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Monday, September 30, 2013

ITVFest down in the valley

... small budget, which was a theme of the festival. She said being an actress with a musician husband living in Gramercy Park in New York City had provided her with enough material to begin writing a script. "I had people asking me where to get real ...

http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_24202973/itvfest-down-valley?source=rss

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Jesus Christ's Superstar

... Hillsong NYC draws 6,000 people to its services every Sunday and has just added two more at a chapel in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. "I see our church taking ground in a major way," Lentz says. "In five years, I want a giant version of what it is ...

http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201310/pastor-carl-lentz-hillsong-church-nyc-pentecostals

National Arts Club President Resigns After Less Than Five Months

The National Arts Club' s new president resigned after less than five months at the helm of the 115-year-old Gramercy Park institution that's been mired in controversy, DNAinfo New York has learned.

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130925/gramercy/national-arts-club-president-resigns-after-less-than-five-months

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

TOWN Expands into the Meatpacking District and Relocates Its West...

On the heels of launching its much anticipated Gramercy Park offices, TOWN Residential continues its trend of announcing and executing its unprecedented expansion and takeover of Downtown in twos by moving into the heart of the world renowned Meatpacking District.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/topix/20130925006089/en

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The real Sleepy Hollow didn't have a Starbucks

An 1864 wood engraving of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' for Harper's Magazine The new Fox television show Sleepy Hollow debuted last night.

http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-real-sleepy-hollow-didnt-have.html

Monday, September 16, 2013

Rockets owner reportedly paying $185K a month for N.Y. condo

According to the Wall Street Journal, Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander just dropped an $8.4 million down payment on a $42 million penthouse in New York's posh Gramercy Park neighborhood.

http://www.chron.com/homes/article/Rockets-owner-reportedly-paying-185K-a-month-for-4818235.php

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Houston Rockets owner closes deal on lavish $42 million New York condo

... himself. The Wall Street Journal reports that Alexander has purchased a penthouse on the top two floors of 18 Gramercy Park for $42 million. It is the highest price ever paid for a residence in downtown Manhattan, the newspaper reports, citing city ...

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/realestate/09-14-13-houston-rockets-owner-closes-deal-on-42-million-new-york-condo/

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Elections 2013: Of the people, by the people, for the people

This election season is shaping up as a season of sour dissatisfaction. Only "the three percent" love Bloomberg's idea of NYC as "the Luxury City," but the rest of us worry that flushing out the elitist mentality will flush out a lot of the good policies too.

http://www.nycreligion.info/?p=10433

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Marriott May Sell Certain Properties

... And the feeling is mutual for Schrager - known for his "buzzy" works like the Royalton and the redesigned Gramercy Park Hotel. He says partnering with the more conservative brand was a pure business decision. "We never looked down on [the Marriott ...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/09/11/marriott-ceo-on-reports-sale-to-abu-dhabi/

Monday, September 9, 2013

Why This New York Mayoral Election Is Unlike Any in Decades

... currency in Queens and Staten Island. De Blasio is surging now, yet when we spoke with him in mid-August at a Gramercy Park coffee shop, his entourage totaled one guy, and no polls had him in the lead. (Anthony Weiner had imploded by then, but the ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064559/posts

Why This New York Mayoral Election Is Unlike Any in Decades

... currency in Queens and Staten Island. De Blasio is surging now, yet when we spoke with him in mid-August at a Gramercy Park coffee shop, his entourage totaled one guy, and no polls had him in the lead. (Anthony Weiner had imploded by then, but the ...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/why-this-new-york-mayoral-election-is-unlike-any-in-decades-20130905

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Neil Barsky: Reporter, hedge fund manager, movie director

... Neither interest has waned. While at the Journal he played poker at the Players, a club in a townhouse on Gramercy Park founded by Mark Twain, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, and the actor Edwin Booth (brother to John Wilkes). Barsky's friend, the ...

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/05/neil-barsky-koch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortunetermsheet+%28Fortune+Finance%3A+Term+Sheet%29

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Joie Fall 2013 Campaign Features Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Poppy Delevingne and Anouck Lepere

... and Anouck Lepere are the faces of the Joie Fall 2013 campaign. The campaign was shot at an apartment in Gramercy Park in New York by Alasdair McLellan. You can watch the video of the shoot here and find behind-the-scenes photos here . Julia also ...

http://www.shoppingblog.com/joie-fall-2013-campaign-features-julia-restoin-roitfeld-poppy-90420134?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+shoppingblogdotcom+%28Shopping+Blog%29

New York: The Paramount Hotel Has Moved On Up, With a New Management Company

... already owns an impressive bunch of hotels including the W South Beach, the upcoming W Tel Aviv and the Gramercy Park Hotel, another one of Ian Schrager's projects (that he's since left.) But there's more in store for the Paramount Hotel. Rosen ...

http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2013/9/4/105322/1789/hotels/The_Paramount_Hotel_Has_Moved_On_Up%2C_With_a_New_Management_Company

Monday, September 2, 2013

Pioneer of Saugerties, NYC farm markets hailed

Barry Benepe, co-founder of the Saugerties Farmers Market, grew up a latchkey kid in an exclusive Gramercy Park apartment in Manhattan.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130902/NEWS/309020325