All dogs go to heaven

Hold onto that spare key: dogs are taking over apartment buildings.

Going to the Dogs: More and More Apartments Have Pooch-Pampering Amenities

If The Observer were an oracle, we’d prophesize this: dogs will one day take over the world. First, they’ll get the right to vote. Then they’ll run for office. Next will come the wars and eventually human beings will become their bitches (open to interpretation).

But perhaps we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Perhaps we got a little too excited about last week’s science-fiction-themed New Yorker.

We hope this is the case but one thing’s for sure: dogs have increasingly more sway in society. And we don’t just mean with entrepreneurs or boutique owners. They’ve now got developers and building managers clasped between their furry paws, too. Read More

Hood Winking

It takes a village/Village idiot/CKCKCKCKCKC!!!MR!NJRNUIOFNOGINIO@N!PIGN

The East Village Now Stretches to 20th Street and Avenue C

Neighborhoods in New York have always been fungible. Names change or are invented out of thin air, acronyms, and nearby landmarks. Borders shift like tectonic plates—slowly, imperceptibly, then, in a city-shaking tremor, all at once. We all pretend to hate it, but we live with it, quietly profiting off it all. This is a town singularly obsessed with real estate, after all. So who can really blame Rose Associates for pushing the boundaries of the East Village? Read More

Rose Associates Heads to Brooklyn

The planned City Point building–a.k.a Albee Square, a.k.a. The Gallery at Fulton Street–has brought another residential developer on board, according to Joe Chan, the president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, a public-private entity overseeing the neighborhood’s development.

Rose Associates, a 79-year-old Manhattan-based firm, has joined a consortium of developers already working on the Read More