Max Gross
The Archive
How Bill Maher charms and offends at the same time
I have a confession to make: I like Bill Maher. Kind of a lot. For a long time I resisted putting this in writing, or saying it out loud. (My...
The unexpected charms of Poland's most historic city
If a Hollywood producer ordered up one splendid, medieval city as the set for some period picture, the old quarter of Krakow would make an excellent real-life example. There are several...
The 8 best boast-worthy things to do in Dubai
Last year, the Guinness Book of World Records opened an office in Dubai, which is no surprise given how many “firsts,” “biggest,” “bests” and “most expensives” are tossed around. And...
The 5 buzziest new food courts in NYC
The days when Sbarro was king of the food court are dead. Mighty Quinn’s reigns supreme. Food halls and markets with gourmet, artisan fare are showing up with greater frequency...
Drank-e schön: Forget the beer — Germany is for wine lovers
Booze hounds of the world hear “Germany” and immediately bark back: “Beer!” This is unfortunate. Not that we mean to put down a nice Bavarian weissbier, and we certainly have...
7 ways the Lower East Side is making us swoon
THE Lower East Side hasn’t been low for a very long time. Anybody who follows NYC real estate knows that the area has changed quite a bit since the days...
Floored: The Woolworth Building
This four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom, full-floor unit is the kind of luxury Woolworth’s doesn’t sell, baby. The 6,060 square feet of space has a hefty price tag: $26.4 million. But for all...
7 strategies to help you win a bidding war for your new home
Like many grizzled veterans, Steve Jenkins was shell-shocked by the time victory was declared. “I didn’t even say anything,” Jenkins recalls, “I just put my head on the table. It...
Travel the skies in style with XOJET
Somewhere between the time you spent trying to jam your carry-on luggage into the overhead bin and the moment the 4-year-old behind you decided to start treating the back of...
Clinton Street's hot new dining scene
It was a scandal tailor-made for foodies: WD-50, Wylie Dufresne’s legendary Clinton Street restaurant, would be packing it in at the end of November to make way for a new...
Condos, conversions & rentals descend on the Upper West Side
This past Saturday, the West 75th Street Block Association threw their annual block party on the same stretch of West 75th Street and Broadway where they’ve done it for the...
16 swoon-worthy condos on the fall real estate market
Joanne and Peter Rosten have an unassailably nice apartment. It’s in Lux 74, an Upper East Side condo that came on the market right before the implosion in 2008. And...
Inside Joan Rivers' opulent UES penthouse
“This is how Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had money.” These were the words the late Joan Rivers used in “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” to describe...
Within Vienna's city limits, some serious wines are being made
Switch around a few letters and you can easily see that Wien (aka Vienna) goes hand-in-hand with wine. (And, hey, after a couple of glasses of wine, it’s extremely easy...
Pat LaFrieda's 6 secrets to creating the perfect burger
If you’ve heard the name Pat LaFrieda before, you know he’s the city’s foremost meat purveyor. His 100-year-old butcher business has provided some of the most lauded cuts of meat...
Inside Brangelina's 1,000-acre French estate
We can only imagine the wedding party that Brangelina threw at their French estate, but we will bet that they were serving plenty of rosé — Château Miraval Côtes de...
6 treats you need to start hoarding now
Among all the first world problems to have, the Hamptons was slapped with a doozy this week: There is a rosé shortage. Wölffer Estate, one of Long Island’s most esteemed...
Hudson Square coming alive with new condos
"Five years ago, we got our first pharmacy,” says Ellen Baer, the president of Hudson Square BID, about new happenings in the neighborhood that sits on SoHo’s western end. “That...
How buying based solely on floor plans can be profitable
The owner of Penthouse Three at The Touraine condo “bought it off of the papers,” says Peggy Dahan of Siderow Residential Group. (Meaning: bought it off of floor plans.) It...
Take a bite out of 'Shark Week' by feasting on the real thing
Maybe the fastest way of getting over a fear of a shark swimming up and taking a bite out of you is to take a bite out of a shark...