The society fixture, decorator and philanthropist Mica Ertegun helped define the tastes of an era. Now her great collections are going on the block.
Category: Manhattan (NYC)
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘This Quiet, Handsome Cowboy Would Never Notice’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Sean Combs, Music Mogul Known as Diddy, Is Indicted on Sex Trafficking and Racketeering Charges
In charges unsealed a day after his arrest in Manhattan, the music mogul known as Diddy was accused of running a “criminal enterprise” that threatened and abused women.
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Walking From Manhattan to the Catskills on the ‘Long Path’
Intrigued by a trail marker he spotted upstate, a photographer set out to follow a meandering — and little-known — hiking route north from New York City.
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Have a Scotch or Macaron While You Try on That Watch?
Watches of Switzerland and other luxury brands are using liquor and sweets to keep customers engaged. And that includes treats for their dogs.
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Inside the Funeral Home for New York’s Elite
Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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Clark Halstead, Real Estate Broker Who Broke the Mold, Dies at 83
The face of his firm, he opened storefront offices to chase undervalued properties in New York City and emblazoned a London cab with his name.
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Noel Parmentel Jr., Essayist, Polemicist and Apostate, Dies at 98
A self-described “reactionary individualist,” he mentored Joan Didion and was credited with famously comparing Nixon to a used-car salesman.
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Leonard Riggio, 83, Dies; Founded Barnes & Noble and Upended Publishing
He turned a college book store into a publishing behemoth, pioneering the bookstore-as-superstore and putting thousands of independents out of business before being overtaken by Amazon.
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Betty Halbreich, World’s ‘Most Famous Personal Shopper,’ Dies at 96
She was a local New York secret before gaining wider renown as the dressing-room companion of rich, powerful women. A dark past lay beneath her savoir faire.
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New Hotels in New York That Revive the Romance of the Gilded Age
Landscaped terraces, vintage cocktail bars and plush screening rooms — Manhattan’s hospitality scene revives the Gilded Age