In Warhol's days everyone was famous for 15 minutes, now everyone is famous for 15 blocks. Two twentysomethings have recently risen the bar, however, by getting a NYMag piece profiling their neighborhood "fame." These two ladies (typically stationed at 90 Charles Street) aren't helping out the community, or even talking to anyone but themselves, they're simply sitting on a stoop. All day, every day, winter, spring, summer and fall. The long-time friends moved here on......

Jean Nouvel mania reaches a fevered pitch with today’s glowing NY Times review of the French architect’s rising Soho and Chelsea buildings. Nicolai Ouroussoff references Hitchcock and Uma as he concludes that sleek and stupendous living may not be so bad after all. Calling the Soho building (windows pictured, left) on Grand between Broadway and Mercer “more restrained,” the NY Times architecture critic admires Nouvel’s embrace of the cast iron-frame buildings of Soho’s manufacturing......

Galas make us kind of nervous, but we attended this week's Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation dinner at Balthazar honoring the work and life of Jane Jacobs to hear what more could be said about the revered author and activist. New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger called Jacobs "the great prophet of the Village" and praised her legacy of radical intervention. "What she believed," he said, "is that every place has an essence,......

- As part of your National Hamburger Month celebration, make sure you eat these 20. The boys at A Hamburger Today revisit Alan Richman's GQ article from last summer. At least three are in New York -- you may have to travel a bit more for the others. - If you don't want burgers (or don't feel like venturing off of the island of Manhattan), try Ed Levine's favorite hot dogs instead. - Keith McNally's......

Gothamist was walking down Greenwich Avenue early one morning recently, when this sign stopped us in our tracks: A new restaurant! We peered in curiously through the glass, but sadly, we had to continue on to work and couldn't wait around for the place to open. Fortunately, both the New York Times and New York Magazine had gotten the inside scoop -- Jones is the newest creation of former Plumeri chef Jay Plumeri, who hopes......

Since there's nothing as bracingly refreshing as being reminded that we live in the greatest yet craziest city in the world: Studio apartments are now costing over $1 million in some parts of Manhattan. The New York Times devoted a Sunday Real Estate feature to the phenomenon, which is being led by the Richard Meier-designed condo apartments at 165 Charles Street (studios at $1.2-1.325 million, for around 700 square feet, with a 13 square foot......