Breaking! The Bowery, and the Lower East Side, are fancy [Times, Journal]

Harlem Councilwoman owes $100,000 in property taxes on four apartments [News]

You can buy nostalgia: Hotel Chelsea eyed for condo conversion [Real Deal]

Plan for the South Street Seaport are on the way [DNAinfo]

Brownstone Brooklyn? No, it’s the Bronx! [Times]

Downtown retailers prepare for 9/11 Memorial influx [Crain's]

Starbucks Boss: Bensonhurst, not Park Slope, is the real Brooklyn [Curbed]

Retired cop who transformed Brooklyn waterfront tries same trick upstate [Times]

With development back, here comes the fancy skyscrapers [Real Deal]

110 Livingston, from appliance store to DOE HQ to condos [Brownstoner]

Why neighboring buildings pay twice the property taxes [Crain's]

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Commissioner’s Plan and its surveyor [Times]

Matt is The Observer's real estate editor. Follow Matt on Twitter or via RSS. mchaban@observer.com