City expands pilot program to help fledgling restaurateurs through bureaucratic approvals process … and more

1. City expands pilot program to help fledgling restaurateurs through a bureaucratic approvals process [NYT]
2. Durst launches new light shows atop BofA Tower, 4 Times Square [Post]
3. Zillow economist Stan Humphries: U.S. home prices will fall another 5 to 7 percent before bottoming late next year [Bloomberg]
4. Christmas blizzard recap reports [NYT] and [WSJ]
5. Queens apartment fire displaces 100 families in the blizzard’s aftermath [NYDN]
6. Ally Financial agrees to $462M loan repurchase settlement with Fannie Mae [Bloomberg]

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7. Thanking the doormen [NYT]