An Italian real estate magnate has bought controlling shares of one of the icons of the Manhattan skyline
Gilles Marini, who plays Samantha's naked neighbor, claims he is really "shy"
The My Name Is Earl star makes an announcement on the Today show
France's former first lady Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz and Richard Attias tie the knot
France's former first lady and her fiancé attend a Broadway show the night before getting married
Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz plans to marry Richard Attias in Manhattan
Vieira and Stewart make just like the jungle swinger, in the vocal department
There is a bronze statue in Rockefeller Center, Atlas bearing the world upon his shoulders.
Take the family out this weekend: Richard Corliss picks the top three must-see Christmas spectacles in the Big Apple
The next time the kids give you a hard time on vacation, remind yourself that you really are building memories to last a lifetime.
An Italian real estate magnate has bought controlling shares of one of the icons of the Manhattan skyline
Gilles Marini, who plays Samantha's naked neighbor, claims he is really "shy"
The My Name Is Earl star makes an announcement on the Today show
France's former first lady Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz and Richard Attias tie the knot
France's former first lady and her fiancé attend a Broadway show the night before getting married
Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz plans to marry Richard Attias in Manhattan
Vieira and Stewart make just like the jungle swinger, in the vocal department
There is a bronze statue in Rockefeller Center, Atlas bearing the world upon his shoulders.
Take the family out this weekend: Richard Corliss picks the top three must-see Christmas spectacles in the Big Apple
The next time the kids give you a hard time on vacation, remind yourself that you really are building memories to last a lifetime.
Although NASCAR's Champions Week garnered more coverage than a typical race week, there are seven things you might have missed.
So you're lousy with petrocash or other export-driven windfalls, and itching to put your depreciating dollars to work. Where to start? Here's Fortune's handy tip sheet:
Viewers may have to get used to a steady stream of reruns now that television and film writers have gone on strike.
How do you tackle a city like New York in the space of five days? I prepared an empty suitcase, a good guidebook, a well-credited bank card and the will to ignore aching feet in my quest to pack in one of the world's biggest cities.
Last week, we offered a quick tour of New York's downtown neighborhoods. Following is a peek at the rest of the city. Next week we'll supply a few different itineraries to help get your planning started.
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Matt Lauer does it by the book - reading to his kids, that is.
It can be frustrating finding a place to play golf in New York City. (Lugging clubs on the subway alone is sometimes half the problem.) So when the iconic island green comes to Manhattan island, you can expect it to draw a crowd.
"That was more or less made-up stupid drivel," says General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt about a story in Wednesday's New York Post, which speculates that he is considering a sale of NBC Universal.
We found places perfect for sharing -- just in time for Valentine's Day.
Rob Kinnaird's family moved their Connecticut driveway four times in the past six decades to make way for the widening reach of an 88-foot tall, 45-foot wide Norway Spruce.
"After the tsunami, our office put together a gift and mailed it to Oxfam." --Rinad Beidas, Philadelphia
Instant Nostalgia
What's the last purchase you made that you later regretted? "A digital camera. If I had waited a few weeks, I could have gotten a better model."--Anne Torres, Manila, Philippines
I'm 26 and I'm a compulsive saver. For the past five years I've saved over 70 percent of my net income, and I don't make that much. I track all my spending and have tried to budget "minimum" monthly spending levels, but I can't seem to meet them. I don't consider myself cheap, just frugal. And all my hobbies - music, games, sports - tend to be low-cost. Do you have any suggestions on how I can spend more money?
Deadly Caution
me of the most successful real estate companies have started as alliances of friends and family. Orange County, Calif. megadeveloper the Irvine Company was created in the 19th century by James Irvine and his son. Donald Trump's dad Fred taught his Apprentice plenty about the family biz. Chicago real estate guru Sam Zell credits much of his success to his longtime partnership with his college pal, the late Robert Lurie. (Old John D.'s spawn didn't fare too badly either with a family venture in the 1930s called Rockefeller Center.) ...
John D. Rockefeller once said that "a friendship founded on business...is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship." He might have added: "Except in real estate." That's because som...
John D. Rockefeller once said that "a friendship founded on business...is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship."
The noise reaches an ecstatic roar, a light spills down from above, and a woman makes her way toward the stage. A man in a shimmering red coat waits for her there, smiling, while the swaying multit...
Target's upcoming fashion show in New York is aiming for the marketing bull's eye. Acrobats wearing the discount retailer's "cheap chic" clothes will stage a vertical runway show as they "walk" down the side of a building in Rockefeller Center, a published report said Monday.
Unlike movies involving razor-toothed monsters in outer space or adorable hobbits searching for magical rings, comedies -- romantic or otherwise -- usually don't make great sequels.
Some people have a genuine head for business. Their minds race with ideas for squeezing ever more sales and profits out of whatever pursuit they're engaged in.
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark," newspaper mogul Gail Wynand instructs the architect hero of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. "I wish to undertake the construction of the Wynand Buildin...
Disruption lessons
Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan is one of the busiest places on earth. I should know. I work here. Trying to find a little solitude is like trying to use a cellphone at a bullfight. As in f...
David Neeleman's busy schedule once made it so hard for him to pick up his clothes from the dry cleaner that he'd sometimes buy new ones instead. That changed after JetBlue's founder got a flier in...
I still remember my first bank account. I was nine or 10, and whenever I managed to get my hands on a few dollars--birthday gifts, allowance, yard work that my grandparents might pay me for--I'd pu...
Q. I established a state-sponsored 529 college savings plan for my daughter. Prior to this, her college savings went into a custodial account set up in her name under the Uniform Gift to Minors Act...
Some financial writers rejoice when the market craters. That's because it makes news--when people lose money, there's drama and emotion and all that other good stuff journalists love to dwell on. A...
During lunch hour at Rockefeller Center in New York City, there's one destination that's nearly as popular as McDonald's: the massage-products area at the Brookstone outlet. Customers recline in th...
Clifford Grodd knows coats. He ought to: He owns 11 of them, and as president of Paul Stuart, the upscale retailer, he helps pick out the line of overcoats that are sold in his stores. One result i...
All of us have scenes of Christmastime dining etched in our minds. For me, it's sitting under the towering tree at the Walnut Room at Marshall Field's in Chicago eating a grilled-cheese sandwich wi...
Less than a decade ago, we heard the refrain "Why can't Americans be more like the Japanese?" They worked harder and took fewer vacations so that they could overpay for Rockefeller Center, Columbia...
Not long ago we had a visit in our Rockefeller Center offices from Alex Mandl, recently named to become president of AT&T in 1997 and the man who oversaw its acquisition of McCaw Cellular last year...
The complex wrangling over the future of the bankrupt Rockefeller Center, arguably the crown jewel of U.S. real estate, includes a bunch of big-shot investors--Sam Zell, Disney, General Electric, a...
The battle royal has begun for control of Rockefeller Center, the bankrupt office and retail complex in the heart of Manhattan. Two of the country's biggest property investors, Chicago's Sam Zell (...
Late in February, David Rockefeller left New York for Tokyo confident that he had found a way to stave off disaster -- the bankruptcy of Rockefeller Center, a soaring symbol of his family's wealth ...
The Rockefellers. Bankruptcy. Not words that want to go fox hunting together. That's why David Rockefeller desperately tried to make a deal with majority owner Mitsubishi Estate to rescue Rockefell...
Rockefeller Center at holiday time is one of the joys of urban America. There's the commanding 80-foot Christmas tree sparkling along with the midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, rows of illuminated ang...
Sony and Columbia, Matsushita and MCA, Mitsubishi Estate and Rockefeller Center. Those Japanese trophy investments of the 1980s look a wee tarnished nowadays. And that's the tip of the iceberg. For...
THE RUBICON was in Cincinnati last March. Even as Procter & Gamble was piling up a pretax loss of $157 million by trading in derivatives, it was becoming blazingly clear that despite all their buil...
Okay, so you'd like to give your kids a swift lesson or two about managing money. For some tips, turn to page 72 to see what experts say adults should do to prepare youngsters for financial life. H...
Knowing the local crime scene can help you avoid trouble. Our survey of security specialists and municipal police agencies turned up this up-to-date advisory: CANCUN, MEXICO. Street theft is common...
With this issue, MONEY launches a monthly readers' poll. In these pages, we will ask for your opinions on matters ranging from how to improve the quality of the nation's public schools to the best ...
NOT MANY PEOPLE realize just how stunningly big the commercial real estate debacle really is or how savagely it will continue to sweep through the U.S. economy. For a frame of reference, imagine th...
In our special year-end edition, MONEY's source provided erroneous information for the table on page 79. For a correct table to help project your annual income upon retirement, based on savings and...
Rockefeller Center Properties REIT (recent price: $17), with its partly tax- deferred 10.8% yield, could punch up your portfolio. Page 62
When Rockefeller Center Properties first sold stock to the public in 1985, analysts heralded the home of Radio City's Rockettes as a yield play with a real estate kicker -- a share in the Rockefell...
CHALLENGES 8 THE RISING POWER OF THE PACIFIC The long-anticipated emergence of the region's nations as economic powerhouses is happening now, not tomorrow. Western companies must move swiftly or lo...
Never trust a summer romance. In mid-July the Dow Jones industrial average was flirting with 3000. By early August that magical number was no more than a fading memory. First came earnings disappoi...
LIKE MODERN-DAY pioneers seeking a 40-acre homestead -- or a golf course near an airport -- thousands of Japanese are longing for the kind of wide-open spaces they cannot get at home. Last year the...
The name on a famous building doesn't necessarily reveal who owns it, as shown here. Foreigners have long been lured by U.S. real estate. According to Ivan Faggen, director of Arthur Andersen's Rea...
The last remaining jewel in the legacy of John D. Rockefeller is going on the block. The family's trust committee plans to sell up to 80% of Rockefeller + Group Inc. to a buyer with deep pockets, m...
EDITOR- IN- CHIEF Jason McManus CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER J. Richard Munro PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER N. J. Nicholas Jr. VICE CHAIRMAN Gerald M. Levin EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Ray C...
! In which we bring you, gentle reader, up to date on Compusit, the computerized dinner-party seating program developed by the Keeping Up Software Dept. and now deemed ready for marketing at a sugg...
Jitters about commercial overbuilding have not slowed the proliferation of real estate investment trusts. Last year 29 REITs went public, raising a record $2.8 billion in equity -- a 300% increase ...
Food companies, dominating the 1985 merger menu, were gobbled up in three of the top ten deals. ''Companies wanted brands with a good position on the supermarket shelf,'' says Roger Miller, a manag...
Donald Trump, the 39-year-old New York developer, is 6 feet 2 inches, and he likes to think big, as in biggest. He recently unveiled a plan to build the tallest building in the world on Manhattan's...
The Rockefeller family's investment company announced a plan to mortgage the 12 original buildings in Rockefeller Center, one of New York's real estate centerpieces, for $1.1 billion in a deal that...
''We say here that everybody wants to be a chicken's head, not a bull's toenail.'' -CHIEN-SHIEN WANG, 46, Taiwan's vice minister for economic affairs, on why there are so many small businesses in h...
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