We've mentioned the "Restricted Access" tours put on by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Recently, a group of 20 on this tour got to see the inner workings of the 1898 Clock Tower Building with Marvin Schneider, the city's official clock watcher. He said of the tower, “If you stand here and look out on the city, you can imagine you’re in an entirely different century. If you want to do a little time travel,......

One of the most striking buildings in Brooklyn, the Williamsburg Bank Building, be converted into condos to be on the market in 2006. The Post reports that the coveted-for-resale-potential building was "massively expensive," and that the building (actually in Fort Greene, as pointed out by reader Astrid) will offer more than 180 luxury residential units. With some of the most stunning views of the Manhattan available, Gothamist expects the units to break Brooklyn records,......