By Staff 1/18/07 4:40pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • The Malaysians are coming! The Satai at 40 Broad Street, yet another new Manhattan luxury condo, will have “double-height entry doors with solid walnut frames and [a] rubbed-bronze paneled facade.” Rubbed-bronze is sexy; so is “Basaltito lava stone borders” in the flooring. [Multi-Housing News]
  • Pink-nosed speakeasy fans were horrified to see that 86 Read More

    • By Staff 8/31/06 2:17pm

    Crown Heights North Historic District


    Proposed boundaries for the Crown Heights North historic district.

    On Sept. 19, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be considering the designation of a Crown Heights North historic district. Tucked between Eastern Parkway on the south and Atlantic Avenue on the north, this neighborhood is smack-dab in the middle of Brooklyn’s Caribbean-immigrant enclave. It’s also Read More

    By Staff 8/24/06 1:30pm

    In the 11th — Park Slope and Crown Heights

    In keeping with our ongoing obsession with the up-for-grabs 11th Congressional race, we sent our man John Koblin out into the district to talk to residents about what they hoped for out of their new member of Congress.

    Here are a few randomly selected interviews that show, if nothing else, the radically different priorities Read More

    By Staff 5/01/06 8:00am

    Monday:Jacobs, ‘Huetrals,’ Williamsburg

  • Nicolai Ouroussoff on the death of Jane Jacobs: “[Her] death may also give us permission to move on, to let go of the obsessive belief that Ms. Jacobs held the answer to every evil that faces the contemporary city.” (The New York Times)
  • Afraid of color? Sick of beige? Introducing: The Huetrals! In other Read More

    • By Staff 4/17/06 2:34pm

    Williamsburg: Never Been In a Riot (Updated)


    The new 184 Kent. Now, with richer hipsters inside.

    As the city rather melodramatically girds for riot over the Teitelbaum succession in the Satmar section of Williamsburg, police found themselves having a job of work handling the neighborhood’s hipster population Saturday Friday night*.

    Onlookers at a bar across the street from 184 Kent Read More