AVENUE October 2017

the power elite issue

OCTOBER 2017

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OCTOBER 2017

CONTENTS VOL. 41 NO. 8

RED IS IN Fall's hottest—and most powerful—color

PAGE 30

FEATURES 56

A CARRIAGE NAMED DESIRE Caroline Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg and the destiny of a political dynasty

by Sharon Churcher

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AVENUE’S POWER ELITE, 2017 Our social register of who matters most in the greatest city on earth

illustrations by Mokshini

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WOMEN’S WORK Hats off to the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee at 35

by Todd Plummer

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ROOMS WITH A VIEW Sneaking past the doormen of the city’s most selective towers of power.

by Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker

COLUMNS 30

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

Red pieces synonymous with power and strength

by Wendy Sy

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BEAUTY

A playful mix of everyday favorites

by Wendy Sy

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TRENDSCAPE

Harnessing the strength of sustainability

by Kelly Laffey

42

A LIST of New York's most powerful

JEWELRY BOX

Temple St. Clair’s fall collection comes full circle

by Wendy Sy

ON THE COVER

Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg Illustrations by Maren Esdar

CAROLINE KENNEDY & JACK SCHLOSSBERG What’s new in Camelot?

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THE CENTRAL PARK HAT LUNCH Ladies who make a difference

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What’s old is new again

by Beth Landman

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UNREAL ESTATE

A Brutalist masterpiece hits the market

by Kristina Stewart Ward

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POSTCARD FROM...

AVENUE editor Michael Gross finds rustic luxe up north

SOCIAL SAFARI

Winding down the summer season

by R. Couri Hay

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N.O.C.D.

The Winter of Our Dissed Content

by Suzanne O’Malley

DEPARTMENTS 19

ON THE AVENUE

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by Ben Diamond

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CORRECTIONS

August’s Social Safari column inadvertently omitted to note that Northern Trust partnered with the New York Botanical Garden to support its annual Conservancy Ball. Bank of America supported the Dale Chihuly exhibit.

In the July issue of AVENUE on the Beach, Keith Major was omitted as the photographer for “The Keys to Heaven” Hamptons Real Estate shoot.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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L ET TER FROM T HE EDI T OR DEAR READERS, On Labor Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend Dana Hammond Stubgen’s Aloha party

Charlotte St Dana Hammubgen, Nicholas Hamm on ond Stubgen and Fetty W d, ap

in Southampton, a farewell to the summer of 2017. At this extraordinary friends-only fete, po’boys, party girls and billionaires ate barbecue prepared by pitmasters

“THIS AIN’T JUST MRS. ASTOR’S TOWN ANYMORE.”

from Utah and Panama and halibut and prime beef by Daniel Boulud; gray haired socials danced with teens to the diamonddripping hip-hop of Fetty Wap, and nobody cared that fall was already— brrrr—in the air. The power, persistence, and achievement on display that night are New York’s most important products—and the reason we’re the center of the world. Every issue of AVENUE is about power, but since 2004, October’s been the month we focus on those of us who wield it.

AVENUE’s then-editor, Janet Allon, described social rank here as “more fluid and nebulous” than it is in London or Washington. “A good name doesn’t hurt, but good works are indispensable” and “achievement, talents, guts, beauty, generosity and, yes, money, all play their part.” That year, the list sprawled across 21 pages, and was immediately followed by a ten-page advertorial about a new condo, Trump Park Avenue. My point is that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I didn’t count the names on our list; this ain’t just Mrs. Astor’s town anymore, and we’re not playing a numbers game. Indeed, we’re not playing games at all. We took it as a serious challenge and have borrowed the title of a serious book, The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills, to reflect that.

In 1956, sociologist Mills theorized that power was centered in the political, military and corporate spheres. As our list, and what Hammond-Stubgen called her Danapalooza, show, New York now is far more interesting, heterogeneous, and, yes, powerful.

This issue also has a subtheme, and that’s Woman Power, symbolized by our cover subject, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. She’s from the branch of her famous family most associated with New York. And as investigative journalist Sharon Churcher makes clear, she’s lately become a vessel for the dreams of millions who think that, in Allon’s words, “A good name doesn’t hurt, but good works are indispensable.”

Speaking of women and good works, Todd Plummer also offers us a look back at the extraordinary and stylish philanthropy of the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee.

And we close our issue with a look at how the powerful live here, from the pages of Life at the Top, a brilliant new book on New York’s great apartment houses by Kirk Henckels, Anne Walker Finally, we welcome our new real estate editor and columnist, Kristina Stewart Ward. She has been an editor at Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar, and a writer for the New York Times, Vogue and Elle Decor, and we’re delighted she’s joined AVENUE. Michael Gross Editor in Chief

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Fashion Week has long since evolved from a trade event attended mostly by fashion editors, buyers and preferred customers. It’s become a carnival, a weeklong party full of clothes that very few people will ever wear, shown to people who sometimes get them for free—a place where celebrities and bloggers are far more likely to be sitting in the front row than grand dames. And we can roll with that.

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FASHION NIGHTS OUT SOMETIMES THE BEST STYLES ONLY COME OUT AFTER DARK

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

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ALL EYES ON ART THIS MONTH'S SELECTION OF ARTS AND CULTURE

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GALLERIES: THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM September 29 – January 7 Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection 225 Madison Avenue New York 212.685.0008 themorgan.org

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ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES October 2 – November 17 Jacob El Hanani Linescape: Four Decades 18 East 79th Street New York 212.734.6300 acquavellagalleries.com GRAY SKIES, 2016. Ink on gessoed canvas

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CITY FARM—WINE NOT? Cozy style, just in time for fall

KNIT TO BE TIED Anya Cole, the founder of Hania by Anya Cole, knows that a key component in creating a sustainable product is being able to pinpoint how a piece makes its way through the production process. Her line of hand-knit clothes is created by New York artisans.

“We’re happy we’re helping women use their skills to make a true luxury product,” she says. The yarn is sourced from Italy and Scotland, and the company has started a partnership with a family farm in Kyrgyzstan, which yields a yarn that is then organically dyed in Maine. haniabyanyacole.com

Living in New York doesn’t mean you can’t cook with the freshest ingredients. Billed as “the world’s smallest garden,” Urban Leaf provides green-starved New Yorkers with an opportunity to put those empty Wölffer Summer in a Bottle containers to good use. Founded by Robert Elliott and Nate Littlewood, Urban Leaf is a hydroponic unit that lets people grow fresh herbs inside wine bottles. The standing water will continuously nourish the plants, meaning that you don’t need a green thumb to be successful.

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“I’m inspired by ingredients, relationships and by talking with people,” says Chef Nicolas “Nico” Abello, who helms the kitchen. Abello focuses on sustainability, sourcing from relationships he has with local purveyors and places like the Union Square Greenmarket. “It’s the best way for us to see what’s in season around New York,” says Abello. He changes the menu every month, and will never repeat the same dish.

As the name suggests, Abello strives to make people feel like they are coming into his home to try his food. “We want people to feel relaxed,” he says. lappartnyc.com L’Appart translates to “the apartment.”

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ONCE-SHUTTERED RESTAURANTS AND SIDELINED CHEFS MAKE COMEBACKS

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ctober is peak time on New York’s culinary scene. Diners are back from extended summer vacations and haven’t yet fled the frost for warmer climates.

Restauranteurs seize on the month to premiere spaces, chefs and menus.

This season, some of the names will be familiar—resurrected favorites and siblings of existing restaurants we love. We’ve already given you the skinny on the rebirths of La Goulue and Bond 45, but there are more.

Many of us who mourned mogul hangout Coco Pazzo when it closed on East 74th Street in 2008 will have a chance to taste its Tuscan wonders again. Legendary restaurateur Pino Luongo will head south for a smaller, more casual version called Coco Pazzo Trattoria, to open this month on the site of the old hangout bar Milady’s, at 160 Prince Street. “Coco Pazzo was one of the places closest to my heart, but the rent tripled, and I have always wanted to bring it back,” says Luongo. Marta Pulini, his former chef at Le Madri, will helm the new place, which will also have a café where you can sit down or get takeout.

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Shea Gallante is back in the kitchen, now at Lincoln.

La Pecora Bianca is opening a new location in October.

at 85 Tenth Avenue, across from Chelsea Market, called Atelier de Joël Robuchon. “Mr. Robuchon specifically asked us to find something that was not in a hotel: this location is artistic and surrounded with a lot of activity, reminiscent of the Left Bank in Paris,” says Alex Gaudelet, CEO of Invest Hospitality, Robuchon’s partner in the United States. The menu too has evolved: while the counter will still serve favorites like steak tartare, caviar and langoustines, Robuchon is focusing more on healthier, plant-based dishes. “We are working hard to source as many local ingredients as possible,” says Gaudelet.

Shea Gallante, who earned three stars at Ciano before

Milos will celebrate 20 years with an expansion.

becoming chef at the short-lived Baccarat restaurant, is back at the stove. He quietly took the reins at Lincoln over the summer, overhauled the kitchen and introduced pre-theater and chef ’s tasting menus. Among his new offerings: pappardelle with housemade lamb bacon, cannellini beans, Calabrian chili and tomato sugo; and wild sea bass with Vernaccia wine, confit fennel,

Meyer lemon, Taggiasca olives and roasted tomato emulsion.

Nomad favorite La Pecora Bianca is opening a new location at 950 Second Avenue in October, with Cruz Goler, formerly chef de cuisine at Lupa and Narcissa, overseeing the kitchen. “This is a more grown-up version of the concept: it’s bigger, sexier and more sophisticated,” says owner Mark Barak. “The DNA has evolved; it’s still accessible, seasonal Italian, but there are things we can do that we couldn’t in the smaller space.”

In addition to an expanded menu, the new space will feature 1950s Italian tile rather than reclaimed terra cotta, along with a larger wine bar and a standing coffee bar. Richard Lewis, the architect who designed Balthazar, is responsible for the look. “This is our Italian version of a brasserie, with booths, banquettes and a buzzy scene,” says Barak.

It’s been nearly ten years since we’ve had a new spot from Anastasi Hairatidis, the man behind the spirited ’90s haunt Casa La Femme, where people smashed plates and danced on tables, but last month he opened a 50-seat tapas lounge called Casita with Barcelona-born chef Mikel de Luis. Things are bound to be tamer this time, as Hairatidis is offering breakfast and lunch as well as dinner, along with market items. “We are here to cater to the West Village,” he says. “We have 25 Spanish cheeses and really upscale versions of canned products from Spain, including tuna, mussels, octopus and clams, and

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Milos, the restaurant that started New York’s Greek juggernaut, is celebrating its 20-year mark in New York by expanding, opening a downstairs lounge designed with Greek marble flooring and a sweeping staircase, as well as a neighboring market called Markato. “At a time when so many people are having trouble opening restaurants, we are lucky to have a landlord who was fair to us,” says owner Costas Spiliadis.

“We are excited about featuring crudo preparations of the freshest Mediterranean fish in the lounge’s new raw bar, expanded private dining offerings, and access to products of the highest quality next door at Markato.”

Carlos Suarez is also celebrating

his restaurant’s birthday with an update. “Bobo turned 10 in September, and that had me reflecting on how much the restaurant scene has changed,’’ he reports. “A couple of years ago I started a farm in the Hudson Valley, and I am trying to share my personal passion, which has shifted as I’m getting a little older and appreciating the countryside. Bobo was beautiful, but the design style was of the time.”

Racines chef Frédéric Duca has created a rustic menu, and the brownstone space will now evoke a vacation home, with the first floor reminiscent of a kitchen and the upstairs softer and lighter, with lots of natural wood.

“We will conceptually transport you to a French country house,” says Suarez.

Glad it’s only conceptual, because as we said, this is no time to leave New York.

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gray, polished chrome, mirrored ceilings and spare lines—a fitting nod to Rudolph, who also happened to design Halston’s famed home just around the corner at 101 East 63rd Street. Reflecting on Rudolph’s streamlined masterpiece, Ford says, “I was fortunate to have been in the townhouse in the early ’80s, when I first arrived in New York,

and I remember being stunned by the beauty of it. It really had an effect on me. In many ways I have integrated this design philosophy into my life.”

The former chairman of Yale’s architecture school, Rudolph was a controversial lightning rod, much like his votaries, and he’s widely considered one of the most influential architects of the 1960s. Rudolph was at the fore-

front of Brutalism, a movement hallmarked by industrial materials and repeated modular forms, and the style’s presence in Manhattan exploded in 1965, when Rudolph decamped here from his eight-year tenure at Yale. He arrived for a commission, and, soon after, set about perfecting and expanding his pied-àterre at 23 Beekman Place, a Georgian townhouse built in 1860. Rudolph had begun leasing the apartment i n 1961, making it his primary reside nce when he

left Yale, and bought the building in 1976.

The 20-foot-wide property had already passed through several owners (among them the actress Katharine Cornell), existing as both a single-family residence and an apartment building. Rudolph seized on the building’s oft-changing identity to make it his design laboratory, ultimately using it as a base for the 4,100-square-foot penthouse he created during his three decades in residence. Rudolph created a mazelike, 17-level floor plan of narrow catwalks and bal-

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“Of all the incredible bathtubs I know of in this city, that one takes it,” Balazs recalls of the penthouse’s Plexiglas centerpiece, which is replenished by a thin sheet of water from above and is completely transparent to the floor below—one of many reasons that led the New York Times to label the site as “the most important living space in New York, a vertigo-inspiring kinky progenitor of the ’70s disco aesthetic.”

The complex aerie was inhabited by its designer, the legendary architectural provocateur Paul Rudolph, for more than 30 years, until his death in 1997. Twenty years later, it’s on the market again. But it’s no relic of another era.

Balazs is hardly the penthouse’s only admirer. Another acolyte, Tom Ford, unveiled his latest homage to the designer a few weeks ago in the form of his new store on Madison Avenue, a minimalist study in white,

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It was an imposing masterwork for the architect, but like so many other Rudolph works—such as Yale’s Art and Architecture building, the magnum opus he designed after being appointed the university’s dean of architecture at the age of 38—the audacious, divisive 23 Beekman suffered from the callous caprices of trendiness. Fortunately for Rudolph, he inspired devoted followers. Mentored by Walter Gropius at Harvard, Rudolph counted among his own Yale protégés Robert A.M. Stern and Charles Gwathmey, both of whom teamed up to revitalize Rudolph’s blighted campus tower, which fell victim to suspicious arson, neglect and lack of continued innovation after Rudolph left Yale to work for high-octane private clients. The A & A building has since been renamed Paul Rudolph Hall, and a $126million-dollar restoration was recently unveiled to wide acclaim.

Likewise, 23 Beekman Place required painstaking restoration and the right keepers of its flame. Upon Rudolph’s death, he gave the building to the Library of Congress, which sold it to collectors Michael and Gabriella Boyd in 2000. While their appreciation for Rudolph’s work was sincere, the perilous penthouse space proved too much for their young children, and the couple soon sold the building to Steven Campus, a technology entrepreneur who spent years faithfully restoring the modernist landmark with the help of architects Andrew Bernheimer and Jared Della Valle. The team

completed unfinished work and introduced design innovations that kept with Rudolph’s vision.

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A CARRIAGE NAMED DESIRE CAROLINE KENNEDY, JACK SCHLOSSBERG AND THE DESTINY OF A POLITICAL DYNASTY

by Sharon Churcher

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he buzz about her being the “goddess-in-waiting’’—as Truman Capote once called Caroline Kennedy— started barely two weeks after she arrived back at her elegant Park Avenue co-op in January. Invoking her three years of foreign policy experience as Barack Obama’s ambassador to Japan in a February appearance on the Today show, she excoriated Donald Trump for his “alarming’’ America First rhetoric.

Ramping up the speculation was a sparkly performance at this spring’s Costume Institute Gala, where she was honorary cochair alongside Anna Wintour, as well as Katy Perry, Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady, and Pharrell Williams, and attended along with the usual Hollywood and fashion A-list rabble. While they walked the red carpet with their age-appropriate significant others, Caroline’s drop-dead gorgeous choice of escort was Jack Schlossberg, her 24-year-old son.

Kennedy’s gown provided one of the evening’s topmost talking points. Its bizarre floral-layered tiers were specially designed for her by the evening’s honoree, Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo. “It took a lot of trial and error,’’ Caroline giggled.

Once known as the “shy’’ Kennedy, Caroline, at 59, finally has come out of her shell. Diplomatic insiders say she acquired a taste for the limelight in Japan, where cheering crowds turned out to watch her arrive in a gilded horsedrawn carriage to present her credentials to the emperor.

Booted out of her job by The Donald, she is said to be determined to win a seat in Congress and rebrand the Kennedy name after decades in which it has become synonymous with tragedy and scandal rather than the liberal idealism that she hopes will be her ticket to power.

“We each need to figure out what we believe in, and how to stand for something,’’ she declared at a Met Gala presser.

But has she? And is she really ready to seek elective office?

“If her brother wasn’t gone, he’d probably be running for president,’’ says Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy’s former personal assistant, who helped bring up Caroline and brother John Jr. “When Caroline was growing up, she always said she wanted to be a wife and mother, and she is a very good mother.

But the Kennedys are go-getters who never give up, and after John died, I think Caroline had that sense of duty in her to follow in her father’s footsteps, and I believe she’ll pull it off.

“I really think she might be the first lady president.’’

But then…this is a nation that hasn’t always been kind to Kennedys. And Caroline comes from the wing of the family that knows that best, even if it is the one that gave it its godlike status, and has paid most dearly for that hubristic inheritance.

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We each need to figure out what we believe in and stand for, Kennedy has said. skepticism from some Democratic Party power players, who recall how she bowed out of her 2008 effort to be appointed to the New York Senate seat vacated when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state. Despite a public policy background that included interning in her uncle Ted’s Senate office, she was woefully unprepared to answer even the most basic questions about her qualifications for the job, stammering “you know” some 235 times during a 41-minute New York Post interview. She also was dismayed by lurid rumors—denounced by all concerned as totally false—that she was cheating on her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, with Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. “Amazingly, Caroline believed that there was such public affection for her as the last child of Camelot that she’d be treated with kid gloves,” Christopher Andersen, the author of a 2003 biography, Sweet Caroline, says of the 2008 fiasco. “The truth came as a quite a rude shock. That she might actually have to answer questions about her private life, especially her marriage? Unthinkable!”

Presiding over an embassy has honed her self-confidence, however. And while she remains notoriously press-shy (she didn’t even respond to multiple requests for cooperation with this article) her daughter Tatiana is in a perfect position to serve as an advisor or surrogate, having just left a position as a Times reporter specializing in President Trump’s pet peeves, climate change and the environment. And she certainly has a ready-made constituency in liberals who hunger for someone with the fame and ideological cred to reverse the electoral debacle of 2016. She is “the next Hillary Clinton, but without Hillary’s baggage,” says one supporter.

Previous spread: As ambassador to Japan Above: With her father, wearing a JFK mask Left: The Kennedys at Hyannis Port in 1963

Right: With husband Edwin Schlossberg Below: Wearing Commes des Garçons at the Met Gala, with son jack Schlossberg

So Kennedy is believed to be eyeing the Lower Hudson district occupied by the 80-yearold Democratic congresswoman Nita Lowey. As a backstop, with Lowey insisting she has no plans to retire, sources who claim to speak for Kennedy say she also is interested in being appointed to replace New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, who now occupies Clinton’s former seat, if Gillibrand mounts a 2020 White House run.

Andersen concurs that the last survivor of Camelot “has an absolute obsession with posterity. That’s what drives her more than anything else, that her father be remembered.” But there’s also a school of thought which says that desire can be fulfilled by, to paraphrase her father, passing the torch to a new generation, born in the waning days of the last century, tempered by this one, and disciplined by tragedies both personal and historic to face a hard and bitter fight.

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“Jack is 24. He has the magical Kennedy name.” He also has the advantage of being a bachelor. “Female voters will love him.”

Rather than subject herself to the slings and arrows of another campaign, Andersen surmises that she really may be stoking desires for a Kennedy revival while grooming her son for a race. “My bet is on Jack,” Caroline’s biographer says. “He has been at his mother’s side during most of her recent TV interviews, and it’s pretty clear Caroline is pushing him into politics. He’s helped by the fact that he doesn’t have to contend with the ghosts and demons that swirl around her to this day.’’

Quizzed on Today about whether Jack is eyeing a congressional race, Caroline deftly ducked the question: “I will support whatever decision he makes,” she said slyly.

In a three-hanky Kennedy Library video commemorating this year’s 100th anniversary of her father’s birth, Caroline confides, “I have thought about him and missed him every day of my life.’’ Reminiscing about his crusades for universal healthcare, human rights and a “nation of immigrants,’’ she vows, “As my father said in his inaugural address, ‘This work will not be finished in our lifetime, it’s up to us to continue to pass these values on to our children and grandchildren.”

Political observers inevitably have interpreted the film—which also features Jack and his sisters, Tatiana and Rose—as the cynical season opener for a forthcoming campaign.

Family insiders say that for all of JFK’s shortcomings, “Buttons,’’ as he nicknamed his cherubic blond daughter, iconized him. Caroline was just short of her sixth birthday when he was gunned down on November 22, 1963, and McKeon—who recently published a bestselling memoir, Jackie’s Girl—says the little girl’s grief was heartbreaking.

“She said a Hail Mary for him in her prayers every night,’’ McKeon, now 72, told AVENUE. ‘’It was so sad. She didn’t trust people that well.

She was very caring about people, but she had a kind of fear of the world.

She’d say, ‘You never know who’s going to get you, Kath.’’’

Andersen says: “Caroline has had to endure one emotional hammer blow after another. Ignore that toothy Kennedy grin and focus on the eyes. You will see a lot of anguish there, even now.”

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Living up to the expectations of a Capote “goddess’’ was a different kind of burden. Caroline was a brilliant student who aced classes at her private schools and as a Radcliffe fine arts major, but Jackie’s concern, Andy Warhol recorded in his diary, was that “her behind is so big.” Her mother, who subsisted on a social X-ray regimen of boiled eggs and cottage cheese, had to march her to a doctor who prescribed diet pills. “You’re not going to order dessert, Caroline,” she snapped at a meal in a Paris restaurant in a tirade overheard by other diners. “You’re much too fat. Nobody will ever want to marry you.”

With her charismatic brother designated as the family’s president-in-waiting, Caroline dutifully followed in Jackie’s footsteps as a patron of culture and the arts. In July 1986, she married 41-year-old interactive media designer Ed Schlossberg and devoted herself to their three children: Tatiana; Rose, a budding actress; and Yale grad Jack, who is heading

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Once known as the “shy’’ Kennedy, Caroline, at 59, finally has come out of her shell.

to Harvard Law School. “She is first and foremost a wife and mother,’’ stressed Paul Kirk Jr., a Kennedy Library official after the immaculately groomed Caroline dipped a tentative toe into public life and joined its board as president in 1987.

After graduating Columbia Law School in 1988, she cowrote a book with a former classmate, Ellen Alderman, about the Bill of Rights. In 1995, a year after Jackie’s death, the pair brought out a tome titled The Right to Privacy.’’

Unquestionably Caroline has inherited her mother’s distaste for the media, as well as her ability to carve out personal space for herself and her family despite being in the public eye.

Friends who made flattering comments about her for a 2009 New Yorker story about her Senate campaign subsequently withdrew them for fear of “banishment’’ from her inner circle, the magazine reported.

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Her image of old-money rectitude has been eroded, however, by two auctions she helped to organize of such family chattels as John Jr.’s high chair, Jackie’s clothes and JFK’s rocking chair. The sales raised about $40 million.

Privacy, in her lexicon, is about maximizing control over the family fortune, say critics, who recall how she led a Kennedy effort to challenge businessman Robert L. White’s right to sell a collection of Kennedy tchotchkes he claimed he had accumulated legitimately, such as her father’s Hermès briefcase and Cartier watch.

The case cost White nearly $1 million in legal fees and was still going on in 2003 when he died of a heart attack at age 54. ‘’He had a heart problem, but I think the case stressed him out and he died prematurely,’’ says a family member.

Caroline and her husband also have enraged conservationists by subdividing Jackie’s beloved Martha’s Vineyard estate, Red Gate Farm. Two parcels fronting the ocean and Squibnocket Pond are on the market for $27 million. The Boston Globe reported in August that Barack and Michele Obama were “looking to buy” the land. A source close to the ex-president told AVENUE, however, that the report was untrue and that he suspected it was a ploy to attract purchasers because the lots “aren’t moving. They’re so overpriced.”

Moreover, the LBJ Presidential Library archivist Jennifer Cuddeback has told AVENUE that in a particularly unusual and controversial move, Caroline copyrighted her mother’s handwriting before giving her correspondence to the center. “I reconfirmed this with the supervisory archivist at the Kennedy Library, Karen Abramson. Ms. Abramson informed me that according to the deeds of gift signed June 2009 and December 2010, copyright was assigned to Caroline Kennedy and her children,” Cuddeback says.

“In my experience, handwriting is not typically copyrighted in personal papers collections.”

Above: With Barack Obama Right: The Schlossberg kids, Rose, Jack and Tatiana, at the Kennedy Center Honors

Oliver Herzfeld, the general counsel to a New York brand licensing firm, Beanstalk, predicts that if a legal challenge arises, Caroline will have a tough time defending her right to profit from her mother’s John Hancock. “In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are generally not copyrightable,” he says. “I think Caroline is not on the winning side of this issue.”

Kennedy has profited handsomely from her legacy, publishing, among her many books and collections, transcripts of her mother’s conversations with Kennedy friend and house historian Arthur M. Schlesinger (which came with a CD of their interviews); an update of her father’s book Profiles in Courage; and a volume of her mother’s favorite poems. Her obsession with squeezing the last cent from her inheritance is defended by Christopher Andersen as yet another hangover from her unhappy childhood: “Despite his great wealth, JFK complained bitterly about Jackie’s spending. Caroline was raised from childhood with the nagging fear that, while

Above: With her father and cousins in Hyannis Port in 1963

oyalists also allegedly spread the scuttlebutt about her marriage: “Bill Clinton was always loyal to the Kennedys.

They were his role models and heroes,” the confidant says.

“So when Caroline led the family, including Teddy, Maria [Shriver], and the whole crew except Bobby’s older child, Kathleen, in supporting Obama, the Clintons felt betrayed.

It hurt. Deeply hurt.

“And when you betray the Clintons, Sidney is like an attack dog who will go after any legitimate target, including the state of an opponent’s marriage. That’s how the rough-and-tumble of politics works. Caroline didn’t have the stomach for it.”

Members of the couple’s inner circle were appalled: “[The Schlossbergs] are very happy and will live happy ever after,” says Marta Sgubin, Caroline and John Jr.’s former governess, who went on to help raise Jack, Tatiana, and Rose. A Times also shot down the gossip about an affair: “Mr. Sulzberger is not and never has been romantically involved with Ms. Kennedy.”

Caroline succeeded an unassuming Silicon Valley lawyer and political activist, John Roos, as U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Thousands of onlookers waved as she clopped in her coach to the imperial palace escorted by a footman in breeches. “John Roos went by car to present his credentials,” says Roland Kelts, the Tokyo-based author of a book about Japanese culture, Japanamerica. “But Caroline agreed to arrive in a carriage. She knew the value of the Kennedy name, and during her time in Japan she used this soft power very effectively.”

The question is whether her time in Japan will help her if she runs for Congress. And whether the Clinton family will seek to foil her again.

“Chelsea Clinton is hungering to succeed Nita Lowey or Gillibrand— whichever of them steps down first,” says a Clinton insider. “If Caroline runs against Chelsea, all the dirt will be wheeled out against her again and then some. The golden carriage is a great attack ad.

“My bet is that Caroline knows that and will make the smart move and run Jack. The boy is 24. He has the magical Kennedy name.” He also has the advantage of being a bachelor. “Female voters will love him,” the insider predicts.

Cue in Jack’s bare-chested August photo for New York magazine, accompanying an essay about how he paddleboarded, with “beet juice pulsing through my veins,” in a 25-mile Manhattan charity race.

That old black Irish magic may just have us under its spell again.

4.

Caroline has inherited her mother’s distaste for the media, as well as her ability to carve out personal space for herself and her family.

they were indeed rich, they would never be rich enough,” he says. “That’s the Bouvier curse.”

While her fortune gave her the means to mount her 2008 Senate race, it quickly turned into a curse when she was pilloried by Democratic Party power players such as Hank Sheinkopf, a member of Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential reelection team. Charging that she had shown no interest in policy issues, he portrayed her in a CNN commentary as being cocooned by her wealth and the Camelot “fairy tale.”

Some of the vicious coverage of her that year is said to have been orchestrated by Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton henchman who also was a consultant to the Daily Beast. He reportedly commissioned and edited two pieces for the site that lampooned her campaign as a “puppet show.” Daily Beast founder and then editor-in-chief Tina Brown also weighed in: “Caroline has led a parochial, socially timid life centered on Manhattan’s most cosseted enclave, remote from the competitive cut and thrust of local or national politics, the blood-coursing challenges of winning and losing that defined her father’s side of the clan,” she sniped.

A Clinton confidant told AVENUE that the attacks were revenge for Caroline’s endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary in the 2008 Democratic Presidential race. Clinton l

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AVENUE’s Power Elite

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t’s been 125 years since Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and her self-appointed social arbiter Ward McAllister created the 400-body measure that defined Society. A-lists have bred like rabbits ever since, but whether they contained 400 names, 212 (as at AVENUE in recent years) or the 4,000 in the databases of New York’s latest Manqué McAllisters—the publicists who populate screenings and commercial events—they haven’t reflected the evolving reality of the greatest city on earth. AVENUE reflects and honors the past, but its job is to cover today’s society and think about tomorrow’s. So here is our update, the AVENUE Power Elite. We haven’t set an artificial limit because neither does New York. We’ve simply tried to include all the people who fit our criteria, combining power and influence with some degree of wealth, style or social impact. We’ve also placed them in the loose categories that we believe define our diverse and ever-more-inclusive elite. And we continue to honor our Hall of Fame, which we’ve renamed the Pantheon: its members have earned their status even if they are nowadays less visible, outspent and outshined. But shine isn’t everything. While we’ve made a nod to the Trumps and Nicky Hilton Rothschild given their current positions, appearances on reality TV are a ticket to AVENUE’s C-List. And if we’ve left you out, remember: there’s always next year.

ARTISTRY Roland Augustine Frances Beatty Ross Bleckner Mary Boone Gavin Brown Henry Buhl Janis Gardner and Charles Cecil Chuck Close Paula Cooper Elizabeth Strong de Cuevas Fred and Michele Oka Doner Anh Duong Inger Elliott Larry Gagosian Barbara Gladstone Arne Glimcher Marian Goodman Jared duPont Goss Ian and Ellen Graham Agnes Gund Mary Hilliard Nathalie Gerschel Kaplan Deborah Kass Jeff and Justine Koons Dominique Lévy Dorothy Lichtenstein Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann Lawrence Luhring Matthew Marks Robert and Adriana Mnuchin Jamie Niven Enoc Perez Lisa Phillips Clifford Ross Alexia Hamm and Baird Ryan Sana Sabbagh Cindy Sherman Keith Sonnier Donald Sultan Marlies Verhoeven Reijtenbagh William Wegman

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Anne Bezamat Ed and Christy Turlington Burns Carmen Dell’Orefice Bonnie Pfeifer Evans Iman Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner Johannes Huebl and Olivia Palermo Hilary Rhoda Alexandra and Theodora Richards Chris Henchy and Brooke Shields

BEAUTY

SKYSCRAPERS Stephen Alesch William Georgis Paul Goldberger Richard Meier Lee Mindel Katie Ridder and Peter Pennoyer Annabelle Selldorf Robin Standefer Robert A.M. Stern Alan Wanzenberg

INVOLVED Sharon Bush Laverne Cox Jacqueline Weld Drake Vartan and Claire Gregorian Leah Hunt-Hendrix Emilia Saint Amand Krimendahl Peter Neufeld Cecile Richards

Mitchell and Sarah Rosenthal Courtney Sale Ross Barry Scheck Lavinia Branca Snyder Gloria Steinem Bryan Stevenson Darren Walker Faye Wattleton

AVENUE’S

SMART MONEY Karen Ann Herskovitz and Bill Ackman Toni Bentley and Scott Asen Peter Bacanovic Paul Beirne Debra and Leon Black Laura and Lloyd Blankfein Alison and George Brokaw Edgar Jr. and Clarissa Bronfman Chris Burch John K. and Marianne Castle Alexandra and Steven A. Cohen Bryan York Colwell Stephanie and Chase Coleman Vanessa and Henry Cornell Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola Caroline and Tom Deane Jane and Michael Deflorio Joe and Diana DiMenna Jamie Dimon Lise and Michael Evans George Farias Danielle and David Ganek Amy and John Griffin Mai Harrison John and Susan Hess Tom and Janine Hill Carola and Bobby Jain Jay Diamond and Alexandra Lebenthal Jeffrey T. and Elizabeth Marshall Leeds Abby and Anton Levy Kamie and Richard Lightbourn Dan and Margaret Loeb Dan and Adrienne Lufkin

REFINEMENT

Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky Katy Close and Christopher Buckley Misty Copeland Morgan Entrekin

POWER ELITE

Howard and Nancy Marks Anjali and Prakash Melwani Alex and Mary Kathryn Norman-Navab Laura and Brent Nicklas Jane and Dan Och Adebayo Ogunlesi Jennifer and Erik Oken Jeff and Liz Peek Anna Chapman and Ronald Perelman Emmanuel Perrin Lisa and Richard Perry Ira and Ingeborg Rennert Avis and Bruce Richards Stephen and Pilar Crespi Robert Julian Robertson Alex Roepers John and Pat Rosenwald Chuck and Deborah Royce Perri Peltz and Eric Ruttenberg Burwell and Paul “Chip” Schorr IV Jean and Martin Shafiroff Nancy Silverman Marilyn and James Simons Paul Singer Ted Smith Allison and Leonard Stern Barry Sternlicht Paul Tudor Jones II Fred Wilson Andrew Wright

Peter Gelb Maria Cooper and Byron Janis Peter Martins Anthony Marx Sylvia Jukes and Edmund Morris Salman Rushdie Hunt Slonem Dan and Carol Strone Michael M. Thomas Neil deGrasse Tyson Daniel Weiss Christopher Buckley

2017 CAFE SOCIETY André Balazs Mario Batali April Bloomfield Daniel Boulud Danny Bowien Mario Carbone Wendy Carduner Cesare Casella Tom Colicchio Scott Conant Philippe Delgrange Kay Gilman Gherardo Guarducci Andrew Fox and Caroline Hirsch Alex Hitz Daniel Humm Nur Khan Francois Latapie Suzanne Latapie Rachelle Hruska and Sean MacPherson Charles Jr. and Cristina Masson Nobu Matsuhisa Michael and Kim McCarty John McDonald Danny Meyer Steve Millington Stratis Morfogen Drew Nieporent Richie Notar Eugene Remm Tania and Ian Schrager Gabriel Stulman Alex Stupak Lucy and Phil Suarez Rich Torrisi Alex von Bidder Jean-Georges Vongerichten Michael White Jeff Zalaznick

WISDOM Jeffrey L. Bewkes Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault Michael L. Corbat Brian Duperreault James P. Gorman David and Julia Koch Lowell C. McAdam Ian C. Read Ginni Rometty

C-SUITE

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SILICON ALLEY

POWER ELITE

2017 NEW GUARD Mollie Ruprecht Acquavella Allison Aston Veronica Swanson Beard Carolina de Neufville Joanna Baker de Neufville Patricia Herrera and Gerritt Livingston Lansing, Jr. Isabelle Marino Amory and Sean McAndrew Meredith Melling Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler Mary Snow Ophelia Snyder Annelise Peterson Winter

L AW AND ORDER Floyd Abrams Preet Bharara Lee and Cece Black David Boies Evan Chesler Harriet Newman Cohen Stephanie Stiefel and Robert Stephan Cohen Vanessa and Lee Eastman II Jesse Furman Betsy Gotbaum Suzie and Ed Hayes Jon Mechanic Gary Naftalis Bettina Plevan Kathy and Othon Prounis Jed Rakoff Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Paul Allen Tim Armstrong Perry Chen Eric Hippeau Jeff Horing David Karp Ken Lerer Howard Lerman Miguel McKelvey Jerry Murdock Adam Neumann Jon Oringer Sean Parker Jonah Peretti Kevin Ryan Lockhart Steel Danielle Weisberg Andy Weissman Albert Wenger Whitney Wolfe Carly Zakin

LA MODE

ENTITLED Maria Beatrice and Riprand Arco-Zinneberg Marc de Gontaut Biron Vanessa Bismark Lorenzo Borghese Muriel and Nuno Brandolini Bara and Roger de Cabrol Maria Olympia of Greece Pavlos and Marie Chantal of Greece Philippos of Greece Firyal Hussein Dimitri Karageorgevich Yasmin Khan Imacculata Liechenstein Noor Pahlavi Michael von Hapsburg Geza von Hapsburg Christophe von Hohenberg Cécile zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg Anita and Johannes von Schoenborn Marina Windsor Beatrice Windsor

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Alan Kornberg and Harold Koda Delphine and Reed Krakoff Ward and Judith Landrigan Fern Mallis Jane Trapnell and Peter Marino Boaz Mazor Juan Pablo and Pilar Molyneux David Monn Zac Posen Lauren Remington Platt Nina Ford and John Richter Rebecca Robertson Carolyne Roehm Bunny Williams and John Rosselli Tom Scheerer Andrea and John Stark Rich Wilkie and Steven Stolman Isabel and Ruben Toledo David Maupin and Stefano Tonchi Bronson van Wyck Gianluigi and Adrienne Vittadini Vera Wang Sybil and David Yurman

EX OFFICIO

REALPOLITIK

Andrew Cuomo Bill DeBlasio Kirsten Gillibrand Carolyn Maloney Chuck Schumer Sonia Sotomayor Scott Stringer Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.

SON ET LUMIERE

OLD GUARD Gigi and Philippe Bigar Amanda Burden Marina Rust and Ian Connor Connie and Pierre Crosby Susan and Charles Avery “Chip” Fisher Gail Auchincloss Gilbert Mark F. Gilbertson Martha and John Glass Peter E. “Tony” Guernsey Cornelia Guest Robert Winthrop “Roy” Kean III Pamela and Gifford Miller Heather deForest Mnuchin George and Calvert Moore Melissa and Chappy Morris W. Stephen and Muffie Murray Elizabeth Peabody Jerry Seay and Pauline Pitt Patty Raynes Andrew and Annabel VartanianJeffries

Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Bryan Bantry Steve Janowitz and Joy Behar Byrdie Bell Matthew C. Blank Anthony Bourdain Barbara Corcoran Ellin and Ron Delsener David Geffen Brooke Hayward Billy and Alexis Joel Harvey Keitel Michael and Ninah Lynne Wynton Marsalis Seth Meyers Lorne Michaels Jane Rosenthal Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir Peggy and Henry Schleiff Liev Schreiber Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld Paul Simon Jon Stewart Naomi Watts

Margo and John Catsimatidis Patricia Duff and Richard Cohen Chele Chiavacci and Richard Farley Bruce and Sarah Kovner Georgette Mosbacher Kim Catullo and Christine Quinn Kevin Sheekey Tracy and Jay Snyder Susie Kasirer and Bruce Teitelbaum

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Carmelo Anthony Delfina Blaquier and Nacho Figueras Derek and Hannah Jeter Henrik Lundqvist Kristaps Porzingis Alex Rodriguez

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Dan Abrams Anne Kreamer and Kurt Andersen Joe Armstrong Amy Astley Genevieve Bahrenburg Dean Baquet Alexandra Kotur and Jonathan Becker Christine Mortimer Biddle Derek Blasberg Susan Blond Hamish Bowles Bartle and Claudia Bull Candace Bushnell Anna Scott and Graydon Carter Michael Clinton Jessica Coen Bob Colacello David Patrick Columbia Anderson Cooper Peter Davis Jonathan Galassi Anthony Haden-Guest Skip Morton and Joan Hamburg R. Couri Hay Amy Hoadley Sharon King Hoge Warren and Olivia Hoge Jared Hohlt Arianna Huffington Chris Hughes Greg Kelly Betsy Kenny and Andrew Lack Lewis and Joan Lapham Annette and Matt Lauer Anna and Bill Mann Christopher Mason Alison Mazzola Cynthia McFadden Patrick McMullan John Micklethwait Ian Mohr Les and Julie Moonves Adam Moss Sheila Nevins Polly Onet Laura Bush and Richard Parsons Jane Boon and Norman Pearlstine Holly Peterson Nick Pileggi 68 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 2017

Robert and Veronique Pittman Nina Reeves James Reginato Esther Fein and David Remnick Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Charlie Rose Andrew Rosenthal Margaret Russell Diane Sawyer Ellen and Chuck Scarborough Emily Smith Hamilton South Aaron Latham and Leslie Stahl Lesley Stevens Jennifer Crandall and Richard David Story Felicia Taylor Amanda Taylor Josh Tyrangiel Anne van Rensselaer Dini von Mueffling Linda Wells Matt Nye and Jann Wenner Pam and David Zaslav Robert Zimmerman Caryn and Jeff Zucker

TRUMPWORLD

Duke Buchan III Pamela and Jimmy Finkelstein Rudolph and Judith Giuliani Carl and Gail Icahn Richard Lefrak Marla Maples Robert and Rebekah Mercer Jenny and John Paulson Isaac Perlmutter Wilbur and Hilary Ross ...and of course, the Trumps

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Dayssi Olarte and Paul Kanavos Jill and Harry Kargman Ray and Veronica Kelly Cindy and Steve Ketchum Beth and Chris Kojima Jennet Conant and Steve Kroft Tom and Heather Leeds Ros and Fran L’Esperance Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney Emily Altschul and John Miller Gillian and Sylvester Miniter Marcia and Richard Mishaan Julian and Lisa Niccolini Richard and Francesca Nye Nathan Bernstein and Katharina Otto Chuck and Lisa Crosby Pfeifer Nicole Hanley and Brett Pickett Tatiana and Campion Platt Marie Brenner and Ernest Pomerantz Peter and Judy Price Maureen White and Steve Rattner Alison Spear and Alex Reese Ed and Shari Rollins Dr. Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen Nicky Hilton and James Rothschild Mary-Kate and Olivier Sarkozy Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Gayfryd Steinberg and Michael Schnayerson Vanessa Traina Snow and Maxwell Snow Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos Guy Robinson and Elizabeth Stribling Dana Hammond and Dr. Patrick Stubgen Nan and Gay Talese Jeff and Patsy Tarr Serena Boardman and John Theodoracopulos Eleanor Balfour and Alexis Theodoracopulos Georgina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein Karl and Deborah Norville Wellner Shelby Bryan and Anna Wintour Pam Taylor and Eames Yates OCTOBER 2017 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 69

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WOMEN’S

WORK HATS OFF TO THE CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY’S WOMEN’S COMMITTEE AT 35

by Todd Plummer photographs by Mary Hilliard

IT’S

springtime in New York, the first week of May. After an unseasonably cool couple of months, the city has shrugged off the last of its late-winter thaws, and the trees down Fifth Avenue are finally in bloom: summer finally feels around the corner.

There is much about New York that’s more predictable than its weather: that the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee’s Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon will draw a crowd on such a day is one of them. This year, the 35th annual “Hat Luncheon,” held on May 4, brought together more than 1,200 supporters of Central Park.

It’s one of the city’s premier social events, so a who’s who of society, power, politics and media turned out, most in hats so fanciful and colorful that they give the Kentucky Derby a run for its money. For starters, there was Fe Fendi wearing a crown of orchids, Martha Stewart in a massively oversized straw boater she picked up in Milan, and Julie Macklowe in a vintage fascinator resembling a patch of lavender flowers.

There was even former mayor Michael Bloomberg—who did not wear a hat, as “Men don’t need to,” he said—and designer Lela Rose, wearing a dress of her own creation and a RoCha Millinery bathing cap covered with flowers, in tribute to Esther Williams. There were also some fresh faces in the crowd, such as CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund milliner Gigi Burris, in a hat of her own design.

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Dina Merrill, 1989

Anne Slater, 1992

Carol Channing and Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1989

Judy Taubman, 1992 Pat Buckley, Gordon Getty, Casey Ribicoff and Joan Marks, 1988 Ivana and Donald Trump, 1987

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“Well, this year I made a hat for Shelley Carr, one of the hostesses, and she invited me,” Burris said.

“It’s kind of the Super Bowl of hat wearing in New York, so I couldn’t miss it.”

Considering the aplomb with which attendees wore their hats, it might be easy to forget that the Hat Luncheon is not just about having a good time—it serves as one the Central Park Conservancy’s single most important fundraising event of the year. This year’s iteration brought in $4.5 million to fund the park’s ongoing operations and upcoming projects, bringing the total proceeds of the Hat Luncheon over its 35-year life span to $57 million.

Since its 1983 formation, the Women’s Committee has raised a staggering total of $150 million. About 15 percent of the Conservancy’s annual budget comes from its efforts. “The Women’s Committee is a crucial part of our budgets and fundraising,” says Doug Blonsky, former president of the Central Park Conservancy, who announced his retirement last month after 32 years of service.

“The Women’s Committee has become this incredible force, and working with them has been one of the great privileges of my job— you know, technically I’m the only man to have ever served on the Women’s Committee, ex officio.”

But the Women’s Committee has not always had the visibility and gravitas that it enjoys today. Norma Dana, one of the founding members of the committee, recalls that at its beginning in 1993, she was hesitant about working with Central Park. “At the time I was very active with the board of the Bronx Zoo,” she says. “Paul Chase, who

The Central Park “Hat Luncheon” is one of the city’s premier social events, so a who’s who of society, power, politics and media turns out. was a trustee of the Conservancy at the time, thought, ‘Those girls at the zoo are doing a good job, and we should do something for Central Park.’ He asked me if I would help form a Women’s Committee, but I was just too busy at the time. So instead, I agreed to just invite a few friends to the reopening of the Belvedere Castle, which they had just completed thanks to Brooke Astor. It was sort of a misty afternoon, and we didn’t think anybody would be there, but 200 people showed up, and the next day they called me and said that they had raised $250,000.”

Though it had been a sleeping beauty, the strong turnout and the ease with which those women raised a quarter million dollars demonstrated the park’s power. There was something in those 843 acres that attracted the attention—and money—of the city’s philanthropic set.

The Women’s Committee founded by Dana, Jean Clark, Marguerite Hillman Purnell and Phyllis Cerf Wagner had wind in its sails from the start.

Projects were small in the beginning—raising funds for cleaning up a field here, repainting a few benches there—but over time its brief broadened.

As Dana explains it, there was something about this cause that resonated with New Yorkers unlike any other. “I had no idea that people would pour in money the way they have,” she says. “You could start a project, then all of a sudden it was underwritten. Every time I picked up the phone I raised money. I was never turned down, not once. It was just total magic.”

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Annette de la Renta and Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, 2000 Hilary Geary Ross and Catie Marron, 1993

Since its 1983 formation, the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee has raised a staggering total of $150 million.

Susan Gutfreund and Betty Evans, 1998

Patty Raynes, Arnold Scaasi and Sandy Pittman, 1989

Beth DeWoody and Billy Rudin, 1991

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Carroll Petrie, 1999

Nancy Kissinger, 1995

Betsy Bloomingdale and Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, 1993

Jamie Niven, Henry Kravis and Carolyne Roehm, 1987

Blaine Trump, 1990

Carol Mack, 1993

Ivana Trump and Judy Price, 1998

Valentino and Nan Kempner, 1989

Joan Rivers and Daisy Soros, 2001 SARAH CEDAR MILLER

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Bette Midler, 2009

Mallory Kean, 2005

Marcia Mishaan, 2010

Melania Trump, 2004 Katie Couric, Evelyn Lauder and Princess Firyal, 2007

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The fact that people donated so generously speaks to the Women’s Committee’s ability to envision a better future for the park, and sell that vision to its patrons. After all, the Central Park of the early 1980s was a very different place than it is today. Over the decades, large swaths of Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted’s creation had fallen into disrepair. By the late 20th century it had become a place of lawlessness and ruin. “You couldn’t walk through it,” says Dana. “There were needles everywhere, all kinds of debris, and there was not one bench that didn’t have graffiti. Everything was falling apart. It was a disgrace to the city.”

But thanks to a master plan orchestrated by the Central Park Conservancy, the city’s jewel of landscape architecture was renewed, in no small part thanks to the Women’s Committee. But it wasn’t just the cleanup of the Great Lawn or the refurbishment of ponds and playgrounds that changed the park. The renaissance of Central Park marked a shift in the thinking of the city’s philanthropic community, and a change in the way New Yorkers thought about public spaces, and in what civic-minded groups could achieve. This was not just ladies who lunched beneath a pretty canopy of charity—it was about building a better New York.

The Women’s Committee is distinguished by a collaborative culture.

Members are not only invited but encouraged to present new ideas for the park. In 1986, Phyllis Wagner created the Adopt-A-Bench program to permanently maintain and endow the 9,000-plus benches in the park.

To date, it has raised nearly $32 million, becoming the committee’s largest fundraiser after the Hat Luncheon, and serving as a model of public-private partnership for major urban parks around the world.

Gillian Miniter—former Women’s Committee president, and now a Conservancy trustee—recalls the success of one of her own early ideas as having bolstered her own stake and sense of pride in the committee’s work. She suggested a Playground Patrons program, setting a bar of even higher giving than the already popular Playground Partners program.

At first, Miniter says, skeptics wondered if people would pay $1,000 a pop to support playgrounds. But Karen Lefrak, then the committee president, gave Miniter her full faith and support. “It ended up being huge, and we had more than 100 people join in the first year,” said Miniter. “Karen would send me these handwritten letters: ‘Two more this week! Keep it up!’ It was so encouraging. And a lot of those Playground Patrons ended up becoming board members or table buyers for the Hat Luncheon and are still involved. That’s what is so great about the Women’s Committee—there is an excitement and a level of enthusiasm you don’t see anywhere else.”

The committee’s makeup is diverse: It includes East Siders, West Siders, runners, bikers, moms who take their children to the playground, and the well-heeled Fifth Avenue set whose living rooms overlook the park. “There are so many causes in this city,” says Suzie Aijala, the current committee president. “There are the medical causes, there are the museums. But what makes the Women’s Committee so special is that everyone involved really feels like they are all in this together. We really all support each other.”

But impressive as they are, the Women’s Committee’s spirit of camaraderie, its innovation, its prodigious fundraising, its 35 years of achievement, and, of course, the Hat Luncheon’s status as one of the city’s iconic social happenings aren’t finally the most important thing about it. Central Park is now one of the most visited destinations in the world, and serves as a standard setter for urban parks worldwide. But philanthropy isn’t about looking back, dressing up or social climbing.

It’s about the future, and if the Women’s Committee’s track record in Central Park is any indication, the living heart of New York City will only continue to bloom.

Christine Schwarzman, 2015

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SARAH CEDAR MILLER

Julia Koch, 2012

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Aerin Lauder, 2003

Central Park is now one of the most visited destinations in the world, and serves as a standard setter for urban parks worldwide.

Gillian Miniter, 2014

Lauren Santo Domingo, 2012 Muffie Potter Aston, 2003

Mary McFadden and Marquette de Bary, 2009

Serena Boardman and Eliza Bolen, 2003 SARAH CEDAR MILLER

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Rooms With A

iew

by Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker photographed by Michel Arnaud

A SUPER-BROKER, AN EMINENT ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN AND AN ACE PHOTOGRAPHER SNEAK PAST THE DOORMEN OF THE CITY’S MOST SELECTIVE TOWERS OF POWER. OCTOBER 2017 • AVENUE MAGAZINE | 79

N

ew York City’s rich and varied array of luxury apartment buildings have never ceased to intrigue. What began with the Dakota as a novelty has become the building type that New Yorkers can truly call their own.

Life at the Top by Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker, with photographs by Michel Arnaud, is an account of New York’s most splendid apartment buildings. It traces the development of apartment living for the top echelons of New York society through two transitions, from fussily ornate Belle Époque mansions into elegantly designed apartment buildings and then into sleekly contemporary towers. Both were fueled by remarkably similar factors: a wave of staggering wealth accumulation, the development of new technologies and materials, a desire for a more convenient and less cluttered “modern” lifestyle, a need to build vertically, and an increasing focus on major architects and exceptional interior designers.

The book includes one apartment from fifteen of these singular buildings. For our exclusive excerpt, we’ve created a fantasy of the ultimate New York power apartment.

720 PARK AVENUE Hand-blocked Colefax and Fowler wallpaper lining the walls of the front hall is the backdrop for a George II marble-topped parcel-gilt console and a pair of Moroccan baluster jar lamps.

—adapted from the introduction to Life at the Top

GRACIE SQUARE Diode Lamp (Small Green), 2006, by Marc Newson casts the media room in a green light. The custom bookcase is hung with small works of art by Judy Chicago, E. V. Day and Adolph Gottlieb.

834 FIFTH AVENUE Henri Samuel designed the color scheme and decor of the winter garden around a set of 18th-century Chinese panels, originally from a château in Belgium, that the Gutfreunds had already purchased. Samuel incorporated the panels into the architecture of the room, which was hand-painted by the Atelier Mériguet-Carrère.

A Diego Giacometti coffee table stands atop a Russian Bessarabian rug from a château in Belgium. The chairs, originally from a palace in Denmark, were reupholstered by Gael de Brousse.

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RIVER HOUSE The cloakroom walls are covered in a crackled black-enameled canvas. A Maison Jansen Empire-style chair pulls up to a 1920s dressing table by Robert Pansart.

THE DAKOTA The kitchen features the apartment’s original cabinets and a Kimbel and Cabus table.

The patterned encaustic tile floor and the various wallpapers create visual interest.

960 FIFTH AVENUE The living room also features Guercino’s St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, ca. 1652–55, above the sideboard. Beautifully framed paintings by Richard Wilson, Moses van Uyttenbroeck, Giovanni Lanfranco, Gerard Seghers Wals, Samuel Palmer, and Bonington line the walls.

RIVER HOUSE The walls in the oval salon are covered in gauffered leather panels.

A silk brocade curtain was woven to complement the walls; when opened, it reveals a television. The chandelier is from Nancy Reagan’s White House. A custom bronze fire screen is fitted with fluted rose-colored glass. Concealed doors lead to a powder room with blood orange waxed-plaster walls and a full bar/wine room with walls lacquered in a vivid moss green.

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THE BERESFORD A Venini chandelier hangs from the center of the vaulted ceiling in the tower room, which is primarily furnished with white-and brown-upholstered pieces. A vintage Tobia Scarpa cocktail table sits between a pair of George Smith sofas. The arched window echoes the shape of the ceiling.

THE BERESFORD Octagonal, copper-roofed towers anchor three corners of the building and create the Beresford’s iconic presence in the skyline.

820 FIFTH AVENUE The pristine white palette extends to the master bedroom, where a Flexform Fauteuil cozies up to the fireplace.

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778 PARK AVENUE In the dining room, the antique Maison Jansen dining table and console—heirlooms of the owner—are paired with side chairs by Jean-Michel Frank. A French Arts and Crafts brass screen was reconfigured to fit over mirrored cabinet doors. An antique Venini chandelier was also reconfigured for the space.

15 CENTRAL PARK WEST An intimate breakfast area off the kitchen has a panoramic view of the West Side of Manhattan and the Hudson River through a floor-to-ceiling window.

998 FIFTH AVENUE The gallery features marble Ionic columns and a ceiling of translucent glass overlaid with wrought-iron detailing.

432 PARK AVENUE A freestanding tub in the master bathroom perches dramatically over the Hudson River.

173 AND 176 PERRY STREET Two John Widdicomb chairs flank a carved Indian side table from Odegard in front of the view of the Hudson River Park.

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The penthouse rooftop at 101 West 78th Street The artist representations and exterior landscaping and water features, finishes, and furniture are provided for illustrative purposes only. Sponsor makes no representations or warranties except as may be set forth in the Offering Plan. The complete offering terms are in an offering plan available from Sponsor. File No. CD13-0317. Property address: 101 West 78th Street. Sponsor: 101 West 78th, LLC. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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The

Renaissance Landmark of a

In a conversation with celebrated, AD 100 interior design icon Stephen Sills, we learn about his work and inspiration for his newest project - 101 West 78th Street, a collection of luxurious condominium residences on Manhattan’s Upper West Side welcoming residents this fall.

This is an exciting project in one of Manhattan’s most treasured locations… tell us about your initial impressions.

I saw the bones of an extraordinary building – a classic BeauxArts with so many possibilities. The original architect Emile Gruwe envisioned an icon that would stand the test of time.

I saw the chance to work with a lovely classical revival structure and the opportunity to bring it into present day through thoughtful, rich interiors. I also loved the location – situated across the street from its architectural contemporary, The American Museum of Natural History and in a neighborhood with so much to offer, The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center and bucolic Central Park.

What original components of 101 West 78th Street became essential to your vision for its interiors?

The decision to restore the building’s original red brick and limestone façade became the foundation for the entire interior space – the interiors had to be symbiotic with the exterior, modern, but classic and clean. The existence of great “bones” – high ceilings, huge windows, and open, column-free layouts dictated that we create residences gracious in size, and this, paired with those high ceilings gives the space an ethereal feel.

How were you able to use the history of the building to create new interiors still reflective of 101 West 78th’s heritage?

Working with H. Thomas O’Hara Architects, we were able to create a beautiful balance respective of the building’s classic design that carries through the grand common spaces to the smallest details of private residences. The lobby welcomes with a classic black-and-white tile floor but we envisioned a new take. I was inspired by a design I came across in Paris, and had a version of the geometric marble enlarged and paired with floor-to-ceiling oak paneling for a new, fresh look. For the residences, I worked with renowned bespoke cabinetry maker, Englands’ Smallbone of Devizes to design immaculately executed custom white kitchen cabinetry with glass-fronted upper doors giving the space an updated, traditional feel. Thick slabs of honed White Carrara marble were used for the countertops and backsplashes. There is a great elegance to every aspect of the design.

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Interior Designer Stephen Sills

What elements and materials did you incorporate into the project to ensure that 101 West 78th Street has a modern sensibility?

The building’s pre-war features surprisingly allowed us a lot of leeway and creativity in terms of the design. My goal for these residences was to create generously proportioned open spaces that were impressive and spacious, but, at the same time, comfortable and livable for its residents. There are tremendous, double-hung windows which bring in amazing light and create an openness. I did not want the residences to appear overly designed, so I selected a calm, neutral palette of white and light gray. Materials include handcrafted hardware, grand marble fireplaces, and gorgeous custom millwork. The residences are supported by oversized, four inch wide solid oak plank floors with a custom light gray finish. Herringbone oak flooring is placed in the foyers, great rooms and dining rooms. The master bathrooms are clad in luxurious slabs of Snow White honed marble, with custom lacquer vanities and Waterworks fixtures. The result is the renaissance of a classic building into quite lovely elegant homes!

ABOUT THE PROJECT: Through a meticulous reimagination and reconfiguration led

by GTIS Partners, LP with interiors by Stephen Sills Associates and H.T.O. Architect PLLC, 101 West 78th Street offers two- to five-bedroom condominium residences, including a beautifully articulated rooftop penthouse that delivers views of New York City in every direction.

For more information about 101 West 78th Street, visit www.101West78.com or call 212-712-1101.

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DEVEL OPE R ROU N D TA BL E

Developing

New York A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK CITY BUILDING

moderated by Kelly Laffey photographed by Christopher Ernst

AVENUE: If you were going to buy in any New York neighborhood, what would you pick, and why?

PEEBLES: Downtown is the strongest multiple demand generator in the marketplace. It’s got a big attraction for families, singles and people who are working downtown. If there is anywhere where there is a limitation of supply and a greater demand, it’s Downtown.

NAFTALI: Because there is the trend to move downtown, I would think that the best neighborhood with limited supplies is prime Upper East Side, which is west of Park Avenue.

GLASCOCK: I’ll put in a plug for the Upper West Side, not only because I’m a resident, but because new construction is extremely limited up there.

We’re starting a new project at 207 West 79th, which will be 19 units. It’s being well received, and we’re excited.

GLADSTONE: I agree with Don. I think Downtown is where it’s happening. I grew up on the “less prime” Upper East Side. Now, I’ll live downtown for as long as I’m a New Yorker. It’s interesting. It always changes. There’s diversity of retail and restaurants. I live in SoHo now, which is I think being devastated by vacancies. But other than that, I think Downtown is where it’s at.

BURCH: New York is a city of neighborhoods, and Downtown is home to many of the most desirable ones. I read articles about how the city is getting more and more the same and neighborhoods are losing their personality, but I totally disagree. In particular, NoMad is an exciting and dynamic place to live. We have a condo project in NoMad, just north of the wonderful Madison Square Park. NoMad is right in the center of the city, where uptown meets downtown, and the East Side meets the West. It’s well served by transit. There’s a phenomenal culinary scene. Great hospitality, fashion and culture. We see a lot of interest from buyers who want to live in an authentic mixed-use neighborhood.

AVENUE: Can you talk about the length of the sales cycle, and if it’s changed?

NAFTALI: I would say it’s at least a year or year and a half, maybe two years. The demand is there.

But when you have more to choose from, buyers are coming back [to see a place] six or seven times. In the past, it’s been two or three times at the most. The good news is, they like the product; the bad news, it takes a very long time to make a decision.

AVENUE: What issues is the New York City market currently facing?

WITKOFF: When I grew up, the message was: Go to school, do well and pursue the American Dream.

Today, people wag their finger at you. The notion of a millionaire’s tax is preposterous. It disincentives people to come here. We ought to be encouraging these people to come to New York. We have this amazing city, and we have to have the humility to understand that it took a lot for it to be an amazing city. If you play with it too much, you put it at risk.

PEEBLES: New York is reflective of America. It’s an aspirational city. People come here from all over the world to pursue their dreams and goals, most of which are rooted in entrepreneurship. What’s happened is that we’ve had a change in the city where policy, especially tax policy, has taken a divisive approach. There is class warfare, as opposed to an “everybody needs each other” mentality. Those who are job generators, especially real estate developers, tend to be unpopular. There should be incentives that drive the economic engine that creates these jobs.

But tax policies disincentivize risk-taking. And that’s going to come back and hurt the city. Offering new incentives is seen as a bad thing because a wealthy person could benefit from it, and that drives a class-warfare mentality that I think will limit us.

“Downtown is the strongest multiple demand generator in the marketplace.”

—Don Peebles BURCH: The challenges facing the city stem from the incredible prosperity New York has experienced over the last decade since the great recession. NYC is at now at peak employment, with 4.4 million jobs and peak population, with more than 8.5 million residents and growing. The movement in the 1990s around public safety and crime championed by Mayors Bloomberg and Giuliani was tremendously beneficial to the economy of the city. Whole neighborhoods opened up in New York for development and private investment because crime plummeted and people felt safe.

PEEBLES: New York got to where we are because of a pro-business/balanced approach [to policy]. To protect our future as a city, we have to be mindful and engaged. Economic opportunity is what solves and addresses crime. And that focus of economic opportunity does not exist today. This is a city that’s 67 percent minority and 53 percent female. Last year, this city government did 2 percent of its contracts with minority- and woman-owned businesses. That

Participants MELISSA BURCH, Executive General Manager, Lendlease Development Inc.

ROBERT GLADSTONE, Owner, Madison Equities.

STEPHEN GLASCOCK, Founder and President of Anbau.

MIKI NAFTALI, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Naftali Group.

R. DONAHUE PEEBLES, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Peebles Corporation.

STEVEN WITKOFF, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Witkoff.

is a fundamental problem for economics. If this lack of structural opportunity persists, people who are capable will go elsewhere.

WITKOFF: I agree. Today, New York is an amazing place. The buyers may be more discriminating, but we’re in a tepid economy. We’re in a 2 percent GDP economy, and we are trying to get to 4 percent, because that’s where we should have been for the last 10 years. A 4 percent GDP market lifts everyone up. Everybody should be pro tax reform, whomever it benefits. We should be pro corporate dollar repatriation back into the United States. And we should be pro “dump Dodd-Frank,” because it doesn’t allow the people who live in minority communities who have a dream, who might have a business plan, to borrow money.

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from expanding their business because banks now say, “You can’t get loans. You don’t have a credit history long enough. We don’t want to take a risk on you.”

WITKOFF: We need affordable, because New York can’t just be a city of the wealthy. When you onerously tax people who are buying in those buildings, you are taxing working class people.

But the economics of affordable are that there has to tax benefits.

PEEBLES: Yes, or zoning incentives.

NAFTALI: We were looking for the last year to try to do both—to do good and to be active on the affordable side. But the cost of land is so expensive that it doesn’t pencil out. You can’t do it.

AVENUE: Changing gears, what opportunities does New York provide, specific to development?

NAFTALI: I look at the younger generation, and at the suburb market versus the New York market.

You see more and more young families and young professionals wanting to be in the city. Why? Because everything is available here. The city lifestyle is much more important today versus a few decades years ago. They’re buying in a smaller space, but they want to be here.

GLASCOCK: I grew up on the West Coast and came here in 1990, when everyone was talking about how the internet was going to allow us all to move away and telecommute. The exact opposite has proven to be true. The city is stronger than it ever has been because people want to be here. New York has a lot of positive things going for it. Young people want to be here, and they are living in different communities than they were in 1990—places we would have never considered.

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GLADSTONE: I want to go to Miki’s point about providing housing for people who are starting off.

There are about 10 apartments that someone is going to buy in their lifetime. So right now, the best apartments to sell people are the second and the third. At 212 Fifth Avenue, we sold the top three rungs of the pyramid, and we’re almost 80 percent sold. Our next project is at 45 Broad Street. The average price is $2.3 million or $2.6 million, and the average size is 1,200.

We’re building 2-bedrooms for a group of people who have a new expression: “Baby Maybe.”

“The challenges facing the city stem from the incredible prosperity New York has experienced over the last decade since the great recession.”

BURCH: When you look at the under $4 million part of the market, which is where 80 to 90 percent of the transactions take place, there are very good supply-demand fundamentals there. You see that part of the market is 6 to 9 months in terms of supply, which is a really good place to be in terms of absorption.

AVENUE: What does the future of New York City development look like?

BURCH: We build buildings predominantly the way past generations have. Across the U.S. economy most industries are experiencing improvement and gains through automation and technology, yet in our business, for the most part, we have not seen any increases in productivity. This is going to change.

Steven Witkoff

—Melissa Burch BURCH: We’re also seeing an incredible number of empty nesters who raised families in the suburbs and want to move back to Manhattan. The city has one of the largest populations over the age of 65, and it’s only going to grow.

AVENUE: What is the housing inventory like right now?

NAFTALI: The city may be oversupplied temporarily, but demand is there. It takes a little bit longer to sell.

We can’t deny that two or three years ago we were selling faster than today. But when you look at the inventory and you look at how many land deals were done in the last year or year and a half, it’s quite clear that a year down the road, we are not going to have as much inventory.

Melissa Burch

Over this next cycle, there will be more emphasis on construction tech. We will see more traction around prefabrication and building off-site, because building on-site is incredibly expensive and challenging. If you look at tech behemoths like Google, Facebook, Sales Force and LinkedIn, those firms occupied just 70,000 total square feet in New York in 2008. Today these firms occupy more than 3 million square feet of office space in New York. Why does this matter? All of the biggest tech firms want to be in New York now, and their growing interest in big urban centers like New York is going to help unlock innovations in our field.

PEEBLES: We’re looking at creating virtual sales centers. We would build a box where potential buyers can enter and experience our product on multiple sensory levels. Virtual sales centers are a cost-effective way for developers to streamline bringing their product to market, and we are considering creating these virtual sales centers as a business and making them available to other developers.

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DEVEL OPE R ROU N D TA BL E GLASCOCK: At Anbau, we pride ourselves in creating value both for residents of our buildings and for the neighborhood at large. We make thoughtful and deliberate choices for every aspect of our buildings, from the design elements to the retailers we lease to, collaborating with partners and the local community to create a building that enhances and contributes to the area. While tastes may change, this curated approach to development will continue to be critical to meeting the rapidly evolving needs of the city.

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AVENUE: What projects are you excited about?

WITKOFF: We’re excited about the Residences at the West Hollywood Edition. We’re bringing our New York design standards to Los Angeles. We have 20 very high-end residences, incorporating indoor-outdoor living to appeal to buyers transitioning from homes.

Another project we’re excited about is 111 Murray in Tribeca, which will be completed in spring 2018.

This project takes all of the things we’ve incorporated on other projects to a new level. Our concept was to have the best in every field with our four visionaries: KPF on the building architecture; David Rockwell on our amenities; David Mann on our residences; and Ed Hollander on our landscape architecture.

“You see more and more young families and young professionals wanting to be in the city.”

—Miki Naftali

BURCH: We are under construction on our 277 Fifth Avenue condominium development, which will top out at 55 stories on the corner of 30th Street in NoMad. We are JV partners on the project with the Victor Group. The building is designed by Rafael Viñoly, who also designed 432 Park Avenue, and the views are spectacular. Every apartment in the building is on a corner, allowing buyers to maximize their views of the Manhattan skyline and Hudson River. The other unique part of the architecture is the exoskeleton. All of the columns are on the façade of the building, which allowed us to create beautiful layouts that flow from room to room. We will launch sales this fall, and the first closing will start at the end of 2018.

GLADSTONE: We are finishing 212 Fifth. We are over half moved in. Our apartments are selling at ask. What pushes the apartments at 212 over the top are the finishes, the execution and the view.

As a high-end rehabilitation, it was a difficult project, but a labor of love.

Right now, my interest is going to 45 Broad. It will be the tallest residential building in the Financial District. The highest priced apartment will be less than $6 million, for a 3-bedroom that is 1000 feet in the air. We will have studio apartments that will not pay the mansion tax because they will be selling for less than $1 million. There are lots of amenities, and everyone gets a view.

Stephen Glascock

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GLASCOCK: The project that I’m most excited about right now is Citizen 360, which is at 360 East 89th Street. It’s a new-construction 34-story building that’s designed by SHoP, and there are 84 apartments.

Clodagh is designing the interiors. We’re hopefully starting closings in another three or four months.

We have an innovative German automated parking system, which is being very well received. We also have great amenity space, covering the entire second floor and half of the third floor. We’ve done a lot in terms of wellness attributes. All the windows are superattenuated, so you don’t hear traffic. We’re providing fresh, filtered air into all the apartments as well.

PEEBLES: I’m excited about all of our projects.

We’re doing projects in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Charlotte, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I don’t think there are that many original ideas in this business anymore, so I try to get some of my inspiration from the best work of my colleagues: other developers. I would say that the projects I’m most excited about have been 150 Charles, which gave me comfort on our 108 Leonard luxury building in Tribeca, where I’m restoring the New York Life Insurance Company building.

I’m also inspired by what Miki did with the Plaza. He unlocked its value. In my opinion, it transformed the condominium market, in terms of where the prices could go.

Then I would say 15 Central Park West, because I think they did everything right. It made us study the market, and as a result I also created an indoor motor court for 108 Leonard.

Robert Gladstone

We as developers should be inspired not by the run-of-the-mill projects or getting headlines, but in taking challenges, unlocking values and being transformed within the market. All these things we’re doing, I’ve learned from my peers. I’m most excited about continuing to find that inspiration, and in looking ahead for that next innovation.

NAFTALI: I’d like to highlight the two projects that we are completing on West 77th between Broadway and Amsterdam. We had the really interesting opportunity take a prime Upper West Side location, on a block that was neglected, and transform it by building two brand-new, beautiful buildings, with two completely different looks and feels. The Shephard in the West Village is a beautiful conversion with tons of amenities, including a basketball court and golf simulator, a beautiful lounge and a library that opens to our own garden. We already closed about 50 percent of the units.

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ing a sporting event or retreating into a cloud of cigar smoke. We wanted to create equally attractive and appropriate experiences for those—women, primarily—who don’t fit that more traditional mold.”

Legacy + Luxury’s inaugural, invitation-only event was held in the latter half of 2016 at the Baccarat Hotel in New York City. It had a couture theme, enabling AIG Private Client Group executives to highlight its groundbreaking insurance coverage for wearable collections and to discuss the importance of recognizing couture as a lucrative and appreciating asset class. Attendees also heard from a panel that included a marketing director from a major luxury fashion brand. A similar event was subsequently held in Beverly Hills at the Rodeo Drive location of a major luxury fashion brand.

Reinforcing its commitment to philanthropy, Legacy + Luxury launched an indoor cycling charity challenge series in concert with SoulCycle earlier this year. The series kicked off with a ride at SoulCycle Bryant Park, and two West Coast rides are scheduled for October. All proceeds

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raised benefit Step Up, a not-for-profit organization that enriches girls in underresourced communities to fulfill their potential.

Moving forward, Legacy + Luxury is deepening its partnerships with individual wealth management firms—collaboratively educating and empowering female professionals to create more value for their end clients. And doing it in high style.

For more information, visit www.aig.com/legacyluxury. *AIG Private Client Group is a division of the member companies of American International Group, Inc. (AIG).

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rendsetting” is not the first word that comes to mind when you think about insurance and wealth management. Until now.

AIG Private Client Group* established Legacy + Luxury: Connecting Women in Wealth as a new platform to connect top female insurance agents, wealth managers and related advisors serving high-net-worth clientele. Through highly curated luxury events and fundraising activities, Legacy + Luxury elevates the discourse and connectivity among professional women across the personal financial services spectrum.

Working in collaboration, participants can accelerate their practices and help more families secure their legacies and evade the risks that come with living well.

Anna Brusco, a vice president at AIG Private Client Group who leads new product development, is the architect behind Legacy + Luxury.

“In my experience,” Anna shared, “networking with wealth management professionals who handle high-net-worth clients meant attending more male-centric events: playing golf, attend-

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A native New Yorker and top producer, Christine represents high net worth buyers and sellers in the luxury co-op, condominium and townhouse markets throughout the city. She is known for her market knowledge, work ethic, professionalism and absolute discretion. Pictured here is her new ten-room exclusive listing at 730 Park Avenue. We are proud that Christine has chosen Stribling - The Right Broker Makes All The Difference.

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or 41 years, the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation has sought out noninvasive and nontoxic cancer treatments. In addition to the continued efforts of the foundation’s distinguished scientific researchers, who are making important advances in their field of expertise, this year the founder and CEO of the foundation, Dr. Samuel Waxman, is embarking on an ambitious and overlooked subject, that of “Aging and Cancer.” The foundation has entered into partnership with the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Aging to further the study. This overlooked and important research and continued works of the scientists, requires financial backing and to that end, the Waxman Foundation programs were initiated Research will one day lead to a cure for cancer, but research requires funding. The Waxman Foundation has been creative in their fund raising efforts Just as the presidential election heated up, so did the Waxman Foundation fundraising efforts. Beginning in October 2016 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Pay It Forward series of fashion events held by fashion houses such as Lafayette 148 New York, Oscar de la Renta, St. John and the initiator of the event, Tadashi Shoji, all gave back by donating 10 percent of sales to the foundation.

And even as election season reached its peak, the Foundation’s 40th anniversary gala on November 6 put politics on the back burner, honoring Vince Camuto in memoriam with an award accepted by Louise Camuto, initiating the three-year Vince Camuto Memorial Cancer Research Program. To keep the evening joyful, Roger Daltrey performed while guests danced in the aisles.

Spring forward: In May 2017, Carolina Herrera showcased her dramatic collection at the Collaborating for a Cure Luncheon, held once again in the elegant New York City penthouse home of Andrea Stark.

Par for the course was the 35th Anniversary of the Waxman Foundation Golf Outing on June 1. Taking a swing to finding a cure, 24 foursomes took to the Creek Golf Course. Anne Liguori, celebrity golfer and tennis and golf correspondent, joined in the day’s activities.

The events continued with a spectacular evening at Maria and Ken Fishel’s property. Rufus Wainwright and Sophie Beem entertained a crowd that included honorees Shep Gordon, Bobbie Lloyd, Margaret Hayes, Gabriel Kreuther and Glenn Myles.

It’s been a year of political turbulence, but at the end of the day, it is apparent that benevolence can trump indifference.

For more information, visit waxmancancer.org.

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A-LIST

BROKERS THE BOLD NAMES IN LUXURY REAL ESTATE

A-LIST BROKERS

Brown Harris Stevens

CHRISTOPHER J. BURNSIDE Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

565 Daniels Lane, Sagaponack. $13.495 million. Ocean-view estate with pool and tennis.

CONGRATULATIONS ON BECOMING A PARTNER AT BROWN HARRIS STEVENS AND THE EXPANSION OF THE BRIDGEHAMPTON OFFICE. HOW DID THE NEW OFFICE COME ABOUT? As a firm we’re known for our high level of customer service. Having additional state-of-the-art space in a boutique environment allows me to continue to exceed the expectations of our clients.

WHAT IS A TYPICAL HAMPTONS BUYER OR SELLER LOOKING FOR? There is no typical client or typical property. We have buyers and sellers as well as builders and investors in our market. They all have unique needs, and I work with all of them from land transactions and fractional investing, to people looking for a great weekend place south of the highway on the water.

It’s all about connecting people to the right opportunity.

B R OW N H A R R I S ST EVENS 2408 Main Street, P.O. Box 683 Bridgehampton NY 11932 O: 631.537.4320 C: 516.521.6007 W: brownharrisstevens.com E: cburnside@bhshamptons.com

AS A NEW CONSTRUCTION SPECIALIST, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR NEWLY BUILT HOMES IN THE HAMPTONS? I think the demand for new homes will always be strong. Unfortunately, new construction is getting costly, and vacant land is a limited resource. Not to mention that it is getting expensive to build which ultimately causes prices to increase.

IN WHICH SEGMENTS OF THE MARKET DO YOU SPECIALIZE? I am extremely active in Bridgehampton and Sagaponack.

I am always looking for great investment properties for my buyers, and focus on selling new construction. Lately, as the market starts trending toward modern homes or smaller residences, I am finding it a little more challenging as the inventory diminishes.

However, I never give up. If I can’t find something, I will create it.

CHRISTOPHER BURNSIDE Select Properties

50 East Hollow Road, East Hampton. $7.950 million. Meticulously renovated Georgica estate.

“It’s all about connecting people to the right opportunity.”

92 Schwenks Road, Southampton. $3.295 million. Last of its kind, shy cleared 2 acres with reserve views.

412 Mitchells Lane, Bridgehampton. $7.995 million. Exquisite chateau on 5.95 acres

A-LIST BROKERS TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE?

The Corcoran Group

MARIE-CLAIRE GLADSTONE Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

I’ve built a successful career beginning seven years ago when I aligned myself with a very powerful and highly recognized brand, Corcoran. Corcoran’s platforms have enabled me to capitalize on the advantages of my background and my experience, which set me apart from other agents. I am European-born and fluent in five languages. I attended a school in Switzerland, which has a student body that is an extraordinary mix of people from all over the world and where I made many lifelong friends. Some of these friends became my clients when they heard I entered the real estate field, and other friends have and continue to happily refer friends and family to me when they are looking for a home or investment property in New York.

WHAT WORD OR PHRASE BEST DESCRIBES YOU? Very determined and a good listener. I am a woman on a mission for my clients. I don’t stop until I find the property that meets their needs and their desires. I listen carefully to my clients’ criteria for buying or selling a home, which I interpret and read between the lines to determine what they really want.

This way I am able to present the best properties for them to buy and to engage the best ways to market their properties when it’s time to sell.

DID YOU HAVE A CAREER PRIOR TO REAL ESTATE? Before I entered the real estate field, I worked in the fashion industry for Ferragamo, Donna Karan and John Galliano. I followed my time in fashion by moving to Monaco, where I was a luxury lifestyle public relations and event-planning executive.

I organized numerous high-end events such as the Monaco Yacht Show and the Grand Prix Ball, among others. These events brought me into contact with an incredible array of people: captains of industry, celebrities, sports figures and high-net-worth individuals, all of whom I refer to as global nomads, who typically own multiple homes around the world. So, my network is global and, speaking many languages, I am familiar with the customs and protocols of many different cultures. This provides a high level of comfort for my international clientele, which they appreciate.

WHAT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF? Becoming a member of the prestigious Corcoran President’s Circle has been a true honor and a career highlight. It is an accomplishment I achieved within seven years of moving to New York from another country, starting out cold as a beginner in the challenging world of Manhattan real estate, to achieving almost $100,000,000 in sales in one year.

T HE C O R C O R A N GR OU P 660 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10065 O: 212.508.7167 C: 917.664.8157 W: corcoran.com E: mgladstone@corcoran.com

“I am a woman on a mission for my clients.”

A-LIST BROKERS HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN A BROKER IN THE HAMPTONS? It’s hard for me to believe, but it will soon be 22 years since I started with Allan M. Schnieder Associates in November 1995. In those days, I would drive back to the city each Tuesday morning, returning to the Hamptons on Wednesday afternoons, to handle my textile brokering business, which continued to fund me until I got some traction in my new career. Good thing too, since I didn’t close on my first sale deal for almost 14 months after I began.

WHAT SEGMENT OF THE MARKET CONTINUES TO SURPRISE YOU?

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GARY DEPERSIA

The Lanes of Amagansett South have had some amazing sales.

Houses, both old and new, many on smallish half-acre lots, continue to outpace the market elsewhere, finding buyers who love the proximity to both village and beach.

Twenty years ago you could buy a renovation or tear down on one of these half-acre lots for $250,000 to $350,000. Today similar properties are trading for either side of $3,000,000 and finished houses selling for $5M and higher, sometimes much higher.

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“It’s hard for me to believe, but it will soon be 22 years since I started.”

ANY GREAT STORIES FROM THAT FIRST YEAR? It seemed like there was snow on the ground for most of that first winter. One snowy morning I needed to preview a rental listing owned then by former New York Giant George Martin. Trudging through the snow, I went through the front gate and into the house.

I looked in the backyard to where I thought the pool should be. Not there, but the listing clutched in my frozen hands said there was a pool. Leaving the house, I looked back at my footprints in the snow leading from the front gate and to the right of those I noticed something I hadn’t seen before: the snow-covered diving board. I had walked directly over the middle of the pool, which luckily for me was frozen solid. Who knew that some houses had a pool in the front yard? Must have been good luck though: two years later it became one of my listings that would sell quickly.

ANY LISTINGS IN THE LANES YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT? Glad you asked. Getting a lot of attention, 31 Meeting House Lane, listed at $4.995 million, is a stunning renovation/expansion of a 1920s traditional. Listed at $5.75 million, 56 Hedges Lane is a sensational 6-bedroom new construction with amazing detailing. I also have a magnificent 6,000-square-foot +/-, 6-bedroom house on almost 1½ acres of magnificently landscaped property with pool, spa and pool house on Further Court. Priced at $7.995 million , this is a great opportunity for someone to own a larger house on a larger parcel seldom available on the Lanes.

THE CORCORAN G RO U P 51 Main Street East Hampton, NY 11937 C: 516.380.0538 W: myhamptonhomes.com E: gdp@corcoran.com

A-LIST BROKERS

FOX RESIDENTIAL GROUP

STEPHANIE KANNER Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker

HOW HAS YOUR CAREER AT FOX RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR SUCCESS IN THE BUSINESS?

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MARCIA DONEN ROMA

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

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BEYOND EXPERIENCE, WHAT DISTINGUISHES FOX BROKERS FROM THE REST?

HOW DID YOU BECOME A FOX POWER BROKER?

RONI COWAN Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

DURING CHALLENGING MARKETS, WHAT’S A KEY TO SUCCESS IN HELPING CLIENTS BUY AND SELL HOMES?

I’ve been working with Barbara Fox for more than 35 years, and I joined Fox Residential 28 years ago at the firm’s inception. The two of us have always formed a great team, facing all kinds of market conditions together. We bring decades of experience to each transaction and make a point of sharing our expertise with brokers who are newer to the business. Our collaborative working style ensures creativity and produces superior results for our clients. Most of our business comes from personal referrals and repeat business from satisfied customers, which speaks volumes.

While the nuances of any transaction are my primary focus, a hallmark of Fox brokers is our ability to understand factors that are influencing a client’s decision to buy or sell. With my two kids in private schools, my generation of friends and contacts have wellestablished careers and growing families—and often need to move homes to accommodate their needs.

Empathy and understanding go a long way in our business, and although it might sound like a cliché, Fox brokers treat their customers like family.

My initial foray into Manhattan real estate came after selling real estate in Florida. I began here by developing a specialty in selling condominiums and townhouses, and worked hard to develop both an international and domestic clientele. Now, I sell as many co-ops as condos and townhouses, and my clients comprise a vast array of individuals. Many agents or firms have a specialty, but Fox brokers possess an unlimited breadth of knowledge and incredible skills in both finding and selling properties all over New York City.

Real estate is a business of relationships. In any market, a good reputation is key to completing successful deals. I differentiate myself and strengthen the relationship with my clients by donating a portion of my earnings to my customers’ favorite charities; this not only helps others in need, it also reinforces how my concern for my clients extends beyond the home search. When it comes to ethics and achieving the best outcomes for our clients, Fox has a truly unrivaled reputation, because we know just how important our relationships are.

O: 212.639.9719 E: skanner@foxresidential.com

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O: 212.639.9737 E: rcowan@foxresidential.com

181 EAST 65TH STREET, APT. 18C 2 BEDROOMS| 2 BATHS | $2,400,000

48 EAST 13TH STREET, APT. 6AB 6 BEDROOMS| 4 BATHS | $4,995,000

70 EAST 10TH STREET, APT. 15EF 4 BEDROOMS | 4.5 BATHS | $5,900,000

910 FIFTH AVENUE, APT. 8A 2 BEDROOMS | 2.5 BATHS | $3,999,000

F OX R E S I D E N TI AL GR OU P 14 East 60th Street New York, NY 10022 O: 212.772.2666 W: foxresidential.com

A-LIST BROKERS WHY DO YOU THINK YOU ATTRACT SO MANY A-LIST CLIENTS?

IN TODAY’S MARKET, WHAT ARE BUYERS MOST ATTRACTED TO? The fundamentals never change: location, great layouts and beautiful finishes.

Concierge services, state-ofthe-art in-house fitness and spa facilities, pet grooming services: at the end of the day, these are simply amenities that ebb and flow based on the latest editorial coverage in the New York Times. Ultimately, unless the property meets the buyer’s definition for “prime location” and “top-of-the-line workmanship” and we can accurately demonstrate the value proposition, the Michelin-star private dining room is irrelevant.

I would never make that distinction. I attract clients, many of whom come by referral, who know that I value trust, integrity, discretion and time. My clients recognize that I am their fiercest advocate in negotiations and are confident in my ability to represent their interests and ultimately deliver what I promise.

The Corcoran Group

STEVEN A. COHEN Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

WHAT TOOLS HAVE KEPT YOU AT THE FOREFRONT OF REAL ESTATE MARKETING? We don’t just “list” an apartment.

We make sure to “create a campaign”.

For each property, we reach out through strategic digital targeting to our incredibly vast network of buyers as well as brokers in NYC and globally. Social media is a valuable tool in today’s market. But it is not enough to just post a beautiful picture – you must provide value, increase engagement, drive traffic. Social media provides a wealth of data and gives us incredible reach. It gives us the ability to cast a net that is both wide and specific.

YOU HAVE MANY REPEAT CLIENTS. WHAT MAKES THEM CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU? Our team is tight-knit and specialized. Our roles are defined to make sure we cater to our clients at every step of the real estate transaction. From nuanced financial analysis of pricing for sellers and opportunities for buyers, to detailed guidance throughout complicated board package applications, to our own digital marketing specialist, I’ve made sure to assemble a team that operates with the highest level of expertise and care.

27 West 67 5FW is an exquisite three-bedroom, three-bathroom duplex with soaring 18 foot ceilings.

DESCRIBE AN EXCITING LISTING THAT YOU CURRENTLY REPRESENT. 27 West 67th Street—This is an exquisite three-bedroom, threebathroom duplex with soaring 18-foot ceilings, located on arguably one of the prettiest blocks on the Upper West Side, if not the city. This meticulous 1.5-year renovation features a floating staircase, dramatic floor-to-ceiling custom bookcase, a huge, sleek cook’s kitchen, and it gets great light. The apartment was designed by an artist and feels like a piece of art.

THE CORCORAN G RO U P

“I’ve made sure to assemble a team that operates with the highest level of expertise and care.”

660 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10065 C: 917.834.4287 O: 212.836.1029 W: stevecohenny.com E: sac@corcoran.com

A-LIST BROKERS TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE?

Sotheby’s International Realty

CRISTINA CONDON Licensed Real Estate Broker

Hard work, perseverance and an optimistic attitude. Real estate is my passion. It goes without saying that one must have an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the market.

WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT MAKE A PROPERTY DIFFICULT TO SELL? Location, condition and too ambitious a price.

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WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB?

“Real estate is my passion.”

The fact that every day is different and brings new challenges is always fun and exciting. I enjoy being able to find the perfect match for buyers and sellers.

Possessing the knowledge to be able to provide the best advice and guidance possible to buyers and sellers alike is essential in this profession. My objective is to always ensure that I make things as easy and seamless as possible.

FOR THOSE SELLING A HOME WHAT ARE THE LITTLE THINGS THEY CAN DO THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE? Decluttering to create open, clean spaces. Eliminating highly personal items, such as photographs, knickknacks collected over time, etc., helps to keep buyers focused on the rooms rather than the owner’s possessions. If a house or apartment has not been updated recently, a fresh coat of paint will work wonders. Properly groomed landscaping is important to curb appeal.

DESCRIBE THE CURRENT REAL ESTATE CLIMATE IN ONE WORD. Great!!!

S OT H E B Y ’S I N TE RNAT IONA L REA LT Y 340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite 337 Palm Beach, FL 33480 O: 561.273.6106 C: 561.301.2211 W: sothebyshomes.com E: cristina.condon@sothebyshomes.com

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A-LIST BROKERS HOW DID YOU BEGIN WORKING TOGETHER AS A TEAM? It was natural: my wife Dawn is as passionate about design as I am about architecture. And we both come from the financial service industry and have 20 plus years of investment experience.

DOES THIS GIVE YOU AN EDGE? All our clients get two senior brokers in one team. Dawn and I connect well with other husbands and wives, who are a majority of nondeveloper buyers and sellers.

Plus we back each other up 100 percent of the time.

7 Bedroom New Construction.

11’-22’ Ceilings. Two Story Living Room.

1.1 Fully Cleared Acres. Covered Porch.

Overlooks 7-Acre Horse/Sculpture Farm.

WHAT TYPE OF CLIENTELE DO YOU SERVE? The whole gamut. We have many first-time buyers…and just as many $5 million to $25 million buyers who want our opinions on construction quality, design value and investment potential. We have many investors and developers.

And we have a referral base from clients whose houses we have sold quickly, in a market that is not always very liquid.

HAS YOUR COLLECTIVE WALL STREET BACKGROUND HELPED YOU? It’s a highly analytical, numbersoriented background, which helps maximize our clients’ goals in what can be an emotional process. And our Wall Street backgrounds were also very focused on marketing, with their obvious benefits in selling properties. And it doesn’t hurt that many of our Wall Street and hedge fund buyers are colleagues from our former life.

We share the same background and no-nonsense approach.

Sotheby’s International Realty

DAWN AND FRANK BODENCHAK

Licensed Salespersons

DO YOU THINK THE HAMPTONS REAL ESTATE MARKET WILL STAY STRONG? It’s a unique market. There is a new crop of buyers every year: buyers starting families, secondhome buyers, newly successful individuals, celebrities, even internationals. Yet there isn’t the same movement out of the Hamptons.

We have sold over 25 pieces of land in the past few years, and attractive parcels will diminish further. This points to less available land and less new construction. In real estate, scarcer inventory and growing demand means higher prices.

“We cover our customers dually, to care for their needs 100% of the time.”

SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL R E A LTY FRANK BODENCHAK C: 917.968.9020 E: frank.bodenchak@sothebyshomes.com DAWN BODENCHAK C: 646.382.4055 E: dawn.bodenchak@sothebyshomes.com

2446 Main Street, P.O. Box 1799 Bridgehampton, NY 11932 W: bodenchakteam.com

A-LIST BROKERS WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF PROFESSIONALLY?

Christian Angle Real Estate

CHRISTIAN ANGLE President/Broker

The confidence that our clients put in us. The relationship we have only works if people can trust us.

They are making very important life decisions after all. We’ve seen a lot of growth because of our dedication to achieving our clients’ goals. It’s a very competitive market in Palm Beach, with a lot of seasoned professionals, but just from putting the right foot forward, and putting in the time, effort and energy, we’ve seen enormous rewards.

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING IN YOUR FREE TIME? Sometimes it can be hard to separate my business and free time.

At home, I still like to stay informed of the real estate market. Of course I greatly enjoy spending time with my wife and three children and stay active within my community, but real estate is a big part of my downtime. It sounds like a cliché, but I guess when you truly enjoy your job, it’s no problem taking it home with you.

WHAT’S A VERY SPECIAL LISTING YOU’RE CURRENTLY MARKETING? Each property we represent is unique and special in its own right.

We have a large four-plus-acres property that has been subdivided into five estate lots, 89 Middle Road.

It’s an amazing, rare opportunity.

We have some incredible oceanand lakefront properties, crisp, newly constructed modern as well as romantic and vintage-inspired estates, such as 900 South Ocean Blvd, 1485 South Ocean Blvd, 1071 North Ocean Blvd, and 1460 North Lake Way. It’s hard to decide on a personal favorite.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START IN REAL ESTATE? I got into real estate about 17 years ago. I started out in the development world, and that experience helped me create and grow Christian Angle Real Estate. It gave me a background of dedication and hard work, and allowed me to stay on top of market trends.

TO WHAT DO YOU ATTRIBUTE YOUR SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE? WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES TO WORKING WITH A SMALL, BOUTIQUE FIRM LIKE YOURS? The biggest advantage it provides is the ability to deal directly with the owner. I like being able to play a creative role in our company’s direction—both in where we take our marketing and how we can help our clients achieve their visions—and I know the clients do, too.

I strongly believe in customer service, long after the sale. When we start the process, nothing’s more important than educating our clients about the market and keeping them informed about all opportunities.

That level of service continues long after the sale. We try to assist them in any way we can—helping clients transition not just into their new home, but into their new community as well.

1485 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach. Exclusive, $59.5M.

C HR I S TI A N A N GLE R EA L ESTAT E 179 Bradley Place Palm Beach, Florida 33480 O: 561.659.6551 C: 561.629.3015 W: anglerealestate.com E: cjangle@anglerealestate.com

“I strongly believe in customer service, long after the sale.”

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STUNNING, SPACIOUS AND SUNNY HIGH LINE CONDO Remarkable south-facing 2-bedroom/2-bath is the perfect combination of location and luxury. The apartment has ultra-stylish design features and views of the High Line and Hudson River from the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room as well as both bedrooms, plus washer/ dryer, 24/7 concierge, storage, gym, garden and roof deck. Located right on the High Line. $2.525 million. Web # 5163960. Contact Marie-Claire Gladstone @ 212.508.7167.

UNBEATABLE WATERFRONT VIEWS This exquisite, 3,000-plus-square-foot home on the water’s edge is not to be missed. East-facing living room spans more than 50 linear feet with 11-foot floor-to-ceiling windows with unobstructed river views. Three grand bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 powder room, separate corner dining area, windowed eat-in chef’s kitchen and private laundry room, not to mention private parking and storage. Web # 716600. Contact Wendy Jackson @ 917.679.1211.

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A MASTERPIECE OF AN APARTMENT A beautiful work of art and also a stunning home. Designed by Zaha Hadid, this remarkable 4-bedroom, 4,220-square-foot residence is located directly on the High Line and moments away from Hudson Yards, Avenues school, and Hudson River Park. The corner great room of more than 900 square feet allows for grand entertaining, while a separate family room with a 246-square-foot balcony features Empire State Building views! $13.5 million. Web # 5148305. Contact Related Sales LLC & Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group.

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Extraordinary white-glove townhouse-style condominium with full services and amenities. Conceived by acclaimed designer William Sofield and further enhanced by I-Grace Company, this exquisite 6-bedroom, 5.5-bath duplex home and garden is truly without parallel in the current marketplace. The entry foyer opens to an impressive gallery featuring a magnificent custom-designed floating staircase.

4,803 square feet with a private, fully landscaped 972-square-foot garden, designed by international landscape designer Madison Cox. $18.995 million. Web # 17397143. Contact Inez Wade @ 212.452.4439.

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Talking to Carlos Orozco, the managing director of Mayakoba Residences

Why go on vacation in Mexico?

Why go anywhere else? Mexico is very well known for its people and their hospitality. It possesses a very rich cultural background that merges pre-Hispanic vestiges and timeless colonial towns with the hottest cosmopolitan scenes in Latin America.

Mexico is blessed with an impressive biodiversity that includes jungles, deserts, mountains and gorgeous beaches that have become the best resort destinations in the world: any avid traveler knows that visiting Los Cabos and the booming Mayan Riviera are musts in their places to go.

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What’s the best part about staying at the Rosewood Mayakoba?

Rosewood Mayakoba has masterfully blended the highest standard of service and hospitality with the natural warmth of its Mexican staff. You get a unique Mexican experience in the heart of the Caribbean, with service that comes second to none. Its culinary offerings and the farm-to-table dining experience at La Ceiba are things you will never forget.

What else is there to do?

You can start by playing golf at El Camaleón, Latin America’s first PGA-sanctioned golf course, home of the OHL Classic at Mayakoba.

If golf is not your thing, Rosewood Mayakoba and its neighbor, Banyan Tree Mayakoba, have the two best spas in Mexico!

If you decide to step out, you’re just ten minutes away from Playa del Carmen’s eclectic nightlife, where you can go barhopping and mingle with visitors from all over the world. Further south, you can visit Tulum’s archeological site (the first known beachfront ruins in the world); dining in Tulum and spending a day at the beach will get you as relaxed as you can get.

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Tell us about some of the excursions nearby that guests can go on.

For the more adventurous, you can go scuba diving off Cozumel or explore the world’s largest underground rivers, called cenotes. There are also plenty of ATV trails, adventure parks and Cirque du Soleil, as well as a very interesting little town called Cancún just 40 miles away.

“ROSEWOOD MAYAKOBA HAS MASTERFULLY BLENDED THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY WITH THE NATURAL WARMTH OF ITS MEXICAN STAFF.”

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What new developments does the Mayakoba have in the works?

We are in the most active phase of promoting of our Rosewood and Fairmont full-ownership residential products (Rosewood Residences Mayakoba and Fairmont Residences Mayakoba).

These full-service condos and residences ($900,000 to $6.2 million) have exceeded even our own expectations for them (www.mayakobaresidences.com). This has set the bar high for the residential market in the region (even for us and our new projects!), so we are working avidly but carefully to make the final touches on our Mayakoba Estates project, set in the heart of Mayakoba, with an estimated sale-out value of $250 million.

We are developing a project that will include beachfront residences, luxury lagoon-view condos and golf-view plots all connected through waterways and jungle paths. This product will be the culmination of Mayakoba real estate–wise, as we are creating a product based on the recommendations of our Mayakoba Residences’ owners, specifically designed for home collectors who have the highest standards and expectations.

For more information, go to rosewoodhotels.com.

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LIFETIME Sail Away from It All with Scenic Luxury Cruises

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cenic Luxury Cruises calls its fleet “Space-Ships” for a reason. These ships, the most spacious in Europe, are designed with sophistication, spaciousness and comfort in mind. More than 80 percent of all cabins have balconies, including the private outdoor “Sun Lounge,” which, at the press of a button, converts to an indoor sunroom or outdoor balcony.

Scenic Luxury Cruise ships boast six dining venues, with choices ranging from relaxed casual fare to gourmet dining. Open seating allows clients to dine with whomever they choose.

This year, two of their French ships offer Scenic Culinaire, an onboard cooking experience. This dedicated space features a cooking station and a fresh produce refrigerator with ingredients sourced from local markets, as well as a live camera and screen so that guests won’t miss a thing as food cooks.

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Onshore, Scenic’s Freechoice includes multiple excursion choices at most ports of call. Guests are provided with a variety of choices that suit their individual interests, activity levels or moods of the day. From active guided bike rides (on our exclusive e-bikes), to shopping with the chef, to tours of local interest, there is something for everyone.

With Scenic’s exclusive Tailormade GPS-driven touring device, guests are even offered the opportunity to explore on their own without worrying about getting lost. To top off the exclusive activities, the once-in-a-lifetime Scenic Enrich events are considered the highlight of the cruises.

From a private Viennese concert to a private banquet at the pope’s palace in Avignon—the Scenic Enrich experience offers events to remember.

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Monday, November 13, 2017 6 - 10pm At the United Nations HONORING Dr. Sylvia Earle Life Below Water is an initiative of AVENUE Magazine in association with the UN Office for Partnerships

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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Iris Dankner Is Facing Down Breast Cancer

For ten years, Iris Dankner has been committed to fighting breast cancer. AVENUE sits down with her to talk about that struggle, and about her charity, Holiday House.

What inspired you to start Holiday House?

I am an interior designer and a 20-year breast cancer survivor. It was my dream to combine my two passions: interior design and eradicating breast cancer. Holiday House was a dream that became a reality in 2007. It has grown exponentially over the last seven years due, in part, to the fact that so many people have been affected by this disease.

The design community has embraced the cause and has been extremely supportive! It touches my heart to see so many people at every level giving so much.

Top designers, PR companies, editors, company CEOs, contractors, painters and electricians— all supporting the cause!

How does it feel that Holiday House has made it to 10 years? To what do you attribute its longevity?

It’s incredible to see a dream become a reality.

Holiday House has truly grown beyond my wildest expectations. Unfortunately, I think part of our success is due to the fact that so many people are touched by breast cancer and want to give back. It’s an indescribable feeling to realize that what started out as a simple idea has grown to this capacity

What can you promise us about this year’s Holiday House?

This year is going to be special because we are back in the Academy Mansion, where Holiday House first started out 10 years ago.

I can promise that the rooms are going to be the most beautiful we’ve seen, showcasing all the new trends and products for the design world. This year we are partnering with ASID, which is providing us with 20 of its top designers to deliver the most eloquent designs yet.

Tell us about Holiday House’s new book.

It has always been on my bucket list to publish a book that would document my journey through Holiday House. What I love most about the book is the way it

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shows an empty room followed by images of the same four walls completely transformed by different designers. I am so excited for everyone to learn all about the Holiday House organization, the incredible people involved and everything it takes to organize these amazing show houses year after year!

What has it been like opening a new Holiday House in London?

Aside from the obvious obstacles of starting an event overseas, I must say it has turned out to be one of the best experiences. I have always wanted to take Holiday House abroad, and I couldn’t think of a better place to start out than London. It has been such a fun learning experience, breaking cultural barriers and getting to know the British way of doing business.

The tenth annual Holiday House will open in November, along with a special anniversary gala. For more information, please visit holidayhousenyc.com.

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IT’S INCREDIBLE TO SEE A DREAM BECOME A REALITY. HOLIDAY HOUSE HAS TRULY GROWN BEYOND MY WILDEST EXPECTATIONS.

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A PARTY FOR A

CAUSE The Rita Hayworth Gala Shines a Spotlight on Alzheimer’s

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Robin Meltzer, Karyn Kornfeld and Daryl Simon

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ore than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. By 2050 this number could rise to 16 million.

Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and is the only cause among the top ten that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed.

This fall, Alzheimer’s advocates in New York City will come together for the 34th Rita Hayworth Gala to combat this devastating disease. Karyn Kornfeld, Robin Meltzer and Daryl Simon will chair the event, to be held on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at Cipriani 42nd Street. Willie Geist, the cohost of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, will emcee the evening, which will present Nina Garcia,editorin-chief of Elle and a judge on Lifetime’s Project Runway, with the Champion Award for her dedication in fighting Alzheimer’s. The event is supported by underwriting sponsor Rolex as well as lead sponsors the Hearst Corporation and Mrs. Lily Safra. Princess Yasmin Aga Khan began the event more than three decades ago in honor of her mother, actress Rita Hayworth, who passed away from Alzheimer’s. Under the princess’s leadership, the events in New York City, Chicago

and Palm Beach have raised more than $72 million for the Alzheimer’s Association’s care, research, and support programs.

Alzheimer’s has touched millions of lives. For this year’s Rita Hayworth Gala cochairs, this is no exception. Karyn Kornfeld’s involvement with the Alzheimer’s Association was influenced by her grandmother, who passed away from the disease. She acted as the first Junior Committee chair and continued as a longtime member of the Steering Committee before chairing this year’s gala.

As an active philanthropist, Robin Meltzer has proven her dedication to the Alzheimer’s Association through her work with the Rita Hayworth Gala. Robin chaired the 2012 Gala after many years of participating as a member of the Gala’s Steering Committee. Robin lost both her mother and mother-in-law to Alzheimer’s.

Daryl Simon, another second-time chair, previously chaired the 2015 Rita Hayworth Gala. Daryl lost her mother to the disease, and is passionate about encouraging her generation to lead healthier lives to improve brain health and decrease the risk of dementia.

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REAL HEALTH-WIFE Jill Zarin Leads the Fight Against Thyroid Cancer

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ince her husband, Bobby, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Jill Zarin has been an active participant in the fight against this horrible disease. Through efforts like her annual lunch, Zarin has raised helped raise awareness and money to help find a cure. We sat down to ask the former Real Housewives star a few questions:

What sets your event apart from other benefits?

To maintain continual support from family, friends and celebrities, luxury event planners Sean Koski and Brian Kelly of Ticket2Events curate with me innovative ideas, products and services that encourage my guests to attend the lunch and provide support annually. This year’s event was supported by over 80+ brands, including the launch of my rug line with Unique Loom, available on esalerugs.com, the Dermatology and Laser Group, Carmen Sol, Molecuderm, Birdies Slippers, and Lonvitalité.

Guests who attended received complimentary

services from many companies, including Soothe and KM Reflection; luxurious transportation from Aarius International; gourmet catering from Carlyle off the Green and delicious bites from Antico Noè; craft cocktails and rosé from Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Whispering Angel, Jolie Folle and ShopTheSauce.com; and the opportunity to shop at designer trunk shows like Bella Vita Bags, Idalia Baudo and Cat Perkins.

Guests even parted the event with a 24k gold bag from Quilted Koala that was overstuffed with products. The mission of Jill Zarin’s luxury luncheon is to raise awareness and money for a charitable cause: this year was ITOG.

For more information, please go to www.itog.org.

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What does ITOG stand for, and how did you get involved?

ITOG stands for the International Thyroid Oncology Group. It was started by Jean and Dwight Vicks when Jean was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer. It brings together doctors, scientists and patients whose lives and careers are focused on identifying new therapies for thyroid cancer.

What was the highlight of this year’s lunch?

The highlight of this year’s lunch for me was having Bobby FaceTime into the party from the hospital and speak to the friends and family who came to support him!

What do you have planned next?

Right now my time is focused on getting Bobby the best medicine has to offer. Thanks to Novartis, Bobby is alive today. Truly, the doctors gave him weeks to live, and the chemotherapy has brought back his life again. I will forever be grateful to his doctors, David Pfister at MSK, Steven Sherman at MD Anderson and Keith Bible at Mayo Clinic.

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LOVELY SKIN WITH LOVELY RITA Dr. Rita Linkner Says It’s Never Too Early to Start Thinking About Your Skin

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What is the best age to start seeing a dermatologist?

There’s no hard rule, but the average age at which I see patients begin to do skin cancer screenings is right around 25. This is the age when most of my beauty-conscious patients want to take hold of their skin care regimen in order to prevent fine lines, wrinkles and discoloration.

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What treatments do you recommend for younger patients?

What Sunscreen, vitamin A and Botox. Daily sunscreen use prevents precancerous and cancerous lesions, as well as fine lines and wrinkles. Vitamin A is anti-acne and antiaging—the reason I gravitate toward OTC retinols rather than prescription-strength retinoids is because they are delicate enough to use every single night, and this compliancy helps to achieve faster results. Lastly, very small amounts of Botox—what I like to call “Baby Tox”—can prevent wrinkles associated with muscle movement from becoming etched. Imagine looking at your mother or grandmother and knowing that you’d never have lines like them!

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What’s something important that young people don’t realize about their skin?

Young people often buy antiaging products without looking at the main ingredients. The ingredients need to be tailored to the person’s skin type, and that’s where a smart dermatologist is key in customizing a protocol that will make all the difference.

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ELIMINATE RESTAURANT STRESS WITH TODAY’S EPICURE Pascal Riffaud wants to be your concierge

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What inspired you to start Today’s Epicure?

Today’s Epicure was founded to take away the frustration to try to score a table at always-sold-out restaurants. The internet changed the way concierges like me used to work. Everything is now available by just browsing the web, and there’s no need to call a concierge to get tickets or a private jet: just go to the web However, scoring tables at restaurants still remains one of the most challenging tasks for anyone, with or without connections.

Today’s Epicure was created to give its members an edge, and offers access on any given day.

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How does Today’s Epicure differ from other reservation services?

We are proactive instead of reactive. We anticipate our clients’ needs, and offer a daily selection of reservations that will meet their needs.

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What’s next for you and your app?

We constantly work on improving our website and app, in order to offer a seamless experience; more important, we keep abreast of what’s new and hot in the restaurant scene, so our members always get the best reservations.

For more information, go to todaysepicure.com.

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P O ST CA RD FROM . . .

WHAT’S THE POINT?

AVENUE EDITOR MICHAEL GROSS FINDS RUSTIC LUXE IN THE ADIRONDACKS

BUT LAZY WORKS, TOO.

IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION, William Avery Rockefeller II commissioned a vacation compound, Camp Wonundra, three log-clad buildings on a rocky 75-acre peninsula jutting into Upper Saranac Lake, designed for refined upper-class relaxation.

In 1986, it became The Point, an uber-luxury retreat of 11 rooms.

Sold in 2007, it fell victim to the Great Recession, but last year, longtime patrons bought it out of foreclosure, and after a subtle refresh, reopened it this summer.

Join your fellow guests on The Point’s glass enclosed electric Elco launch for a cocktail cruise. Or ask boathouse majordomo Dion Neese, who delivered mail by boat to the lake’s camps for 25 years, for a tour on a replica of a 1933 mahogany Hacker-Craft. You’ll see camps built for (and in some cases still owned by descendants of) politician Levi Morton, comic actor Oliver Hardy, and the Lewisohn, Seligman, and Colgate families.

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REMOTE CONTROL Getting away is the point, and the five-and-half-hour drive from the city lets you unwind before reaching the log gate and gatehouse, home to the resort’s office and the only internet point on the property, which requests that you disconnect digitally and imagine you’re a house party guest.

The 2:1 staff-to-guest ratio makes it easy.

Ultimately, nature trumped social voyeurism.

And that’s the point.

Abandon your wallet along with your mobile. Rooms are $1,600 to $3,500 a night, but everything is included, including cocktails, gourmet meals (by executive chef Chef Loic Leperlier, who started at Lucas Carton in Paris), drinks and fine wines, activities, and even tips. Pets are welcome. But if you want your kids along, you’ll have to rent the whole property at $25,650 a night.

INDULGENT DOESN’T MEAN LAZY, NECESSARILY In keeping with the posh house party conceit, Wednesday and Saturday dinners are formal. The food is so copious and sophisticated (think foie gras with cherries, black truffle risotto, roast wild boar with hen of the wood mushrooms), you’ll need to work it off. Choose from lake swims, waterskiing, wakeboarding, tubing, hiking, croquet, horseshoes, fishing, tennis, badminton and boating in canoes, kayaks, a speedboat and several Budsin mahogany electric boats in summer, and snowshoeing and cross-country skiing in winter.

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PRIVACY MATTERS

Guests use first names only, but in vino, there is veritas, so over dinner we learned our house party included real estate and energy investors, a media COO and a philanthropic matchmaker. And we couldn’t help but notice the Porsche, Rolls-Royce, and Maserati in the parking lot. One guest had flown in but had his million-dollar Pugani Huayra roadster shipped north for his stay. But ultimately nature trumped social voyeurism. And that’s the point.

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HOPE LUNCHEON SEMINAR THE GENETICS OF DEPRESSION: What is Known, What is Next

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM THE PLAZA HOTEL NEW YORK CITY MEDICAL SPEAKER DR. ERIC NESTLER Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Amanda Hearst and Valery Jour @ Maison-deMode

Tony Ingrao, Christie Brinkley, and Randy Kemper @ Hamptons Classic

Robert Downey Jr., Robert Wilson and Susan Downey @ Watermill Center

Dottie Herman @ Parrish Art Museum

Georgina Bloomberg and son Jasper in the Hamptons Isabelle Bscher @ Galerie Gmurzynska

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Janna Bullock and Peter Thomas Roth @ Watermill Center

National Council of Jewish Women NY’s Fall Luncheon will feature acclaimed author Dani Shapiro, signing copies of her bestseller, Hourglass

Thursday, October 19th at 12pm Riverpark, 450 E. 29th Street “Through Shapiro’s grace and instruction, she makes the reader share her unswerving belief that the act of writing can transform and shape our vision of ourselves and of the world.” — Salon

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S OC I A L SA FA RI Elizabeth Shafiroff and Jean Shafiroff @ Southampton Animal Shelter

Dianne Bernhard @ National Arts Club

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If you only go to one benefit all summer, go to the Watermill Center gala.”

Libbie and David Mugrabi @ Watermill Center

Hilary Geary and Wilbur Ross @ Southampton Hospital

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THE WINTER OF OUR DISSED CONTENT OH, THE WORDS MILLENNIALS WILL MURDER

by Suzanne O’Malley

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What's the difference between kale and snot?

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Children will eat their own snot.

THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY I had a suspicion that my friend was onto something big.

Something even more sinister— and irritating to the digestive tract—than kale. This case of runaway popularity had conspiracy written all over it. How else could I explain that I personally bought kale and owned a top-of-the-line cold-press juicer?

This buddy of mine also disdains the trendy misuse and overuse of the words “content” and “curate.” Assaults on his tender sensibilities? Oh no.

What he is talking about is the murder of his beloved language.

And the perps? I had my eye on those dirty, rotten scoundrels who’d been packing fully loaded iPhones since they were ten years old. They have no recollection of alphabetizing by last name or typing late-night term papers with the help of Microsoft’s irritating animated talking paper clip (“I see you're writing a letter, would you like some help?”).

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process performed by “thought leaders” who had possibly overheard the word “curator” at a museum once, but had never met an actual writer or editor of anything but lines of code— except perhaps at TED Talks.

Some engineer was out there right this instant, bragging about having invented a new occupation while Herman Melville turned over in his Woodlawn Cemetery grave, along with Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron and Goethe—who all shared the same six-generationold British publisher.

The only internet epic I’d seen lately was a “curated” listicle of Ryan Gosling Kale memes: "Hey girl, I grew this kale for you."

These whippersnappers could eat all the kale they wanted, but they were not getting away with crimes against literature on my watch, no sirree.

I carry insurance on the “contents” of my home. But by god, I have written actual books catalogued in the Library of Congress—not the Content of Congress.

A BREAK IN THE CASE The first big break in my case came when I remembered I had an adult child of millennial age.

I suspected that he now ate limited amounts of kale hidden in omelettes. He was trying to pass himself off as a Gen Xer, insisting he’d never been counted as a Millennial until two years ago. “I don’t even know how to use Snapchat!” he pleaded.

That’s when it hit me. What had happened two years ago was a Pew Research report announcing that Millennials had overtaken Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation by a 75.4 to 74.9 million margin. The Gen Xers were born in the slow birthing years of 1965–1980. Then fecundity became the harbinger of kale and “curation” and “content.” And kaboom, for the

first time in history, Boomers were no longer #1. No longer winning at everything because of their sheer numbers. No wonder I thought tattoos were contagious—thousands of millennials were getting them every day.

Back to my friend (a Boomer). He had been right from the start.

There is kale in every restaurant. The bad news is, if Millennials want “pig food” for dinner and nonsensical use of the words “content” and “curate,” that’s how it is going to be.

Unless, of course, Boomers perfect cloning.

Peace out.

BOGDAN MOHORA

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ale?” a European dinner guest recently asked a pal of mine. “Isn’t that something you feed pigs?”

Kale-upmanship! My friend is as bristly as kale when it comes to fad food. Kale, he’d decided, was overused in New York restaurants, and he couldn't shut up about it. A leafy green vegetable with a millennial fan base, a National Kale Day, a Yale University look-alike T-shirt and a book called Fifty Shades of Kale.

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Stunning Renovated Residence in Sag Harbor’s Watchcase Factory Sag Harbor. The Watchcase Factory, brilliantly repurposed as a luxury condominium complex, providing a unique combination of residences and amenities unparalleled in the Hamptons today, offers one singular residence for someone looking for that rare, ultrahigh-end carefree, experience. Redesigned from two, third floor apartments by the renowned firm of Ascher-Davis, this 2,425 SF+/-, 2 bedroom, 3 bath condo offers three sided exposure, through 23 large double hung windows, that flood the home with natural light.

Characterized by soaring beamed ceilings, a glorious kitchen, exquisite detailing with numerous built ins and an open floor plan, this beautiful home allows access through three windowed doors to 2 terraces and one balcony, which includes glimpses of the harbor. The great room stretches to the media room warmed by its own fireplace. The gorgeous 22’ X 16’ master suite with expansive closets and luxurious bath is joined by another bedroom suite. The residence comes with a private one car garage with additional storage and one additional nearby space in the underground garage that leads directly into the lobby. With the possibility of purchasing the furnishings separately, a new owner could begin using their new retreat immediately. Residents benefit from elite services and hotel-style amenities, including a concierge and a resident manager. Acclaimed designer Steven Gambrel, has seamlessly interwoven the industrial history of the building with state-of-the-art interior design elements that enhance common rooms that include stunning lobby living room, coffee/wine bar and the reception center. Outside the heated salt water pool is serviced by the Watchcase Pavilion which is home to the club room with fireplace and catering kitchen for recreation or private events, fully outfitted gym, yoga room and a pair of locker rooms each with its own sauna. With proximity to shops, restaurants and the marinas of a village in the midst of an amazing renaissance, this impeccably appointed residence deserves your attention today.

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