Maya Schwayder
By Maya Schwayder
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The Schmooze Ed Koch Belongings Fetch $55K at Auction
The first day of the auction of the former New York Mayor Ed Koch’s possessions fetched a sum of $51,755 at Doyle New York auction house, far greater than the expected $20 – $30,000, the New York Daily News reported. Koch’s dining set, which included of six Frank Lloyd Wright-designed chairs, was expected to fetch…
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The Schmooze $14.5M Pricetag for Jewish Novelists’ Brownstone
Novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss are listing their opulent century-old Brooklyn brownstone for a cool $14.5 million, the Daily News reported. The Park Slope townhouse, located on Second Street right next to Prospect Park, was built in 1902 for the heirs to the Woolworth fortune. It has six bedrooms, a backyard, a conservatory…
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Fast Forward Bill De Blasio Slammed Over Condolence Message for ‘Racist’ Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio was dragged into a tabloid fight over the legacy of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef after the liberal Democrat expressed his sympathies for the death of the Israeli Sephardic leader. The New York Post slammed de Blasio for the boilerplate condolence message, noting it ignored Yosef’s history of attacks on…
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Fast Forward Ex-Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum Faces Wider Corruption Probe
Former Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum is now implicated in a decades-long “system of corruption,” that police now believe involved developers bribing public officials with “thousands of dollars” for zoning changes, the Montreal Gazette reported. When Applebaum, 50, was arrested in July of this year, he faced 14 charges of fraud, conspiracy, and corruption among others…
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