Thank you for visiting the Eater Complaints Department, your unedited platform for voicing poor dining experiences, gross restaurant trends, and general underhandedness. Have grievances? Operators are standing by. From: [an eater] Date: Friday, March 6, 2009 To: eater complaints dept. Subject: Getti...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The intel on new developments keeps piling up, so now that we're snowed in, let's clean out the closet a bit, shall we? 1) William Beaver House: Closings in André Balazs's once-sexy FiDi condo tower commenced in December. So far, per Street...

1) Modern 23, the Chelsea building we always get confused with Chelsea Modern, has fired its in-house sales staff and closed its sales office. The developer's new strategy? Assigning each of the new 23rd Street building's 13 unsold units to specific individual brokers. Can these rivals work together...

[Krieger, 11/24/08] Frankie Brunz takes the F train down to Carroll Gardens this week to file on neighborhood hit Buttermilk Channel, a newish restaurant that trendily sources everything from its sausages to its beer to its ice cream locally. Frank gives her a one:"All of this makes Buttermilk Chann...

[Never fun to collect debts from shuttered restaurants] WEST VILLAGE — This just in from sandwich shop 'Swich: "We're closed up for some renovations ourselves today and tomorrow. We're installing lots of fancy new equipment that will cut the average time to get a Swich from 4.3 to 2.2 minutes ...

This is the latest edition of Who Goes There? a regular feature in which Lost City's Brooks of Sheffield cracks the doors on mysteriously enduring Gotham restaurants—unsung, curious neighborhood mainstays with the dusty, forgotten, determined look—to learn secrets of longevity and find o...

To continue with our Black Saturday coverage, a full blown nightmare, courtesy of the Upper East Side's Southern Hospitality: "Valentines Day Singles Ball. Saturday February 14th 2009. VIP 4 hour premium open bar 10pm-2am $45 per person. $6 Drink Specials & Specialty shots All Night!!!!!!!!!! Love P...

1) It took 20 Parks Department employees to destroy the one-room shanty a homeless man built in Riverside Park along Washington Heights. The 8-by-10 shelter, created in October, "looked like a little house, solidly put together, with a single glass window and a front door equipped with a peephole an...

"I did a lot of gardening out there," says the owner. "I had a fern-leaf beach, a little linden tree, a black pine, cranapple trees with rose bushes and rhodendron boxes." It's all part of a penthouse with copious outdoor space at 30 East 72nd Street that won't budge off its $4.5 million asking tab,...

Been a while since we've heard from Kelly Kreth, real estate publicist and Curbed icon of yore, but here she is on a blog called Urbania talking about the stuff she can't find now that she's moved to the Upper East Side. The list includes empanada dough, loosies, check-cashing stores and, uh, love. ...