The City Planning Commission's long-lasting effort to push through a major rezoning of the East Village and Lower East Side—a process that kicked off in 2005—has come to this: today the City Council approved the 111-block rezone, which runs from Grand Street up to 13th Street, and Avenue D...

Silver Towers wasn't the only thing on the ol' landmarking docket today. From the LPC's press release: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously approved the designations of three Modernist sites: NYU's University Village off Houston Street; the Guardian Life Insurance Co...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The credit crunch arrived a little too late to derail megadeveloper Forest City Ratner's 76-story luxury rental tower between City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by a little Canadian-born starchitect we like to call Frank Fucking Gehry. Ac...

One of the strangest current landmark discussions is over in NYUville (aka Greenwich Village), where preservationists want the Landmarks Preservation Commission to bestow its approval on the I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers. But here's the thing: many people think the complex, home to mostly NYU staf...

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Developer Two Trees is planning a huge rental project in Hell's Kitchen called Clinton Park, a major part of which is a Mercedes Benz showroom and service center along Eleventh Avenue. In fact, as the project navigates a testy public review process, we recently found out that the Mercedes portion of...

Scott Bommer is the Liberace of Manhattan real estate—in showmanship, not wardrobe (though we have yet to peek into his closet). The well-compensated hedgie paid a co-op record $46 million for a fixer-upper at 1060 Fifth Avenue, and when that record was broken, he turned around and flipped the ...

The joining of steel with, uh, other steel over the PATH tracks near Fulton Street is not your average metalicious right angle, David Dunlap writes: "It visibly defines one corner of the north pool of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and, therefore, one corner of the outline of 1 World ...

Though the Real World Brooklyn cast (still around?) has been spotted at nearly every Crunch gym in Brooklyn, it appears that the borough's bar owners are more hesitant when it comes to free publicity. In what could be the final report on neighborhood hostility as it pertains to the RW, Page Six Maga...

I don't have words for this. Tell me this is a joke. FUCK. (Do You Want) MORE: As I have written before and explained to friends more times than I can remember, the internets, and blogging in particular, are one of the best things to happen to me. (That makes me sound like I am transmitting from my ...