New Yorkers are size-conscious in all things–not only waist sizes and Wall Street bonuses, but townhouse frontages as well.

As McMansions head toward extinction, it seems demand for big homes continues in Manhattan as interest in “quainter,” skinnier townhouses shrinks, according to New York and Jonathan Miller:

Five years ago, houses sixteen feet wide or Read More

At the northern end of midtown, where the skyscrapers abut Central Park, there’s a rarified realm called the Plaza district. Bounded, depending on whom you ask, by 54th and 64th streets, Park and Sixth avenues, this is where the kings among men work: the billionaires, the families with foundations, the private-equity royalty. It’s expensive, exclusive Read More

Can’t get enough of the Park51 controversy? CBS has sent veteran correspondent Scott Pelley to Ground Zero to file a report for Sunday’s season premiere of 60 Minutes. Maybe he can turn up something new on this beaten-to-death horse. After all, he did it last time he visited this holy site (just Read More