What with Brooklyn Bridge Park now making our waterfront zone even — lovelier — the housing prices just keep going up. This week the famous

According to an Associated Press story getting picked up by papers around the globe, Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar announced Tuesday that the feds are building

As we all know, lots of old-timers sold their homes to newcomers in the 80s and 90s and moved out, missing the real estate boom.

New York City isn’t the only municipality facing the specter of firing teachers due to budget shortfalls. It’s an issue nationwide. Some politicians are looking

If the weather ever cools down, I highly recommend you visit the High Line in Chelsea. It’s great, and now, a new expansion has opened

An AP story that turned up in a UK paper reviews a 40-year study by scientists of elephants in Kenya that suggests they use a

Eagle has this story about a new book by historian Lawrence Stelter and his new book about the old elevated El train lines that ran

Oh, this is getting interesting. The U.S. EPA is slamming the city’s plan to clean up a six-acre contaminated site to make way for condo

Marie Viljoen of Cobble Hill and her Prospect Park Litter Mob are profiled Tuesday in The New York Times. Viljoen, 41,is ” a garden designer, blogger,

More from Blockshopper, this time, a creative director and his wife sell their 1,668 square foot condo at 70 Washington for $1.8 Million.  

257 Hoyt, a 2,400 square foot home, sells for $550,000 to two attorneys, according to Blockshopper, which looks at recent sales in that Carroll Gardens/Boerum

As churches continue their transformation into condos, and developers continue to add new high-end condos to Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens brownstone districts, the Real Deal real

Mother Nature Network has an interesting multimedia piece on Jerko and other houseboaters on the Gowanus Canal.

It’s the story we seem to not be able to get enough of. The private school teens who, through a prank, set fire to PS

Crain’s New York says that Gothamist.com, which started in Soho but moved to Dumbo some years ago, has signed a five-year lease for a 3,000

Gotham Gazette ran a nice piece outlining the ups and downs of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “green” initiatives. Two years ago, he set out a plan

The Gates Foundation, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates of Microsoft, of course, spent $373 million last year on education, and $80 million on education

The Barclays Center — the new home to the N.Y. Nets NBA team — is flying up and is scheduled to open in September 2012.

Lucky, a Dumbo-based creative advertising firm has launched a free database of “viral” videos, so people can get a better idea of what works and

Always wondering where to take your toddler when looking for a dine-out? New York Magazine’s Jon Steinberg saves the day.