Starbucks coming to Gowanus? … and more

1. Starbucks could be headed for the former site of An Auto Business On Fourth Avenue in Gowanus [Gownanus Lounge]
2. The 36th Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House opens today in the Manhattan House [Sun]
3. A look at living in Carnegie Hill [AMNY]
4. Work resumes at former Deutsche Bank building [AP via NYT]
5. The director of the Museum of Arts and Design shows off her home on the Upper East Side [Sun]
6. The 1930s-era Swingline Stapler building in Long Island City has gotten the city’s first tennis club to open in years [Sun]
7. Vacancies are up as a quarter of a million new U.S. hotel rooms are planned over the next two years [WSJ]
8. The F.D.I.C. proposes allowing the Treasury Department to lend $50 billion directly to up 1 million homeowners to ease the housing crisis [NYT]