Max Gross
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The High Line's latest condo champ
When offering NYP Home a sneak peak of the model unit at his latest building, 508 W. 24th Street a condo on the High Line with move-ins set for this...
Hell’s Kitchen continues to sizzle
It calls out to real estate buyers like an anguished Stanley Kowalski: Stella...Tower! Stella Tower is the latest condo to land in Hell’s Kitchen: a sleek, 51-unit building on West...
'Chopped' host Ted Allen talks travel, hotels and food
Ever since he appeared on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” — and continuing on into “Iron Chef,” “Top Chef” and “Chopped” — Ted Allen has been the traveled, sophisticated,...
Cheers to Jeff Koons' tasty new cocktail
Let’s all raise our glasses to Jeff Koons, the artist of the moment — with a retrospective at the Whitney, a (very) revealing spread in Vanity Fair and “Split-Rocker,” the...
Forget rentals, Downtown Brooklyn condos booming
"The first two weeks were a gold rush.” That’s how William Ross of Halstead described the pace of sales at 388 Bridge St., the 53-story rental/condo tower in Downtown Brooklyn...
Checking in: Park Hyatt Vienna
WHAT: A 143-room hotel (with 35 suites) in a 100-year-old former bank. The property features grand dining rooms with marble walls, a cigar lounge, a mirrored stairway inspired by Coco...
4 reasons why the isle of Grenada is grand
Back in March, a Washington, DC, area couple named Edward Gamson and Lowell Canaday filed a lawsuit against British Airways after they bought an airline ticket expecting to fly to...
Seinfeld's 25 greatest contributions to the English language
Twenty-five years ago this Saturday, “Seinfeld” debuted on NBC. It didn’t do particularly well at first, but it slowly began gathering viewers and then — yada yada yada — it...
What's hot and new in Atlantic City this summer
Now that Revel — Atlantic City’s $2.4 billion mega-hotel and casino that opened two years ago — may shut down operations this summer, a traveler might think warily of visiting...
Want an apartment in NYC for under $2,000 a month? Look here
The number dropped on our collective heads as lightly as an anvil: $4,042. That was the average price of a two-bedroom rental in Manhattan, according to Citi Habitat’s April 2014...
JetBlue launches new business class
JetBlue has officially embraced its inner-blue bloodedness. Starting Sunday JetBlue — which has always branded itself as a less costly, more egalitarian airline — is launching a new “Mint” business...
Floored: Inside the Carlton House
One imagines that when a building fronting Madison Avenue — a mere block east of Central Park, and a block north of Barney’s — has construction crews forming around it,...
Rent an apartment at the now-shuttered Elaine's
Elaine Kaufman, the late, lamented owner of the eponymous Elaine’s on the Upper East Side, was such a good hostess, you are welcome to stay in her old building —...
Retail and residential explodes in Harlem
Colin Pile has a name for what’s happening to his neighborhood: “the Frederick Douglass effect.” It’s the phenomenon that started a few years back, when shiny new condos and rentals...
Celebrate Shavuot with cheesecake all night
On Hanukkah, Jews feast on potato pancakes. On Passover, they eat matzo. But the most underrated of the holidays — from a culinary perspective, that is — is Shavuot, when...
Texas translation: Weird, wild stuff to be found in Austin
For years, Austin, Texas, has been the Canterbury Cathedral of music nerds — a site of pilgrimage and worship. Likewise, with the emergence of names like Paul Qui (of Qui),...
How chain restaurants are capitalizing on hipster trends
Sometime this summer, the residents of Williamsburg will be hit with a sight so bizarre — and yet, so familiar! — that heads might well explode. They will see the...
Best NYC rentals to snap up before they disappear
When Vinny D'Andraia showed up at The Bergen, the new rental building just on the border of Park Slope and Boerum Hill, he had zero interest in mincing words about...
Chinese bao buns are everywhere! Here are 6 to try
The Chinese buns known as bao are popping up everywhere — with unexpected fillings. Here are six tasty ones to try. Brooklyn buns When it comes to food offerings, Clinton...
Summer bargains still available for Hamptons latecomers
When timing a deal on a Hamptons summer house, renters fall into two categories: Type early and type late. Type early was making appointments in February. They appealed to their...