Looks like Lady Gaga is looking for a fancy zip code. She is the latest celeb to check out the duplex penthouse at 304 Spring Street in Hudson Square (located near that controversial trash tower). According to the NY Post, the Lady checked out the $21,000-a-month penthouse recently—wearing a garter belt, wig, high heels and knee-high stockings, of course. The condo features a private roof deck where the superstar can escape the paparazzi, and a whole lot more. The paper reports she's also looking for a Hamptons beach house. Looks like Yonkers didn't make the cut. more ›

Five architectural firms have banded together to brainstorm ideas for adding green space to the far west side from the Village to Tribeca, also known as Hudson Square. A plan to add more garbage trucks to the neighborhood, writes Downtown Express's Patrick Hedlund, led local stakeholders to elicit architectural visions. Five firms - Arquitectonica GEO , FLAnK, LTL Architects, SPaN and Zakrzewski + Hyde (in association with Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners) - were asked to assume two still-up-in-the-air events: that the city will rezone the northern part of the neighborhood and that the Sanitation Department will not build a proposed facility. more ›

Big fire last night on 5th Avenue in Park Slope, by E-Liz. more ›

The controversial proposal to turn the UPS lot on Spring Street and West Street into a place for 106 Sanitation trucks may align Donald Trump with critics of his planned Trump Soho Hotel. The Donald takes a break from blabbing about ladies of The View and tells the Post, "I don't like trucks, the fumes, the traffic from the standpoint of the community... If the community wanted help, I would certainly help." more ›

It was another unusually mild, late November morning when we visited 304 Spring at Renwick, just east of Greenwich Street. more ›

Yesterday, the Mets organization and various city and state officials broke ground on the new Mets stadium, Citi Field. more ›