The Finger’s fate … and more

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  • 1. The fate of the Finger Building in Williamsburg still hasn’t been decided [Curbed]
  • 2. How to pick a real estate agent [TheStreet.com]
  • 3. A San Jose real estate middle man called Vesta Strategies shut down this month and owes clients millions [WSJ]
  • 4. Lone Star Funds is spending $6.7 billion on Merrill Lynch’s mortgage-backed assets [WSJ]
  • 5. Dawanna Williams’ Dabar Development Partners has projects being built in Harlem, Fort Greene and Bushwick [Architects Paper]
  • 6. Extell is up to something in Hudson Square [Curbed]
  • 7. Is Sam Chang planning a hotel in Brooklyn? [Brownstoner]
  • 8. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York-based law firm, blames the down real estate market for its firing of 96 salaried lawyers [Bloomberg]
  • 9. Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development, says city reforms will save contractors money [GlobeSt.]
  • 10. A look at the city’s bitterest real estate battles [NYMag]