Jonathan Tisch

By the time the British skyscraper developer Howard Ronson died last year, he'd paid $22.95 million to buy up a 32-room spread in an epic 19th-century townhouse on Fifth Avenue (called the Berwind Mansion, after the wartime coal magnate who built it). Eleven months later, his estate added an $11 million unit there--leaving only two other apartments in the mansion before his family owns the whole thing.

It's a genius real estate move: Buying a heroically massive mansion piece by piece is a whole lot cheaper than buying one that's already whole.

As the Times reported this weekend, the late Ronson is connected to another huge deal, just a few blocks away at the magnificent 2 East 67th Street co-op.  read more »

Location: What’s the bigger accomplishment: The underdog New York Giants beating the undefeated New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl? Or, New York’s tourism industry rebounding after 9/11?

Mr. Tisch: I would say, for different constituencies, the accomplishments are about the same, and, actually, some of the lessons are the same. The lessons are that by working together, by putting aside your individual concerns, by always understanding the greater good, you can accomplish a lot.  read more »

Jonathan Tisch, your New York Giants just won the Super Bowl! What are you going to do now?

"It's time to move on," Mr. Tisch told the Times on Sunday, announcing that he's stepping down as chairman of NYC & Company, the city's tourism agency.

The 54-year-old co-owner of the Giants and CEO of the Loews Hotels chain, whose properties include the 353-room Regency at 540 Park Avenue, helped spearhead efforts to resuscitate the city's wounded tourism industry after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Besides winning the Super Bowl, Mr. Tisch can also boast of attaining an all-time-high annual tourism level of 46.3 million visitors in 2007.  read more »