Besides being the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the in the National Mall of Washington, DC, Maya Lin, also designed the interior of the Museum for African Art in New York City, a Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, Wave Field, a relaxing plot of grass on the campus of the U of...

Six hundred thousand people lost their jobs last month. Our economy faces this pressing question: "I wonder if rich people could live on only $500,000 a year?" Luckily, the Times has a very random selection of answers! Obama wants to limit the pay of Wall Street execs to a mere half mil. How would t...

For some reason, when big brokers leave one brokerage for another, it can be a minor event in the little world of high-end Manhattan real estate. (For example, according to the writer Steven Gaines, when Michael Shvo left Prudential Douglas Elliman--because of what was essentially a fight over an an...

Warren G. Harding, during his 1920 presidential campaign, pledged “a return to normalcy� for an America beset by the shocks of the First World War and an overly involved federal government. He won 60-plus percent of the vote. Much like Harding’s sales pitch, the Manhattan housing market, buffe...

Barbara Corcoran was on Larry King Live last night as part of a panel on the mortgage mess (transcript here). The founder of the Corcoran Group, now an author and TV personality, couldn't understand why more people weren't now buying homes and quickly: I think you ought to be out there shopping the ...

It takes real dedication to "prove" that a 500-year flood event is nothing out of the ordinary, but Roger Pielke , Terence Corcoran and the National Post are nothing if not committed. Using a statistical trick that would be dismissed in any debating club, Post Business Editor Corcoran argu...

rob tognoni - the ironyard The year 2006 saw the release of Rob's 7th CD - The Ironyard. It sold out on the tour which commenced in mid-March and finished mid-June. For the first time, the Czech Republic was included. Rob also had the honour to represent Australia and perform at the FIFA World Cup m...

Crank the Wayback Machine to Summer, 2006. When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed New London, Connecticut, to use eminent domain to take the property of people living and doing business in the waterfront neighborhood of Fort Trumbull. The Supreme’s decision on Kelo v. New London was the cherry on...

Photo: Getty Images Rudy Giuliani's estranged actress daughter, Caroline, says she wants to be known as either Caroline Rose or Caroline Rose G. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer fired a Community Board 1 member who had been arrested for domestic violence. Joan Rivers and Barbara Corcoran g...

You know it’s a bad sign when a response to a post is twice the length of the post itself. But I think this is an extremely important topic, one that has produced a lot more heat than light. So I would like, to the best of my ability, to shed a little light on and bring a little clarity to the iss...