Two new websites for apartment-seekers, Blackstone raising $4 billion for real estate fund … and more

1. Two new websites for apartment-seekers
[Crain’s]
2. Blackstone Group raising $4 billion for real estate fund
[Bloomberg]
3. Vornado’s Steve Roth still regrets losing equity office to Blackstone
[NYO]
4. Window for Malaysian firms to invest in U.S. closing fast, New York real estate attorney Edward Mermelstein says
[Malaysian Insider]
5. Top earning towns in U.S.
[CNNMoney]
6. Foreclosure crisis still a problem in minority neighborhoods
[City Limits]
7. Concern growing about contamination in schools housed in leased
industrial buildings
[Gotham Gazette]
8. Should bookstores going out of business offer downloading pods?
[Daily Show]
9. Construction jobs behind plans for higher Port Authority tolls
[WNYC]
10. Farewell dinners at Queens restaurant M. Wells
[NYT]
11. The fate of NYC apartments nobody wants to own
[WNYC]
12. Why homeowner subsidies should end
[NYT]
13. Is Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens the the new old Times Square? [WNYC]
14. Toll Brothers looking into Forest Hills tennis site
[WSJ]
15. Uproar over choice of Gene Kaufman to design Hotel Chelsea renovations
[MediaBistro]
16. Taking a look at proposal for Jared Kushner’s Puck Building
penthouses
[Curbed]

17. Karl Fisher’s 505 Flushing has new facade
[Brownstoner]
18. Chelsea art dealer Marc Jancou starting Geneva branch
[WSJ]
19. Work on 340 Court Street in Carroll Gardens begins
[Brownstoner]