Helping homeowners … and more

1. Congress and the Bush administration agree at least that they need to do something to are to help struggling homeowners [NYT]
2. The Bush administration will expand a federal mortgage insurance program to allow up to 100,000 borrowers who face foreclosure keep their homes [Bloomberg]
3. A look at living in New Dorp, Staten Island [AMNY]
4. Small businesses displaced to make way for the Fulton Street Transit Center say they haven’t received any promised money [Metro]
5. Hospitality industry braces for a recession [Metro]
6. Durst’s Jonathan Drescher is busy working on a private school with retail that’s Being Built On West 57th Street a condominium on the Upper East Side near Central Park. [Crain’s]
7. Calls for moving shuttered Cheyenne Diner as Moondance was moved to Wyoming [Lost New York]
8. Moving the performing arts center planned for the former World Trade Center site to The Subway Station Planned For Fulton Street and Broadway gets mixed reviews [NYT]