Noted Brooklyn architect and all-around life of the party Robert Scarano recently sat down—er, stood up—for a video interview with The Real Deal, the second part of which exploded across the interweb today. Just in case you lack the patience to sit through over 10 minutes of hard-hitting...

The latest from Racked, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up. [Photo by Daniel Krieger] 1) Soho: Above, the final touches being applied to the Greene Street newcomer Droog, which Racked toured today. Those who've been to the famed avant-garde design store's Amsterdam store need no intr...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Just when we think we can't fall even more deeply in lust with Long Island City, we come upon this project—just a little, you know, makeover of an aging Getty service station at 11th Street and 47th Avenue in Hunters Point into, you know, a ...

Image by Pentagram, courtesy Archinect. It's ironic, of course, that the Fashion District—that area of Manhattan hugging Hell's Kitchen in the West 30s—is itself incredibly ugly. So, in honor of the end of Fashion Week, we're publishing the above image of a reimagined Fashion District. U...

Fans of architect Robert Scarano have been left high and dry by the apparent dearth of renderings of 500 Fourth Avenue, the South Slope megaproject from developer Isaac Katan that recently opened its sales office. Even the placeholder website refuses to reveal what the finished building will look li...

Stories of deep embarassment.   LOL monkeys and cats. A strange Japanese game show.   Hugh Laurie and Hank Green, both at their finest.   Donut demise. Knock knock jokes. People eating food off the floor. Lessons on how to be Ninja and how to be Nerd!  Hamsters in helmets. Ma...

"I love the village but don't understand why people pay through the nose to live there. I have lived on Bank St. for a long time. Forget the hookers. What about the 5 times a month I see drunk guys pissing between cars. In the summer this leads to the most awful odor. In addition to the size of the ...

The adorable carriage house at 43 Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights is certainly one of the more blogged-about properties in New York, helped by the fact the place has been on the market for, oh, a couple of years. In that time, it's changed brokers faster than one-night stands and had its price sliced ...

We're suckers for stadium porn, so—courtesy of a contributor to the construction.com community—come new glimpses of the interior of the New Yankee Stadium (above left) and the upper deck in the New Meadowlands. Click through for more hard-hitting action. · New York Construction phot...

Following last week's attempts by overwrought PR folks to rename the portion of The Bowery above Houston Street Bowery District, NYC history blog Inside The Apple pens a great piece on the history of the Bowery moniker through the years. Excerpt: "By 1916, the street’s reputation had gotten so...