Canadian Buys New York Times Dining Table

An intrepid Canadian antique dealer managed to buy The New York Times’ famed four-pedestal mahogany table from underneath the noses of the most sophisticated antique hunters in the world for less than $5000. Kent Martin, of Toronto’s Five O Seven Antiques bought the editorial boardroom table at an auction during the month of August — where many wealthy New Yorkers take their vacations — when the newspaper of record moved after 93 years to their new Midtown offices.