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Bruce Blakeman wants to play ball with NYC’s team-owning titans
Bruce Blakeman talks about ballclubs the way other politicians talk about bridges. Imagining his franchise wish list for the City and the State, and the titans and developers who would have to pay for it.
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The Weekly High Society Digest
Who bought the penthouse, who sold at a loss and called it a lifestyle decision, and who is no longer speaking to the co-op board. The week in New York real estate, told the way it is told at dinner.
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Clinton Hill’s New Record Was Never on the Market
An 1880 townhouse at 374 Washington Avenue sold off-market for $9.4 million, toppling the storied Pfizer Mansion as the Brooklyn neighborhood’s priciest sale. Provenance…
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Midtown’s Old Offices Are Learning to Sleep Over
Three Manhattan office buildings, on East 57th Street, East 59th Street and Wall Street, moved toward a second life as apartments in a matter…
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The Pied-à-Terre Tax Came for Park Avenue. Park Avenue Signed Contracts Anyway.
With second-home surcharge bills due out next month and the courts still circling, Manhattan’s $4 million-and-up market just beat its ten-year October average, led…
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Roy Lichtenstein, Like New? The Critics Can’t Agree, Which Is the Fun Part
The Whitney’s first New York Lichtenstein retrospective since 1993 argues the Pop master foresaw the age of AI images. ARTnews found it stylish; Jerry…
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‘The Rothko Hit Us’: Sotheby’s Sells the Baums’ $100 Million Eye
Sotheby’s will offer the collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, estimated above $100 million and led by a 1967 Rothko on paper, beginning Nov.…
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Mrs. Pollock Has Left the Kitchen
The Met’s “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous” gives Lee Krasner 74 works to her husband’s 48, and, at last, the barn. A marriage, a…
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Wynton Marsalis Takes His Last Lap Around the House He Built
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2026-27 season, “Come Home,” is Wynton Marsalis’s last as artistic director, and October reads like a family reunion with a…
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Dudamel’s First Month: Radio City, Three Premieres and a Plaque From the Governor
Gustavo Dudamel opened his New York Philharmonic tenure with Lizzo, John Adams, three world premieres and Steven Spielberg in the audience. Now the orchestra…
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Blood, Rubble and a Burning Stake: The Met’s ‘Macbeth’ Goes to the Movies
Today’s Live in HD transmission sent Louisa Proske’s divisive new Macbeth to nearly 650 cinemas days before the run closes. Quinn Kelsey is the…
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This Weekend, New York Leaves the Door Open
Open House New York Weekend runs through Sunday, unlocking more than 300 sites from Roy Lichtenstein’s old studio to a Con Edison power plant.…
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A Murdoch Buys New York, Again
Vanity Fair’s profile of James and Kathryn Murdoch, the new owners of New York magazine, offers a hymn to long-form journalism, a careful silence…
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At Lincoln Center, Ava DuVernay Closed the Festival and Opened an Argument
The 64th New York Film Festival ended with “14th,” DuVernay’s sequel to “13th.” The constitutional case drew raves; her use of generative AI to…
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Thomas Straker Has a Passport and a Lot of Butter
The London chef with two million followers per platform has opened Straker’s in Keith McNally’s old Lucky Strike, a year late and $2 million…
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Three Japanese Restaurants Walk Into a Bank Tower
KwangHo Lee’s One Bryant Park has replaced Charlie Palmer’s steaks with $175 kaiseki, a 14-seat sushi counter and, improbably, the most talked-about bread basket…
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Daniel Humm Would Like to Roast You a Chicken
The Eleven Madison Park chef has gone downtown, and gone à la carte, at Humm on Hudson Street: wood fire, a Clemente ceiling, a…
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On Fifth Avenue, the Stores Got Bigger
Moncler’s largest store in the world in the old FAO Schwarz, Saint Laurent signing at Kering’s 717 Fifth, Madison’s youth movement and Hermès in…
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Last Call at Jake’s Dilemma
After 32 years of game days, first dates and shots of Tully, the Upper West Side sports bar closes Sunday. The building sold; the…
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Clubland Has Run Out of People to Exclude
A fourth Soho House sharing a roof with The Ned, The Wolseley moving into The Lambs’ old clubhouse, and a Qatar-linked mansion club on…
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The Least Glamorous Wellness Ritual in New York
Flu, COVID and RSV season is here. The city and state have picked their guidance, the first mRNA flu shot is on pharmacy shelves,…
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The Hardest Two Weeks of the Marathon
A record 240,000 applied and about 1 percent got in. As the 50th five-borough NYC Marathon nears, runners are tapering, the Bronx route has…
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Tribeca’s New Status Symbol Is a Cold Plunge for Four
SCHWET’s Budapest-by-way-of-Franklin-Street banya, SweatHouz’s private suites and Bathhouse’s new Brooklyn backyard: a dispatch from the sauna wars, where heat and cold are sold at…
