MSG renovations starting soon, Webster Hall in financial trouble … and more

1. Madison Square Garden $500 million renovations to start soon [Curbed]
2. Greek diner at Bellevue Hospital to remain open [NYT]
3. Increased amount of signed contracts suggest home sales are set to increase [WSJ]
4. Update on the partial building collapse at 48 North 1st Street [Brownstoner]
5. Recently landmarked Webster Hall may be filing for bankruptcy [DBTH]
6. Hotel rooms available at the Waldorf-Astoria for $200 a night [NYDN]
7. REITs may raise about $582 billion by 2013 for acquisitions [Bloomberg]
8. Mortgage delinquencies increase for ninth quarter in a row [WSJ]
9. Should Governors Island be the new Guantanamo? [NY Mag]
10. Future Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayer owns an apartment in the West Village [Downtowny]
11. Toll Brothers’ second-quarter losses decrease [WSJ]
12. FBI works to prevent fraudulent uses of TARP money [Reuters]
13. The largest U.S. bankruptcies [Fortune via Yahoo]
14. No end in sight to foreclosures, editorial says [NYT]
15. Some price cuts at 80 Metropolitan [Brownstoner]

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