The Plaza as a “transient hotel“?

Matthew Schuerman finds out it’s you who’ll pay if the landlords who lost their property on Eighth Avenue when the state took it for the Times (eminent domain!) get awarded more money.

A pair of houses on the same leafy East 64th Street block get more than $20 M. S’Wonderful!

Lee Bollinger’s expanding Columbia’s campus–but not the programming he means to put there.