By Staff 12/13/06 4:48pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • Down in DUMBO and Vinegar Hill, there’s a bunch of “brash adolescents swaggering around a yard of surly and sober old-timers.” Those adolescents are condos, of course, and they’ve “emerged from hardcore puberty growth spurts.” [Gothamist]
  • Scandal! Bribery! Cat-fights! A pair of huge local hotel developers (and ex-partners) John Lam and Sam Chang Read More

    • By Staff 10/19/06 8:30am

    Thursday: The 'Notorious Kremlin,' The Notorious Lord Foster, and Infomercials

  • Last night, the Upper East Side’s resident badboy Jeff Koons tenderly defended Lord Norman Foster’s plans for a shiny new Madison Ave. skyscraper. “I think we have an important chance here,” said Mr. Koons, “to add to our legacy as New Yorkers with this very, very special building.” Then the community board promptly voted against Read More

    • By Staff 3/31/06 9:00am

    Friday: Prada Store Reopening

  • Let’s talk about sprawl again. “Thanks to the megalomania of our traffic engineers, for example, American cities are among the least pedestrian-friendly in the world.” It’s tough to be a columnist. (Inman News)
  • Seventy-one percent of people age 60 and over who have relocated move to other metropolitan counties. Is Boca metropolitan?(The Read More

    • By Staff 3/24/06 9:02am

    Friday: Urolagnia and The Architect

  • “In a society where store clerks chat about their social lives in front of customers and college students survive co-ed bathrooms, privacy just isn’t the concern it used to be.” Which means that kinky, cutting-edge architects are designing see-through bathrooms that make their children uncomfortable, not to mention guests. (The New York Times)
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    By Staff 3/23/06 9:09am

    Thursday: Dirty New Yorkers and Giuliani

  • New Yorkers are officially dirty. Whether that’s how you like it or not, the EPA found that 68 out of every million of us are at risk for getting cancer just from breathing the air. (Gothamist)
  • Queens is the new Jersey City, with three “hot patches” of development. This heat wave can Read More

    • By Staff 3/10/06 8:46am

    Friday: The Mixed-Use Jail

  • The Brooklyn House of Detention in Boerum Hill isn’t very attractive. People are typically sent to prison rather than voluntarily go. So, the Correction Department has decided to convert a portion of the site into retail space. (The New York Times)
  • America’s obsession with its own little pasture: “A researcher investigating the psychology Read More

    • By Staff 2/24/06 9:00am

    Friday: Escape Strategies

  • Israelis inspired by images of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center devised escape pods to build along the outside of buildings. The Office of Emergency Management says its unnecessary. (CNN)
  • Steven Wynn is selling his Beverly Hills pad for classier digs in Vegas. (Forbes)
  • Forbes finds that Read More