Jon Bon Jovi
Free Bon Jovi Concert Slated for Central Park
As the Politicker's Azi Paybarah reported this morning, all New Jersey cheese-rock fans will descend upon Central Park on July 12 for the Jon Bon Jovi concert. It's free but you'll need tickets. Where can you get 'em? We're half way there!
According to a press release posted by Brooklyn Vegan, beginning tomorrow, July 2, tickets will be distributed at baseball parks and events throughout New York City. The bulk of tickets distributed at the ballparks will be found at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with others made available at Shea Stadium in Queens, KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, and at the home of the Staten Island Yankees at 9 a.m. In addition, tickets also will be available in Manhattan at DHL All-Star FanFest at the Jacob K. Javits Center on Friday, July 11. MLB.com also will be conducting a random drawing for tickets. read more »
Bon Jovi Exposes Limits of Bloomberg's Folk Knowledge
Yesterday, Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Bloomberg held a joint press conference to announce a free concert in Central Park on July 12.
About nine minutes into the video, Bon Jovi is recalling other concerts in the park, and he notes that earlier, Bloomberg had mispronounced Art Garfunkel's name (he apparently said Garfinkel).
“Did I say that?” Bloomberg asks. “He’s my neighbor too. He lives next door.”
Jon Bon Jovi Gets Lucky: $2 M. Penthouse Discount
But according to deeds filed in city records, which uses the rocker’s real name John Bongiovi, his purchase price was really $24,000,000. Pocket change! read more »
Best. BEA. Ever.
Jon Bon Jovi is "headlining" BEA, which is actually not a big concert but a book industry expo held in the Javits Center.
PW Daily reports:
The singer will perform, with Amy Grant, at Town Hall on June 2 during BEA. The rockers, who both have forthcoming titles from the Doubleday imprint Flying Dolphin Press, will hit the stage for charity as part of the Saturday Night Benefit, raising money for the Book Industry Foundation.
Rock on! - Tom McGeveranThe Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
- Presumably because his rock career hasn't been so wonderful lately, Jon Bon Jovi has put his three-bedroom Park Millennium tower pied-a-terre on the market for $6.95 million. The place can be yours for a whole month for a mere $30,000. [WSJ/The Real Estate Journal]
- Up in Boston, Fenway Park gets all develoment-y. Those silly Bostonians still can't compete with us and our Yanks and Mets and (soon-to-be) Brooklyn Nets. [Architect Magazine]
- Yale man Robert A.M. Stern (below) takes The Wall Street Journal on a bookish tour of New York's architectural survival (the name of his game is "poetry from the pragmatism"). [WSJ, via ArchNewsNow]
- Building a monster condo on the Upper West Side is a bad neighborly move in the first place, and beginning construction at 5:40 a.m. on a Tuesday only adds insult to injury. [Curbed] - Max Abelson
'Super Agent Man' Adores Target!
Brian Hearts Target
Earlier this month, a Round-Up linked to an Interior Design profile of the design world's Super Agent Man:
Meet Keith Granet, who represents the stars of interior design. How will his magic touch benefit New York? Get ready for Charlotte Moss on Madison Avenue, then a SoHo antiques boutique for Monique Gibson, "Elton John and Jon Bon Jovi's designer." Plus: Mr. Granet hates Target.
Late last week we heard from Mr. Granet, who would like to tell the world that he is not a hater. "All I said was that I did not believe in bringing designer to stores like Target "too low too fast," he wrote via email. "You can not imagine how many requests we get from designers to go directly to stores like Target." read more »
Fair enough. Mr. Granet's full email is after the jump.
- Max AbelsonDuets: Hillary and Bon Jovi
photo credit: Jeff Pulver
Dedicated Jon Bon Jovi fan Jeff Pulver has more pictures of his favorite rocker with Hillary Clinton (and some guy with white hair). [via: Just Hillary] read more »
-- Azi Paybarah
