1. Buyers can still find bargains in the boroughs [NYT]
2. Planners try to tame New
York City’s 5,800 miles of streets, sidewalks and
highways [NYT]
3. St. Saviors, the 1847 wooden church in Maspeth, Queens, gets saved from demolition [NYT]
4. Developers are suing an evicted Harlem soul
food restaurant for $50,000 for every month it stays beyond its lease [Post]
5. The $230 million Edison
Village project in West
Orange will build retail and 620 residential units, including some
in an old factory used by Thomas Edison [NYT]
6. Twenty-one of the 25 U.S.
metro markets that Radar Logic follows showed price drops [WSJ]
7. New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plan to spend $7.6 billion to build a second set of tunnels that will more than double the number of trains that cross under the Hudson River [NYT]
8. Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy used homes in February [Bloomberg]
9. Policy makers want any subprime rescue plan to let the
government recoup its costs if prices rebound [NYT]
10. A House of Representatives proposal would seek to prevent
home foreclosures [NYT]
11. How the subprime crisis reached Switzerland [NYT]
12. Long-anticipated projects in Morristown,
N.J., are progressing, after
years of languishing [Star-Ledger]
13. Madeline Gins and Arakawa have built a house in East Hampton that they say opposes death [NYT]
14. A leading British construction firm has banned its workers
from whistling at women over fears that female buyers will be put off [Building.co.uk]
