State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell 4th, Democrat and son of the trailblazing Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was arrested for drunk driving on the upper West Side at 2:30 a.m. this morning. According to the Daily News, an unidentified woman passed out in the back of the car was so intoxicated she had to be taken to a local hospital. Powell failed a breath test at the scene by a small margin and, while......

Today the NY Times introduces us to the man behind some of the city’s most boring buildings. Costas Kondylis, aka the Developer’s Architect, is a skyscraper-embracing traditionalist whose clients have included Donald Trump, Larry Silverstein, Related Companies (developer of the Time Warner Center), Forest City Ratner Companies (developer of The New York Times building and, of course, the Atlantic Yards project) and Vornado Realty Trust (the Penn Plaza towers), among others. Kondylis, who's worked on......

Seems that Donald Trump is heading into some real community problems with his attempt to build his 45-story Trump International Hotel & Tower on Spring Street. Though Trump claims he's got proper zoning to build his newest behemoth (the project will be overseen by Trump spawn Don Jr. and Ivanka along with Apprentice 5 winner Sean Yazbeck) local activists say "nuh-uh." Their complaint goes something like this: Trump is planning on selling the 400......

Travel & Leisure readers have voted New York the country's #1 city/destination for the fourth straight year. This confirms everything we knew about New York, as well as explains the teeming number of tourists we see on the weekend. Other cities in the top ten (which includes Canadian cities) are San Francisco, Quebec City, Charleston, SC, Santa Fe, Vancouver, Chicago, New Orleans, Victoria, B.C., and Montreal. The Trump International Hotel & Tower is the city's......

After fourteen weeks, America can now rest assured in knowing that Bill Rancic is The Apprentice. Even though he'll have a salary of $250,000 running the construction of the Trump International Hotel & Tower, Gothamist was hoping that The Apprentice would be a lot like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, mopping the marble floors of Trump Tower. Did "The Donald" make the right choice? His advisors, George and Carolyn disagreed on who to pick. George, who seemed......