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1. Forest City Ratner says Frank Gehry hasn’t been fired from the Atlantic Yards project [NYT]
2. A look at an old plan for Moynihan Station, a project still in limbo [NYO]
3. New York City will see 243,000 more layoffs in the next two years [Crain’s]
4. Robert Scarano-designed project at 365 Union Avenue dressed in black [Curbed]
5. Macy’s will close 11 stores in nine states [AP via WPIX]
6. 53-story hotel coming to 835 Sixth Avenue [Curbed]
7. Goldman Sachs’ take on the real estate market [Curbed]
8. City paying more for stadiums [Queens Crap] and [NYDN]
9. YWCA looking for retail tenants [Brownstoner]
10. Holiday Inn opens in Long Island City [GlobeSt]
11. City Council Speaker favors revamping ULURP process, Manhattan Beep worries community input could end [NYO]
12. Citi reaches deal on home loans [AP via WABC]
13. New jobless claims drop, unemployment still rises [AP via CBS]
14. Grubb & Ellis co-founder dies and Kojaian is new Grubb chairman [San Francisco Chronicle] and [GlobeSt]
15. Fixed mortgage rate falls to record low [Bloomberg]
