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• Thy Neighbor's Wife, and Thy Own

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Gossipmonger, Brett Ratner, Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Fox, Gay Talese, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hairspray, Hillary Clinton, John Travolta, Jon Bon Jovi, Lance Bass, Meryl Streep, Nan Talese, Oscar De La Renta, Park Avenue, Sumner Redstone, Ted Koppel, Yale, Ziegfeld Theater

  venom. Residents of Park Avenue are not pleased Oscar de la Renta decided to move his fall Fashion Week show from Bryant Park to 583 Park. Charlie Sheen is trying to get Denise Richards to agree to looser visitation restrictions for their kids, but she's not having any of it. Sumner Redstone tips a minimum of 40 percent but maybe does not

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• Saks Opens Its New Shoe Floor, and We're Disappointed

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Show Talk, Retail, Saks Fifth Avenue, Shopping

  The shoe department is open for business.Photo: Getty Images The new shoe department at Saks opened this morning, and, much as we'd love to gush about it, we can't. Don't get us wrong: It's nice. It's very nice, and it's a major upgrade from the well-to-do-suburban-mom-attempting-to-be-fashionable selection the store formerly offered. But we're

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• Flags (and Hearse), Fifth Avnue

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Photo Op, Brooke Astor, Churches, Fifth Avenue, Funeral

  St. Thomas Church, at Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street, where he reports crowds five or so people deep on all the sidewalks, a phalanx of NYPD, and lots of confused motorists heading down Fifth and wondering what all the commotions is for. For Brooke Astor's funeral, silly motorists. For Brooke Astor's funeral. Follow what's going on inside with

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• Flags (and Hearse), Fifth Avenue

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Photo Op, Brooke Astor, Churches, Fifth Avenue, Funeral

  St. Thomas Church, at Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street, where he reports crowds five or so people deep on all the sidewalks, a phalanx of NYPD, and lots of confused motorists heading down Fifth and wondering what all the commotions is for. For Brooke Astor's funeral, silly motorists. For Brooke Astor's funeral. Follow what's going on inside with

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• Saks Fifth Avenue's shoe-a-palooza

  Published: August 19, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Saks Fifth Avenue, Saksfifthavenue, Shoe Department, Shoedepartment

  ShoesToday Saks Fifth Avenue has unveiled it's largest shoe department in New York City. What makes it the largest shoe department ever? Could it be the 10,000 pairs of shoes or that fact that the department warrants its own zip code (10022)? Yep, its that serious. A sea of stilettos, boots, sandals, mules, high heels, kitten heels, and

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• Dems Get What They Want as Gonzales Resigns

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Political, Gonzales, Resignation, Appointee, Alberto, Careers, Submitted, Revenge, Avenue

  who have been pursuing every avenue possible to destroy people’s careers in their quest for revenge. It is a... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• WMD Found — in Midtown

  Published: August 31, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Co Op City, Death, Fdny, Hotels, Iraq, Nicholas Scoppetta, Saddam Hussein, Second Avenue Deli, United Nations

  [NYP] • The Second Avenue Deli, which closed in early 2006 in face of a rent increase, is set to reopen again — not on Second Avenue but at Third and 33rd. [amNY] • And a maid at the fleabag Hotel Carter on 43rd Street found the body of a 22-year-old woman in plastic bags under a bed. Other guests then demanded refunds,

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• Parisian Jeweler Muscles In On Leviev's Madison Turf

  Published: September 2, 2007, 8:57 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Lev Leviev, Madison Avenue

  competition up on Madison Avenue. Mauboussin, the high-end Parisian jeweler, has signed on for 8,400 square feet at 714 Madision Avenue, according to Newmark Knight Frank's Amira Yunis. The building was formerly occupied by upscale women's clothing store Shanghai Tang. Founded in 1827, Mauboussin is one of the oldest jewelers in Paris. It

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• The Worst Housing and Mortgage Market in 25 Years

  Published: September 6, 2007, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Credit Standards, Credit Deterioration, Depreciation, Mortgage Video, Lenders Problems 2007, Mortgage News, Depreciation, Mortgage News, Cycle, Worst, Imprudent, Bitton, Ellen, Park, Avenue, Contributed

  with Ellen Bitton of Park Avenue Mortgage Group: Foreclosure Cycle is Next Cycle in Housing Downturn; Wall Street Loans to Lenders Contributed to Problems; Imprudent Lending… Credit Deterioration, Credit Standards, depreciation, Lenders With Problems 2007, mortgage news, Mortgage Video ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage

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• Paula Zahn Is Too Sexy For CNN, Marriage Or Fiscal Responsibility

  Published: September 7, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Dubious Investments, Fifth Avenue, Paul Fribourg, Paula Zahn, Roger Cohen, Sex Book, Torrid Afffair

  out of the family's Fifth Avenue

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• Seventy-five years later, IND opening shows the SAS real estate effect

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:32 am

  Tags: Mta Economics, Second Avenue Subway

  The IND, operating a few avenue blocks away, from the IRT, led to development; the Second Ave. subway, operating a few avenue blocks away from the Lexington Ave. lines will bring service to an under-served areas of the city. This subway will spur on economic development and lead to price increases and demand in the area’s real estate.

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• Will Jessica Simpson Become A Spinster? She Can't Give It Away On Seventh Avenue.

  Published: September 10, 2007, 9:42 pm

  Tags: Adam Levine, Bam Margera, Jessica Simpson, Johnny Knoxville, Papa Joe, Promiscuity, Seventh Avenue, Spinster

  Ever notice that sometimes Jess just seems to try too hard to look happy, and other times she can't hide her misery? Yup. Real happy.The last couple of years have not been nice to Jessica at all. Divorce and speculation of rampant promiscuity (Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Adam Levine) with unsavory types have destroyed her eligibility with

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• Vera Wang's Place at 778 Park Goes to Contract

  Published: September 14, 2007, 11:32 am

  Tags: Real Estate, Housing, Park Avenue, Vera Wang

  Designer Vera Wang's 14-room apartment at 778 Park Avenue has gone to contract, according to the Wall Street Journal today. Ms. Wang was asking $35 million for the five-bedroom spread in the ultra-tony co-op. No word from listing brokers Deborah Grubman and Carol Cohen of the Corcoran Group on whether Ms. Wang got that price.

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• Senate sends some SAS-sy money the MTA’s way

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:41 pm

  Tags: Mta Economics, Second Avenue Subway

  A view into the Second Ave. Subway construction staging ground at 2nd Ave. between 92nd and 91st Sts. (Courtesy of the fantastic photoblog The Launch box) It’s payback time for New York’s junior, and the Second Ave. Subway stands to benefit from Chuck Schumer’s handling of the DSCC in 2006. Once upon a time, on the very first

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• Bloomberg Officially a $41 M. Townhouse Man

  Published: September 17, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Real Estate, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg Madison Avenue

  building at 1014 Madison Avenue, which happens to be next-door to the $45 million mansion the Mayor bought last year for his charity. According to a particularly massive deed filed this morning in public records, the Mayor paid exactly $41 million. That means his future Bloomberg Family Foundation headquarters, renovation costs aside, will

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