Today is a day full of real estate goodies (though not are all quite so good). Here are three more: First up, Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Ah, Bedford Avenue between North Third and North Fourth. You aren't such a bad little stretch. Bummer that former Bronx borough president, congressman and Bloomberg campaign manager Herman Badillo and his merry band of real estate developers want to build "Williamsburgh Square" there. What's a Williamsburgh square? It's a full-block retail-residential......

While Gothamist greatly enjoyed Michael Slackman's NY Times article about fringe NYC politics, because it shed some light on the emerging power of independents and the fascinating background of co-founder Dr. Fred Newman, we decided we loved it most for the 1990 photograph by Angel Franco where you can see a very fat Reverend Al Sharpton. Earlier this year, the NY Times talked to the Reverend Al about his diet and even had photos of......

Aha: It seems that Cablevision bid for the MTA's West Side railyards is actually New York Region > Executive Says Cablevision Tops Jets' Bid by $40 Million" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/nyregion/25cablevision.html">$40 million more than the Jets' $720 million bid. But the most interesting - and aggressive - thing about the Cablevision bid is that it's for $760 million in cash, whether or not the city allows them to rezone for the development they'd like. Now, that's the "Damn!"......