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...housing prices are finally dropping and apartments are going vacant. Moreover, a number of large New York City firms have announced layoffs. Retailers are bracing for things to get much worse. "Cigars are a celebratory medium," says Richard Hu, who owns Wall Street Humidor, a cigar shop in lower Manhattan. "And I guess there's just not that much to celebrate these days...
...Manhattan matchmaker Janis Spindel says more and more of her clients, typically Wall Street males, are trying to bargain, asking her to reduce her fee, which can run as much as $250,000 to find a wife. One client recently told her he thinks he will have to mothball his Gulfstream and start flying commercial. Spindel, though, isn't negotiating. In fact, she says her business is as busy as ever, though more and more of her clients are coming from outside the New York City area. "I guess one would say that hiring me is a luxury good...
...years later, you still don't, but his work is no longer so puzzling. What it is instead is famous, influential and even venerated, the kind of work that gets you a big retrospective like the one opening on Nov. 7 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan and traveling to Munich and Washington. With about 150 photos and two videos, including a rather loopy one from the early 1970s, "William Eggleston: Democratic Camera" will be the largest American museum show ever devoted to his work. And this time, no one will be bored...
Even antipurple people have gotten sucked in by the color's zeitgeistiness. "I always hated purple, and I hated people who were into purple," says Manhattan-based designer Thakoon Panichgul, a favorite of Michelle Obama's who in December will launch a collection at Target. "But it has an element of angst that I gravitated to this season...
Street Sweepers. If you'll be in town this weekend, check out the New York City Marathon runners make their way through all five boroughs on Nov. 2. The course starts in Staten Island and finishes in Central Park; there are two good places in Manhattan to cheer the athletes - along First Avenue, between East 59th Street and the East 90s, and along Fifth Avenue south of East 110th Street, until the exhausted marathoners make their turn into the Park. If you're trying to get out of New York City, be aware of street and bridge closings, detailed...