Newark awaits first residential tower in decades ... and more

1. Developer looks for financing for Newark’s first residential tower in four decades [NYT]
2. Use of aluminum scaffolding criticized at Trump Soho [Post]
3. Elmhurst,
Queens, tries to get noticed [NYDN]
4. Former real estate appraiser sues Washington Mutual,
alleging that the bank stopped accepted her appraisals after she reported a declining
market [CNN Money]
5. Preservation League of New York adds Jones Beach
to its list of most threatened historic places [AP via NYDN]
6. A group of actors that includes Robert De Niro, John Turturro
and Susan Sarandon are asking Mayor Bloomberg to help preserve the Carnegie
Hall studios [Post]
7. New foreclosures outpace the number of struggling borrowers
that lenders have reached out to [NYDN]
8. A look at Little Neck, Queens [AMNY]
9. Westchester commercial rents outpaced by Fairfield [Journal-News]
10. West
Village parents push
alternate plan for Pier 40 [Metro]
11. Banks go back to basics after subprime crisis [WSJ]

Newark awaits first residential tower in decades … and more