5. Disney has been scouring Times Square for a new big flagship store [Post]
6. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver warned against what he called overzealous security plans at the World Trade Center [Post] and [Newsday]
7. Willets Points redevelopment supporters and opponents will sound off today at a City Planning meeting [Sun] and [NYDN]
8. Rockaway’s first comprehensive rezoning could be approved by the City Council in the next two days [NYDN]
9. St. Albans residents successfully blocked a plan to open a slaughterhouse on Farmers Boulevard [NYDN]
10. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has filed
discrimination charges against the owners and board of a Rockville
Centre co-op building for trying to evict an elderly disabled resident
who owned a dog [Newsday]
11. Midprice hotels are holding up well on Long Island [Newsday]
12. The proposed homeless intake center in Crown Heights drew heavy opposition at a public meeting [Brownstoner]
13. The Toren condo building takes shape in Brooklyn [Brownstoner]
14. A look at the new pavilion at the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue[NYT]
15. Standard & Poor’s has lowered ratings on some Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac securities, which could only make it harder for the
mortgage giants to raise capital [WSJ]