- 1. As sellers work harder, buyers take their time [NYT]
- 2. Median Manhattan prices and sales volume are comparable to
prices in the second half of 2007, according to preliminary sales records in
February [NYT] - 3. Lobbyists for developers with plans for the far West Side collected more than $5 million from 2004 to
last year [NYDN] - 4. Spitzer unveils plan to save Moynihan Station [NYT]
- 5. More than 25 retailers will open in Lower Manhattan
and over 8,000 new homes will be occupied by year’s end, according to the Lower
Manhattan Development Corp. [Post] - 6. A new “pre-war” condo in Manhattan causes a stir [NYT]
- 7. Seventh Avenue between 11th and 13th streets could be a construction zone
for 10 years, if big projects proposed by the MTA and St.
Vincent’s Hospital are approved [Post] - 8. The FBI is investigating whether Countrywide may have
misrepresented its finances and the soundness of its loans [NYT] - 9. The Lower East Side, East Village and Chinatown
draw the most noise complaints in the city [Post] - 10. Old power plants no longer put off developers [NYT]
- 11. The 25-foot-wide limestone building at 813 Park Avenue has been under construction,
in foreclosure or on the market for most of the past few decades [NYT] - 12. The so-called survivors’ stairway has been removed from
ground zero [NYT] - 13. A Target has opened at Brooklyn College,
at Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues [Brooklyn Junction] - 14. Rocky Sullivan’s pub, once a cultural fixture in Manhattan, resurfaces in
Red Hook. [Brooklyn Eagle] - 15. Brooklyn Asssemblyman’s foreclosure moratorium bill gains momentum [Brooklyn Eagle]
- 16. Yonkers’
industrial waterfront is being reclaimed for homes [NYT] - 17. Brooklyn is home to five of the city’s 10 neighborhoods with
the most subprime loans: East Flatbush, Ocean Hill/Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, and Bed-Stuy [Brooklyn Rail] - 18. A 15-story, 151-unit luxe condominium called the Thread
Building is going up in Union City by the western
end of the Lincoln Tunnel. [NYT]
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