The Tom Otterness sculpture that we previewed last week is now on display at the corner of Washington and Prospect. A nod to the all the "pioneers" of Dumbo perhaps?

What's a highly successful restaurateur do upon moving from Manhattan to Park Slope? In the case of Spencer Rothschild—one of the owners of the Upper West Side's Calle Ocho, Gramercy's BLT Prime, and Midtown's Django—he opens Barrio, possibly the most

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The Federal Reserve offered no explanation for the quarter-point cut in the discount rate on the day of the near-collapse of Bear Stearns in minutes of the March 16 meeting.

The shopping malls market segment could face a crisis in 2010, Emanuil Santev, head of real estate department at Hypo Alpe Adria Leasing told participants at the second regional conference Balkan Real Estate Conference BalREc on April 15 2008, as

As is often the norm with the week's biggest sales, Gravesend and Park Slope have entries. 1. GRAVESEND $3,600,0001800 E 4th Street GMAP (left)3,910-sf house built circa 1920. Deed recorded 4/11.2. PARK SLOPE $1,890,000746A Union Street GMAP (right)4-story, 3-family brownstone

Yesterday Atlantic Yards Report had a detailed post on the proposed Prospect Heights Historic District, which was the subject of a neighborhood meeting that representatives from the Landmarks Preservation Commission attended last week. According to the representatives, historic district designation

The 11-story Karl Fisher-designed building on Luquer Street between Clinton and the BQE is now at full height—which is to say, quite a bit taller than any surrounding buildings. Despite the fact that the building is poised to be the

The Daily News reports that there's been a big jump in crimes in Clinton Hill so far this year, a rise that's partially being blamed on a lack of fresh blood at the local precinct. The NYPD has recorded a

Less than a year ago, workers were laboring over Labor Day to finish 23 Caton Place in Kensington, also known as Caton on the Park. Now, locals report that workers haven't been on the site for more than 10 days.

Someone obviously spent a lot of dough fixing up the five-story limestone house at 614 2nd Street in Park Slope. The question is whether they'll get their money back now that they are trying to sell the place. We wouldn't

One thing's for sure, the winner of the foreclosure auction for 644 Flatbush Avenue won't go hungry! The outstanding tab on the three-story building between Fenimore and Hawthorne is $540,474, safely below its market value (even in this market). The

As many of you have no doubt experienced in recent weeks, our commenting system has not been firing on all cylinders. It appears we've outgrown our current server. By the end of the week, we should be up on a

We noticed 305 McGuinness Blvd., now named Lofts 305, in Greenpoint is almost finished, but found almost no sales information online. Apparently, developer Bronsman Fischer Real Estate Holdings (Issac Hager gave this one up when the two went their separate

In spite of it all, the "it" being the stunning speed with which Bear Stearns hit rock bottom last month and the midnight ride rescue of the investment bank by J.P. Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns is still reporting a profitable

Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh (voter) said rate cuts and liquidity injections are working to partially offset the impact of the current market turmoil, but cautioned that there are limits to what the Fed's monetary policy can accomplish and that

The United States will hold most of the economic spotlight on Tuesday morning with the release of March's producer price index along with the Empire Fed's manufacturing and the NAHB's housing price indexes, both for April. Markets will also hear

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made considerable progress towards achieving financial stability , but more progress needs to be made, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's annual report to Congress released on Tuesday.