• Studio 54 Hamptons Detox

  “I’m too old to be part of that game anymore, but I’m very happy about it,” Mr. Baker said. “A lot of people are making money; they still have lots of sex, you know, and lots of drugs I never did, even when I was at Studio 54.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 2, 2008.

• 180 Maiden Ln Tumble! Manhattan Investment Sales Plunge In '08

  ...submarkets in the second quarter of 2008. AIG’s 800,000-square-foot lease at 180 Maiden Lane in Downtown Manhattan brought June leasing activity there to 1.3 million square feet, compared...

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Riverdale Life Is What You Make It

  Last summer, after three months in a rehab unit in Riverdale, Clay revived from near-drowning in double pneumonia and worked with physical therapists twice a day until he could circle the floor twice on a walker at about the speed he used to reach while sprinting across town for an important lunch date.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 395 Hudson St Tumble! Manhattan Investment Sales Plunge In '08

  ...square feet in May. In Midtown South, Newsweek’s 163,000-square-foot lease at 395 Hudson Street brought leasing activity to 1.1 million square feet in the second quarter of 2008...

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 375 Hudson St Tumble! Manhattan Investment Sales Plunge In '08

  ...s top three largest leases were inked by advertising agencies – Saatchi & Saatchi’s renewal at 375 Hudson Street and Ogilvy & Mather’s lease at 636 11th Avenue...

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Willets Point Bloomberg Wins Early Community Endorsement For Willets Point

  The local community board in Queens has endorsed the Bloomberg administration’s plans to redevelop Willets Point, the industrial 61-acre site by Shea Stadium, according to a late-night release from the Bloomberg administration. The vote comes despite opposition from the local City Council members, housing advocacy groups and property owners.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Central Park Bon Jovi Exposes Limits of Bloomberg's Folk Knowledge

  Yesterday, Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Bloomberg held a joint press conference to announce a free concert in Central Park on July 12.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Central Park Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park

  As the Politicker's Azi Paybarah reported this morning, all New Jersey cheese-rock fans will descend upon Central Park on July 12 for the Jon Bon Jovi concert. It's free but you'll need tickets. Where can you get 'em? We're half way there!

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Yankee Stadium Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park

  According to a press release posted by Brooklyn Vegan, beginning tomorrow, July 2, tickets will be distributed at baseball parks and events throughout New York City. The bulk of tickets distributed at the ballparks will be found at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with others made available at Shea Stadium in Queens, KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, and at the home of the Staten Island Yankees at 9 a.m.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Shea Stadium Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park

  According to a press release posted by Brooklyn Vegan, beginning tomorrow, July 2, tickets will be distributed at baseball parks and events throughout New York City. The bulk of tickets distributed at the ballparks will be found at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with others made available at Shea Stadium in Queens, KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, and at the home of the Staten Island Yankees at 9 a.m.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• KeySpan Park Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park

  According to a press release posted by Brooklyn Vegan, beginning tomorrow, July 2, tickets will be distributed at baseball parks and events throughout New York City. The bulk of tickets distributed at the ballparks will be found at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with others made available at Shea Stadium in Queens, KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, and at the home of the Staten Island Yankees at 9 a.m.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Javits Center Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park

  In addition, tickets also will be available in Manhattan at DHL All-Star FanFest at the Jacob K. Javits Center on Friday, July 11. MLB.com also will be conducting a random drawing for tickets.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Rapfogel's Salary

  In the comments section on that post, a vigorous discussion ensued about the size of the salary earned by executive director William Rapfogel of the not-for-profit Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which got $500,000 in member items this year.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 31 W 52nd St Harry Winston Sells Flagship Store to Paramount For $62 M.

  Price of 31 West 52nd? $595 M., SL Green Says

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 1030 5th Ave Lady Selling $47.5 M. Co-op: 'What Difference Does It Make To Me? None! Zero!'

  In tomorrow's Manhattan Transfers, I write about a seven-bedroom duplex (actually, a "gym/bedroom" makes it eight) that went on the market this month at 1030 Fifth Avenue for $47.5 million, one of the biggest apartment listings ever in New York.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Coney Island Friday, July 4th

  While the gin-soaked golfers at the Maidstone formally abandon their wives, mistresses and kids for the rest of the summer, in the city it’s a hot-dog-and-potato-salad-binge day —although last time we checked, we definitely don’t have a backyard, so we’re inexplicably forced to endure the heartburn-inducing Nathan’s International July Fourth Hotdog Eating Contest in Coney Island, featuring people who engage in gluttony for a living and not just for shameful late-night stress relief.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Battery Park Friday, July 4th

  Later, helping to alleviate the general feeling of nausea will be Kim Gordon and Sonic Youth, who are hot in that ageless sort of way, performing at Battery Park, thereby allowing us to relive our six months of grungy rebellion in middle school, when we wore ripped jeans and smelled pot (before deciding against it).

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 718 Fifth Avenue Harry Winston Sells Flagship Store to Paramount For $62 M.

  Ronald Winston, son of the founder of the eponymous Harry Winston jewelers, has sold the firm's flagship building at 718 Fifth Avenue for $62 million, according to city records.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 1301 Avenue of the Americas Harry Winston Sells Flagship Store to Paramount For $62 M.

  Paramount Group, which made the purchase, is apparently on a shopping spree that would make even Harry proud. Albert Behler's Paramount is apparently snapping up 1301 Avenue of the Americas, the Credit Lyonnais Building, for a staggering $1.5 billion.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Willets Point After Willets Point Community Vote, Landowners Claim Victory Too

  Following last night's late-night Queens Community Board 7 conditional endorsement of the city's redevelopment plan for Willets Point, the landowner and business group opposing the redevelopment there is hailing the vote as a victory.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• 1030 Fifth Avenue Lady Selling $47.5 M. Co-op: 'What Difference Does It Make To Me? None! Zero!'

  In tomorrow's Manhattan Transfers, I write about a seven-bedroom duplex (actually, a "gym/bedroom" makes it eight) that went on the market this month at 1030 Fifth Avenue for $47.5 million, one of the biggest apartment listings ever in New York.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Upper East Side Kaiser Roll

  “For the past 15 generations, nobody in my family has had to work,” said A. Laurance “Larry” Kaiser IV, the high-end Upper East Side real estate broker. “You work because you have to contribute to society.”

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Lehman Brothers Kaiser Roll

  Mr. Kaiser, 66, was sitting upright in his small Madison Avenue office last month. A day earlier, two top executives at Lehman Brothers had lost their jobs and the Federal Reserve released a grim economic report: Manhattan real estate is “down sharply … inventories of unsold units have risen.”

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Federal Reserve Kaiser Roll

  Mr. Kaiser, 66, was sitting upright in his small Madison Avenue office last month. A day earlier, two top executives at Lehman Brothers had lost their jobs and the Federal Reserve released a grim economic report: Manhattan real estate is “down sharply … inventories of unsold units have risen.”

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Madison Avenue Kaiser Roll

  Mr. Kaiser, 66, was sitting upright in his small Madison Avenue office last month. A day earlier, two top executives at Lehman Brothers had lost their jobs and the Federal Reserve released a grim economic report: Manhattan real estate is “down sharply … inventories of unsold units have risen.”

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Hudson River Park Silver's Change of Heart on Bloomberg's Gansevoort Transfer Station

  Matthew Washington, deputy director for Friends of Hudson River Park, which opposed the plan, couldn't quite explain what had changed. “Very early on, it seemed like he [Silver] was supportive of his members--Dick Gottfried, Deborah Glick, Linda Rosenthal--who’ve always been against using the Gansevoort site as a marine transfer station," Washington told me. "And at the last minute, you know, it seemed like there was a change and I don’t know what caused that change.”

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Meatpacking District Silver's Change of Heart on Bloomberg's Gansevoort Transfer Station

  Many people have thought for a long time that Michael Bloomberg’s solid waste plan--which included opening a garbage transfer station near Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District--would never pass in Albany, given that three Assembly members from Manhattan opposed it.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Gramercy Tavern He Could Stand the Heat, Now He’s in the Kitchen

  Captain Stefan Barr said the scallops at the Gramercy Tavern could use a little more salt. He’s been back only a few months from his second tour in Iraq. For 10 years, he was one of the few, the proud, or, as he puts it, “the best”—a Marine. Now he lives in Soho.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Soho He Could Stand the Heat, Now He’s in the Kitchen

  Captain Stefan Barr said the scallops at the Gramercy Tavern could use a little more salt. He’s been back only a few months from his second tour in Iraq. For 10 years, he was one of the few, the proud, or, as he puts it, “the best”—a Marine. Now he lives in Soho.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

• Canal Street and Broadway He Could Stand the Heat, Now He’s in the Kitchen

  Mr. Barr grew up in Lynchburg, Va. His mother’s family had a grain farm; his father was a shoe salesman. In high school, he was tall but all skin and bones. He ran track at Brookville High. He saw Top Gun and decided he wanted be a pilot. But his vision was 20-40, so he joined the Marine Corps. For the past two months, Mr. Barr, who is 32, has lived in a small, overpriced apartment on Canal Street and Broadway, only a few giant footsteps from cooking school.

  Published by The New York Observer on July 1, 2008.

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