1. U.S.
foreclosure filings increased 57 percent and bank repossessions more than
doubled in March from a year earlier [Bloomberg]
2. Compressed video of new pool and ice rink facility rising in
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park [AMNY]
3. A property manager paved over a sidewalk flower garden maintained by tenants
at an Upper West Side building, despite pleas
from residents [Post]
4. The block between Broadway and
Eighth Avenue and between West 54th-55th streets
faces more change than most Manhattan
blocks [Post]
5. Advertising titan Saatchi & Saatchi has renewed its lease for 819,000
square feet at Tishman Speyer’s 375
Hudson Street, at the corner of West Houston Street [Post]
6. Some say the government needs to solve the mortgage crisis
because it is to blame for encouraging homeowners to buy homes with mortgages
they couldn’t afford [WSJ]
7. The most expensive restoration of stained glass in U.S. history is under way at St. Thomas Church
on Fifth Avenue
in Midtown [NYT]
