A Suffolk showdown on foreign workers ... and more

1. Suffolk
contractors would have to show workers’ status under proposal [Newsday]
2. Harlem residents and
preservationists slam 125^th
Street rezoning at hearing [Sun]
3. Placeholder park could be built at site of MTA’s Fulton Street
transit hub while long-term plans are settled [NYDN]
4. Jamaica Estates residents walk out of meeting on 485-bed St. John’s dorm
5. Defaults on privately insured U.S. mortgages rose 37 percent in
December from the same month a year earlier [Bloomberg]
6. Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue
is losing its battle with Fifth Avenue [Brooklyn Eagle]
7. On North Fork, a 135-acre
waterfront estate with 19-acre vineyard sells hands for $19.5 million [Post]
8. Standard & Poor’s reports that losses from
subprime-backed securities could exceed $265 billion [Bloomberg]
9. A look at living in White
Plains [AMNY]
10. Fight over Williamsburg
school exposes gentrification rift [NYDN]

A Suffolk showdown on foreign workers … and more