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Hip-hop home rally … and more
- 1. Politicians and tenants rallied Wednesday against the proposed sale of
1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, known as the birthplace of hip-hop [NYDN] - 2. The city is struggling to meet Mayor Bloomberg’s goal of cutting the homeless population by two thirds by next year [NYT]
- 3. A Yale pizzeria is opening in New York [Sun]
- 4. New Yorkers bear the second-highest tax burden in the U.S. after New Jersey [Sun]
- 5. Comptroller William Thompson Jr. is trying to make it easier for New
Yorkers to sue the city over property damage caused by last year’s
storm flooding [Sun] - 6. Brokers helped build a big Habitat for Humanity complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn [NYDN]
- 7. Greater New York’s personal income grew 7.5 percent last year, down
from 7.9 percent the prior year but well above the national rate [Crain’s] - 8. The $20 million Bridgehampton home designed by Brinkley’s ex is still unsold [Post]
- 9. A cleaning company hired in the 1990s at the Fulton Fish Market has
been charged with stealing $200,000 from the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey [NYT] - 10. A worker who had punched out and wasn’t wearing a hardhat got hit in
the head by a falling debris from a 30-story Midtown construction
project [Post]