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First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tony Bennett, Caroline Leigh, Billie Holiday, Barbara Carroll, Joe Bushkin, Worcester, Bobby Short, Massachusetts, Leonard Bernstein, Leo Robin, Stephen Sondheim, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Ralph Burns, Dorothy Parker, Jay Leonhart, The Downbeat, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Rodgers, Woody Herman, Vernon Duke, George Gershwin, The Embers, Road Show, Entertainment News
David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

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Remembering the Extraordinary Elaine Kaufman as a Non-Celebrity Friend

Roger Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Bobby Short, Gay Talese, Elaine Kaufman, Lewis Lapham, Elaine's, New York News
Roger Smith

Since Elaine Kaufman's death nearly a week ago, there has been an avalanche of words written and spoken by celebrities about this iconic New York restaurateur. So here's my modest, non-celebrity takeaway.

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Gloria Vanderbilt, Bobby Short, Marta Raymond, Anderson Cooper, Jeanette Dempsey, Adele Astaire, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Worldcom, Carol Marcus, John Gutfreund, Corcoran Group, Fritz Kritzler, Gordon Parks, Hubert De Givenchy, Huntington Hartford, William Saroyan, Robert Bradford, The Great Depression, Francesco Galesi, Maureen Orth, Salomon Brothers, Butterfield Eight, The Stork Club, Ellen Kourtides, Susan Gutfreund, Joshua Logan, Robert Postel, Henry Luce, The Dakota, Marshall Field, Evelyn De Rothschild, World War II, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

As late as 1970 no apartment sale in New York had ever exceeded $1,000,000. At today's River House, indeed, there is none for less.

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