In 1790, the state of New York set aside Governors Island, off the tip of Manhattan, for the benefit of education. For more than two centuries, however, it was in military hands, guarding the country's most important harbor. Soon, the original terms of that grant will at last be honored ...

We learned that: Vornado's Steve Roth gave big to both Republicans and Democrats in '08. Leviev and Mann reached a deal over management of the Apthorp. The city launched its rezoning of Coney Island. Locals are rooting for the Knickerbocker condo in Bushwick. Tenants incentives are the official apartment market trend of '09. CB Richard Ellis' chairman had a ...

Bushwick, sandwiched between Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, has long enjoyed the epithet "up-and-coming"-"emerging" even. But is Brooklyn's new frontier ready for the Knickerbocker? A third-generation family of grocers had owned the Scaturro Supermarket at 320 Knickerbocker Avenue since the 1970s. Although the residential space above it has been empty for 20 years, the market operated profitably until 2007, when ...

The jury is still out on Art Basel Miami, which runs until Sunday. Art professional-types are continuing to deliberate whether '09 is going to look like 1990, the last time a recession affected the look and discourse of contemporary art, peeling its sympathies for the better part of the decade. Of course, '09 may prove worse than '90 (putting the ...