Manhattan rents slow … and more

1. Manhattan apartment rents rose 5.5 percent in 2007, compared to the 10.4 percent increase in 2006 [Crain’s]
2. “Architecturally progressive retail” coming to Bushwick [Curbed]
3. West Side residents question MTA’s No. 7 extension [NYO]
4. New arrivals finally come to Brooklyn’s Lefferts Gardens [Brooklyn Eagle]
5. Residential rental building buyers adapt to corrected market [Sun]
6. Park Slope, the neighborhood everyone loves to hate [Curbed]
7. Reasons revealed for why ground-floor retail space at West 87th Street and Broadway has been vacant for so long [NYPress]