NY Observer > Tom Freston http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/28026/feed Articles from Observer.com en Tom Freston Takes Warhol's Old East Side Place Off the Market http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/tom-freston-takes-warhols-old-east-side-place-market

Former Viacom chief executive Tom Freston has apparently taken his townhouse at 57 East 66th Street off the market, according to the Wall Street Journal. He had listed the former Andy Warhol home in the spring for $38.5 million, only to chop that asking price to $35 million.

Mr. Freston, according to a 2000 Observer article, bought the neoclassical townhouse for $6.5 million, moving there from a Tribeca penthouse after about $100,000 worth of renovations.

Warhol lived in the townhouse from 1974 (after paying $310,000 for it!) until his death in 1987.

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Tom Freston has put Andy Warhol's East 66th Street apartment on the market for $38.5 million, according to Page Six. The 12-room, six story apartment was originally bought by Mr. Warhol for $310,000 in 1974; Mr. Freston bought the property in 2000 for $6.5 million. [P6]  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/morning-memo-4-4-08#comments Style Ashley Dupre Chloe Sevigny Eliot Spitzer Heather Mills Pharrell Williams Tom Freston Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:37:49 -0400 Irina Aleksander 67398 at http://www.observer.com The Peach Pile-Up! Tom Freston, Jonathan Cheban, Mrs. Tobey McGuire, Prince Charles, and Chris Meloni http://www.observer.com/node/32537 What's Next for Tom Freston? Arianna Huffington turns on abrasive bloggers! Gotham’s Very Gay Bachelor List. 27 out of 101? Really? Mrs. Tobey McGuire Does Lunch. In L.A., everyone can hear you talk about therapy and baby names at lunch. Meeting Prince Charles. Royal protocol at Asprey. Chris Meloni Rocks the Globe. The celebs continue to convene for the Globe Theater that as of yet isn't....]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32537#comments Style Arianna Huffington Los Angeles Tobey Maguire Tom Freston Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:39:34 -0400 Observer Staff 32537 at http://www.observer.com The Transom http://www.observer.com/node/38804 She’s the One    read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38804#comments Sports Style Harvey Weinstein Kathy Freston New York Mets Tom Freston Sun, 07 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Observer Staff 38804 at http://www.observer.com Ride The Pink Pony: Tom Freston, Jason Binn, Lauren Weisberger, and Judy Miller http://www.observer.com/node/32364
In this week's paper:

Let The Transom take you deep inside the first world, where Viacom king Tom Freston does a mean downward-facing dog; where any public interest in the shooting of The Devil Wears Prada evaporates when Meryl Streep isn't on set; where Jesse Eisenberg, the young star of The Squid and the Whale is not yet glib with reporters; and also where Marc Levin's new documentary gets, or requests, the heat from the Nation of Islam.

Cool Hand Judy! As Judy Miller goes free, the vultures are circling the New York Times, says Bill Keller—and we have met the vultures and they are us. The Devil Writes Nada: million-dollar hack chick lit-er Lauren Weisberger is the luckiest gal alive. Hysterics—never the Hysterics— are the teenage prep school sophisti-kid rock band of Brooklyn. The Transom would like to adopt them all.

Jason Binn bought a really expensive apartment. Relatedly: The Transom figures that a two-million-dollar apartment is the kind of thing that really brings solace when one is wheezing on one's deathbed.

Finally, we are not unconvinced that sending George Gurley to couples therapy and publishing the transcripts is an experiment that has gone truly, horribly wrong. Seriously. The Transom is reminded of the time it totalled a Jeep Cherokee in Denver; the hood mashing ever closer, the pressure of the steering wheel in the sternum... but this car crash may be, The Transom fears, fatal.
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/32364#comments Style Jesse Eisenberg Meryl Streep Tom Freston Viacom Inc. Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:36:00 -0400 Observer Staff 32364 at http://www.observer.com May Day for New Oligarchs http://www.observer.com/node/47522 Beneath the striking W.P.A.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47522#comments Graydon Carter Robert De Niro Tom Freston Vincent Gallo Sun, 11 May 2003 20:00:00 -0400 Frank DiGiacomo 47522 at http://www.observer.com MTV at 20: Geezers Face the Music … Six Feet Under Kim Cattrall … Fast Times -Is NBC High? http://www.observer.com/node/44762 Wednesday, July 25 Tom Freston remembers when he lost it.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44762#comments Arts & Culture CBS Corporation Judy McGrath MTV Networks Company Tom Freston Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Jason Gay 44762 at http://www.observer.com MTV President Splurges on Warhol's 66th Street Mansion http://www.observer.com/2000/mtv-president-splurges-warhols-66th-street-mansion Andy Warhol lived at 57 East 66th Street from 1974 until his death in 1987, dwelling there longer th  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2000/mtv-president-splurges-warhols-66th-street-mansion#comments Real Estate Andy Warhol Betsey Johnson The Corcoran Group Inc. Tom Freston Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:00:00 -0500 Deborah Schoeneman and Carmela Ciuraru 42483 at http://www.observer.com