According to Tom Miller’s excellent blog Daytonian in Manhattan, the New Yorker was the largest hotel in city: “it boasted 2,500 rooms, murals by renowned artist Louis Jambor, the largest barber shop in the world (42 chairs and 20 manicurists), 155 chefs and cooks for the five restaur...
Looking at some advertisements from the Feb. 27 issue…here’s a clip from the back pages of some inexpensive sig ads promoting everything from Broadway to burlesque—Billy Minsky’s was by far the best known burlesque show in Manhattan. Note how the Minsky’s ad included the racy little d...
even as the merchants behind them are looking to downsize their physical footprint. Christie’s, one of the largest auction houses in the world,announced in Marchof this year that it would close down a space in London and shrink another in Amsterdam ...
Ryan:In 2008, we were looking for a home to start a family, and anyone who's familiar with New York knows that the economics of finding a multi-bedroom home in Manhattan doesn’t make a lot of sense, so we started looking to Brooklyn. We left Manhattan kicking and screaming. Within a...
13, light aircraft manufacturer Joby Aviation launched an exhibition flight in the city, which took off at the Manhattan Heliport in Downtown,New York. It’s the first time that Joby deployed a first-ever electric air taxi flight in an urban environment. Joby plans to make electric air ...
shore accounts [this link is definitely worth perusing.] So it’s a shock to investors in such international laundering sites as the super-high condo skyscrapers in Manhattan, like 432 Park Avenue, when they unexpectedly decide to actually live in them rather than just flip them (due to the...
“The two greatest stores of wealth internationally today include Contemporary Art…and I don’t mean that as a joke, I mean that as a serious asset class, and the other store of wealth today is apartments in Manhattan, Vancouver, and London.”– Larry Fink (BlackRock) Recent articles liste...
For over five years, the Emmy-award winning Letterman writer Ted Greenberg has hosted his weekly one-man show, The Complete Performer, at the SoHo Playhouse in downtown Manhattan. After every Saturday night show, Ted drives one lucky audience group home in a New York City taxi. Ted’s blog...
Brownsville Brooklyn has only three sneaker stores. A few years ago, Penny began hosting an informal after-school program so that children in her building would have a safe place to go after school.Minh Le is an unofficial spokesman for the Vietnamese community in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. ...
Mass produced fine jewelry laden with cheap calibrated cut gems was commonly retailed in major department stores such as Macy’s, J.C. Penney’s, Filene’s or Kaufmann’s. I generally recommend that collectors avoid buying these cheaper varieties of 1980s and 1990s vintage jewelry if future ...