2. City Planning Commission’s plan would stop homeowners from tearing up front yards and turning them into parking lots [NYDN]
3. Dinkins Gardens is Harlem’s first green building for low-income residents [NYDN]
4. Calls grow for landmarking two Queens homes where writer Jack Kerouac once lived [NYDN]
5. Skepticism meets new U.S. Treasury Department plan to regulate financial markets [NYT]
6. New federal Mortgage Origination Commission aims to fill gaps in regulating mortgage market [WSJ]
7. UBS bank will write down another $19 billion tied to “U.S. real estate and related structured credit positions” and its chairman will step down [NYT]
8. City wants to turn old Bellevue Hospital into a hotel [Post]
