A penthouse in Manhattan just sold for $90 million, which broke the record set last year when the 22-year-old daughter of a Russian billionaire spent $88 million on a Park Avenue pad that she plans to use during the few weeks a year when she’s in town. (It’s still hard for me to say “Russian billionaire” after years of thinking of Russia as a place full of empty, government-run stores where toilet paper — if there was any — was a luxury item.)

In other big real estate news, someone bought a parking spot in the garage of a Manhattan building for a million dollars. They’re kidding, right? Who’s going to believe that someone who can blow a million dollars on a parking spot has only one car? Even I have two cars, and I’m only, oh, a million dollars shy of having a million dollars. One of my cars is 9 years old; the other is 7.