1. Harlem residents upset as
Planning Commission approves rezoning of 125th Street [Post] and [NYDN]
2. Trial begins for State Assemblywoman Diane Gordon of Brooklyn, who faces charges of arranging to receive a
bribe from a developer [NYT]
3. Robert Scarano’s “Carroll Gardens
Hell Building”
could lose its addition [Gowanus Lounge]
4. As developer Jared Kushner works on selling the retail space at 666 Fifth Avenue, Brooks Brothers agrees to leave its space years before its lease expires [Post]
5. Now that the city has dropped its controversial plans for a
jail in the Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point,
it is looking for a new location [NYDN]
6. Lehman Brothers hasn’t been as battered by the mortgage
crisis as most firms, but it will cut 1,400 employees, or about 5 percent of
its global workforce [Crain’s]
