Influx of hotels in the Fashion District, Renee Zellweger sells UES pads … and more

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1. Fashion District counts 19 new hotels since 2005 [NY1]
2. Renee Zellweger sells two UES apartments for $8.95M to actress Leelee Sobiseski
[NYT]

3. Strange circumstances return Comfort Diner to East 45th Street
[Crain’s]

4. Mayor Bloomberg will challenge the Census Bureau on its city results
[NY1]

5. Fort Hamilton Library to reopen Monday after three years of renovation
[Brooklyn Paper]

6. Malba, located under the Bronx-Whitestone bridge in Queens, is among the borough’s wealthiest neighborhoods [NYT]
7. Crime is way down in Manhattan and that’s helping bring families back to NYC
[Bloomberg]

8. City Council member Alan Gerson leads group to block developers from purchasing the former St. Vincent’s Hospital campus
[WSJ]

9. The GDP grew at 3.1 percent in Q4 2010, higher than the 2.8 percent growth initially estimated [CNN]
10. Mara’s Homemade, an East Village restaurant, blames newly-installed bike lanes for closure [Gothamist]