NYC top housing official’s arrest may expose even more fraud, SL Green’s operation funds fell 40 percent in 3Q … and more

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1. A top housing official’s arrest may expose more fraud in HPD [City Hall]
2. SL Green’s operation funds fell 40 percent in 3Q [Bloomberg via Crain’s]
3. Friends of St. Mark’s Bookshop, which will shutter over rising rent, plan to picket and boycott any new tenants [Gothamist]
4. DOE may scrap unpopular rezoning plan for Lower Manhattan schools [DNAinfo]
5. Trader Joe’s is growing, but still aiming for quirky [LA Times]
6. The two-bedroom, book-filled apartment that Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Schlesinger used as a writing studio was purchased by his widow’s step-daughter [NYO]
7. Trump applauded Rick Perry for dipping his toe in “birther” waters [NYDN]
8. Did you know Richard Gere owns a New York hotel? [Business Insider]