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French NYC residents fight for city to have a 'Little Paris' downtown

Cousins Marianne and Léa Perret, who founded Coucou are petitioning to get the section of Centre Street between Broome and Grand "Little Paris."

Inside Fishs Eddy's secret china and tableware museum

You could say Fishs Eddy's co-founder Julie Gaines is always fashionably plate. 

Luxury condo building success crucial to Manhattan FiDi

The epic conversion of One Wall Street from offices to luxury condos poses a big risk for developer Harry Macklowe, who’s invested $1.5 billion in the landmarked former Irving Bank...

Dung deal: Comedian seeking permit from NYC for smiling poop sculpture

If you thought “Fearless Girl” was a bad look for the Wall Street bull, wait till you see this. The latest playful addition to Arturo Di Modica’s “Charging Bull” sculpture in...

Expensive homes are being snapped up in Hudson Yards

Most Manhattan offices remain sparsely populated, but developers and landlords are confident the work-from-home phenomenon is temporary. Which is why they believe that office towers have a bright future —...

Downtown's 80 Pine gets ready to spruce up

Just as the downtown office market is starting to look challenging, change is coming to 80 Pine St., the full-block, 1.2 million square-foot office tower developed by the Rudin family...

Walker Tower penthouse, once downtown's priciest home, sells for shockingly low price

The one-time trophy property sold for $50.9 million in 2014 and traded hands again for just $18 million.

NYC Whole Foods enacts 50 shopper limit amid coronavirus

At least one New York City Whole Foods on Tuesday began instituting a 50 shopper maximum due to the coronavirus outbreak -- causing customers to pack in a line that...

This gig lets you live rent-free in NYC while scouting top downtown joints

"There is no catch." This is a necessary clarification in the Downtown Alliance's job posting for an "explorer in chief:" an almost-too-good-to-be-true gig that comes with a free summer pad...

Death toll rises after tornadoes rip across Tennessee

Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least seven people. One of the twisters caused severe damage in downtown Nashville.

Work resumes on Greek church at Ground Zero

Work has started again on the moribund St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center although it likely won't be visible for another month. The Minnesota...

Armed robbers crash birthday party at posh Manhattan building

A half-dozen armed men stormed a birthday party being held in a swank lower-Manhattan apartment building and robbed party-goers early Sunday, cops said. The gun-toting goons pushed their way into...

Trump fan attacked over MAGA hat blames Manhattan art pop-up

A President Trump fan who says he was brutally beaten for wearing a MAGA hat says a hip downtown art pop-up got his underage attackers drunk before the assault, according...

Trophy apartment on the market over a decade finally sells after $20M in discounts

A striking-looking co-op at the Police Building in downtown Manhattan — a former gymnasium that got a 1988 redesign by architect Charles Gwathmey — has finally sold after 11 years...

Tech giants moving to Manhattan's largest office space

Justworks’ relocation from the Starrett-Lehigh Building in West Chelsea leaves only about 400,000 square feet available at 55 Water, said Howard Fiddle, leader of a CBRE leasing team.

Aggressive ticket vendors force bus service to skip stops

Aggressive ticket vendors who have long duped tourists for Statue of Liberty tours are now mucking up a Big Apple bus service. The Downtown Connection, a shuttle for Lower Manhattan...

DJ Khaled is on the hunt for a Manhattan crash pad

As DJ Khaled paid tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle on SNL’s season finale last week and performed at Pier 17, he was also looking at short-term rentals around town....

Alleged victim wants judge to sanction Duane Reade for not turning over assault footage

The legal team for a lawyer who was allegedly beaten unconscious by a worker at a Duane Reade wants a judge to sanction the company for not turning over all...

Square eyes move after outgrowing current offices

Jack Dorsey’s financial-transaction company no longer fits in its “Square” offices. Soho spies say the company had been targeting the glam offices previously occupied by MAC cosmetics at 130 Prince...

Newly sober Demi Lovato tours $2.5M Manhattan apartment

Pop star Demi Lovato is turning her life around now that she’s out of rehab after a July drug overdose. She broke up with her boyfriend, designer Henry Levy, and...