Aside from the concerts, there isn't much reason to go to the Southstreet Seaport unless you're 14 and need to hit Abercrombie & Fitch. The NY Sun reports that General Growth Properties, the developer who owns the rights to the area (the Seaport and Fulton Fish Market), is on a mission to turn that all around; but is their mission misguided? With a commercial and residential project that promises a floating pool and a community......

In what must be the umpteenth story about Barneys being sold in the past ten years (in 1997, during an internship with CNBC, Gothamist covered a press conference where Hong Kong tycoon - and owner of Harvey Nichols, a Barneys-like shop in London - Dickson Poon announced a deal to buy Barneys; in 1999, NY magazine looked at whether Allen Questrom could turn Barneys around) , the NY Times reports that the Jones Apparel Company......