What would Jane Jacobs do? … and more

 1. What would Jane Jacobs think of Atlantic Yards? [Brooklyn Paper]

2. After fatal accident at Trump Soho, some ask if city’s safety
nets rule goes far enough [NYT]

3.Stimulus package could boost housing market [AP via NYDN]

4. Bronx County Hall of Justice set to open after delays and
cost overruns of nearly $100 million [NYT]

6. City parks could sell naming rights to public places [Post]

7. State’s proposed bond insurance bailout questioned [Street]

8.Mortgage rates reach lowest levels in four years [Star-Ledger]

9. Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Credit
Suisse Group are eliminating about 1,640 jobs [Bloomberg]

11. Pfizer slams state Democrats plan to transform its abandoned
Williamsburg
factory into at least 1,500 units of affordable housing [Brooklyn Paper]

12.
Sen. Christopher Dodd says the government should buy troubled mortgages
from banks and investors and shift homeowners into loans that are
federally-insured or owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [WSJ]