Buildings, clockwise from upper left corner: Prada Store Soho, American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center, Hearst Building, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Morgan Library expansion, Apple Store Soho, Conde Nast Building, and Seagram Building; in the center, Grand Central Terminal interior and the Chrysler Building The Chrysler Building. The Seagram Building. The Apple Store Soho? The Center for Architecture's executive director Rick Bell made a list of 10 great buildings to see in New......

The MTA has apparently narrowed down the list of contenders to develop the West Side Rail Yards - and may even ask them to team up together. According to Crain's New York, the MTA favors the developers who have already lined up tenants. Which means the front runners are The Related Companies with News Corporation and Goldman Sachs, Durst & Vornado with Conde Nast, and Tishman-Speyer with Morgan Stanley. But front runners may need......

George Steinbrenner's poor health isn't new news, but a September Conde Nast Portfolio article paints a picture as to how The Boss is really doing. Franz Lidz and former Tampa Tribune sports editor Tom McEwen, an old friend of Steinbrenner's, paid a visit to the Yankees principal owner at his home in Tampa. Once at the Steinbrenner residence, the two have what seems to be a rather quick conversation with Steinbrenner at the door. Lidz's......

The New York Post has an article today on the mania––in the truest sense of the word––surrounding the eventual release of Apple's iPhone, a device that is a phone, digicam, organizer, Internet browser, and iPod wrapped into one sleek-looking package. The Post found people willing to camp, pay, or have sex in trade for the latest and greatest in soon-to-be-ubiquitous personal technology. Harris Levinson, 34, a video production supervisor for Conde Nast, is paying his......

- Here's one for charter schools: Their students do better on state reading tests than other students in regular public shcools - Lynne Stewart apologizes to the judge who is sentecing her for carrying Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's messages to his followers, but blames it on being a lawyer - Testimony begins in Nicole duFresne's murder trial; her fiance, Jeffrey Sparks, said, "She was looking up. Her eyes were wide open. I knelt down......

Last month, a young woman was killed by thieves in her boyfriend's Flatbush apartment, and it turned out her boyfriend was a pot dealer, making police wonder if the boyfriend had been the true target. The victim, Tiesha Sargeant, had grown up in Flatbush, went to a Manhattan private school on scholarship, graduated from Wesleyan, and worked at Conde Nast and most recently at CSFB, making her the pride of her family. Her father, Henry,......

- An excellent look at the proposed West 96th Subway renovations at Starts and Fits - A boat capsized off Breezy Point and the Coast Guard is looking for the passenger - Fun NY Times article about the awesome olfactory nerves dogs have and how they are helping humans by sniffing out bedbugs, detecting cancer, and more! - Kate's Paperie goes the home decor route - Was The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway......

The imposingly slick Conde Nast Building at 4 Times Square has made sure it's ready in case of an emergency, as building management has installed radio repeater responders to allow firefighters communication throughout the building. amNewYork calls the system "rare," as many buildings do not wire their buildings, since firefighters can bring in their own systems. The World Trade Center did have a repeater system, but "on September 11, 2001 either failed, was damaged or......

Pity the poor editors at Conde Nast, as well as the high-powered lawyers at Skadden Arps. The east-facing views from their offices at 4 Times Square are quickly being blocked by a new Bank of America building going up down the block. Only the last six stories of the building will be spared. While we're trying to sympathize, it's hard not to feel a little schadenfreude when reading quotes like this one in the......

- A man tried to kidnap a five year old from her school's cafeteria! - Gawker points out the mistakes in the Post's photograph of the Conde Nast holiday lunch, which is good copy editing/research department fun - The Murder Inc. drug money laundering case closes, with Jay-Z, Damon Dash, Russell Simmons, Ja Rule, and Ashanti watching - Neighborhoodies is offering customized stockings - no coal, please! - Heroin ring busted - and the cops......

Andrew Krucoff, beloved former-Gothamist interviewer, media maven and dark-horse candidate for the Media Bistro editor's job, was just fired from his research job at Conde Nast. His crime? Conde's servers went down last week, and Kru leaked the tech email to Gawker. They report: Andrew Krucoff, the well-known blogger whom we often jokingly — lovingly, even, we’d say — refer to as Gawker’s mascot, has worked as a freelance research analyst at Conde Nast for......

Last month we mentioned that Paris Commune was adding a downstairs wine bar- this month Rouge Wine Bar is open. We visited on a recent weeknight and, after drinking at the bar with the very lovely Gladys [a hen, also:wooden] we learned quite a bit. -Like ordering fish, going out looking for a new, spectacular wine might not be the thing you want to do at a new bar right after the weekend. New......

Legendary Director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist), who testified against a Vanity Fair article - via video, of course, to avoid extradition in the US where that sex with a minor issue is still hanging over his head, just won his libel case in a British court. The VF's article claimed Polanski seduced a woman at a NYC restaurant en route to the funeral of his wife Sharon Tate and their unborn child, who were......

If you suffer from a nasty magazine addiction as we do, you will understand our initial attraction to Francine du Plessix Gray’s memoir, Them: her stepfather was Alexander Liberman, the magazine genius who served as editorial director of Conde Nast for decades. Being pretty much devoid of panache ourselves, we are alternately intrigued and repulsed by people who devote significant time and energy to crafting fashionable, larger-than-life selves. What is it like to take style......

The Hollywood Reporter says that Meryl Streep will be playing the Anna Wintour-inspired devilish boss in the movie of The Devil Wears Prada. Streep has already played another Conde Nast employee, New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, in Adaptation, so we can't wait until she plays Graydon Carter or Jeff Jarvis next (hey, she played a rabbi in Angels in America - she can probably do it!). We think that someone like Lara Flynn Boyle, with......

Project Billboard and Clear Channel have settled the fracas surrounding PB's proposed anti-war billboard (the one with a bomb, left): Project Billboard gets space on the Conde Nast building for the same billboard, but with a dove instead, plus space on the W Hotel (Broadway & 47th Street) for an electronic ticker that shows the "Total Cost of Iraq War" for the U.S. - both for the price of one board; Clear Channel gets to......

The debate over the West Side stadium plan for the Jets is ongoing. If it gets built, there will most likely be a corporate name slapped onto it. With so many companies calling the New York Region home, and what's sure to be a high-profile stadium, the naming rights for it could be quite costly. A March article from Bloomberg had fees in range of $7-10 million per year. Over 30 years, the naming......

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stereogum has possibly the biggest scoop of the year...well, maybe only to Gothamist, but still: A panda crosses the street in Times Square. While documenting the rise of the adorable black-and-white furry mammal's buzz, stereogum writes: I saw a panda hail a cab in Times Square this afternoon. Thank god I have a camera phone otherwise you wouldn't believe me. The panda was holding a briefcase. I think he works at Conde Nast. Well, if......

Our penchant not reading Page Six word for word (there are bold names, subtitles and pictures!) caught up with our immature side when we thought that the story about New York chefs in Times Square posing for a Bon Appetit photo spread was more along the lines of some elaborate, bawdy/British joke to be pulled on Conde Nast staffers. Hey, you read "Mario Batali hauling a 100-pound sausage into 4 Times Square" and not have......

The New Yorker's Ben McGrath looks at Bronx pack rat Patrice Moore who was recently trapped in his apartment for two days due to an avalanche of his saved magazines. Sometimes called "disposophobia," Moore's hoarding is both most New Yorkers' fear ("I'll need that issue of Time Out because you never know when I'll need to know what happened week of April 2, 2002.") as well as marvel ("How did he get so much into......

rachelle tries out the Kottke family recipe for Tater Tot hotdish, but prefers her family's recipe, which is basically the same, but with Tater Tots on the top, not the bottom as the Kottke recipe specifies. Gothamist, raised in the mean streets of Brooklyn and suburban New Jersey, has never had any sort of meal that includes Tater tots, canned soup, and ground beef in the same dish, but we're willing to give it a......

PowerPoint, the bane of many an office wonk's existence ("I can animate this slide with builds and sound effects - just give me an hour") gets reinterpreted by David Byrne in his new book and DVD, David Byrne: E.E.E.I. (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information). Unlike office wonks, David Byrne gets to look at PP with new eyes and use it in funny, "artistic" ways, like using an outline of Dan Rather's head (unless you work......

Almost sensing that Gothamist is in Chicago (again!) today, the Times looks at a Chicago play that is performed in men's bathrooms. Theatregoers crowd into various men's rooms (director Stephen Mazurek scouted men's rooms in city buildings and museums all over Chicago) for the 30-minute play, which is about "five white-collar workers scheming to get ahead" that has "chatter about accounts and agendas, as well slurs against women and gays." (Sounds a bit like......

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be opening its newly renovated $30 million cafeteria on June 17. The Times notes that it's like the Conde Nast cafeteria in its price tag, use of metal and glass (laminated, thought), and the chef who formerly headed up the 4TS Conde Nast cafeteria, but the main difference is that the Met cafeteria is open to the public, not underfed fashionistas, although Gothamist would like to see a......

The Primeda exodus continues with New York magazine publisher Alan Katz going over to Conde Nast to head up the boy version of Lucky. David Carr of the Times writes: Mr. Rogers was hired away from NBC in 1999 to expand Primedia from a hodgepodge of magazines and directories into an integrated media company that embraced the Internet. But the ill-fated purchase of About.com, rising debt and a declining ad market made Mr. Roger's effort......