In a Streetsblog piece headlined In Third Term, Bloomberg Must Align All Agencies With PlaNYC, veteran community planner (and DDDB board member) Ron Shiffman points to Atlantic Yards:Together with private … Read more

HARLEM—Now that Frederick Douglass Boulevard has been dubbed Harlem's Gold Coast, it's time for folks to lodge their complaints! Writes one reader about the long-in-the-works Frederick Douglass Circle street project … Read more

[Photo by Will Femia] · Somebody's getting the paper delivered at E2E4 [EVG] · Park Slope's J.J. Byrne Park revealed! [Brownstoner] · Still board to death: model's husband says building … Read more

The cops tore open the heart of a massive hipster cocaine ring in Williamsburg this week, turning up $800,000 and eighteen kilos of cocaine from an building on North Seventh … Read more

"I do not throw compliments around often regarding home interiors but damn, this spot is stunning. Those floors, that light, the space. Drool worthy indeed. To the new owner, if … Read more

Dining at Fortune House in Brooklyn Heights, for my latest Eater “Who Goes There?” column, reminded me of the long gone Jade Mountain in the East Village. How I miss … Read more

This week's top dish from Eater, Curbed's restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog... [Crosby Connection's new t-shirt design, via Eater] 1) New York City: A week in advance, Eater files a … Read more

Smart Destinations’ Flickr More than two dozen Park Slope restaurants and cafes owe at least $910,000 in unpaid wages to more than 200 workers, the State Labor Department announced yesterday. … Read more

1) “PHOSPHENE” art show at ZAKKA DUMBO

When: Tonight, Nov 20, 6-9pm

Where: Zakka, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY

Opening Party: Featuring art by DEBORAH YOON, MIMEO, JOHN VICTOR LOUGHRRN

2) Druid’s The … Read more

The poor unfortunate souls who bought into Battery Park City's Rector Square are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore! Well, everyone except Augusten Burroughs, that … Read more

When Marc Murphy testified against a proposed bill mandating that restaurateurs provide paid sick leave, his director of operations made sure to point out that Landmarc treats its employees very … Read more

This is it, folks! We’ve arrived at the final weekend of the outdoor flea season and luckily it looks like the weather is going to cooperate both days. And for … Read more

While certain Murdoch-controlled tabloids are reporting that there are madmen running rampant —again— BHB has learned that last week’s frightening “kidnapping” incident near the Brooklyn Bridge was a domestic dispute, … Read more

As one man battles a ginkgo biloba tree in Brooklyn, another fights his own stinky tree situation in Queens. Barry Plonski’s home on 210th Street and 43rd Avenue in Bayside … Read more

Anonymous doorman and Brick Underground commenter Openthedoor-man weighs in on this morning's case of the hand/foot model who's suing her UES co-op for the way the staff has treated her … Read more

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Back in 2005, New York magazine asked three brokers what a duplex at South Williamsburg's pioneering condo conversion the Gretsch, asking … Read more

In an opening report, deli expert David Sax hails the arrival of Montreal-style smoked meat in Boerum Hill: “The sandwich arrives Stateside in a few weeks, when Noah Bernamoff, a … Read more

Welcome to weekly Friday Shutter report. Know of any other restaurant that has served its last? Let us know. 1) Hamptons: A tipster tells Curbed Hamptons that the months-old Mezzaluna … Read more

Housing in Long Island City and Astoria grew faster between 2002 and 2008 than it did in the city as a whole, according to a new state comptroller's report. The … Read more

It’s been known that the Two Trees’ building at 25 Washington Street is being converted to condos, which has/will displace the 100+ small businesses that are leasing space there. Lease … Read more

The spread at Egg

Brooklyn Based reports that Egg, which just made Fork in the Road’s list of favorite Brooklyn restaurants has let go of chefs Millicent Souris (formerly of Queen’s … Read more

The latest headlines from Curbed Hamptons, our outpost on the East End... [Fancy a round of golf? Let's go out back.] 1) In addition to a best Hamptons houses of … Read more

Today’s Brooklyn Paper, celebrating the publication’s thirtieth anniversary (see post below), features retrospective articles about the Borough’s neighborhoods, including Brooklyn Heights, of which it says:

To see Brooklyn Heights now is … Read more

All the construction netting on the Fifth Avenue Committee’s supportive housing project on 5th Avenue and 16th street has come down, and it’s now possible to see progress on the … Read more

Blog Harlem Condo Life uses the occasion of the opening of The Douglass (formerly called The Savannah, right) to anoint Frederick Douglass Boulevard as Harlem's Gold Coast. (And really, every … Read more

Not only can you censor student newspapers, but when you forget your purse at a restaurant — as Sonia Sotomayor did at Brooklyn’s Po last night — you can have … Read more

Narcotics investigators seized more than $800,000 and 61 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $1 million in a Williamsburg apartment yesterday. The drugs were hidden under the seat of a portable … Read more

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. This isn't the first time we've drooled over 54 Bond Street, the landmark Bouwerie Lane Theater now carved up into three … Read more

Narcotics officers discovered 61 lbs. of cocaine and almost a million dollars cash in an apartment in Williamsburg on Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three individuals and the collective … Read more