A rendering for a building that will replace a Cooper Union engineering building has emerged (above). Designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the 440,000-square-foot mixed-use building will replace the brown tribute to banality that currently hunkers across from the historic 1859 Cooper Union Foundation building. The 51 Astor Place building is to be demolished; the fate of the connected Starbucks (between Third and Fouth Avenues) is uncertain. The Observer says the proposed building “will......

After 40 years opening doors for the tenants at the same Upper East Side building, Jonah Seeman probably would not like to be remembered as the "Bad Breath Doorman;" who would? Still, he's happy he spoke up when he received his third disciplinary letter in nine months, suspending him for having terrible halitosis. The message was quite clear that he was going to be dismissed because of bad breath that someone--never identified--who felt that his......

Bad breath will usually cost one a second date, but who knew that it could cost one a job? Doorman Jonah Seeman was told that he shouldn't show up for work today because he was being suspended for having stinky breath. The 61-year-old worked as a doorman at a four-building complex on East 89th St. in Manhattan for 40 years, supporting his 81-year-old mother. Seeman was suspended twice before for his breath, the first time......

With the Bowery Hotel now open, Gothamist thought it was worth taking one final look at the Bowery of the 1970s and '80s through the lens of Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. Sante told Gothamist – via email – some details of life on the Bowery before the presence of Eric Goode, Ian Schrager, Whole Foods, Seth Greenberg, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, “Nolita......

Looks like the next neighborhood getting the development treatment will be up at the north end of the East Village-- the Extell Corporation has bought up 17 buildings in a fifteen square block area between 10th and 14th Street. You may remember Extell from the building collapse they were involved with last year, their failed Atlantic Yards bid, or the giganormous luxury buildings they're building on the Upper West Side. Though the company claims......

In keeping with the wine theme this weekend, Gothamist noticed this sign on 8th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues the other day. We can't help but get excited about a new wine store in the 'hood. is-wine bills itself as an "innovative wine merchant," and is currently located at 225 East Fifth Street, between 2nd Ave and Cooper Square. Have any of you been there? What do you think of it?......

Yesterday around 3pm we got a report that the geniuses who are knocking down 27 Cooper Square undermined the sidewalk, collapsed a scaffolding, and wounded three pedestrians. By the time we got up there around 5pm, the cops had already cleared the scene, but the sidewalk was still blocked off. If you haven't been up to the area in awhile, it's a shocking change-- they are literally tearing down the entire city block kittycorner......

It's all about lesbian chic in City Hall these days! First, gay City Council member Christine Quinn is made the City Council Speaker, and now, City Council member Margarita Lopez dubs Mayor Bloomberg an "honorary lesbian"! And the Mayor didn't admit to watching the L Word or thinking about adopting a baby from China with his girlfriend - all he did was turn over a few city buildings on East Fourth Street to arts organizations......

It had to end someday, we both knew, but our affair with the back gardens of this city's bars just kept on. Then, this week, we, the people, re-elected Bloomberg and it got damn cold. As a goodbye to all the good times we had in 2005, we're layering and taking our drinks outside for the last time this weekend. And because today is Veteran's Day we expect some of you to start early. At......

So, there was the story about the Upper East Side Starbucks that delivered - if only in a three block radius. While that might be appealing to some, Gothamist started to think that though it was value-added, why was delivery that necessary? As we are all familiar, there are some areas of the city where there are literally Starbucks every way we spit (the Astor Place location, then the one at 2nd Avenue and Cooper......