Harlem’s Bailey House Is a Manhattan ‘Grey Gardens’
A giant historic gem is up for sale on 150th Street, and though it requires a lot of work, it's cheaper than you'd think.
Posted 12/31/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Block Behind Apollo Co-Named James Brown Way
And let's hope that would make the Godfather of Soul, who died two Christmases ago, feel good.
Posted 08/28/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Brooklynites Are Really Getting Salty About the Waterfalls
Brooklyn Heights trapped in salty spray! Williamsburg choked by toxic cloud! Kew Gardens easy prey to overdevelopment! Hoods under siege … in today’s boroughs report!
Posted 08/22/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Winona Ryder Is Dating Tom Green?!?
Also, apparently there’s an amusement park in Bensonhurst. There’s so much to learn in today’s boroughs report!
Posted 08/07/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Carroll Gardens Woman Will See Nanny Brought to Justice
A busybody mom seeks punishment for a nanny she thinks left a kid unattended in Carroll Gardens, New York 'Press' commenters lose their lunch over a Harlem-gentrification story, and a snarky Greenpoint blogger goes soft, all in today's neighborhood news.
Posted 08/01/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Montauk Monster Has Competition. Sort Of.
There is a colorful beast of some sort climbing out of the East River. Plus, Harlem's eye-straining new condo, Chinatown's intra-hood Olympics smackdown, and the big-cabbage guy of Staten Island. In our Freedom Friday edition of the daily boroughs report!
Posted 07/31/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Chelsea Hotel Has Not Lost Its Edge
The naked girl at the Chelsea Hotel, the lost 'SNL' sets of the Brooklyn Navy Yards, and a very awkward tale of gentrification from Harlem, in today's boroughs bundler!
Posted 07/10/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Staten Island Has a Turkey Overpopulation Problem
Edward Albee is being used to market a condo, a cat-beating sicko lurks the streets of Queens, and Staten Island turkeys are being given mandatory abortions. The city's gone mad, in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 07/03/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Who Eats Hot Wings at 8:30 in the Morning?
Apparently, East Villagers do. That, and dish from Long Island City, Harlem, and Red Hook, in our daily neighborhood roundup.
Posted 06/26/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Advertisers Still Wary of Don Imus
Plus, the latest on what's going on at Citibank, JPMorgan, and on the Upper East Side, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 06/25/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Ikea Buses in Brooklyn: The Battle Is on the Streets and on the Blogs
That story, plus Oprah's bounty in Harlem, shopping-mall smackdown in the Bronx, and a strange beep coming from the South Slope in today's neighborhood notes.
Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Carroll Gardens: There Are Still Real Italians There
Will your relationship survive Red Hook's new Ikea? Will Carroll Gardens old-timers continue to make-a da pizza? Will the Upper West Side open-house thieves cop a plea deal? More questions and even fewer answers in today's borough report.
Posted 06/09/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
They're Crazy From the Heat!
Harlem residents suspect gentrifiers are the cause of a raccoon outbreak, a miffed man burns down his neighbor's house on Staten Island, and government workers from separate departments deliberately, sneakily sabotage one another in the East Village. All this and more in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 06/03/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Landlords to Battery Park Tenants: Get Mad at Us, Not at the Walls
Penny-pinchers (well, pickers) in Soho, possibly anger-based graffiti in Battery Park City, and the pitiable buyers at the Novo in Park Slope — that and more in today's boroughs report.
Posted 05/29/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
This Weekend on Governors Island, Avoid the Steaming Divot
There's a lot of weird news in our boroughs report today: Tony Soprano's maid is evicted from Williamsburg, Alex Hamilton's house is afloat in Harlem, and possible sex hotels are cropping up in Gowanus! Click through for all the oddacity!
Posted 05/27/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Andrea Peyser — Wait for It — Thinks Someone Is a Bonehead
That delightful harpy harshes on Dumbo, Robin Quivers leaves Staten Island for the Upper West Side, and a white Seattle woman gets stuck in Harlem and lives to tell. That and more tales of the miraculous in our daily boroughs report.
Posted 05/23/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Sandy Weill Pulls Golden Carpet From Underneath Charles Prince
In our daily industry roundup, the former Citigroup chairman second-guesses himself on the appointment of successor Charles Prince. And more!
Posted 05/19/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Avenue A's Most Famous Appendage Perks Up
Say hello to "The Collection" in Carroll Gardens, a possible good-bye to notorious Club Kalua in Jamaica, and plain old "WTF?" to a Staten Island kid who won't give up his Confederate-flag T-shirt. That and more in our daily boroughs report.
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