Beekman Tower ordered to halt construction, proposed mortgage reform targets underwater homeowners … and more

1. Gehry-designed Beekman Tower ordered to stop construction [Curbed]
2. Staten Island woman hit with business tax for her ceramics shop — which has been closed for 20 years [Post]
3. More rumors emerge regarding newsman Anderson Cooper’s possible purchase of a former Greenwich Village firehouse [Post]
4. Senator Charles Schumer makes Stuy Town appeal to Fannie and Freddie [NYO] 
5. Fed sticking to plan to stop making mortgage-debt purchases in March, raising housing market concerns [Bloomberg]
6. Proposed mortgage program reform targets underwater homeowners [Bloomberg] 
7. Home prices on the decline nationwide, according to Case-Shiller November report [Inman]

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