend ... . Like the dogs, they are very loyal and friendly and can be used to safeguard our homes. They can act [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 00:53:22
Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick moving to escape paparazzi
Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick moving to escape paparazzi Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm by Lucy [ ... to make their move later in the year. A source explained: “It’s two houses that have been knocked ... that Matthew had an affair earlier in the year but were spotted hand-in-hand on holiday in the Hamptons [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 13:06:58
Pictures from the Bowery Poetry Club Reading
Ernest Hilbert reads from poems that will appear in his book Sixty Sonnets. Note his beer in the foreground, a pint of Brooklyn Lager. From Ernest Hilbert’s forthcoming book Sixty Sonnets: A Sad Last Number for the Gentlemen at the Tavern Ernest Hilbert This one is for all the aging fuck-ups, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 14:05:13
Jimmie Johnson On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated
Jimmie Johnson On The Cover Of Sports Illustrated November 18th, 2008 by Darren (NASCAR Geek) I may never know what drives the disdain I have towards Jimmie Johnson. I do know there is a direct correlation between his on-track success and post-race affability and my (not always so) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 01:45:50
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez: House Hunting!
New York's hottest new sort-of-confirmed celeb couple, Madonna and Alex Rodriguez, are quietly shopping for love nests on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, as well as on the East End of Long Island, sources tell the New York Post. A knowledgeable real estate source reports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:55:45
Reason #4,829 to Become a Model If You Could: Jessica Stam's Apt
Because you can have your own personal interior decorator at 22. And if Marc Jacobs names a bag after you, you can also buy a house in the Hamptons to match your East Village apartment. Why, yes I am jealous thank you very much. (Elle Decor via Jezebel) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 20:08:00
