Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Stripper Wife Says Ponzi Schemer Isn’t Doing Well
Stripper Wife Says Ponzi Schemer Isn’t Doing Well
Diane Passage, the former stripper and still pole dancing wife of Ponzi-scheming accountant to the stars Kenneth Starr, tells Page Six that her husband’s “health is not great at all.” Starr is behind bars, because no one can/wants to bail him out: Apparently only one of his two brothers...
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Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Tow Truck Operator Says Cop Gave Him Revenge Ticket
Tow Truck Operator Says Cop Gave Him Revenge Ticket
The Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) has been cracking down on illegal parking this year with a special unit focused on rooting out and towing placard abusers, unmarked police vehicles, and the like. This has caused some tension between IAB and many officers, who have complained about being towed while...
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Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Owner Of Car Damaged By Jumper: "I Miss It. It’s My Baby."
Owner Of Car Damaged By Jumper: "I Miss It. It’s My Baby."
Photographs of the car—plus inset of Magill’s shoe, which landed on another car—from WABC 7 Maria McCormack lent her red Dodge Charger to her husband on Tuesday—only for the car to be totaled after cushioning the 39-story fall of an apparently suicidal man . She moaned to the...
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Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
"Drunk" Lost Painting Lawsuit Dropped
"Drunk" Lost Painting Lawsuit Dropped
Missing painting, and Thomas Doyle’s mugshot Looks like we’ve got a nice art caper on our hands! That lawsuit that was just filed against an art courier, who claimed to have lost a $1.35MM painting after a bender, has been dropped. The majority owner of the painting, Kristyn Trudgeon, was...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Tiger Tales: The Best Tiger Woods Bachelor Pad Insults (So Far)
Tiger Tales: The Best Tiger Woods Bachelor Pad Insults (So Far)
Apparently all it takes is one rumor of a disgraced global icon moving into a building for people’s true opinions about that building to come pouring out. And it looks like Hudson Street’s Printing House doesn’t have many fans! Page Six isn’t convinced that Tiger Woods would...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Neighbors Love Queens Whorehouse: We don’t want to steal their…
Neighbors Love Queens Whorehouse: We don’t want to steal their…
We don’t want to steal their photos and make them angry at us, but check out the Wall Street Journal ’s photo gallery of this $2.5 million Forrest Hills house , with design influences such as a French brothel . The couple tore down the previous house on the property to build their dream...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Rumormongering: Report: Tiger Woods’s West Village Bachelor Pad Revealed
Rumormongering: Report: Tiger Woods’s West Village Bachelor Pad Revealed
Is the rumor about Tiger Woods setting up shop in downtown Manhattan true? A second media outlet has stepped forward to say that it is. The Daily News writes that the newly divorced Woods carried his own boxes and golf clubs into “his new digs on Hudson Street ” on Sunday night, pausing...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
On the Rental Market: Katharine Hepburn’s Turtle Bay House for Rent at $27.5K/Month
On the Rental Market: Katharine Hepburn’s Turtle Bay House for Rent at $27.5K/Month
Katharine Hepburn spent more than 60 years living at 244 East 49th Street (the nearby intersection of Second Avenue and East 49th Street was renamed “Katharine Hepburn Place” in 2003). That house—one of the row that makes up Turtle Bay Gardens , named for the connecting gardens behind...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
The Out-of-Towners: ‘Face of Gentrification’ Leaves East Harlem Because of Lady Gaga
The Out-of-Towners: ‘Face of Gentrification’ Leaves East Harlem Because of Lady Gaga
In 2008, blogger and Mississippi transplant Zachary Wilson arrived in East Harlem straight out of college, dreams of magazine industry employment dancing in his head. One of his first discoveries about life in the big city was that his neighborhood was different from the Upper East Side environs that...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
DoBro Gets Liquored Up: Not only will DoBro’s Toren be…
DoBro Gets Liquored Up: Not only will DoBro’s Toren be…
Not only will DoBro’s Toren be getting an “upscale and eco-friendly” grocery store, but Gold Street arrested development poster child Oro is getting a wine store , Brownstoner notes. Way to bounce back, DoBro! Last we checked, Oro had finally made it to the 50 percent sold mark, so...
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