Jared Kushner Just Pissing Us Off Now
You know, when Jared Kushner, Harvard '03, bought the New York Observer in July [Ed.: Private to non-news dorks and/or the poor: It's a pink weekly newspaper with often unbeatable stuff on Manhattan media, real estate and gossip] we were all up in his wheelhouse. Sure, he was a rich snot, but if we had that kind of loot we'd do exactly the same thing: buy a cool paper on the cheap and start raising hell. We wished the golden boy and his gold well.
Then we found out Papa Kushner bought Jared's Harvard acceptance letter with a $2.5 mil bribe donation, and didn't hear a lot of cool stuff out of Observer headquarters. And now the guy's dropping $1.8 billion on a single office tower in Manhattan.
At what point does impressively rich become filthy rich? Yeah, probably somewhere around the time you buy a Manhattan skyscraper. Maybe real estate just doesn't excite us as much as catty pink newsprint, but we're a little worried our friend Jar Jar is jumping a whole tank of sharks with this move. It's like we're only 25 minutes into the movie, but Charles Foster Kane is already about to crash and burn.
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December 7th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Jared Kushner, Harvard ‘03, has nothing on Jared Kushner, Columbia ‘06. Except for that whole owning a pink newspaper and New York skyscraper thing. But JK06 is still way better.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
As an employee of a firm in 666 Fifth Avenue (where the NBA store is!), I’ll say that Kush has selected some choice real estate. The elevators break every three days, the much better-looking Black Rock is just up the block and a special man screams anti-jewish/anti-government screeds and leers at women as they enter/exit from the subway stop (E and V) housed in the subbasement.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Papa Kushner’s Harvard bribe/gift made it possible for me to have a Harvard education almost for free. I, for one, am thankful for his son’s subpar application, and the obscene wealth that many like him choose to dump into, ultimately, financial aid and scholarships at Harvard. Go Z list!
December 7th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
i disagree. assuming all 2.6 billion of papa kushner’s money even went directly to financial aid, colleges shouldn’t accept donations that come with strings attached and force them to sacrifice integrity.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Why go to school when you have all that money? – just pay someone to think for you. Is he realated to Jar Jar Binks?
December 8th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Lets face it, a pure meritocracy would just be boring. Let the rich kids parents buy their way in. Would you rather they graduate from a state school and leave all their riches to…Michigan? I mean…blech!
December 8th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Gotta love the love for Columbia’s own Jared Kushner. Big fan.
December 9th, 2006 at 11:47 am
You know what they say about 666 Fifth Avenue – it looks like the box the Seagram Building came in.