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Childhood home of Beastie Boy Mike D on market for $19.5M

Posted: 07 May 2022 02:02 PM PDT

The childhood home of Beastie Boy member Mike D — and that of his art-collecting mother Hester Diamond, who died in 2020 at the age of 91 — has hit the market for $19.5 million. The New York Times is reporting the apartment located at 300 Central Park West in the famed, twin-towered El Dorado co-op, is a duplex cobbled together from three different apartments since the early 1980s. Located on the 18th and 19th

Jared Kushner to invest Saudi money in Israeli firms

Posted: 07 May 2022 01:00 PM PDT

A portion of the $2 billion investment Jared Kushner’s private equity firm picked up from the Saudi Public Investment Fund will go to Israeli companies in the first known instance of Saudi Arabian cash heading to the Jewish state. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Kushner’s Affinity Partners will be investing money sunk into his firm by the fund managed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman into two Israeli start-ups in a move Kushner

Upper East Side co-op sues octogenarian resident who allegedly pooped in pool

Posted: 07 May 2022 12:00 PM PDT

An Upper East Side co-op board sued an 83-year-old resident who allegedly pooped in the building’s pool. Attorneys for Rio The Condominium and Spa on East 65th Street said Helen Hirsch defecated in the Fitness Center pool and then again the shower, according to The Daily Beast. The suit seeks damages for having to close and sanitize the pool after permanently barring Hirsch from entering. “The Condominium was forced to shut down the Fitness Center’s

Bronx tenants on verge of buying their apartments for $2,500 each

Posted: 07 May 2022 10:02 AM PDT

A group of Bronx tenants who banded together to fight rent increases proposed by a new landlord are nearing the end of a city-backed process to buy the building from him and sell themselves their living spaces for just $2,500 each. It took more than five years of work, help from an affordable housing nonprofit, an old city program and an assist from the pandemic for the tenants to gain control of their own real

Spread the word: “Poolside Gossip” home fetches record in Palm Springs

Posted: 07 May 2022 09:00 AM PDT

It took a massive price cut, but the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs finally sold, and for a record amount at that. The home — site of the legendary Slim Aarons photograph “Poolside Gossip” — was sold for $13.06 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. The $60,000 at the end of the figure is significant, as it pushed the sale to a local record, slightly above the $13 million Bob Hope’s former home sold for

To (expensively) go where few have gone, space hotel gets smaller

Posted: 07 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT

Orbital Assembly, the company behind a planned hotel in space, says smaller is better. The Huntsville, Alabama-based firm is working on a new concept to accompany the 400-guest Voyager Station, a 28-person facility named Pioneer Station, CNN reported. Pioneer could be operational in as little as three years, two years before Voyager. It won’t come cheap: Insider reported last year that a three-day stay at Voyager would cost about $5 million. Pioneer pricing hasn’t been