• People like the West Village because it's pretty and old and, except for those glass-fronted ridiculousnesses over by the river, hasn't been destroyed by rapacious developers. Until now, when rapacious developers want to put an even-uglier Sculpture for Living on Greenwich Avenue. Historic district, shmistoric district.* [Curbed]
• You've got to fight. For your right. To buy havaaaaaaaarti! [Atlas Shrugs]
• Not getting enough city-bird news since Mary Tyler Moore won a stunning victory over her coop board? Well, there's this: The Fordham hawks are back. [City Birder]
• This is what it sounds like when fish cry. [Gothamist]

[* Yeah, so we live across the street. So what? It's still ugly.]