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1. Generation Y homebuyers having increasingly positive impact on U.S. housing market, experts say [AOL]
2. Architecture firm Bjarke Ingel Group signs lease for 3,500 square feet at 601 West 26th Street [REW]
3. Planned charter middle school drawing ire from Downtown residents concerned with overcrowding [WSJ]
4. Battery Park City Library slated to receive two bronze lion sculptures [DNAinfo]
5. After a year off the market, Time Warner Center unit now asking $18.38 million, up from original $15 million asking price [Curbed]
6. Downtown Brooklyn commercial building at 490 Fulton Street marketing 48,000 square feet of retail space, after nabbing Filene’s Basement as a tenant [Brownstoner]
7. Twenty-six-year-old partygoer plunges to death from 101 Warren Street condominium [Post]
8. Midtown’s Roseland Ballroom catches fire, injuring seven firefighters [DNAinfo]
9. Subway sandwich shop chain surpasses McDonald’s in number of stores, becoming world’s largest restaurant chain [WSJ]
10. Mobile cupcake purveyor CupcakeStop to close [DNAinfo]
11. New Boerum Hill rental building offering on-site putting green and pet spa [Brownstoner]
12. Long Island retail haven Garden City to expand its roster of stores with new BJ’S Wholesale Club [WSJ]
13. Bank of America splitting off 6.7 million bad mortgages from the rest of its practice [Post]
14. New Dorp beach bungalows abandoned on Staten Island in wake of Parks Department takeover [NYT]
15. Home loan rates for FHA-backed mortgage holders remain low [Subprime Blogger]