For a grungy dive, the East Village's Mars Bar is certainly interested in exterior design. The Second Avenue joint changes it look abou...

Last summer, I breathlessly covered the bloody, violent, costly (OK—mildly amusing) Basil Wars of Carroll Gardens. Basil was brazenly stol...

Big green stripe cutting east-west across the Lower East Side. Looks like it's almost ready to go.

From City Room : This time, Gino’s means it. On April 17, City Room published a post saying that this East Side restaurant, once a stop ...

Around the intersection at DeGraw, looking south, circa 1970s.

From today's NY Times : FOR three years, some of the most powerful forces in New York real estate — including the federal and city go...

The Kensington Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is still for sale for just under $3 million . Massey-Knakal encourages would-be bidd...

I was strolling around New York last week, snapping pictures along the way, as I do most every day. I was in Midtown and noticed I was near...

I was passing by an empty lot on Third Avenue in Midtown the other day. A large building, or block of buildings, had been torn down. Whatev...

Lost City Goes to La Petite Auberge ; We Face Down the Intersection of Forced Shopping ; Skyline Books Lives on Tin Pan Alley! ; the McHale...