When the Center for an Urban Future, an urban policy think tank, released a report last week documenting in great detail the continued misfortunes of the middle class in New York City, many people responded with little more than a faint raising of the eyebrows and a disaffected shrug of the shoulders, as if to say, “Tell me something I ...

Even though OPEC has been trimming production to slow the tide, oil falls to it lowest price in 20 months. [NY Times] Millionaire landlord Alistair Economakis finally succeeds in buying out five tenants at one of his LES tenements who had held out for five years. Now he can build a mansion for his wife and two kids. [NY Post ...

The Center for an Urban Future, a nonpartisan think tank based in Manhattan, released its first-ever ranking (PDF) of the national chain retailers with the most stores in New York City. Perhaps surprisingly, Starbucks did not even make it into the top three, though the Seattle-based coffee chain does have the biggest presence in Manhattan of any of the ...