Every year since I began this blog has seemed like a bad year for New York landmarks, with too many classic restaurants, bars and store...

As in every year of the Bloomberg administration, 2010 was a bad one for preservation-minded New Yorkers. There were a couple major restaur...

The shedding of Gothamite landmarks slowed a bit in 2009, as compared to previous years under the all-powerful Bloomberg-Burden-DOB Developm...

Lost City will be interviewed on the estimable " The Brian Lehrer Show " tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 10 AM. The subject will ...

The Bush-era economy nose-dived into reality this fall, but not quickly enough to prevent the massive history-eraser of the Bloomberg-DOB-De...

The Year of Our Mayor 2007 isn't quite over yet, but I figure the jackasses who run this City (developers, real estate agents, corporate...

It's a new year and we're approaching the first anniversary of the date that McHale's closed to make way for a condo highrise—th...