<![CDATA[Gawker: Soho]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Soho]]> http://gawker.com/tag/soho http://gawker.com/tag/soho <![CDATA[Justin Timberlake Gives Up His Tribeca Sex Condo]]> Everything that Justin Timberlake owns is a sex something, so here's the New York City sex condo he just sold for $4.4 million. That figure is about 10% under what he bought the place for in 2008, but that slight loss is a drop in the bucket for the budding movie star. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5823980&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Cannoli-Slinging Italians vs. Hoity-Toity Gentrifiers in Stereotypical Showdown]]> There was a time when Italians lived in Manhattan's "Little Italy." A long time ago. Now, it's just an area called "Nolita" full of rich people and expensive "boutiques" and the Gawker Media offices, and the only real Italian connection left is the annual Feast of San Gennaro, a horrible week-long street fair featuring fried food and seedy carnival games and lots of the same crappy vendors you see at every street fair in NYC, which represents the "true spirit of Italy" about as much as Chef Boyardee. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5766139&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Who Kut the Kheese and Forgot to Pass the Krackers?]]> [Khloe Kardashian gives major stink face this morning while filming and shopping with sister Kourtney in SoHo. Image via Splash] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5679625&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Listen Closely and You Will Hear the Secret of Fame]]> [Dog whisperer Bethenny Frankel gets some advice from her four-legged friend Cookie today while filming her silly reality show "Bethenny Getting Married?" in SoHo. Image via Splash] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5664108&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tour the Glamorous Apartment That Wasn't Good Enough for Justin Timberlake]]> Rumors are rampant that Justin Timberlake's picked up a new penthouse in SoHo. What about the $5.5 million bachelor pad he bought in TriBeCa just two years ago? Maybe it's not fancy enough for the budding movie star? Photos below. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5658172&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bugging Out]]> [This grasshopper was just out shopping today with the rest of the people in SoHo. All he found was something trashy. Image via AP] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5618196&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BP Station in Soho Gets Cleaned Up, Ironically]]> Yesterday, we shared a photo of the BP station on Houston Street, the sign for which had been vandalized to look like it was dripping with oil. Today, it was cleaned up—by a company called "Restore America." [via] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5553842&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Soho Noise Nazi Shutters Yet Another Bar]]> Restaurateurs of New York, beware: Do not open a late-night spot anywhere near Georgette Fleischer. The downtown scold, a Barnard professor, has just successfully had hotspot La Esquina closed down because of code violations. And this isn't her first victory. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5536153&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Police Identify Manhattan Luxury Burglar Suspect]]> A mysterious figure has been breaking into luxury boutiques in the early hours of the morning and stealing only the finest luxury goods like $260 jeans and $23,000 of designer sunglasses. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5508850&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Weekend Gawker Stalker: Mischa Barton's Shopping Her Hitch-Cocky Impulses]]> We get some decent Stalker Sightings on the weekends, even with our spies hard at work brunching and shopping and, really, probably reporting these drunk. Yet some are especially concise, astute, catty, or somehow otherwise spectacular. Like this one. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5425474&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's Simply Impossible to Keep All of Sienna Miller's Ex-Boyfriends Straight]]> Page Six ran an item today saying Sienna Miller was seen shopping in SoHo with her ex, DJ Slinky Wizard (above right). We got a tip that she was in the store with ex Balthazar Getty (left). What's the difference? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5396938&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[They Bring Out the Color of Her Money]]> [Socialite Lydia Hearst walks the street in SoHo yesterday in some very green heels. Image via INF] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5383268&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Private Citizen Bill Clinton: Mercer St.]]> Aug. 6 @ 6pm [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] We heard cheers in my office and ran to the window to see what was going on. We saw a mob of people surrounding an SUV. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5331855&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Finally, the Models Catch a Break]]> Life sucks. Everyone knows this. Of course, life sucks most for the models. All those castings and photo shoots and cocaine-fueled orgies and whatnot! How do they do it?! Well, things are finally looking up, thanks to the "Model Lounge." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5316578&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Raccoon Infiltrates John Varvatos' SoHo Flagship]]> SoHo's full of all kinds of interesting creatures going shopping on a Saturday afternoon: celebrities, locals, foreign tourists. Competition for their patronage is stiff. But now, John Varvatos can lay claim to the awesome, hot new clientele in town: raccoons! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5312590&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How to Sell Jeans]]> [A woman stands in front of the racy new Calvin Klein ad in Soho that's causing a controversy; image via Getty] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5294436&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Disappearing DKNY Mural]]> The years-old, six-story, block-lettered DKNY mural, featuring Lady Liberty, that greeted those headed south down Broadway into Soho has been painted over. Clothing store Hollister (ugh) has moved into the retail space at 600 Broadway, so they want the wall. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5283191&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Air Conditioning As A Marketing Tool: No Longer Smart]]> Air conditioning is not just one of the most important summertime problems facing the media. It's a problem facing everyone, because high gas prices are turning air conditioners into machines that burn $100 bills to produce cool air. Stores in high foot traffic areas have always thrown their doors open in the summer and blasted the AC, knowing that sweaty people will come in and browse just to get out of the sun. But now that strategy is not only hugely expensive, but bad PR as well; environmentalist customers will whine and complain and call the city and organize boycotts. An intrepid NYT reporter finds that wanton AC-wasters are centered—like the media—in SoHo: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017121&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[City Blog Comments Degenerate Into Lynch Mob]]> Gothamist.com, the NYC news-about-town blog, today posted a straightforward item about a 19-year-old woman who was raped in her apartment building in Soho last night. They described the suspect: "a black man, about 5'8" and 200 pounds, with a possibly pockmarked face, and he may be between 20-30 years old." Now, we were under the impression that Gothamist's readers are mainly drawn from the broad hipster demographic. So either our impression is way off, or many hipsters are thinly-veiled racist fucks (somewhat true, actually). Because the comments quickly turned into a call to throw black men off buildings: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=394084&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ After a fatal accident just two months ago,...]]>
After a fatal accident just two months ago, the painfully incomplete Trump Tower has managed to muck it up again, this time leaving industrial chains to blow freely in the wind and break about a dozen windows. Keep up the great work.
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]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5003626&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Gusts near 50 MPH sent a loose chain crashing...]]> Gusts near 50 MPH sent a loose chain crashing into the side of the Trump SoHo tower on Saturday night, cracking windows and showering the street with glass, officials and neighborhood residents said. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5003625&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[151 Wooster: Where The Basquiat At?]]> Sometimes, the idea of cutting-edge art is worth more than the actual existence of said art. In the case of the new "luxury lofts" of 151 Wooster, the virtual proximity of a mural by Basquiat and friends might be worth a lot. The apartments are going for about $8 million (with a maintenance of $42,000 a year). The Times reported back in June: When they were tearing into the place, a mural was discovered on the eighth floor behind layers of sheetrock and plumbing. It was, if you're into this sort of thing, beautiful—a collaboration between Jean Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000 and others. Basquiat was friends with a previous dweller, art-magazine editor Edit deAk, who lived there in the early 80s when it was probably little more than a coldwater flat. The mural has been renamed "The 151 Wooster Wild Style Wall" and is now the centerpiece of "Gallery 151." And last night was the grand opening! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=334080&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Heinous Celeb-Studded Cafe Operated By Owners Of Heinous Celeb-Studded Club]]> Sometimes two mysterious and crappy things that seem like they should be related actually are. This is great, since it reduces two crappy things into just one. For instance! The gutting sense of wonder at why the "hottest celebrity hangout" is actually the upstairs of a cruddy Soho cafe was somewhat eroded by today's revelation that the owners of "Upstairs" (as Cafe Bari is called) are the swarthy brothers Martignetti. Les freres Martignetti are the proprietors of the eponymous Bar Martignetti, which is to pink-shirted preppy dickheads what an empty parking lot by I-95 is to day laborers: A place to gather and drink and await desperately-needed attention. With that, the fog of mystery dissipates, leaving only the stench of knowledge in its place. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289342&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jerry's And Its Sex-Friendly Bathrooms Close Forever]]> A long time ago, when I was reckless and young, I had an affair with my ballet teacher. Her boyfriend of 18 years—at the time they'd been together longer than I'd been alive— was clearly gay. (He was a stylist and Sunday tea party enthusiast.) His gayness didn't prevent him from wanting to kick my ass, however, so some of the affair was conducted at Jerry's, a Soho restaurant right next to the Apple Store, although before the Apple Store existed. Jerry's had okay oatmeal, a good burger and, most importantly, capacious single person bathrooms. And now, as gossip auntie Ben Widdicombe tells us, Jerry's is closing for good come Sunday. A Michael Kors store will open up in its place. Of course it will. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=287793&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Did Whoopi Goldberg Know About Becoming The 'View' Host, And When Did She Know It?]]> More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=284839&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Soho Library]]> More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=262615&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[FR.OG IN SO.HO SO.SO]]> Last night marked not only the 10th anniversary of Balthazar but the opening of FR.OG, a French fusion a few doors down from the birthday boy. Clearly, FR.OG's Didier Virot was sending a message to the ancien r gime. But must McNally fear that his French dominion is threatened? After an opening night visit, we'll have to go with mais non! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=254830&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Balthazar Proves Spring Is Here]]> Nevermind the jackets or the parapluies, notice anything different about the exterior to Balthazar, the most important dining establishment of our time? That's right, no canvas vestibule. Cue the Vivaldi. Ready Jesus for his resurrection. The spring, man, has cometh. No longer will one have to fling open those annoyingly flimsy canvas-and-plastic doors. No longer will one struggle fruitlessly with the physics of two doors opening into each other. Away with tarrying in the cold confusing antechamber! Spring has sprung. We are all free now! —josh More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249651&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[FR.OG Tempts Fate, Balthazar]]> FR.OG reflects the recent affinity for strangely punctuated restaurant names. Like the soon-to-open P*ong, FR.OG is not quite a pun and not quite an acronym. Whatever! It's the downtown expansion of Uptown restaurateur Didier Virot (of Aix). And it's set to begin its war against Balthazar with dry runs on the most auspicious of days: Friday, April 13th. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249003&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Margaritaville Comes to SoHo]]> In our frequent scurryings between Balthazar and the office, we couldn't help but notice a new window display at Sur La Table, at Crosby and Spring. More than a red robin, more than the sprouting of croci or the appearance of toe cleavage, Jimmy Buffet's Frozen Concoction Maker is the true harbinger of springtime. "Built to Party" (but not to spill), the monstrous contraption with key-lime accents goes for $300. A tacky ticket to Margaritaville doesn't come cheap! But there's booze in the blender, and soon it will render that frozen concoction that helps me hang on. —Josh More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=248478&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bon Jovi To Lay Down In A Soho Bed of Roses]]> So this is how Manhattan ends: As New Jersey. Jon Bon Jovi, the rocker polymath and heartthrob to millions of by-now unhappily married women, is moving with his family into a loft atop the old New Museum building at 183 158 Mercer, according to the NYP. The 7-room, $26 million "trophy penthouse" is, per the Prudential Elliman propaganda, "the most significant Downtown property of all, located on the best street." But we all know why Jon Bon Jovi really chose this apartment. On top of 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, there are two additional powder rooms. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=247080&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Remainders: Sayonara, Honmura An]]>
  • Meet the man who's obsessed with Hillary Clinton—the political editor of the New York Post. [The Politico] More »
    ]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=237154&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Kind of Gay Soho Store Named in Gay Bias Suit]]> Lounge, Soho's multi-leveled, eurotrash horror show dedicated to only the best in expensive, purposely shredded clothing, is being sued by Andrew Boeppel, the store's former publicist, who claims that shopowner Jack Menashe used gay slurs. In February, Boeppel had organized a gay networking party (that's what they call them these days) at the Broadway store; allegedly Menashe was displeased with the homo presence and, using a gay slur, banished the queens to a "tiny cafe in the rear of the store." More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=192095&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[Isobella Jade Eats Burger]]> What do you mean, that's not news? Lilliputian and putatively homeless model Isobella Jade may be writing her memoir in the Apple Store, but she still has time to join the hottest new marketing trend: a video trailer for your book. Thrill to Isobella dashing about the streets of New York in heels and a little black dress, briefly disrobing, noshing a few choice selections from the Wendy's dollar menu, spilling coffee, and rendering a voiceover that could challenge any on Grey's Anatomy for sheer tedium. Totally sucks about her MySpace page, though. More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=190953&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[Soho Stabby]]> Don Hill's: legendary dive or glitzy underground homo-rock scene? Both, of course, and also a leading exponent of NYC IS (still) EDGY, by way of a brawl and multiple stabbing:
    Don Hill, the owner of the club, insisted it's not a violent place and that he hasn't had problems in the past.
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    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=185503&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[Remainders: Jacob the Dealer]]> • We just can't believe that anyone calling himself "Jacob the Jeweler," who makes his living crafting massive, diamond-encrusted watches and pendants for the good people of the hip-hop industry, would have anything to do with a drug ring called the Black Mafia Family. [TMZ] More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=181128&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[There's Only One Building That Matters]]> The New Museum Building at 158 Mercer is fast becoming the well-heeled hotness and, perhaps, the official obsession of the Observer's real estate gang. Last week, the news was that Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein was moving into an 11th floor unit, purchased for $10 million by a three-person trust including David Geffen. Today the Observer reports that one floor beneath, petite hotelier Andre Balazs is selling his 3,800-square-foot spread for $10 million. And on the 9th floor, there's a unit going for $9.15 million. More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=178997&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[David Geffen Prances About Mercer Street]]> The Post reports today that velvet mafioso David Geffen has dropped a wee $10 million on a condo at 158 Mercer Street (he also has a residence at 810 Fifth and an estate in Malibu, for which he fights relentlessly to keep commoners off of "his" beach). The Observer, however, notes that Geffen himself will not be living in the Mercer Street loft; he is one of three trustees listed on the deed-transfer record. The lucky new denizen of Soho is Saturday Night Live producer and fashion progeny Marci Klein, which the Post reported in April — though today, oddly, the paper makes no mention of Klein being the actual resident. More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=177647&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[The Falls May Finally Be No More]]> Bad news for the Falls, the bar where Imette St. Guillen was last seen before her murder and where her suspected killer, Darryl Littlejohn, was employed: More »
    ]]>     http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=174350&view=rss&microfeed=true     <![CDATA[Jewish Menace Infests Soho: Why?]]> High on the list of email subject lines that make us very nervous — up there with "I got the test results back" and "Mediabistro invites you to an EXCLUSIVE cocktail party!" — is one that arrived in our inbox early this afternoon: "What's with all the Jews?" (As we understand it, that was a popular forward in the Weimar Republic.) As it happens, though, today's correspondent was actually posing an interesting question: More »
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