1. Trophy homes are getting smaller and greener [NYT]
2. Gov. David A. Paterson and leaders of the Legislature reached
a rare compromise on foreclosures last week [NYT]
3. A lawsuit challenging the right of landlords to rent to illegal immigrants has sparked tensions over immigration [AP via NYT]
4. Elected officials and friends and relatives of two fallen
firefighters marched from the boarded-up former Deutsche Bank building to call
for safety improvements [NYT]
5. Residents of East 93rd
Street, angry about new developments, want the
block where Marx Brothers grew up to be added to a nearby historic district [NYT]
6. A three-block stretch of Prospect Park South has one of
the grandest residential streets in New
York City [NYT]
7. A look at Ditmars-Steinway, the Queens neighborhood that
runs from Astoria
Park to La Guardia
Airport [NYT]
8. At least 14 crane operators who failed a state test are
still operating cranes in the city [NYDN]
9. As one Bay Ridge prep school faces foreclosure, another
eyes its real estate [NYDN]
10. How do you buy a Manhattan
apartment from London?
With a broker and a high-definition video camera [NYT]
11. Residents of Peter
Cooper Village
and Stuyvesant Town say golf carts driven by
maintenance workers are a menace [NYT]