Defaults hit new high … and more

1. Defaults on home mortgages hit a new high last year [NYT]
2. More on why CUNY split with Forest City Ratner over its planned
City Tech Tower [Brooklyn Paper]
3. A look at Red Hook’s new Ikea [Brooklyn Paper]
4. Dumbo residents hope a neighborhood rezoning would block the
Walentas’ planned 18-story condo tower next to the Brooklyn Bridge [Brooklyn Paper]
5. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s offers lukewarm support
for congestion pricing plan [Downtown Express]
6. Opponents of Trump Soho sound off at public meeting [Downtown Express]
7. Tenants of the estate of the late Bill Gottlieb say they are
living in squalor despite big rent hikes [Villager]
8. The Buildings Department says it failed to ensure that
repairs were made to the Kushner Companies’ Harlem
building that collapsed this week [NYDN]
9. The High Line starts to take shape [Villager]
10. Citigroup
to shrink its U.S. mortgage and home-equity
holdings by about 20 percent [Bloomberg]
11. Greenpoint looks less like Little Poland every day [Brooklyn Paper]
12. Carroll Gardens residents lash out Toll Brothers’ planned Gowanus Canal development [Brooklyn Paper]
13. The demise of a 14^th Street shop is the latest
sign of the Village’s rampant gentrification [Villager]