No safe haven … and more

1. Renters aren’t safe from the subprime crisis when their landlords
default on their mortgages [NYT]
2. Around the world, from Ireland
to India,
there’s no escaping the housing slump [NYT]
3. The “Hands Across Harlem” rally against rezoning
only stretched across one block, but protesters managed to also slam Zimbabwe’s
Robert Mugabe [NYO]
4. The housing slump hasn’t slowed the tearing down of mansion
in Greenwich, Conn. [WSJ]
5. On two small blocks of Blackford
Avenue on Staten Island,
eight houses are in foreclosure and five others could be foreclosed [Post]
6. How to buy a Manhattan
apartment when you’re under 25 and make less than $50,000 (hint: you must have parents) [Post]
7. Housing advocates and tenants say investment firms are
undermining the city’s supply of affordable housing [NYDN]
8. When the restored Mark
Hotel re-opens later this
year, rooms will start at around $1,000 a night [NYT]
9. Deer Park, midway between Manhattan and the Hamptons,
has affordable housing and plenty of shopping [NYT]
10. The bankruptcy of the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries on East 71st Street has
led to the building hitting the market for $75 million [NYT]
11. At the Luxury Living condo sales event in SoHo,
home shoppers paid $10 to see properties around the city [NYT]
12. Big incentives to buy at a New Jersey development have drawn questions
about its prospects [NYT]