First they came for our search history, then they came for the open Internet, and then they came for our public spaces.

 

Imagine a future where all spaces, actual and digital, are privatized. In this world you will always be operating under terms of service rather than the Rule of Law. The same click-away-your-rights protocol that currently infects website, app and software usage will be brought to the actual world. Everything you see, hear, feel, and smell in these environments is subject to copyright. Your right to photograph, video, write about or in any way reproduce or share anything will be severely limited.

 

As you enter a mall, a highway, a doctors office, a privatized park (like Zuccotti Park), a subway, a movie theater, an airplane, a grocery store, a university, or any privately owned space, your communications device receives a terms of service request based on your location. You will be required to accept the terms of service to be eligible to enter the space.

 

You won't be given permission to access if you are undocumented, have been convicted of a crime, have a low credit score, don't have insurance, are on some terrorist/protestor/copyright infringer watch list or don't have a recognized device. "No shirt, no shoes, no chip, no service." "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." If you don't want to live by the rules, then you always have the freedom to... stay home... move to another country... change the law, or whatever.

 

If you attempt to enter the space without accepting the terms of service you could immediately be e-ticketed. Now you will have to appear in court or pay a fine. The same holds for copyright violations. Three strikes and you are immobilized, apprehended and escorted straight to the privatized prison. You won't see a day in court or be tried by a jury of your peers. You'll be lucky if you are entitled to redress your grievances in front of a corporate hired arbitrator. You'll stay in prison until you serve your term and emerge in debt for the cost of your conviction, incarceration and probation. You'll loose the right to vote. Your prospects will be diminished.

 

In this future we will no longer be citizens, we will no longer even be consumers, we will become users trading our liberty for the right to work and shop.

 

This scenario may be extreme, but it suggests how the never ending march of privatization and robo-justice could result in a world where we justify every breech of liberty by citing the property rights of corporations. The rights we give up in the so called digital world are real rights and are setting precedents to be used against our rights in the "real world."

 

The cellular network is accessing the real Internet. It should not be a corporate wild west where Net Neutrality does not apply. The Internet is part of the real world where our constitutional rights must be upheld. We must be less forgiving of business practices for digital goods that restrict our rights and prevent the creep of these practices into the non-digital realm.

 

Another step in this escalating process of corporate control is SOPA, aka the Protect IP Act, which will bring less liberty and more robo-justice for all in the name of reducing copyright infringement and piracy.

 

Read Senator Ron Wyden's SOPA statement where he warns of severe repercussions to a Free and Open Internet if bills are passed."

 

You can read a Senate version of the bill in this PDF.

 

Sculpture of the "Spirit of Justice" from the Great Hall, 2nd floor of the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. The artist, Carl Paul Jennewein, created this aluminum sculpture in 1935. The dimensions are 12' 6" tall x 48" in diameter. The CC image used in this post is from my Flickr photostream. The source for this image of the "Spirit of Justice" is a another great photo by Carol M. Highsmith and available via the Library of Congress.

 

The image has been cropped, exposure increased, contrast increased, and the color is adjusted. The "Spirit of Justice" is holding the letter "INC" the abbreviation for incorporated.

The Yellow House used to be on the grassy area in the photograph.

 

Vincent Van Gogh's period in Arles.

 

From Wikipedia: Arles (February 1888 – May 1889)

 

Van Gogh arrived on 21 February 1888, at the railroad station in Arles, crossed Place Lamartine, entered the city through the Porte de la Cavalerie, and took quarters a few steps further, at the Hôtel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie. He had ideas of founding a Utopian art colony. His companion for two months was the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen. In March, he painted local landscapes, using a gridded "perspective frame." Three of his pictures were shown at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In April he was visited by the American painter, Dodge MacKnight, who was resident in Fontvieille nearby.

 

On 1 May he signed a lease for 15 francs a month to rent the four rooms in the right hand side of the "Yellow House" (so called because its outside walls were yellow) at No. 2 Place Lamartine. The house was unfurnished and had been uninhabited for some time so he was not able to move in straight away. He had been staying at the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel in the Rue de la Cavalerie, just inside the medieval gate to the city, with the old Roman Arena in view. The rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which Van Gogh regarded as excessive. He disputed the price, and took the case to the local arbitrator who awarded him a twelve franc reduction on his total bill. On 7 May he moved out of the Hôtel Carrel, and moved into the Café de la Gare. He became friends with the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio. His major project at this time was a series of paintings intended to form the décoration for the Yellow House.

 

In June he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He gave drawing lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant, Paul-Eugène Milliet, who also became a companion. MacKnight introduced him to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter, who stayed at times in Fontvieille (they exchanged visits in July). Gauguin agreed to join him in Arles. In August he painted sunflowers; Boch visited again. On 8 September, upon advice from his friend the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, he bought two beds, and he finally spent the first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September.

 

On 23 October Gauguin eventually arrived in Arles, after repeated requests from Van Gogh. During November they painted together. Uncharacteristically, Van Gogh painted some pictures from memory, deferring to Gauguin's ideas in this. Their first joint outdoor painting exercise was conducted at the picturesque Alyscamps. It was in November that Van Gogh painted The Red Vineyard.

 

In December the two artists visited Montpellier and viewed works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Museé Fabre. However, their relationship was deteriorating badly. They quarrelled fiercely about art. Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive tension" reached a crisis point on 23 December 1888, when Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully." Gauguin left Arles and did not see Van Gogh again. Van Gogh was hospitalised and in a critical state for a few days. He was immediately visited by Theo (whom Gauguin had notified), as well as Madame Ginoux and frequently by Roulin. In January 1889 Van Gogh returned to the "Yellow House", but spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and paranoia that he was being poisoned. In March the police closed his house, after a petition by thirty townspeople, who called him fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). Signac visited him in hospital and Van Gogh was allowed home in his company. In April he moved into rooms owned by Dr. Rey, after floods damaged paintings in his own home. On 17 April Theo married Johanna Bonger in Amsterdam.

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Istana, the hotel's American style brasserie.

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Entrance to GILT from Villard House

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

The 50th Street Entrance

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

The 55-story tower seen from Park Avenue and 51st Street.

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

On the towers 4 corners between floors 53 and 55 are 4 Triplex Suites. The penthouses measure 5,000 square feet, are designed in art deco style and encompass three floors each with a private in-suite elevator. Each suite has a working fireplace and an outdoor rooftop terrace.

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 805-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

Text and photos compiled by Dick Johnson

November 2011

richardlloydjohnson@hotmail.com

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Floors 53,54 and 55 contain 4 triplex penthouses, each having their own elevator.

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Maloney & Porcelli Steakhouse restaurant leases 11,000 square feet in detached building on 50th Street owned by the New York Palace Hotel.

-----------------------------

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Concierge Desk

-------------

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

51st Street Entrance

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Entrance to the New York Palace through the Villard House.

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Registration Desk

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

Entering The Villard Courtyard through tall iron gates.

--------------------

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

The Palace's 55-story tower looms over St Patrick's Cathedral.

--------------------------

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 805-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

51st Street facade.

-----------

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

Text and photos compiled by Dick Johnson

November 2011

richardlloydjohnson@hotmail.com

 

1980 (part 2 of 2)

 

October 3, 1980

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced her intention to seek another term after the November 10 municipal election. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:1.

 

October 3, 1980

The Kanata Standard announced that Alderman Bill Lund was seeking re-election in Ward 3, Doug Nash was seeking re-election in Ward 4, and Charles Rogers was seeking re-election in Ward 5. Ex-Trustee Bill Broadfoot was seeking re-election to the Carleton Roman Catholic Separate School Board. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:1.

 

October 3, 1980

It was reported that the Kanata Atom Rovers ended their season as champions of the Ottawa-Carleton Soccer League, Division II. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:3.

 

October 3, 1980

The March Kanata Skating Club held a Test Day, during which many skaters passed on to new levels. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:19.

 

October 3, 1980

Natural Resources Minister James Auld and Government Services Minister Doug Wiseman announced the establishment of a new Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources district in Eastern Ontario, named Carleton Place. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:20.

 

October 3, 1980

An article mentioned that Dr. Richard L. Ganz was to begin preaching with the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the Katimavik Community Centre on Chimo Drive. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:22.

 

October 5-11, 1980

This week was named Lungs for Life Week across Canada. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:21.

 

October 6, 1980

The Carleton Liberal Association nominated Al Loney as their candidate for the November 20 provincial by-election. Bob Mitchell, past Deputy-Reeve of Nepean, accepted the nomination of the Carleton Progressive Conservative Association for the municipal election. Nancy Landry announced that she was a candidate for Trustee with the Carleton Roman Catholic School Board. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:6.

 

October 6, 1980

Hal Hansen announced his candidacy for election to the Carleton Board of Education. Alderman Jean Gubby announced that she was seeking re-election in Ward 6 in the bi-election. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:8.

 

October 9, 1980

Abra the Magiclown performed magic at the Nepean Public Library. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:15.

 

October 11-13, 1980

The Up, Up and Away Balloon Club hosted Balloonfest '80. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:18.

 

October 16, 1980

The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association held a New Residents' Night, organized by Barbara Farmer. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:2.

 

October 17, 1980

Norm Sterling, MPP Carleton-Grenville, announced the approval of a capital allocation of $2.197 million for the construction of two elementary schools in the Queenswood and Katimavik communities. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:23.

 

October 17, 1980

The Kanata Ladies Bowling League announced their outstanding scores so far that year: High Single--Erm Boyd, 273, High Triple--Erm Boyd, 700. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:16.

 

October 17, 1980

A plan for a several-level seating system was approved for the John Mlacak Arena. The cost was established at $21,000. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:1.

 

October 17, 1980

Garry Breise of the Stittsville Snowmobile Club mentioned his concern about the proposed By-law preventing snow machines on rural roads. Kanata Standard, October 17, 1980:1.

 

October 17, 1980

It was confirmed that Bob Burwash would replace Dave Andrews as Vice President of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:3.

 

October 17, 1980

The Royal Canadian Legion was granted permission to hold the Annual Poppy Fund Blitz in Kanata on November 2, 1980. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:4.

 

October 18, 1980

A public tour was offered by the Atomic Energy of Canada's Cobalt 60 laboratory. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:3.

 

October 18, 1980

The Kanata Senior Citizen's group, Happy Companions, held their yearly bazaar. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:24.

 

October 18, 1980

Winners of the Happy Companions of Kanata raffle were: Helen Phillips of Kemptville (afghan), Lorraine Hendershot (shawl) and N Parks (hand-painted plate). Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:18.

 

October 19, 1980

Kanata's second annual 10-mile road race was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:12.

 

October 21, 1980

Kanata City Council decided to engage an arbitrator for the contract negotiations with the fire fighters. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:5.

 

October 22, 1980

The W/C Guy Gibson VC Chapter 10DE held their 14th Art Exhibition and sale of paintings. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:27.

 

October 22, 1980

Regional Council decided to acquire only three small parcels of land out of 14 proposed when it adopted the Ottawa and Rideau River Corridors Study. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:1.

 

October 23, 1980

A Terry Fox benefit hockey game was held between the Bridlewood Cougars, Ontario Intermediate "A" champions and the Navan Flyers, Carleton Russell 1979 league champions. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:16.

 

October 25, 1980

The officers of the new Kanata branch of the Canadian Cancer Society received their charter. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:25.

 

October 25, 1980

The first of the fire extinguisher demonstrations was held in Beaverbrook. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:2.

 

October 27, 1980

The first P.A. Day Programme was held at the Glen Cairn Community Centre and Stephen Leacock Public School. The day's theme was "Hello Hallowe'en." Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:18.

 

October 28, 1980

City Engineer Ron Norton won approval from Kanata City Council for consultant support. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:4.

 

October 28, 1980

Tenders had been called for paving the Pumphouse Park outdoor rink/basketball court and Rickey Place pathways. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:4.

 

October 29, 1980

The March Montessori School open house was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:22.

 

October 29, 1980

An all-candidates meeting was held for Wards 2 and 3. Kanata Standard, Oct. 3, 1980:1.

 

October 30, 1980

An all-candidates meeting was held for Glen Cairn and Bridlewood. Kanata Standard, Nov. 7, 1980:2.

 

October 31, 1980

Cadillac-Fairview representative Paul Van Steen presented a cheque to Ron McLean, Player-Manager of the Cougars for the 4th term of sponsorship of the team. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:23.

 

October 31, 1980

Solartronics Ltd., of Kanata, was one of ten Canadian companies selected through competition to participate in shared-cost contracts with the federal government to refine solar heating components and systems. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:6.

 

October 31, 1980

Kanata Theatre's production of "Bedroom Farce," by Alan Ayckbourn was performed. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:7.

 

October 31, 1980

The Kanata Coordinating Committee, an extension of Ottawa's Project 4000, had completed its work helping Vietnamese refugees make homes in the Ottawa area, so the Committee was dissolved. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:13.

 

November 1, 1980

Stage '81, a group of Dramatic Arts students from Earl of March, performed their first production of the year, "Something Different." Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:25.

 

November 4, 1980

The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association authorized its executive to sign articles of incorporation for a new company to publish the Kanata Standard. The Company would be owned by the KBCA (45%), the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association (15%), and by private investors (40%). Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:1.

 

November 5, 1980

The inaugural meeting of the A.Y. Jackson Parents Advisory Committee was held at the school. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:9.

 

November 6, 1980

Bill Berry from South March was a guest speaker at the Happy Companions Senior Citizens Club. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:6.

 

November 7, 1980

Raymond Smith, a resident near Dunrobin Road, was spotted racing his Roman chariot on his farm. Kanata Standard, Nov. 7, 1980:20.

 

November 7, 1980

The Kanata Kids Association (KKA) was formed for kids between the ages of 10 and 12. Kanata Standard, Nov. 7, 1980:23.

 

November 7, 1980

Health Minister Dennis Timbrell announced that the Ottawa Ambulance Service would add three vehicles and eight additional officers to improve service in the Ottawa area. Kanata Standard, Nov. 7, 1980:30.

 

November 8, 1980

St. John's Anglican Church's annual Christmas Tea and Bazaar was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:30.

 

November 8, 1980

The Kanata March Hares Mosquito football team beat the North Gloucester Raiders in the Final Cup for the Ottawa-Carleton North Eastern Ontario Football Association. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:13.

 

November 8, 1980

Ottawa's Theatre for Children staged the Beth McMaster play "The Magic Ring" at the Earl of March. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:6.

 

November 13-15, 1980

Glen Cairn Theatre's production of "Butterflies are Free" was performed. Kanata Standard, Nov. 7, 1980:25.

 

November 14, 1980

George St.-Aubin's speech regarding his defeat as a mayoralty candidate was revisited in the Kanata Standard. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:1.

 

November 14, 1980

The successful candidates in the November 10 election were: Des Adam (Ward 1), Bob Kingham (Ward 2), Bill Lund (Ward 3), Doug Nash (Ward 4), Charlie Rogers (Ward 5), Jean Gubby (Ward 6), Hal Hansen (Carleton Board of Education), and Nancy Landry (Carleton Roman Catholic School Board). Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:2.

 

November 14, 1980

Results of the first Invitational Midget Girls Basketball Tournament in the Carleton School Board, hosted by Earl of March, were announced. 1st--St. Paul's, 2nd--E.O.M., 3rd--St. Pius, J.J. Woodsworth, Gloucester, 4th--Confederation. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:10.

 

November 14, 1980

It was announced that the National Ski Association received a Wintario Grant to develop an ongoing well-planned recreational and competitive skiing program for children. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:16.

 

November 14, 1980

The Kanata Standard announced that the Earl of March and A.Y. Jackson SS were to hold night school open houses the following week. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:7.

 

November 15-16, 1980

Pottery demonstrations were held in the Kanata Pottery Workroom at the Mlacak Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:7.

 

November 15, 1980

The first annual Kanata Craft Fair was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:22.

 

November 15, 1980

The first annual conference of Ottawa's Family Enrichment Coordinating Committee (FECC) called "Focus on the Family" was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 17, 1980:9.

 

November 15, 1980

A conference for the Family Enrichment Coordinating Committee was held. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:5.

 

November 15, 1980

A "Christmas Happening" was held by the Bells Corners Arts League at the Bells Corners United Church. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:26.

 

November 18, 1980

The Volunteer Association of the Queensway-Carleton Hospital Bazaar was held. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:15.

 

November 19, 1980

A seminar on Heat Pumps was held at the Beaverbrook Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:24.

 

November 20, 1980

The residents of Nepean, Bridlewood and the former March Township of Kanata elected Bob Mitchell as their representative at Queen's Park in the Carleton riding by-election. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:7.

 

November 22, 1980

The Grey Cup Dance was held for the Square and Round Dancers. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:6.

 

November 24, 1980

The Texaco service station on Highway 17, closed since the retirement of Art Baker, finally re-opened. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:1.

 

November 25, 1980

The inaugural meeting of the Kanata Business Association was held at the Mlacak Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:1.

 

November 26, 1980

An LP recording titled "EOM Band and Choir, 10th Anniversary" was sold at one of the band's concerts. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:18.

 

November 28, 1980

The Campeau Corporation announced its institution of a university entrance scholarship. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:6.

 

November 28, 1980

D.G. Instruments Ltd., a high-technology company located in the Kanata Industrial Park, was awarded a $2.55 million contract from Supply and Services Canada. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:7.

 

November 28, 1980

Weather conditions forced the shutdown of Castlefrank Road in Glen Cairn until the spring. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:7.

 

November 28, 1980

Nominations for officers to serve on the Bridlewood Community Associations for 1981 were announced: President--Roy Meikle, Vice-President--Tom Petch, Treasurer--Rick Seaman, Secretary--Stu Chandler. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:3.

 

November 28, 1980

The March Tennis Club elected a new board for 1981: Mary Venier, Dorothy Szabo, Marg Jardine, Shirley McTaggart, Helena Kalivoda, Geoff Holland, Ted Exton, Jim Manser, Clive Prince, Dave Evans, and volunteers Lois Guest and Allan Stewart. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:20.

 

November 28, 1980

A feature article appeared in the Kanata Standard regarding the Hazeldean's heritage building called "The Gables." Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:8.

 

November 28, 1980

It was announced that the "Ecole Communautaire Roger Saint-Denis" would offer extra-curricular activities in French for children and adults. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:28.

 

November 28, 1980

It was announced that the operation of a new day care in Kanata should begin March 1st. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:29.

 

November 28, 1980

St. Isidore's Parish sponsored a benefit dance for the Yakabuski family. Kanata Standard, Oct. 31, 1980:18.

 

November 29, 1980

The Katimavik District Girl Guides held a Fun Fair at the Katimavik Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 14, 1980:8.

 

November 29, 1980

The Earl of March Midget Girls Basketball team travelled to Cornwall to take part in an invitational tournament where they finished second. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:18.

 

November 29, 1980

This was Kanata's second birthday. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:7.

 

December 1, 1980

The Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association decided on their new executive: President--Larry Lashkevich, Vice-President--Paul Bennett, Treasurer--Jim Carruthers, Secretary--Bob Burwash. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:2.

 

December 2, 1980

In celebration of Kanata's second birthday, a tour of Kanata's new city offices was given. During the tour, Supreme Court Justice Brian Dickson, a Kanata resident, conducted the swearing in of Council members. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:1.

 

December 3-6, 1980

The Kanata Theatre presented a Mary Chase comedy called "Harvey," directed by Rosie Keneford and produced by Jenny Haynes. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:10.

 

December 3, 1980

The Goulbourn Jubilee Singers Choir presented traditional Christmas music under the direction of Ilva Gierman of Munster. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:27.

 

December 4, 1980

A community art exhibit was held at A.Y. Jackson S.S. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980: 25.

 

December 6, 1980

The Happy Companions seniors’ Christmas dinner was held at March Central. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:7.

 

December 6, 1980

A Christmas Craft Fair, coordinated by Katimavik resident Bev Sayers, was held at the Katimavik Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:27.

 

December 9, 1980

This was the official opening of the Bridlewood Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Nov. 28, 1980:4.

 

December 9, 1980

The Glen Cairn Tennis Club announced its new executive: President--Bob LaForce, Vice-President--Wil Guimond, Secretary--Winnie Stewart, Treasurer--Stell Eyres. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:16.

 

December 12, 1980

Residents, Kanata City Council, and the Beaverbrook Community Association banded together in an attempt to save more than 290 mature trees from Ontario Hydro chain saws. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:1.

 

December 12, 1980

It was announced that the Bridlewood Playgroup would hold its first session during the week of January 26, 1981, in the new Bridlewood Community Centre, Bluegrass Park. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:2.

 

December 12, 1980

It was announced that Kanata City Council acknowledged the assistance of 30 volunteers for their contributions to the community. Councillor Jean Gubby presented two residents --Eva James and Roy Meikle -- with pins. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:2.

 

December 12, 1980

An open house was held for the new Bank of Nova Scotia located in the Kanata Town Centre. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:3.

 

December 12, 1980

The Kanata Hydro Electric Commission chose a logo from its logo contest and planned to present an award to Dan Lindsay for his design at a special reception December 15. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:3.

 

December 12, 1980

Earnest Taylor, Head of Business, was the first teacher at the Earl of March to retire. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:10.

 

December 12, 1980

It was announced that Dr. Stephen Corber had been appointed Medical Officer of Health of the Ottawa-Carleton's Regional Health Unit. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:20.

 

December 14, 1980

Kanata Inter-Church Council sponsored a special Christmas Carol service in St. Isidore's Church. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:21.

 

December 15, 1980

The Kanata Ladies Bowling League announced its scores: High Single--Alana Schryburt 276, Lis Reck 285. High Triple--Erm Boyd 803, Ev Anderson 801. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:17.

 

December 16, 1980

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced that Hydro had appeared to have accepted pruning as an acceptable alternative to cutting the trees situated where they planned to locate power lines. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:1.

 

December 18, 1980

A Christmas Blood Donor Clinic was held at Earl of March. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980: 23.

 

December 19, 1980

Campeau Corporation's reconstruction of the fence around the developer's vacant land was noted to have angered some residents. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:1.

 

December 19, 1980

Chats Falls Concerned Citizen's Association donated books dealing with atomic energy and its alternatives to the Kanata Library and other town libraries near Fitzroy Harbour, where Chats Falls is located. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:3.

 

December 19, 1980

Campeau Corporation installed fences around undeveloped lands adjacent to Carmichael Court and Lismer Crescent. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:3.

 

December 19, 1980

The Kanata Public Library Board unanimously chose "Hazeldean Branch" as the name of the new branch of the library, which was planned to open in spring 1981 on Castlefrank Road. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:5.

  

December 19, 1980

The Earl of March Junior Girls Basketball team, led by Captain Martha Warren, won the "B" Division of the Arnprior tournament and the E.O.M. Basketball Tournament. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:12.

 

December 19, 1980

It was announced that eight area Rotary Clubs had shipped 3700 frozen units of Canadian Holstein milk to the Coimbatore West Rotary Club in India. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:18.

 

December 19, 1980

Paul T. Harris, of Kanata, received a National Award of Excellence from the Canadian Public Relations Society for the production of two audio-visual shows on the Indochinese refugee program. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:20.

 

December 20, 1980

Laurier House presented Lois Walker and the Puppcorns' performance of "The Laurier House Story." Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:13.

 

December 20, 1980

The Ottawa Youth Orchestra held their Christmas concert. Kanata Standard, Dec. 12, 1980:19.

 

December 25, 1980

The Salvation Army presented a special historical play, "The Christmas Pudding" on CJOH TV Channel 13 (Cable 7). Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:12.

 

December 31, 1980

The first annual New Year's Eve Party was held at the Bridlewood Community Centre. Kanata Standard, Dec. 19, 1980:2.

 

KOM Flash Report

The second half of the report for

The week of

August 14, thru 20, 2016

 

Flickr site for this report is: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/28898652555/

Don’t miss the photo, it’s very rare.

 

When the preliminary Flash Report was sent earlier this week I mentioned it wasn’t complete and that the rather lengthy report wouldn’t fit within the confines of the Flickr site. The item that made the reporting incomplete was the lack of a formal obituary for Frank L. “Bobo” Nickerson. At the time of this report I still don’t have it. Thus, it will be added to the preliminary report when it is updated to the Flickr site later this week. The first part of this report is at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/28771214452/

 

It was worth sharing the preliminary Flash Report since it accomplished a milestone. Ever since Cletis Boyer was signed by the Kansas City Athletics, in 1955, he was shown as having been born in Cassville, Missouri in some record books. My hat is off to the Sporting News for in the 1957 Baseball Register they had listed Cossville as his hometown. I don’t know when or why the town of Cassville got inserted. But, I noticed that by 1969 the Baseball Encyclopedia had moved Boyer’s birthplace some 65 miles south and east of where he entered this world. I have harped on that mistake every time I have encountered it. With the death of Lynn Boyer and the way his obituary described Cossville I’m happy to report the official records will be amended to show that Cletis and Lynn were born in the same place two years apart—Cossville, Missouri. Thanks go out to Bill Carle for his assistance in making that happen

 

Now, it’s time for a confession from the writer of these Flash Reports. There was a time span of two or four days that I have missed regarding the 1946 Miami, Oklahoma Blues. Three young men slipped into town on August 6th of that year and escaped my attention for almost 70 years to the day. Since I have long insisted the record books be changed for two of the Boyer boys at least one of them has been rectified. The following pertains to three former KOM leaguers who were ignored, far too long, and I take full blame for the oversight

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Stop the presses—KOM league history is updated

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Until August 8, 2016 I had never heard of Robert Dean Dennany, Robert Cornelius Chambers Jr. or James Wesley. These three fellows all signed with the Miami Blues for the last full month of the 1946 season and none lasted more than four days.

 

It is with a sense of ambivalence that I report this information a quarter of a century into writing about the old league. Ambivalence was once described as something a preacher feels when his daughter goes on a date and comes home late carrying a Gideon Bible.

The forthcoming information was precipitated by a slip of paper found in my collection of office files for the 1946 Miami club. It listed all of the guys being reserved for the 1947 season along with those the team released during the 1946 campaign. That is where I ran into the three names I had not previously noticed and I can attest there is no official record of them today as having played in the KOM league. Also, on that list were the names of four players the Brooklyn Dodgers selected for the 1947 season to send to their minor league affiliates.

 

Brooklyn only assigned a single player to Miami in 1946 and that was William Preston Morgan of Oklahoma City. They forked over a little seed money at the start of that campaign and for their investment they could choose up to six players at the end of the season They only selected four; Steve Jordan, Harve McKibben, Joe Beran and retained the rights to William Morgan. They were all pitchers at Miami but Beran became a slugger in the Dodger chain at Ponca City and elsewhere. Steve Jordan spent a few weeks at Ponca City and returned to Miami to coach an amateur team. Harve McKibben stayed in Miami and William Morgan wound up playing in the Sooner State league , in 1947, but was by then the property of the New York Giants.

 

Since the trio of Chambers, Wesley and Dennany have all passed away I’m including some tidbits I found on their lives. It was interesting to note that all the towns the Miami newspaper cited as the hometowns for those fellows weren’t the places where they were born. That is why in reading this you might think Dennany was born in Peru, Ill., Wesley in Wetumka, OK and Chambers in Sand Springs, OK. But if you read closely you’ll learn that was not the case.

 

August 6, 1946—Miami, Okla. News Record

 

SOUTHPAW WILL AID BLUES FOR PENNANT DRIVE--- Bob Dennany, a slim southpaw hurler, was added to the Miami Blues' mound staff today, Ted Vernon, club owner, announced. Dennany, who hurled for Lima in the Ohio State league in 1944 pitched one game this season for Leavenworth in the Western Association. Recently he has twirled for a semi-pro club at his home town Paris, Ill. Vernon said the new hurler weighs 140 pounds. He's five feet 10 inches tall. Dennany is the third new pitcher acquired by the Blues in the last few days. The other two, Chambers and Wesley, may see action tonight against Bartlesville.

 

Ed note: It took a bit of looking and a large magnifying glass but I did find where Dennany pitched for both Lima and Marion, Ohio in 1944. The Baseball Guide for 1945 that covered the 1944 season spelled last name incorrectly. He was listed as “Dermany.” That might have been a slip of the typewriter as the United States was at war with “Germany” at the time.

 

August 7, 1946 Miami News Record

 

Oilers clinched the argument in the top half of the 13th, when outfielder (Gerald) Cross singled with the bases loaded to plate a pair of teammates. Fans who stuck out the full program, which began at 6:30 p. m., got a glimpse of all three new mound prospects, including James Wesley, righthander from Wetumka; Bob Dennany, southpaw hailing from Paris, Ill., and the right- banded Chambers (Sand Springs, Okla.). Of the three, only Wesley lasted more than two innings, his appearance coming in the second game after Dennany was greeted with a five-run attack in the initial stanza. Chambers lasted less than two heats in the first game, during which Ralph Marler sparkled in a relief role until a leg injury forced him to retire.

 

On August 10, 1946 the Miami Blues released Dennany.

 

The next thing found on Dennany was a year later. Aug 1, 1947 Associated Press story written by Joe Reichler.

 

Higher Education-- Bob Dennany, An ambitions 21- year-old from Terre Haute, Ind., set out to become a baseball umpire by attending a Florida school for arbitrators . . . Then he discovered there was more dough in throwing strikes than in throwing ball players out of games (or else he found he could see the plate) so he turned from umpiring to southpaw pitching- ... At the last report, Dennany was Opelika's leading hurler in the Georgia-Alabama league with a 7-2 record.

 

Next item—Terre Haute Tribune 4/20/1952

 

MR. & MRS. ROBERT D. DENNANY pictured atop the Empire State Building, New York City, send greetings to their Terre Haute friends. They are on their wedding trip. The bride is the former Miss Gloria Mary Bedino, daughter of Mrs. Pete Bedino and the late Mr. Bedino, this city, and the bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Mary Dennany, West Terre Haute, R.R. 2. For the present Mr. and Mrs. Dennany are living in Brooklyn, N. Y.

 

Item from January 22, 1960 Terre Haute Tribune

 

SPEEDER ARRESTED Robert Dean Dennany, 35, 2203 Lafayette Avenue, was arrested at 9:40 o’clock Thursday night at Lafayette and Barbour avenues by Patrolmen Coffey and Kellett and charged with reckless driving. Dennany was released to appear in City Court at 8:30 o’clock Saturday morning, Jan. 30. (Ed note: Most everyone has been stopped for some type of traffic violation. This insert shows the former KOM leaguer was still living in 1960.)

 

Final item regarding Dennany.

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=257594... This item shows his tombstone on inscribed was a death date of December 12, 1998. During his working years the Terre Haute city directories showed him as being a plumber and steam fitter.

 

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James Wesley—Miami Blues 1946

 

Birth: Jan. 1, 1924 Okemah, Oklahoma,

Death: Apr. 6, 1999 Okemah, Oklahoma,

 

WETUMKA - Rev. James Wesley was born January 1, 1924, in Okemah. He died April 6, 1999, in Okemah.

 

Funeral services were held April 10 at Middle Creek #1 Church with Rev. Bill Hobia and Rev. Mark Smith officiating. Interment was at Kialegee Cemetery.

 

He attended school at Hickory Ridge, graduated from Bearden High School, and attended Okmulgee Tech school in 1951 where he learned dry cleaning. He worked 31 years in this trade before retiring. He played professional baseball with the "old" Boston Braves National League in 1946 as a major league pitcher. (Ed note: Miami, OK in the KOM league was a long way from Boston, Mass in the American league in1946.)

 

He served as a tank commander under General George S. Patton in World War II during the Normandy Invasion and earned a Silver Service Star and the EAME service ribbon.

 

He was baptized April 24, 1949, at Salt Creek Baptist Church by Rev. Dan Scott and was ordained a deacon on March 17, 1950. He became a licensed minister July 18, 1954 and was ordained by Rev. Elliot Leitka and Rev. Coleman Lewis on October 27, 1957 at the Salt Creek church. He served as the Director of Cultural and Heritage for the Kialegee Tribal Town and was elected Meeko for 16 years.

 

He was the son of Polly Scott and John "Adam" Wesley, both deceased. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Minnie Jean Yargee Wesley, whom he married November 4, 1945; and one grandchild, Taylor James Wesley.

 

He was survived by his three sons, Gary Wesley of Oklahoma City, Lowell Wesley of Wetumka, and Leo Wesley of Dallas, TX; his two daughters, Geraldine Harjo of Dallas, TX, and Sharon Smith of Dustin; 10 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

 

Burial: Kialegee Cemetery Wetumka, Oklahoma

 

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Robert Cornelius Chambers Jr.

B. 11/25/1927 Ryan, OK

D. 3/2/2009 Modesto, CA

Buried San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery. Merced County, CA

Served in U. S. Navy

 

1955 lived in Klamath Falls, Ore.

 

Final resting place.

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Wrap up of Miami Blues for 1946

 

In September of 1946 the Miami ball club listed the players they had secured for 1947. Of the 13 slated to be with the club in 1947 only Loren Packard made the team. Two players were mentioned who lived in Oklahoma City. They were second baseman Howard Raines and George J. Hanges a shortstop.

 

My search for them didn’t take long for they were both performers for Oklahoma City Central High School in the 1941-44 era. When I pulled up the yearbooks for Central High School there they were. Looking at that photo I saw a familiar face. It was none other than Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish. Also, one of the top players on the team was a name I know pretty well—John Hall. Hall led Central High School to a state championship in 1942 hurling a no-hitter in the state baseball finals. Hall had the proverbial cup of coffee with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948.

 

Just for the fun of it I ran a little research to find if either Hanges or Raines made it in pro ball for I knew they never showed up at Miami. They never played professionally before or after each came home from WW II. It would have been nice to have been able to speak with them but they are both deceased. Another thing I noticed was that Raines was spelled Rains when he was listed in Central High yearbooks.

 

The 1943 Central High School baseball team is at this site. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/28898652555/

Cal McLish www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am... is in the back row 4th from the left while Hanges and Rain(e)s are in the front row. Hanges is 4th from the left and Rain(e)s is the 5th from the left.

 

The previously mentioned John Sylvester Hall was born at Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1924. He parents were natives of Springville, Alabama and by the time John was in high school they had moved to Oklahoma City just as the McLish family had done. I once spoke with the “other” John Hall and wish that I had taken more notes about his brief career. His major league experience was limited to three games in about three weeks and I don’t find any records of him playing minor league baseball. I assume he played amateur baseball for one of the many teams of that classification in Oklahoma. But, I have no evidence he did. I’m sure someone out there has written a book or term paper on the other John Hall and can fill in the blanks. Go for it.

 

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WASHINGTON, DC - The American Society of International Law's (ASIL) 107th Annual Meeting featured speakers ranging from former Obama administration officials to judges from multiple international courts and leaders in the field of international arbitration, human rights, and international criminal law. The program for the conference, which took place April 3-6, 2013, in Washington, DC, was developed by the Society's 2013 Annual Meeting Program Committee, co-chaired by Stanimir Alexandrov (ASIL Law Firm Member Sidley Austin), Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (ASIL Academic Partner University of Geneva), and Kal Raustiala (University of California-Los Angeles School of Law). The four-day event welcomed more than 1,400 attendees from 54 countries, among whom were the world's leading academicians, practitioners, and students in the field. Following are some of the highlights from the 2013 Annual Meeting. Video of the top sessions is available at asil.org/live.

 

Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Emilio Álvarez Icaza delivered the 2013 Grotius Lecture with commentary by Michael Reisman (ASIL Academic Partner Yale Law School). Icaza's lecture, "The Inter-American System and Challenges for the Future," focused on the history, accomplishments, reforms, and challenges of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

 

The plenary panel "International Law in the Obama Administration: The First Four Years" featured former U.S. State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh (Yale Law School) and former U.S. State Department Office of Policy Planning Director Anne-Marie Slaughter (Princeton University) with ASIL President Donald Donovan (ASIL Law Firm Member Debevoise & Plimpton) moderating. Koh and Slaughter reflected on the role of international law during their tenure at the U.S. State Department, fielding questions on drones, accountability for torture, and the role of lawyers in U.S. foreign policy-making.

 

There was a luncheon conversation between ASIL's 2013 Hudson Medal recipient, Judge Bruno Simma (formerly of the International Court of Justice, now Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal), and Joseph Weiler (ASIL Academic Partner New York University School of Law). The discussion followed an interview format, with Weiler asking Simma about a variety of topics regarding his career, including his relationship with the United States and why and how he became interested in international law.

 

Diane Amann (ASIL Academic Partner University of Georgia School of Law), winner of the Society's 2013 Women in International Law Interest Group's Prominent Woman in International Law award, also gave lunchtime remarks at a gathering in her honor. Amann's talk, "International Law and the Future of Peace," focused on a feminist approach to peace.

 

The inaugural Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution, was given by V. V. Johnny Veeder (Essex Court Chambers). Veeder's talk focused on the history of the use in international arbitration of party-appointed arbitrators, about which he refuted concerns by drawing upon various examples including the Alabama Claims arbitration and a recent NAFTA case.

 

The plenary panel "Twenty Years of International Criminal Law: From the ICTY to the ICC and Beyond," co-sponsored by the City of The Hague and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, featured Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (International Criminal Court, or ICC) and Judge Theodor Meron (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , or ICTY, and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals), with moderator Abi Williams (The Hague Institute for Global Justice). Marking the 20th anniversary of the ICTY, this panel provided an opportunity to review the experience of that court and the newer ICC and to draw lessons from the courts' experiences for the future.

 

The closing plenary, "Global Governance, State Sovereignty, and the Future of International Law," featured Judge Simma, Judge Xue Hanqin (International Court of Justice), and Joel Trachtman (ASIL Academic Partner Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University) and was moderated by former ASIL President José Alvarez (New York University School of Law). The discussion explored two opposing trends in contemporary international law: on the one hand, a growing demand for and resort to international law and institutions to solve global problems, thereby undermining state sovereignty; and on the other hand, the emergence of new powers and their pursuit of policies reinforcing state sovereignty.

 

All seven of these sessions, along with five others, can be viewed online at www.asil.org/live. Presentation summaries, book reviews, and interviews with some of the speakers can be found at ASIL Cables, the official blog of the Society's 107th Annual Meeting, at www.asilcables.org.

 

Also, at the ASIL Annual General Meeting, the following officers were elected to leadership positions in the Society.

 

- President-elect Lori Damrosch, ASIL Academic Partner Columbia Law School

 

- Honorary President Rosalyn Higgins, formerly of the International Court of Justice

 

- Vice Presidents Elizabeth Andersen, American Society of International Law; Gary Born, ASIL Law Firm Member Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; Curtis Bradley, ASIL Academic Partner Duke Law School; Chantal Thomas, Cornell Law School; and Abby Cohen Smutny, ASIL Law Firm Member White & Case, LLP;

 

- Executive Council members Karen Bravo, ASIL Academic Partner Indiana University School of Law; Harlan Cohen,University of Georgia School of Law; Andrew Guzman, ASIL Academic Partner University of California-Berkeley Law School; Glenn Hendrix, Arnall Golden Gregory; Chimène Keitner, University of California-Hastings College of Law; Russell LaMotte, Beverage & Diamond; Keith Loken, U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser; and Cymie Payne, Rutgers University.

 

- Counsellors Rita Hauser, the Hauser Foundation; Larry Johnson, Columbia Law School; Sandra Day O'Connor, formerly of the U.S. Supreme Court; Yasuaki Onuma, Meji University Faculty of Law; Larry Thompson, PepsiCo; Gregory Shaffer, ASIL Academic Partner University of Minnesota Law School; Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies; Marcia Wiss, Hogan Lovells; and Bruce Zagaris, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe.

 

The following prizes, in addition to the Hudson Medal and the Prominent Woman in International Law awards, were given as part of the 107th Annual Meeting:

 

- The Goler T. Butcher Medal, which has been awarded by the Society each year since 1997 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of international human rights law, was presented to Dinah Shelton, commissioner of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at ASIL Academic Partner George Washington University School of Law.

 

- The Society bestows the award of Honorary Member on an occasional basis to someone who has rendered distinguished contributions or service in the field of international law. This year's Honorary Membership was awarded posthumously to Justice Arthur Chaskalson, former president of the South African Constitutional Court and chief justice of South Africa.

 

- The Francis Deák Prize is awarded annually to a young author for meritorious scholarship published in the American Journal of International Law. The prize was established in 1973 by Philip Cohen in memory of Francis Deák, former head of the international law program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and editor of American International Law Cases, 1783-1963, the first volume of which was published in 1971, the year before his death. The award is sponsored by ASIL Publisher Partner Oxford University Press. This year's winner of the Deák Prize was Robert Sloan of ASIL Academic Partner Boston University School of Law for "On the Use and Abuse of Necessity in the Law of State Responsibility" (106 AJIL 3, 2012).

 

- The Lieber Prize has been awarded annually since 2004, by ASIL's Francis Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, to an author less than 35 years of age for outstanding scholarship in that field. In 2009, the Lieber Society began giving two Lieber Prizes: one for a book, the other for an article. Sandesh Sivakumaran (University of Nottingham) won the book category award this year for his work The Law of Non-international Armed Conflict (ASIL Publisher Partner Oxford). Lauren Groth (University of California-Berkeley School of Law) won in the article category for "Transforming Accountability: A Proposal for Reconsidering How Human Rights Obligations are Applied to Private Military Security Firms" (35 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 29 2012).

 

- Since 2007, the Lieber Society has also annually recognized a paper that significantly enhances the understanding and implementation of the law of war. The Richard R. Baxter Military Prize is given for exceptional writing in English by an active member of the regular or reserve armed forces, regardless of nationality. This year's Baxter Military Prize went to Lieutenant-Commander Mike Madden (Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University) for his essay "Of Wolves and Sheep: A Purposive Analysis of Perfidy Prohibitions in International Humanitarian Law" (Journal of Conflict and Security Law). In addition to the winner, one other author was cited for excellence with a Certificate of Merit: Jeffrey S. Thurnher (U.S. Naval War College) for his essay "No One at the Controls: The Legal Implications of Fully Autonomous Weapon Systems" (Joint Forces Quarterly).

 

- Since 2010, the Society's Private International Law Interest Group has annually awarded a prize for writing to an individual 35 years old or younger. This year's Private International Law Prize went to Richard Oppong (Thompson Rivers University) for his book Private International Law in Commonwealth Africa, published by ASIL Publisher Partner Cambridge University Press.

 

For more information about the 2013 Annual Meeting, please contact Sheila Ward, ASIL director of communications and membership, at sward@asil.org or +1.202.939.6018.

 

ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization. It was founded in 1906, chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1950, and has held Category II Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 1993. ASIL's mission is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice. The Society's nearly 4,000 members (from more than 100 countries) comprise attorneys, academics, corporate counsel, judges, representatives of governments and nongovernmental organizations, international civil servants, students, and others interested in international law. For more information, visit www.asil.org.

 

(Map Updated on April 30, 2011)

Eritrea declared independence from Ethiopia in 1993 and has been at war with Ethiopia off and on ever since. The war ended with a negotiated ceasefire in 2000. As part of the ceasefire, the two countries asked arbitrators in the Hague to draw the border but have not formally agreed to the proposed border. As a result, United Nations peacekeepers remain in the area and skirmishes continue to this day. In the past, Ethiopia expressed the opinion that all of Eritirea should be part of Ethiopia because Eritrea was created out of thin air by Italy as it gave up it's claim to the region. Ethiopia also felt Eritrea was their rightful "path to the sea". As a result, Ethiopia has, at times, refused to attend the negotiations on the grounds that any border between the two countries is wrong.

 

Although hostilities have become less common, the border in the area of Badme continues to be a hotbed. This section of the border follows a straight line in a north-easterly direction. The border on either side of this section follows two separate rivers making a natural border but the straight section appears to be a hastily drawn, negotiated border. In 2003, the UN boundary commission ruled that the ironic-sounding town of Badme (which is located along the straight section) lies in Eritrean territory, a claim that Ethiopia rejects. Negotiations between the two countries subsequently fell apart with Eritrea calling for the removal of non-African UN forces. Armies on both sides of the border have dug numerous trenches causing the conflct to be compared to WWI's trench warfare.

 

Ethiopia also claims a border dipute with neighboring Dijibouti. The dispute appears to be another example of disputes arising from incomplete verbal border descriptions that result in problems on the ground. According to Wikipedia, the 1900 boundary agreement stated that Doumeira Island and it's surrounding islets, lying just off the mainland were not to be assigned to either country and remain demilitarized. That seems like a recipe for conflict. The most recent problems occured in 2008 with Dijibouti complaining that Ethiopia was digging trenches on both sides of the border.

 

Sources:

Global Policy Forum: www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/ethindex.htm

Foreign Policy Magazine: www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3534

Van Gogh arrived on 21 February, 1888, at the railroad station in Arles, crossed Place Lamartine, entered the city through the Porte de la Cavalerie, and took quarters a few steps further, at the Hôtel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie. He had ideas of founding a Utopian art colony. His companion for two months was the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen. In March, he painted local landscapes, using a gridded "perspective frame." Three of his pictures were shown at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In April he was visited by the American painter, Dodge MacKnight, who was resident in Fontvieille nearby.

 

On May 1, he signed a lease for 15 francs a month to rent the four rooms in the right hand side of the "Yellow House" (so called because its outside walls were yellow) at No. 2 Place Lamartine. The house was unfurnished and had been uninhabited for some time so he was not able to move in straight away. He had been staying at the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel in the Rue de la Cavalerie, just inside the medieval gate to the city, with the old Roman Arena in view. The rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which Van Gogh regarded as excessive. He disputed the price, and took the case to the local arbitrator who awarded him a twelve franc reduction on his total bill (the weekly rate being reduced from five francs to four). On May 7 he moved out of the Hôtel Carrel, and moved into the Café de la Gare.[54] He became friends with the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio.[55] His major project at this time was a series of paintings intended to form the décoration for the Yellow House.

 

My first direct encounter with the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh was at Rijksmusem Kroller Muller, Otterlo in the Netherlands and then in Amsterdam. I think seeing a large group of his work was in a way far more powerful than isolated or well known individual examples. During the 1980's when I painted in America often working directly from landscape, I became very influenced by his graphic style and his bright palette. I doubt any painter could see the world in the same way after an encounter with Van Gogh's art. Many of my drawings were directely influenced by Van Gogh’s Reed Pen drawings, and if I had to choose from Van gogh's output, it would be his drawings from 1888 that I find most exciting.

images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Van+Gogh+Hospital+...

 

The camera and the artist (set) about the relationship between photographic images and those painted. I hope to use examples from my own practice where photography has been used in both photo-realistic work as well as illustration and other art-forms.

 

I have used a number of artists whose work I have studied and look at the way photography informed and influenced their visual expression.

 

As I have scanned a lot of my old work I'm well aware that photography has played and still plays a significant role for me as an artist, indeed in recent years these two practices have overlapped and are no longer distinct paths.

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

51st Street entrance

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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

Text and photos compiled by Dick Johnson

November 2011

richardlloydjohnson@hotmail.com

 

The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)

455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street

New York, NY 10022

 

The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.

 

Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).

 

In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.

 

In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.

 

Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.

 

Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 905-room hotel project was completed in 1980.

 

Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.

 

On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”

 

The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.

 

In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.

 

Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)

 

Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.

 

Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.

 

The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.

 

Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.

 

Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.

 

In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.

 

The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.

 

The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.

 

The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.

 

The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.

 

Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.

 

In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

 

Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.

 

So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.

 

In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).

 

In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.

 

Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.

 

The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.

 

Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.

 

In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."

 

In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.

 

John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.

 

In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.

 

Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.

 

Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.

 

As Heru-ur and Sutekh try to destroy each other day in and day out, we recognize that light always comes and darkness always comes. The god Tehuti regulates the violence and creates balance by not allowing either god to destroy the other. "…in his capacity as regulator of the strife which existed between the two gods [he] was called Ap-rehu … or 'Judge of the two opponent gods'." (The Gods of the Egyptians v2, p. 242).

 

Tehuti was known to the Greeks as Thoth, and their god Hermes was nearly identical in control and capacity. Thoth and Hermes were combined in their roles and recognized as Hermes Trismegistus, by early followers of esoteric thought. I often associate the effect of Tehuti with the Hermit in cartomancy. In addition to being a cosmic arbitrator, Tehuti is the god of balance, of knowledge, of wisdom, of philosophy.

 

Today is the Autumnal Equinox, where we have equal night and day. Sutekh grows stronger and our lives become darker and darker in the coming months. In honor of the god of balance, I present the second woodcut in this series, "The Asterism of Tehuti." This is my representation of the stars Lanx Australis, Lanx Borealis and Brachium, which are within Libra, and each star has 9 rays. The final installment of this trilogy will be unveiled under the darkest day this year.

 

7"x16"

Drawn, carved and printed by hand.

Black water-based ink on white Rives 100lb paper.

Edition of 9

 

See cultofcraft.blogspot.com for more details.

Some MEPs are in favour of reforming the current international arbitration mechanism by introducing a series of improvements such as greater transparency, appeals and a code of conduct for arbitrators. Other MEPs have concerns that the awards granted by such tribunals can have a deterrent effect on regulators and are therefore against such a mechanism and some are see a permanent investment court staffed by permanent judges as the solution.

  

Under the point on "Structured Dialogue between the European Parliament and the Commission", the Trade Commissioner will also discuss with INTA Members initiatives put forward by the Commission in it's work programme to be launched in 2016.

 

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A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

The British Empire Exhibition was one of the largest cultural and trade exhibitions staged in England. The exhibition opened at Wembley on the 23rd April 1924 until the Closing Ceremony on the 1st November 1924 and attracted some 27 million paying visitors. Fifty-six countries of the Empire participated in an exhibition that cost around £12 million (a massive amount of money for 1924) and extended over an area of 216 acres (87 hectares). The exhibit structures built there were originally intended to be temporary and although most were demolished afterwards some remained to become well know landmarks. For example, the Empire Pool became the Wembley Arena and the Palace of Industry, Engineering & Arts was a reinforced concrete structure that remained in use as a storage depot until demolished in the 1970’s. The most famous of all was Wembley Stadium with its two famous landmark towers and that survived in use until 2002 when it was demolished to make way for the new Wembley Stadium.

 

The Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition (FBEE) was set up in 1923 as an ancillary organisation under the auspices of the exhibition organisers. It’s not clear to me exactly what their function was, but they were active in promoting the exhibition by organising special events and competitions. For example, on the 23rd June 1924 the FBEE organised a special visit for 100 wounded war veterans to the exhibition on the 23rd June in celebration of the Prince of Wales’ birthday (future King Edward VIII). The Prince of Wales was also President of the Exhibition committee. The FBEE also organised an essay competition with a prize of 20 guineas (£21) titled “Newfoundland, her place, present and prospective in the British Commonwealth of Nations”. Incidentally, the prize was won by Wilfred Templeman (1908-1990) with Sir William Lloyd (1864-1937) acting as the final arbitrator (see references below).

 

This base-metal badge was issued for the FBEE’s Associate membership whereas the full membership badge was made of hallmarked silver, both being of the same size and design. Full membership to the FBEE cost 2 guineas for which they received a certificate, the silver badge and two tickets to the exhibition (see references below). Associate membership cost 5 shillings and they also received a certificate, badge along with two tickets.

 

The badge design depicts the ‘Herrick’ Lion which was the official emblem of the 1924 exhibition and appeared on much of the souvenir merchandise produced for the event. This emblem was designed by Frederick Charles Herrick (also known as F C Herrick, 1887-1970) who was a prolific poster designer and illustrator. The beehive and bees symbolise industry.

 

I have been kindly informed by Peter Marrow that a gold version of the above badge exists that may have been a presentation piece. I’ve seen pictures of the badge and the gold hallmarks confirms the same maker (Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co Ltd of London), letter Y for 1923 and .625 gold (15 carat). Peter has also informed me that the badge belonged to a Bishop James Bartholomew Banks. I checked out J B Banks and it seems he had inherited a considerable wealth with which it is possible he may have been a major benefactor to the British Empire Exhibition funds. However, if anyone can provide corroborative evidence that confirms J B Banks’ connection with the FBEE, that would be of some importance.

 

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References:

 

www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conObject.80... (FBEE certificate from the Brent Museum, opened March 2006).

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire_Exhibition (British Empire Exhibition 1924/1925).

 

www.rsc.ca/documents/TemplemanWilfredElectedin19501908199... (Biography of Wilfred Templeton).

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Lloyd (Sir William Lloyd).

 

arts.brighton.ac.uk/faculty-of-arts-brighton/alumni-and-a... (F C Herrick biographical note, designer of the official Lion emblem).

 

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Enamels: 1 (black).

Finish: nickel or tin plated.

Material: Brass.

Fixer: Pin.

Size: 1” in diameter (about 25mm)

Process: Die stamped.

Maker: Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co Ltd, 112 Regent St, W1. This company produced both Associate and Full Membership badges.

 

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Thank you for reading.

Stuart.

 

At a dinner hosted by the Cork Civic Trust in the Clayton Hotel in Cork City, the Spirit of Cork Award 2017 was presented to the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. This is only the third time that this award has been presented. The inaugural recipient was Dr Edward Kiely of Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital ,and in 2015 the late Cork man and leading sports broadcaster and businessman, Bill O’ Herlihy, was the recipient.

 

Introducing the 2017 awards ceremony, the Chairman of Cork Civic Trust, Michael Mulcahy, said that Bishop Paul Colton was being presented the award:

 

• To honour him as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross for the 18 years that he has served in Cork

• To recognise his outstanding leadership of people

• To recognise the affection that the people have for him as a person and Church leader

• To recognise his inclusiveness for all in our society

• To recognise his ability to speak out and be heard in Civic, Church and State matters

 

Mr Mulcahy said: ‘Through Spirit of Cork, our city and county has the opportunity to honour and recognise people who have made a real difference to Cork and her people. Spirit of Cork is an honour and recognition for people that we are proud to be part of our Cork family. Be they in Cork or in any part of the world where Cork is recognised, we wish to acknowledge them and their exceptional contribution to Cork.’

 

The presentation of the award was made by An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney TD, who spoke about Bishop Colton’s contribution to the life of Cork. Greetings and messages of appreciation were read from the Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD, and from David and Victoria Beckham at whose wedding the Bishop officiated in 1999.

 

Earlier, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Tony Fitzgerald, the Deputy Mayor of Cork County, Cllr Susan McCarthy, and Bishop John Buckley, Bishop of Cork and Ross, paid their tributes.

 

The awards ceremony was presided over by PJ Coogan (96FM) and Bibi Baskin.

 

The Colton family, Bishop Paul, Susan, Andrew and Adam, were joined by family, friends and colleagues as well as members of the Church of Ireland community and many members, past and present of the Cork Civic Trust. Grace before dinner was said by the Bishop’s Chaplain, the Reverend Elaine Murray. Archdeacon Adrian Wilkinson spoke on behalf of the clergy and people of the Diocese. A second presentation was made by the Lord Mayor on behalf of the citizens of Cork later in the evening, and further tributes were paid by Senator Jerry Buttimer, Michael McGrath, TD, former Senator John Minihan, Robin O’Sullivan, Finbarr of Shea, and John X Miller, CEO of Cork Civic Trust.

 

Bishop Paul and Mrs Susan Colton, and every guest present were presented with a print of an original painting called ‘Spirit of Inclusiveness’ by 14 year old Malika Benhaffaf, sister of 8 year olds Hassan and Hussein.

 

Mrs Susan Colton was presented with flowers and with a gift on behalf of everyone present, by Bibi Baskin.

 

Among the distinguished guests present were: Senator Jerry Buttimer (Leader of Seanad Eireann), Senator Colm Burke, Deputy Michael McGrath TD and Sarah McGrath, Elected Members of Cork City Council, elected Members of Cork County Council, Prof. Patrick O’ Shea (President of University College Cork), Bill O’ Connell (The President of Cork Chamber of Commerce) and Aileen O’ Connell, William Cuddy (President of Little Island Business Association) and Valerie Cuddy, Dr Chris Coughlan(Adjunct Professor of Management at NUIG) and Joan Coughlan, Commodore Hugh Tully (Flag Officer Commanding the Naval Service) and Margaret Tully, Lt. Col Michael O’ Connor (The Defence Forces) and Claire O’ Connor, Chief Supt Barry McPolin (An Garda Siochana) and Crena McPolin, Bill Holohan (Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Ireland), Dominic Daly (Honorary Consul of Belgium), Sir Freddie Pedersen (Honorary Consul of Denmark), John X Miller (Honorary Consul of Hungary), Michael Barry (Honorary Consul of Mexico), Frances Lynch (Honorary Consul Emeritus of Brazil), Michael Mulcahy (Honorary Consul Emeritus of Poland) Former Government Minister Kathleen Lynch, former TD Noel O’Flynn, David O’ Brien ( Chief Executive of St Luke’s Charity, Cork), and Trevor Dunne (President of the Incorporated Church of Ireland Cork Young Men’s Association, Garryduff Sports Centre).

 

In addition to the current Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, also present were former LordsMayor and Lady Mayoresses who served in office over the past nearly 19 years that Bishop Colton has been Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross: Cllr Tom O’ Driscoll, Cllr John Buttimer, Cllr Terry Shannon and Ursula Shannon, Cllr Chris O’ Leary and Angela O’ Leary, Mr Jim Corr, Senator Colm Burke, Mr and Mrs Joe O’ Callaghan, Mr Brian Bermingham and Elma Bermingham, Mr Michael Ahern and Eileen Ahern, Mr Donal Counihan and Breda Counihan, and Mr Tim Falvey and Abina Falvey.

 

A musical tribute after the meal was performed by Ireland’s Bella Voce Amanda Neri. Music during the drinks reception beforehand was performed by Tr3ble Clef, and during the meal guests were entertained by Bob Seward and the Clubmen. Throughout the evening photographs were taken by award–winning photographer Erich Stack.

 

Responding to the presentation of the Spirit of Cork Award, Bishop Colton said: ‘… that Michael Mulcahy will attest to the fact that I was a reluctant recipient, and had to be persuaded. … I can think of thousands of others who fit the bill of The Spirit of Cork; some of you are sitting here, most are not – people who have done this city and county great service, publicly and privately, some who have carried the weight and innovation of charitable and voluntary response to the pressing needs of our time, and some who, in their own lives, have been exemplars of human fortitude and self–sacrifice.’

 

Bishop Colton shared memories of growing up in Cork in the 1960s and 1970s and then referred to the changed religious outlook since then: ‘I grew up with a version of Christianity that, by and large, looked in on itself, or rather, when it looked out, it sought the company of people like ourselves, or who were prepared to become like us, to think like us, to marry us and to perpetuate our way. We were taught to lie low and to get on with it in our own minority way. There were reasons for that, not all of them without foundation. Protestants were not alone either in their insularity.

 

‘When it came to religion, the Cork I grew up in was more fort than frontier. Everything outside was risky. I soon discovered, and still believe, that life is more exciting when you take down walls rather than build them. Instead of pulling up bridges over moats to leave them down and to go out and start coming and going. Our children, rightly, have no truck with now with the world of circled wagons, nor do the majority of people.

 

‘Besides, there are more than two versions of Christianity in the village now, and there are many other faiths, philosophies and outlooks. We live in a world where there’s room, enough room. That brings its own challenges and opportunities; learning about one another, and building discourses of mutual understanding and common purpose.

 

‘I’ve a lot of contact with people who don’t really like the Church or institutional religion, but I’ve found that many are quite religious, and very keen on the message and person of Jesus Christ. There we’ve found common ground and made common cause. Many of them have heard of the Jesus who, in the Gospel, turned water into wine, but have been wounded by a church that turned their good wine back into water. I am keen to show, and to encourage others to show, how broad and wide and inclusive the love of God is.

 

‘I’ve never been interested in the sort of Christianity that, as I say, builds battlements, pulls up drawbridges, or circles wagons. There’s room for doubt and uncertainty. There’s room for questions. The wounds and injuries of history run deep; it falls to us to heal and reconcile. The love of God embraces and includes; it does not push people away. And that is why I will keep doing what I do, and saying the things I say, even when, or perhaps especially because, it leads us into vigorous dialogue with one another.’

 

A biography of the King of Thailand by Paul M. Handley an American foreign correspondent active in Bangkok during the tumultuous years of the student democracy uprising in 1992. Published in 2006 by Yale University, the book is banned in Thailand; always a good indicator that sensitive information has been revealed. I could see that it was also written with a great deal of care and respect for the King himself and the man he came to be during his reign. The author's purpose in writing the book was to shed insight on the intertwining of palace and politics which proved to be just the perspective I needed to understand some of what is going on in Thailand today with the bonus of adding historical insight to my own upbringing in Thailand. I found it in a friend's book case. The place to buy banned books is Singapore, she told me, at the airport bookstore.

 

The book begins with a blow by blow account of how the young prince Bhumiphol came to the throne. I already knew of the mysterious death of his older brother Ananda from reading another banned book The Devil's Discus (which is now available as a free e-book and not blocked in Thailand). It is still not known what actually happened, but only two theories are worth considering. Prince Ananda committed suicide possibly over a lost love left in Switzerland where the brothers were raised or the brothers were playing with one of their many firearms and Prince Bhumibol accidentally shot his brother.

 

It was the goal of the palace (the remaining sons of King Chulalongkorn and assorted royal family members) to restore the monarchy following the coup of 1932. This coup was an attempt to bring democracy to Thailand in the form of a parliamentary government. The end result was that Bhumibol became King and through careful handling and training was groomed into a divinity like Buddhist supreme leader—a dhammaraja. He applied himself seriously to the task, fulfilling the role in an exemplary fashion and was rarely again seen smiling. The author suggests that the threat of exposing his possible involvement in the death of his brother appeared to be enough to keep him on task. When the palace was done spinning their story it was implied that it was the King himself who brought democracy to Thailand.

 

The palace and its princely advisors created a hierarchy of royal input into Thai society by bequeathing royal favors to those wealthy enough to buy them and giving out awards that rarely if ever encouraged or honored the achievements of commoners. This in turn created a class based society that severely hampered any upward mobility. The King also gave out University degrees and participated in numerous seasonal religious ceremonies that elevated his interactions with the people as their supreme leader without whom life could not go on. The peasantry were encouraged to believe that the very dirt under the King's feet was made sacred by his stepping upon it thus the handkerchiefs laid out in the road when he was scheduled to pass by.

 

The King was so successful in living this role and the palace so careful about building his "brand" that all of Thailand came to revere and love him giving him all manner of liberties in politics beyond just the power to veto. He was seen as the ultimate arbitrator. Just a few words from him was enough to calm the nation during political strife.

 

This is the crucial premise of the book. That King Bhumibol was not only able to fully flesh out his role through his disciplined embodying of it, but that he himself came to believe that such kingly leadership was the best and perhaps only way to keep the country unified and peaceful. And from this paternal perspective came his belief that the Thai people were not capable of handling democracy both because politicians were inevitably corrupt and because democracy was in itself divisive and would tear the country apart. (Something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.) The military did its part to suppress dissent by putting in jail any who would challenge the monarchy. This included persecution of students who rose to activism demanding democracy and culminating in the infamous massacre of October 6th.

 

Early on in the book I came to believe that the King was the enemy of self governance and had created an atmosphere so charged with things that cannot be said that it is nearly impossible for any open discussion to take place in Thailand. This resulted in a society that would combust if anyone so much as criticized the King publicly. The people also self censor themselves out of fear of the lesse majesty laws. Such a fear based atmosphere made me feel the police would be at my door if I so much as mentioned any palace gossip on Facebook. Before my book was published it was perused by a lawyer to make sure I would not inadvertently be found breaching this law. Basically if the government wants to find fault with anyone, particularly a writer, the lesse majesty law is a handy way to do it. And a very effective method of censorship behind which all sorts of abuse can hide.

 

The courting of the wealthy and influential deeply affected my grandmother who worked for the government and wanted very much to be close to the palace. Towards the end of her life the King granted her the title of Khun Ying, one of two titles granted to commoners and was allowed a royally blessed cremation which included a special white coffin. In my youth she had procured for me a place at the royal school that was opened in the '60s to court the well born into the royal sphere, but my mother questioned the quality of education and wouldn't allow me to attend (luckily for my own development).

 

Meanwhile the US used the King as a bulwark against communism as soon as he was on the throne, doling out foreign aid that fed military excess. The presence of American soldiers in Bangkok during the Vietnam war also increased the sex trade, a business originally instated by the Japanese occupation in WWII. I might also mention that much of the rainforest was cut down because it was easily suggested that communists hid within the forest. And this too fed the sex trade I believe because it robbed the inhabitants of their livelihood harvesting from the forest and created the poorest farmland in the country where most of the girls in the trade come from. The author does note that the King never attempts to address such problems as the sex trade. Such damage done in the name of fighting communism has forever made me suspicious of blanket fear mongering by the US.

 

The King came to believe that communism was an aggressive attempt by outsiders to recruit otherwise non-political peasants. Anyone organizing to attempt to better their lot by demanding justice was seen as a part of this communist intrusion and suppressed. To encourage loyalty among rural people the King sponsored the Village Scouts, a para military organization that enlisted adults. The King and Queen personally gave out neckerchiefs and participated in scout events. Thus the scouts felt a direct connection to the King and were apt to persecute dissenting views out of a sense of duty. I found this organization particularly chilling. Handley also suggests that the communist problem was near non-existent, but was made the only recourse through such persecution.

 

Interestingly in the King's own attempts to solve the problems of the rural people he set up a village which held property in common and through education and multiple inputs from his development projects forced the inhabitants to work together to bring in their crops. But this only served to prove to the King that his development ideas were superior to those created by a democratic government or by the capitalistic market system. The King offered his own visions of a sustainable Thailand that might have been every environmentalists' dream except for his support of hydroelectricity and dams His economic theory was also attractive to me in outlining a locally sourced self sufficiency for Thailand, but given that Thailand has already been modernized through the globalized world market the King's economic theory is completely impractical.

 

Thailand has been a rice exporter since ancient times. The exploitation of rice farmers on the global market played a big part in keeping poverty alive in rural Thailand I'm betting. So on many levels I agree with the King's anti-capitalism. But ultimately his own leadership did not stem the tide of capitalism and in the end his influence cannot be sustained given that for every successful and benevolent king there must be a successor equal to the task. Indeed the misbehavior of his children has seriously embarrassed the family and undermined every righteous act he embodied. The activities of the Crown prince have so irked the nation that it is doubtful that the Thai people will support the heir with quite the enthusiasm of the past. Their support of the monarchy at all would be out of loyalty to King Bhumibol and the training we all grew up with. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of this King is that he was a unifying force for Thailand for so long. There has been an almost timeless quality about the country while he has been on the throne that marked an era full of grace, dignity and self respect as a nation.

 

The book also describes how Thaksin came to power and in turn courted royal favor, performing some housecleaning functions the King approved. But later Thaksin fell out of favor and sought to play the royal family members against each other particularly the Crown Prince against the Queen and Crown Princess. Handley points out that Thaksin Shinawatra sought to replace the King with his own brand of paternity and control. He seems to have succeeded particularly with the King's own base, the rural population, but Thaksin's image is now falling apart as his policies unfold and are seen to betray this base.

 

Those in Bangkok who are now taking into their own hands the ousting of the Shinawatra family with the ongoing protests are confident they are capable of self rule. And since the King has not stepped forward with any words of wisdom regarding the protests it is assumed that he has come to the end of his ability to function. So instead of a quick intervention or military backed coup, this people's coup continues to be a long siege. The timing of which seems to be both a bid to step up to the plate once royal influence has expired and hopefully a reclaiming of power if not from cronyism then from Thaksin's deep corruption and wholesale privatization of the country's assets. The book concludes that in order for the monarchy to survive it must become more transparent. This seems a rather mild rebuke considering all the insights revealed. It is enough for me that it served as such a vehicle of insight.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

ICC Global Headquarters, Paris

Arles is noted for the wealth of its Roman and Romanesque heritage. The monuments of the city listed as Unesco world heritage monuments in 1981 include the Roman amphitheatre (the arena), the Roman theatre, the Cryptoportico (foundations of the Roman Forum), the Roman baths of Constantine, the remains of the Roman circus, the cloister and portal of St. Trophime’s, and the Alyscamp cemetery.

 

This cemetery was the departure point for the « Chemin d’Arles », also known as the Via Tolosana, one of the three medieval pilgrimage routes across France leading to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along with these monuments, Arles has also preserved many lovely buildings dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1986, the city has joined the French network organization known as « Villes d’art et d’histoire », guaranteeing quality cultural services

 

From Wikipedia: Arles (February 1888 – May 1889)

 

Van Gogh arrived on 21 February 1888, at the railroad station in Arles, crossed Place Lamartine, entered the city through the Porte de la Cavalerie, and took quarters a few steps further, at the Hôtel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie. He had ideas of founding a Utopian art colony. His companion for two months was the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen. In March, he painted local landscapes, using a gridded "perspective frame." Three of his pictures were shown at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In April he was visited by the American painter, Dodge MacKnight, who was resident in Fontvieille nearby.

 

On 1 May he signed a lease for 15 francs a month to rent the four rooms in the right hand side of the "Yellow House" (so called because its outside walls were yellow) at No. 2 Place Lamartine. The house was unfurnished and had been uninhabited for some time so he was not able to move in straight away. He had been staying at the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel in the Rue de la Cavalerie, just inside the medieval gate to the city, with the old Roman Arena in view. The rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which Van Gogh regarded as excessive. He disputed the price, and took the case to the local arbitrator who awarded him a twelve franc reduction on his total bill. On 7 May he moved out of the Hôtel Carrel, and moved into the Café de la Gare. He became friends with the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio. His major project at this time was a series of paintings intended to form the décoration for the Yellow House.

 

In June he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He gave drawing lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant, Paul-Eugène Milliet, who also became a companion. MacKnight introduced him to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter, who stayed at times in Fontvieille (they exchanged visits in July). Gauguin agreed to join him in Arles. In August he painted sunflowers; Boch visited again. On 8 September, upon advice from his friend the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, he bought two beds, and he finally spent the first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September.

 

On 23 October Gauguin eventually arrived in Arles, after repeated requests from Van Gogh. During November they painted together. Uncharacteristically, Van Gogh painted some pictures from memory, deferring to Gauguin's ideas in this. Their first joint outdoor painting exercise was conducted at the picturesque Alyscamps. It was in November that Van Gogh painted The Red Vineyard.

 

In December the two artists visited Montpellier and viewed works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Museé Fabre. However, their relationship was deteriorating badly. They quarrelled fiercely about art. Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive tension" reached a crisis point on 23 December 1888, when Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully." Gauguin left Arles and did not see Van Gogh again. Van Gogh was hospitalised and in a critical state for a few days. He was immediately visited by Theo (whom Gauguin had notified), as well as Madame Ginoux and frequently by Roulin. In January 1889 Van Gogh returned to the "Yellow House", but spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and paranoia that he was being poisoned. In March the police closed his house, after a petition by thirty townspeople, who called him fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). Signac visited him in hospital and Van Gogh was allowed home in his company. In April he moved into rooms owned by Dr. Rey, after floods damaged paintings in his own home. On 17 April Theo married Johanna Bonger in Amsterdam.

Sir John Stanley c1423 - 1474 Sheriff of Staffordshire who built the south aisle, and founded therein a chantry of the Cross for the "maintenaunce of one prieste perpetually to celebrate dayly masse for the good of all Christian souls"

Once highly coloured, we only now see the plain white alabaster. Near his head is an eagle and a baby www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/a626PB which refers to the legend associated with Sir John's descent from the Latham family and in particular Sir Thomas Latham, whose wife being barren, wanted to adopt his illegitimate son- he the baby in a nearby eagle's nest, and calling his wife, she delighted with this 'miracle' , took the child as her own.

John was the son & heir of Sir Thomas Stanley & Matilda Arderne c1431 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/836N6P heiress to Elford & Halour manors , daughter of John Arderne and Matilda Pilkington

1463.

He was the great grandson of Sir Thomas Arderne 1391 of Elford & Katherine Stafford 1382 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/F29388

He was MP in 1446 and Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1460 and created a Knight Banneret at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.

 

He m1 1428 Cecilia daughter of Ralph de Arderne & Katherine Stanley ( They were children when they married and had a Papal Dispensation as they were close relatives via the Arderne family

Children

1. John Stanley c1446 - 1508 (buried at Northenden Cheshire) m Anne daughter of Sir Robert Hanford having a son & 3 daughters: - A. John 1467 - 1470 killed by being hit by a wooden tennis ball , last male Stanley heir www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/r5222A ;

B. Anne m Sir Christopher Savage : C. Margery heir to Elford m William Staunton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/i822A5 ; D. Elizabeth m William Ferrers of Tamworth.

2. Maud 1483 m John de Ferrers

 

He m2 1452 Elizabeth (Matilda?) 1471 daughter of Richard Vernon of Tong & Benedicta flic.kr/p/4o9ULD daughter of John Ludlow and Isabel Lingen 1446 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2219918943/ ;

Children

1. Humphrey Stanley 1505 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/497066 of Clifton and Pipe m Ellen 1524 daughter of James Leigh (parents of 2 sons William & John & 2 grand daughters Isiod Reade & Isabel Moyle)

2. Alice 1493 m (1st wife) John son of John Melton & Margery daughter of William FitzHugh by Margery Willoughby; who m2 Eleanor daughter of John St John and Alice Bradshaw

3. Isabel b 1460 m1 Hugh son of Humphrey Peshale ; m2 John Russhe 1498 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/d8Mb42 merchant of London

 

He m3 (August 1471) Anne daughter of Robert Horne / Hansacre, Alderman of London and Joan Fabian,: Widow of William son of Thomas Harcourt and Joan Francis; who m3 (3rd wife) 1476 William son of John Norreys by Alice Merbrooke having 3 children Anne Baldwin; Jane Cheney and Elizabeth 3rd wife of William Fermor 1552 widower of Katherine Powlett at Hornchurch www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s4X0n0

 

His 3 wives were once shown kneeling in a window in the chantry. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/D7i28v

 

In 1491 his eldest son John was involved in a law suit with his younger half-brother Sir Humphrey regarding the division of their late father's estates. Sir William Stanley of Holt, Denbighshire (the younger brother of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby) was appointed in his capacity of Lord Chamberlain to act as arbitrator in the dispute. It was agreed that Sir Humphrey who had been given the manor of Stratfold with land in Tamworth by his father in 1474 should be awarded the additional estates of Pipe and Clifton with grants of land in Campden for life

When Sir John died in 1508 he was commemorated in a window of St. Wilfred's Church at Northenden, Cheshire (which is destroyed by the Roundheads during the Civil War). He was described in the inscription as the one-time Lord of Pipe, Clifton Campville, and Elford in the County of Staffordshire; of Sibbertoft (near Market Harborough) Northamptonshire; and Camden super Wild, Gloucestershire; and especially of Eschells (in the Parish of Northenden), Alford and Nether Alderley in Cheshire. Sir John sold Alford and Nether Alderley in Cheshire to Sir William Stanley of Holt. As Sir John's only son predeceased him in 1470, he had no male heir , his estates were divided between his 3 daughters, the Manor of Elford passed to his daughter Margery & husband William Staunton,

- Church of St Peter, Elford Staffordshire.

www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-504

Edward Irving "Ed" Koch (pron.: /ˈkɒtʃ/; December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and reality television arbitrator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City, which he led from fiscal insolvency to economic boom from 1978 to 1989.

 

A popular figure, he rode the New York City Subways and stood at street corners greeting passersby with the slogan "How'm I doin'?" His private life was enigmatic, with speculation about his sexuality, which he rebuffed as nobody's business but his own; he had no children, and no publicly acknowledged romantic relationships, but declared his heterosexuality after his retirement. He did not enjoy, however, the same uncontested popularity among some gay New Yorkers, as many were critical of his response to the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in 1981, seeing his inaction as a result of what they saw as his "closeted lifestyle". Koch won re-election in 1981 with 75 percent, the first New York mayor to win endorsement on both the Democratic and Republican party tickets. He won his second re-election with 78 percent of the vote. His third term was fraught with scandal regarding political associates, although it never touched him personally, and with racial tensions including the murder of Yusuf Hawkins a month before a fourth primary which he lost in a close race to New York City's first black mayor, David Dinkins.

(Wikipedia)

From Wikipedia: Arles (February 1888 – May 1889)

 

Van Gogh arrived on 21 February 1888, at the railroad station in Arles, crossed Place Lamartine, entered the city through the Porte de la Cavalerie, and took quarters a few steps further, at the Hôtel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie. He had ideas of founding a Utopian art colony. His companion for two months was the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen. In March, he painted local landscapes, using a gridded "perspective frame." Three of his pictures were shown at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In April he was visited by the American painter, Dodge MacKnight, who was resident in Fontvieille nearby.

 

On 1 May he signed a lease for 15 francs a month to rent the four rooms in the right hand side of the "Yellow House" (so called because its outside walls were yellow) at No. 2 Place Lamartine. The house was unfurnished and had been uninhabited for some time so he was not able to move in straight away. He had been staying at the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel in the Rue de la Cavalerie, just inside the medieval gate to the city, with the old Roman Arena in view. The rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which Van Gogh regarded as excessive. He disputed the price, and took the case to the local arbitrator who awarded him a twelve franc reduction on his total bill. On 7 May he moved out of the Hôtel Carrel, and moved into the Café de la Gare. He became friends with the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio. His major project at this time was a series of paintings intended to form the décoration for the Yellow House.

 

In June he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He gave drawing lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant, Paul-Eugène Milliet, who also became a companion. MacKnight introduced him to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter, who stayed at times in Fontvieille (they exchanged visits in July). Gauguin agreed to join him in Arles. In August he painted sunflowers; Boch visited again. On 8 September, upon advice from his friend the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, he bought two beds, and he finally spent the first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September.

 

On 23 October Gauguin eventually arrived in Arles, after repeated requests from Van Gogh. During November they painted together. Uncharacteristically, Van Gogh painted some pictures from memory, deferring to Gauguin's ideas in this. Their first joint outdoor painting exercise was conducted at the picturesque Alyscamps. It was in November that Van Gogh painted The Red Vineyard.

 

In December the two artists visited Montpellier and viewed works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Museé Fabre. However, their relationship was deteriorating badly. They quarrelled fiercely about art. Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive tension" reached a crisis point on 23 December 1888, when Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully." Gauguin left Arles and did not see Van Gogh again. Van Gogh was hospitalised and in a critical state for a few days. He was immediately visited by Theo (whom Gauguin had notified), as well as Madame Ginoux and frequently by Roulin. In January 1889 Van Gogh returned to the "Yellow House", but spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and paranoia that he was being poisoned. In March the police closed his house, after a petition by thirty townspeople, who called him fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). Signac visited him in hospital and Van Gogh was allowed home in his company. In April he moved into rooms owned by Dr. Rey, after floods damaged paintings in his own home. On 17 April Theo married Johanna Bonger in Amsterdam.

El món ens mira, sí.

Probablement heu llegit en més d’una ocasió aquesta idea associada al procés sobiranista —sovint, en forma d’eslògan d’agitació i propaganda més que realment demostrable—; però, avui dia, sens dubte, la Revolta Catalana impulsada a partir de les grans manifestacions independentistes del 2012 té ja un caràcter excepcional en el panorama polític i mediàtic europeu.

Aquests dies ens miren més que mai en la nostra història recent. Tothom aguanta la respiració en l’espera del que passi.

L’esperat xoc de trens.

L’Estat espanyol, segurament, no podrà derrotar l’independentisme. I, probablement, l’independentisme no podrà derrotar l’Estat espanyol.

El Govern del PP, però, té policia, jutges i lleis; i el moviment independentista només té la força de la “mobilització permanent” als carrers.

És un empat infinit. Tanmateix, el partit necessita un àrbitre: l’àrbitre hauria de ser la comunitat internacional, sobretot Europa.

(Roger Palà i Sergi Picazo)

www.elcritic.cat/blogs/sentitcritic/2017/09/28/el-mon-ens...

 

El gat de casa "Cips"

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Cat.

 

The world looks at us, yes.

You have probably read on more than one occasion this idea associated with the sovereignty process - often, in the form of a slogan of agitation and propaganda more than really demonstrable; But, today, without a doubt, the Catalan Revolt driven from the great pro-independence demonstrations of 2012 has an exceptional character in the European political and media landscape.

These days we look more than ever in our recent history. Everyone holds their breath waiting for what happens.

The expected train crash.

The Spanish state, surely, can not defeat the independence movement. And, probably, independentism can not defeat the Spanish state.

The PP government, however, has police, judges and laws; And the independence movement only has the force of "permanent mobilization" on the streets.

It is an infinite tie. However, the party needs an arbitrator: the referee should be the international community, especially Europe.

(Roger Palà and Sergi Picazo)

www.elcritic.cat/blogs/sentitcritic/2017/09/28/el-mon-ens...

 

The house cat "Cips"

SUN & DOVES Milk Pail

 

The pub closed due to an unsustainable rent review. After three years' through courts and 'industry expert' hands and arbitration rent went up in 2008 from £54K to £65K against the rise to £96K that S&NPC were after, saying they believed the pub 'could comfortably afford that increase' if it were managed by 'a reasonably competent operator'. The wisdom of the Arbitrator led to ONLY a 20% increase as the world went into financial meltdown and left us owing the pubco an immediately payable bill for back rent and legal fees of £165K.

 

This whole shambles is typical of what is rolling out against pubs all over the UK as Pub Companies raise rents and beer prices so they can pay off gargantuan debts they raised against their 'assets and future income' (£billions) in acts act of Private Equity greed identical to banks' disgraceful behaviour. Here's CAMRA's video about the big pubcos and the beer tie which leads to pub closures all over the UK: bit.ly/RWoBQu

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

______________________________

  

La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A joint social event by ICC YAF, CFA40 and PVYAP saw the young arbitration community in Paris come together for an exceptional evening of networking on a cruise boat along the Seine.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

______________________________

  

La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

A Liga das Américas 2014 é a sétima edição da competição, que envolve equipes de quase todo o continente americano. Na edição anterior participaram 12 equipes. Para este ano, a FIBA decidiu voltar ao número de vagas de 16 equipes participantes.

As sedes desse evento na primeira fase foram: Neiva na Colômbia (Grupo A), Montevidéu no Uruguai (Grupo B), Xalapa no México (Grupo C) e Quito no Equador (Grupo D). Na segunda fase, as sedes foram Xalapa (Grupo E) e Montevidéu (Grupo F).

A fase final do torneio foi realizada no formato de semifinal, decisão de terceiro lugar e final, todos disputados em jogo único.No dia 11 de março, a FIBA anunciou a cidade do Rio de Janeiro como sede. O local escolhido para os jogos foi o Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, com capacidade para 11.800 torcedores. Foi a primeira vez que o Brasil sediou a fase final da Liga das Américas. A candidatura do Rio foi apresentada pelo Flamengo na segunda, dia 10 de março, e concorreu com as candidaturas de Xalapa e de Montevidéu. Para viabilizar o projeto, o clube brasileiro conseguiu dois patrocínios, totalizando cerca de 600 mil reais, para custear o deslocamento das três delegações adversárias, cinco diárias, alimentação, diretorias e árbitros. Como mandante, teve a receita da bilheteria nos dois dias. Flamengo e Pinheiros venceram as semifinais e fizeram uma final brasileira. O clube carioca venceu o atual campeão do torneio por 83 a 74 e conquistou o título inédito para o clube e de forma invicta, com o apoio de 8.701 torcedores.

 

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The League of the Americas in 2014 is the seventh edition of the competition , which involves teams of almost the entire American continent . In the previous edition 12 teams participated . For this year , FIBA ​​decided to return the number of vacancies of 16 participating teams .

The headquarters of this event in the first phase were : Neiva in Colombia ( Group A) , Montevideo in Uruguay ( Group B ) , Xalapa in Mexico ( Group C ) and Quito in Ecuador ( Group D ) . In the second phase , the seats were Xalapa ( Group E) and Montevideo ( Group F ) .

The final tournament was held in the semifinal format decision Third and final , played in every game único.No March 11 , FIBA ​​announced the city of Rio de Janeiro as the host . The venue for the games was the Maracanãzinho , with capacity for 11,800 spectators . It was the first time Brazil hosted the finals of the League of the Americas . The Rio was introduced by Flamengo on Monday, March 10 , and competed with the nominations of Xalapa and Montevideo . To fund the project , the Brazilian club managed two sponsorships totaling about 600 thousand dollars , to defray the displacement of the three opposing delegations , five daily feeding boards and arbitrators . As principal , had the recipe from the box office on both days. Flemish and Pines won the semifinals and made a final Brazilian . The Carioca club won the current tournament champion by 83-74 and won the exclusive title for the club and unbeaten , with the support of 8,701 fans .

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La Liga de las Américas en el año 2014 es la séptima edición del concurso , que consiste en equipos de casi todo el continente americano. En la edición anterior participaron 12 equipos . Para este año , la FIBA ​​decidió devolver el número de vacantes de 16 equipos participantes.

La sede de este evento en la primera fase fueron: Neiva en Colombia (Grupo A) , Montevideo en Uruguay (Grupo B) , de Xalapa en México (Grupo C) y Quito, en Ecuador (Grupo D). En la segunda fase , los asientos eran Xalapa (Grupo E) y Montevideo (Grupo F).

La fase final se celebró en la decisión formato de semifinales Tercero y último , jugado en todos los partidos único.No 11 de marzo de FIBA anunció que la ciudad de Río de Janeiro como sede . La sede de los juegos fue el Maracanãzinho , con capacidad para 11.800 espectadores. Era la primera vez que Brasil fue sede de la final de la Liga de las Américas . El Río fue presentado por el Flamengo el lunes 10 de marzo, y compitió con las nominaciones de Xalapa y Montevideo . Para financiar el proyecto, el equipo brasileño logró dos patrocinios por un total de alrededor de 600 mil dólares , para sufragar el desplazamiento de las tres delegaciones que se oponen , cinco tableros de alimentación diaria y árbitros . Como director, tenía la receta de la taquilla en los dos días . Flamenca y Pines ganaron las semifinales e hizo una final brasileña. El club carioca ganó el campeón del torneo actual por 83-74 y ganó el título exclusivo para el club y el invicto , con el apoyo de 8.701 fans.

Bus operators congregate April 26, 1946 outside the bus depot of the Washington, Virginia & Maryland (WV&M) bus line at N. Quincey Street and Wilson Blvd. in Arlington, Va. on the first day of a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motorcoach Employees of America Division 1079.

 

The 250 workers walked out after the company refused arbitration and issued a notice of termination of the existing contract.

 

The company, also known as the Arnold Bus Line after its owner Leon Arnold, refused to arbitrate the issue until a request for a fare increase was acted on by the Arlington Public Utilities Commission and promised to continue to pay the current pay and benefits while negotiations continued—although the workers would be without a contract.

 

The union was demanding raises for operators of 30 cents-per-hour and as much as 42 cents-per-hour for mechanics.

 

The company served about 1,250,000 passengers per month at the time in Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, Clarendon, Westover, Langley, McLean, Tyson’s corner, Vienna and Oakton with Washington, D.C. terminals at 11th Street between E and F Streets NW and at 9th and Constitution Ave. NW.

 

The strike took place against a backdrop of a nationwide strike wave 1945-46 following World War II that involved work stoppages by millions of workers. Workers’ wages in the country continued to be regulated by a war-era wage board despite the end of the conflict.

 

The strike was settled on May 3rd when the company acquiesced to the union’s demand for arbitration and an agreement to continue negotiations in the interim.

 

On May 23rd, a three member arbitration panel voted to award a 12 cent-per-hour increase with the union arbitrator dissenting.

 

This was not the end of the story, however. The government Wage Stabilization Board cut the pay increase to nine cents-per-hour on June 12, 1946.

 

Angry workers already felt cheated. The Capital Transit Company across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. paid $1.14 per hour. The initial increase only brought them to $0.98 per hour, but was now cut to $0.95 per hour for operators.

 

However at a union meeting held at the Ballston Fire House, members defeated a motion to resume their strike and reluctantly accepted the outcome.

 

The WV&M company was eventually bought by D.C. Transit, but continued to operate as a separate company until acquired by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in 1973. Local 1079 was also merged into the larger Local 689 at that time that represented transit workers in the District of Columbia.

 

The Arlington bus garage was closed in 2009 and ultimately demolished to make way for redevelopment in the town.

 

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmLVmtxd

 

The photographer is unknown. The image is a Washington Daily News photograph courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.