The Weekly Walk-Through

We learned that:

• East Village activists love their pizza when they're protesting gentrification.
• Andre Balazs has a new "Beaver Butler" at his Financial District condo.
• A watchdog group wants Charlie Rangel investigated.
• Len Blavatnik could be the $42.5 million buyer of the Wildenstein mansion.
• Chris Ward's 27-year-old chief of staff makes $168,012 annually.
• The Related Companies promoted the project manager of Moynihan Station.
• New Yorkers need their space in the summer.
• South Brooklyn has accounted for over half of the borough's 2008 home sales.
• Staten Island's North Shore holds a mandolin 'mecca.'
• The City Council mulled seven reforms regarding construction safety.
• Elected officials back the demolition of the O'Toole building in the Village.
• A landowner in Columbia's West Harlem way won a legal battle.
• Barbara Corcoran thinks people should get up and go buy houses!
• The real estate industry has donated thousands to Christine Quinn lately.
• An 85-unit condo will rise on North 3rd Street in Williamsburg.
• Irish oil magnate John Sweeney bought a $9 million condo in The Plaza.
• Home sales in Queens dropped 23.7 percent annually in the second quarter.
• The former Nigerian president's son has moved to the Upper West Side.
• Long Island home sales increased annually.
• St. Vincent's thinks support for a new hospital is strong among the staff.
• The state has started eminent domain for Columbia's expansion.
• Brooke Astor's apartment has been taken off the market for a while.
• Belgians in the city are gloating over the Anheuser-Busch takeover.
• Breakdancing thrives in McCarren Park.
• Columbia paid for the latest blight study for its Harlem expansion.
• A ribbon was cut at the new Chelsea hotel in Atlantic City.
• Smith Street's Nu Hotel caters to Brooklyn bobos.