Visits: 24 She was the queen of Manhattan real estate when power brokers jockeyed for places in stately co-op buildings. Her dinners for them made the gossip columns. Alice Mason, a real estate broker and hostess whose talent at social …
Townhouses Took Off in December, and Neighbors Filed a Rare Joint Listing
Visits: 31 Two townhouses in the West Village, one owned by the producer Scott Rudin, are listed together at $37.5 million. They could be combined into a 40-foot-wide mansion. Manhattan townhouses took center stage in December, with several big sales …
Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.
Visits: 42 This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due. It is one of those ironies rarely discussed in the fashion industry — that a world focused largely on catering to (or exploiting, depending on …
‘That’s Not Us!’: Blank Slate Coffee Would Like You to Know It Is Not Blank Street
Visits: 31 A Manhattan coffee outpost changed its name this month in an effort to distance itself from a fast-growing chain that elicits strong feelings from New Yorkers. Ashley Jaffe, an owner of Blank Slate Coffee + Kitchen in Manhattan, …
Catering to a Fashionable Crowd
Visits: 34 At his restaurants Sant Ambroeus and Casa Lever, Gherardo Guarducci seduces and pampers patrons. He knows they are not for everyone. The panini arranged in soft mounds in the vitrine of Sant Ambroeus on Madison Avenue fairly ooze. There …
Sharing It All After Baring It All
Visits: 21 Known first as a provocative Instagram influencer and sex blogger, Eileen Kelly is now equally frank about her mental health struggles. On a freezing January afternoon, the podcaster and influencer Eileen Kelly welcomed a reporter into her spacious …
Pat Field’s New Hustle
Visits: 23 The outfitter to Lily Collins and Sarah Jessica Parker can sell you a tutu or a pink merkin. In a new memoir she spills the tea. Patricia Field likes looking back on a lifetime in fashion as a …
Surviving 10 Hours and 32 Minutes at Bergdorf Goodman
Visits: 28 It seems wrong that a yellow mop bucket should be on the main floor of Bergdorf Goodman. Or that a Windex bottle and dusty pink rag should be left on a pebbled glass table next to two handbags. …
Fake Heiress Anna Sorokin Is Released From Jail
Visits: 29 Ms. Sorokin, who was convicted of swindling Manhattan’s elite as the high-flying Anna Delvey, was taken from an ICE detention facility on Friday to her new apartment in Manhattan. Anna Sorokin, who bilked banks and tricked New York’s …
Ghosts of New York’s Glamorous Past Haunt an Empty Pub
Visits: 22 A bar from the Stork Club, once a gathering spot for Grace Kelly, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, collects dust in a downtown tavern that went out of business. There’s an old Irish pub in Manhattan’s …