“Of all the mindbogglingly crappy development sites around Brooklyn,” this one takes the spelt cake. [Gowanus Lounge]

Perhaps alarmingly, the lease-rate at AvalonBay’s new Long Island City building is “exceeding company expectations.” [Multi-Housing News]

Making shallow—and incorrect—neighborhood generalizations is, like, way easier than doing research. [Curbed]

Plenty of New York restaurants have French Bulldogs as mascots, and, despite this fact, bonne grub, too. [Gawker]

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