Without the Lower East Side, there might have never been a Curbed.com.

The neighborhood’s rowdy nightlife proved irresistible fodder for a personal blog launched by founder Lockhart Steele soon after he began living there in 2001.

Three years later, those rants spawned the website Curbed, which today chronicles the ups and downs of New York’s real estate and that of five other markets, with a new site, about Seattle, to be unveiled in April.

But the place where it all began is no more. At the beginning of March, in a move that seems worthy of one of his posts, Steele traded the one-bedroom walkup rental at 110 Rivington Street where he had been for a decade, for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom rental in an elevator building at 36 Peck Slip at the South Street Seaport (see gallery above). [more]

137 Crestview Lane and Scott Resnick

Developer Scott N. Resnick, scion of one of Manhattan’s most prominent real estate families, has listed his oceanfront Hamptons spread for $26.75 million, according to a source and property records (see more photos of the home after the jump).

Resnick is the son of Burton Resnick, the CEO of Jack Resnick & Sons, one of New York’s largest owners of office properties. Scott was formerly the company’s president and COO, but left the family business in 2007 to form his own company, real estate firm SR Capital.

Resnick’s seven-bedroom home at 137 Crestview Lane in Sagaponack, which hit the market in March, is situated on 2.4 oceanfront acres.

The listing broker, John Healey of Town & Country Real Estate, declined to name the owner, but property records show that Resnick and his wife, Kimberly, bought the spread in October of 2007 for $18 million from Philip D. Turits, the co-founder of Manhattan telecommunications firm Fusion. [more]