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• The Post gets a scorchingly hot scoop on the Post's very own headquarters in Rockefeller Center West. Boston's Beacon Capital will pay $1.5 billion for the building at 1211 Sixth Ave., which will merely amount to "the second-largest single asset sale in the world." (New York Post)
• All we wanted for Independence Day was some good Freedom Tower news. Instead, construction workers refused to show up for work this week, on account of the labor dispute among heavy equipment operators--plus, of course, the Teamsters and a group of highly demanding underground workers nicknamed "sandhogs." (NY1)
• Finally, Manhattan's luxury real estate buyers are catching on to the wonderful trend of hotel-condos (the hot "real estate product.") Donald Trump says his new Spring Street hondo will be the tallest building in Soho, while Dallas' Lincoln Property has announced its own at 12-18 West 55th--next door to the St. Regis, which itself is offering 24 condos on two floors for $1.7-7.3 million. (The Real Deal)
• Meanwhile, regular builders are leaving behind condominiums--the long-time "darling of the development community," according to Crain's, at its most poetic--and beginning to "court" the rental market. Real estate can be so romantic. (Crain's premium)
• Or is the romance gone? Four unbearably beautiful Beaux-Arts town houses on West 56th may be demolished to make room for a 16-story apartment complex. The buildings haven't been designated as landmarks--even though, for example, 33 West 56th is the former speakeasy immortalized by "Night After Night" (in which Mae West makes her big screen debut by introducing herself to the doorman as "the fairy princess, ya mug.") (The New York Times)
- Max Abelson]]> http://www.observer.com/node/34889#comments Real Estate Beacon Capital Partners LLC Freedom Tower Mae West NYP Holdings Inc. Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:45:00 -0400 Observer Staff 34889 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/48736 The exhibition called Endless Love , which the painter Mark Greenwold has organized at the DC Moore  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/48736#comments Arts & Culture Constantin Brancusi Mae West Mark Greenwold Styrofoam Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 -0500 Hilton Kramer 48736 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/45199 Mae West: An Icon in Black and White , by Jill Watts. Oxford University Press, 362 pages, $35.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/45199#comments Arts & Culture Bert Williams Hollywood Jill Watts Mae West Sun, 04 Nov 2001 19:00:00 -0500 Robert Gottlieb 45199 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/44861 Rona Barrett gave good Hedda.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44861#comments Real Estate Frankie Avalon Mae West Natalie Wood Rona Barrett Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Simon Doonan 44861 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/42950 A concerned letter has flooded into my mailbox. "I read you every week and I love you," it goes.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42950#comments Arts & Culture Audrey Hepburn Claudia Shear Mae West T.S. Eliot Sun, 21 May 2000 20:00:00 -0400 John Heilpern 42950 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/42940 As I was saying about Tom Stoppard: Few people would deny he's a clever sausage, including Tom Stopp  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42940#comments Arts & Culture Harold Pinter Mae West Tom Stoppard United Kingdom Sun, 14 May 2000 20:00:00 -0400 John Heilpern 42940 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/39798 Three Plays by Mae West: 'Sex,' 'The Drag' and 'The Pleasure Man,' edited by Lillian Schlissel.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39798#comments Arts & Culture Bert Savoy Clara Stanton Lillian Schlissel Mae West Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:00:00 -0500 Rick Whitaker 39798 at http://www.observer.com