Subprime crisis compared to Depression … and more

1. Congressional reps compare subprime crisis to post-Depression era at New York hearing [Newsday]
2. State needs $1 billion more for Moynihan Station [Sun]
3. Trump could join old former opponent to develop $700 million resort with thousands of slot machines at old upstate Concord Hotel [NYT]
4. The debate over landmarking I.M. Pei’s modernist Silver Towers [AMNY]
5. Architect Robert Scarano dropped from controversial “Heavy Metal Building” in Carroll Gardens [Curbed]
6. CUNY has put Hunter College’s Brookdale campus on the market, which could bring in over $250 million
[Post]
7. Roosevelt Island’s landmarked Smallpox Hospital continues to crumble
[NYDN]
8. A deal could be reached with Maspeth Development to save the historic St. Saviour’s Church from demolition
[Queens Crap]
9. Hudson Companies principal David Kramer named chairman of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy board of directors [Brooklyn Eagle]
10. Huntington, Long Island, named 100 Best Communities for Young People by
America’s Promise Alliance, organization founded by General Colin Powell
[Newsday]
11. Modernist architects have made their mark on the New York City apartment tower [Architectural Record]