We learned that:
- East Village activists love their pizza when they’re protesting gentrification.
- Andre Balazs has a new “Beaver Butler” at his Financial District condo.
- A watchdog group wants Charlie Rangel investigated.
- Len Blavatnik could be the $42.5 million buyer of the Wildenstein mansion.
- Chris Ward’s 27-year-old chief of staff makes $168,012 annually.
- The Related Companies promoted the project manager of Moynihan Station.
- New Yorkers need their space in the summer.
- South Brooklyn has accounted for over half of the borough’s 2008 home sales.
- Staten Island’s North Shore holds a mandolin ‘mecca.’
- The City Council mulled seven reforms regarding construction safety.
- Elected officials back the demolition of the O’Toole building in the Village.
- A landowner in Columbia’s West Harlem way won a legal battle.
- Barbara Corcoran thinks people should get up and go buy houses!
- The real estate industry has donated thousands to Christine Quinn lately.
- An 85-unit condo will rise on North 3rd Street in Williamsburg.
- Irish oil magnate John Sweeney bought a $9 million condo in The Plaza.
- Home sales in Queens dropped 23.7 percent annually in the second quarter.
- The former Nigerian president’s son has moved to the Upper West Side.
- Long Island home sales increased annually.
- St. Vincent’s thinks support for a new hospital is strong among the staff.
- The state has started eminent domain for Columbia’s expansion.
- Brooke Astor’s apartment has been taken off the market for a while.
- Belgians in the city are gloating over the Anheuser-Busch takeover.
- Breakdancing thrives in McCarren Park.
- Columbia paid for the latest blight study for its Harlem expansion.
- A ribbon was cut at the new Chelsea hotel in Atlantic City.
- Smith Street’s Nu Hotel caters to Brooklyn bobos.
