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Jennifer Gould Keil

Jennifer Gould Keil chronicles the city's movers and shakers, keeping tabs on boldface New Yorkers' biggest real estate hits and misses in her Gimme Shelter column on Thursdays. She also pens Side Dish, which serves up restaurant scoop in the business section on Mondays. A graduate of Columbia University's school of journalism, she is the author of "Vodka, Tears and Lenin's Angel: A Journalist on the Road in the Former Soviet Union." Before breaking news on high end real estate deals -- like Madonna's purchase of a $32 million Upper East Side townhouse -- she reported from war torn regions like Chechnya and ex-Soviet Georgia as well as from places like the Balkans, Libya and Mongolia. From New York, she also broke stories about sexism and peacekeeping atrocities at the United Nations.

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    Bobbi’s big buy

    Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown has got her smoky eyes set on a new penthouse at 245 10th Ave., which she is now in contract to buy for around $5 million. The two-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,500-square-foot unit in the Della...  

    September 01, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Shift out of Park

    A nine-room trophy apartment at uber-exclusive 740 Park Ave. is quietly on the market for $29 million. The 17th-floor co-op, which isn’t even listed online, is owned by gaming veteran Gregory Fischbach, the founder of...  

    August 25, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Art of the deal

    High profile art dealer/gallery owner Larry Gagosian’s expensive taste extends to real estate as well. Gagosian has just closed on the HarknessMansion, the more than 20,000-square-foot townhouse at 4 E. 75th St., for...  

    August 18, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Bella Luna

    Love might heal, but $30 million isn’t bad either. Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine businessman based in Spain, has put beloved Luna Farm, the site of the annual Love Heals fundraiser for HIV/AIDS awareness, on the...  

    August 04, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Landing in style

    Designer Sara Story, who creates fun and stylish interiors, has expensive taste. Story and her husband, Ken Garschina, principal of Mason Capital Management, just bought a $4.35 million Gothic Victorian stone mansion in...  

    July 28, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Singer building

    SoHo’s Little Singer Building has a knack for bringing in big musicians. Our spies spotted Usher taking a look at a 3,000-square-foot co-op there, an apartment that was once home to Pras of the Fugees. The seventh...  

    July 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Baryshnikov jumps

    It looks like there will be no more white nights on the Hudson in posh Snedens Landing, NY, for ballet superstar and former “Sex and the City” love interest Mikhail Baryshnikov.He’s in contract to sell his stunning...  

    July 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Let's 'Gossip'

    Good morning, Upper East Siders! Divorced “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford is renting a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo at 45 E. 80th St. for about $10,500 a month. Rutherford went through her own soap-opera-worthy,...  

    July 07, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Dollar Sein

    Upper West Side fixture Jerry Seinfeld, whose TV show symbolized the neighborhood, could be heading east. Seinfeld, who lives and raises his three children at the Beresford on Central Park West, was spotted with his...  

    June 30, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Falcone crest

    Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone even wheels and deals when it comes to vacation.Falcone has grabbed a Hamptons summer rental for about $700,000 — a 30 percent discount from its $1 million asking price....  

    June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Ace place

    He’s no longer captain of the New York Mets, but retired reliever John Franco still has a house fit for a king. The legendary lefty’s Staten Island home, on Cliffwood Avenue in the Todt Hill area, is on the market for...  

    June 16, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Weisz eyes

    We wonder if a Flatiron apartment that actress/single mom Rachel Weisz recently saw is the right fit for her. It’s certainly the Wright fit. The four-bedroom inside the Infinity Flats condo conversion at 24 E. 21st St....  

    June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Let's 'tauk

    Here’s a chance to grab a big piece of Montauk’s millionaires row at a discount. Kenneth and Jeanne Levy-Church have their East End estate at 230-234 Old Montauk Highway on the market for $25 million — down from its...  

    June 02, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Good eye

    Derek Jeter has more than Minka Kelly and baseball on his mind. The Yankee captain has been spotted making two separate visits to check out a $5.7 million penthouse duplex at 15 E. 26th St. The condo, which hit the...  

    May 26, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Dear Joan

    Eighties icon Joan “Alexis Carrington” Collins, who’s been married five times (her most recent being Percy Gibson), is selling her three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment at the Dorchester, at 110 E. 57th St. The grand,...  

    May 19, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Back in play

    The Greenwich Village townhouse that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had under contract for more than a year, but walked away from, is back on the market with a $14.9 million asking price. The townhouse at...  

    May 12, 2011 12:00 AM
  • 'Rock' in

    We’ve found Tracy Morgan! The “30 Rock” star has just plunked down about $2.5 million to buy a gorgeous family home on Truman Drive in the Rio Vista subdivision in Cresskill, NJ. Morgan’s five-bedroom home comes with a...  

    May 05, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Met life

    New York Mets pitcher Chris Young has found his zone. Specifically, he found a $12,000-a-month, two-bedroom, 2½-bathroom apartment at the Lucida, at 151 E. 85th St., where he is renting. The unit has 10-foot ceilings —...  

    April 28, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Heidi yo!

    Heidi Klum is back in town and looking for a new place to move into with her family while filming her reality show for six weeks this summer. Last year, we reported that Klum — with crooner husband Seal and her four...  

    April 21, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Funny biz

    Maybe this home is niiiiiiiice enough for the likes of Borat. Provocative funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen, of “Borat,” “Bruno” and “Ali G.” fame, is looking for a new, sprawling Manhattan rental to share with his family:...  

    April 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Forward, O'!

    Tatum O’Neal wants to leave the Forward Building behind. The actress has put her Lower East Side apartment at 175 East Broadway, the condo conversion of the former offices of the Jewish Daily Forward, on the market for...  

    April 07, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Hard sell

    It looks like Bruce Willis and stunning wife Emma Heming think their Upper West Side condo is expendable. Willis is even willing to sell it at a loss. The “Die Hard” star has just put his three-bedroom, three-bathroom...  

    March 31, 2011 12:00 AM
  • EXCLUSIVE: Russian composer lands Plaza Hotel condo for record-setting $48M price tag

    The Plaza Hotel has hit a high note. A Russian composer has just closed on a $48 million home at the Plaza -- the highest price ever paid for a single condo unit in New York. The buyer is Igor Krutoy and his wife Olga...  

    March 23, 2011 9:23 PM
  • Cheers to that

    Kelsey Grammer is leaving his Hamptons house, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s leaving the Hamptons. Grammer has found a buyer for his 7,500-square-foot home at 7 Morgan Hill Way in Bridgehampton. The undisclosed...  

    March 17, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Wright turn

    Another heavy hitter has found a plush home in an Extell-developed building. Mets slugger David Wright just signed a deal to live in the Lucida on East 85th Street. We hear that the third baseman is moving into a two...  

    March 10, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Wahl space

    The entourage has left the building. An apartment once rented by Mark Wahlberg at storied 15 Central Park West has just closed for nearly $6,000 per square foot. The 26th-floor condo closed for $16.5 million in an all...  

    March 03, 2011 12:04 AM
  • 'Melo out downtown

    The Knicks have made a huge investment in Carmelo Anthony. But sources say Melo isn’t yet ready to invest in New York real estate. Instead of looking for a place to buy, Anthony is searching for a downtown rental in...  

    February 24, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Robin's hood

    Robin Williams has gotten himself a place on the Hudson. The Oscar-winning actor, who is making his Broadway debut in “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” is renting a spacious birdcage in the Rushmore condo building on...  

    February 17, 2011 12:00 AM
  • Livin' Lage

    Here’s a serious Fashion Week discount. Karl Lagerfeld, the man behind Chanel and Fendi, is putting up his stunning, never-lived-in home at 50 Gramercy Park North for $5.5 million. That’s far less than the $6.575...  

    February 10, 2011 12:00 AM
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    Pad for Padma

    Padma Lakshmi doesn’t seem to be letting an ugly custody battle with Adam Dell over their baby daughter, Krishna, get in the way of her search for a family-sized Manhattan home. She’s seen everything from posh Upper...  

    February 03, 2011 12:00 AM

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    Celebrity photos: Aug. 31, 2011
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    Day in photos: Aug. 31, 2011
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    U.S. Open Day 3
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    Irene: the aftermath
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    Miss Universe 2011

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