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Paula Del Nunzio on Manhattan's Mightiest Real Estate

Max Abelson dined late last week at the Four Seasons with star broker Paula Del Nunzio of Brown Harris Stevens. Their conversation can be found here, and covers everything from Mark Cuban to the $100 million Manhattan home to the psyche of ...

Honesty: 2009's Hot New Marketing Tool!

Katherine Dykstra, writing in the January issue of The Real Deal: [W]hat was the perfect pitch in early 2008's real estate market now seems inappropriate. "Even [the high-end buyers] don't want excess now," says Sean Osher of Core Group Marketing. "No one ...
Though Mary-Kate Olsen finds the recession " [P6]Samantha Ronson gets paid a lot more for her D.J.ing gigs now that she comes equipped with Lindsay Lohan. [Gatecrasher] Scott Sartiano's 1Oak and Butter are remaining recession un-friendly, for now. [Fifth item, Page Six ...

Tuesday, December 30

The Rockettes kick up their tired legs (at the spa! ) as the Radio City Christmas Spectacular winds to a close and were left to face recession economics without the diversion of tinsel. [Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, ...

Sketchier Times for City Architects

From Crain's: "As both office and residential development in the city grinds to a halt, architectural firms are scrambling to find more work. They are lowering their fees, chasing smaller projects, seeking more international assignments and bidding on more institutional contracts to ...

Russian Orthodox Church Going Into Construction

The Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, a Russian Orthodox congregation on the Lower East Side, finds itself, like many churches before it, in money troubles. Indeed, such troubles were the lead topic in the church's July newsletter: "We are currently working ...

Economists: Expect 19,000 Job Losses a Month

From the Wall Street Journal this morning: The next U.S. president will be confronted with slow growth, high unemployment and an economy teetering toward recession, say 51 private economists ... The respondents saw a 60% chance of an outright recession, expect the ...