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...

New York Water Taxi prez Tom Fox is hoping the Water Taxi Beach on Governors Island will help get the state excited again about pumping millions into the old Coast Guard base's conversion to parkland: "At a time when Governors Island is looking iffy, I think the more excitement we can bring to the i...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. FINANCIAL DISTRICT— Things we enjoy: when a Curbed reader, apropos of nothing, sends us a fresh batch William Beaver House photos. What does our tipster have to say about André Balazs's sexy party funtime? "There's some furniture in th...

It's that time of year, the time when people's thoughts are put off the rails by the unholy specter of... sand. Reader email number one: "We were promised a a park and improvements on South and Pike/Allen Streets by the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. In the existing park, with beautiful views of NY H...

Please examine the above image. Above left, we see six apartments. Above right, we see one apartment. The connection? The unit on the right is the combination of all six units on the left. Yes, friends, this krazy kombo, the resulting 23-room, 9,600 square foot property (priced at $22 million), coul...

We're learning more about the crazy situation at Battery Park City's Rector Square, and the building makes the Apthorp mess look like a Brady Bunch sing-a-long. Rector Square is the condo conversion of 225 Rector Place, a large rental building put up by the Related Companies in 1985 at South End Ave...

As you know, I am a total film festival geek, so when I heard back in December that a movie I co-wrote and associate produced was going to be screened at a fancy “name” film festival like Slamdance, well…I was kinda blown away. And after spending five plus days in Park City, Utah e...

Since I was out of town last week and have been sick every since I got home, I didn’t have the pleasure of watching President Barack Obama — Wow! Still so cool to type those words! — take the oath of office in our nation’s capitol until last night. Yep, last night. Thank God ...

Lois Weiss has about 47 different stories in the Post today about all the different ways the residential, commercial, hotel and retail real estate markets are screwed, and one story headlined "We Will Survive" that tries to instill some hope. In it, we get some quotage from developer/brokerage owner...

Welcome to First Word, wherein Eater and its correspondents sit for hours at steamy community board meetings to bring back the first word of new establishments and what they're up to. Your reports from the field always encouraged to tips@eater.com. Community Board 1, covering downtown and Tribeca, h...