Getting connected … and more

1. Residents are connecting online at the Gantry in Long Island City and will soon at Stuy Town [NYT]
2. All kinds of rich people are buying at The Plaza, even a rich felon [NYT]
3. Julian Schnabel has cut the price on a duplex at his Palazzo Chupi from $32 million to $29.5 million [WSJ]
4. Where’s the love in Park Slope? [NYT]
5. La Marqueta has declined in East Harlem [NYT]
6. It’s a buyers’ market in the suburbs [NYT]
7. William and Pat Buckley’s apartment will hit the market after one last bash [NYT]
8. The late Leona Helmsley’s clothes went on auction [Post]
9. More on Gov. David Paterson’s rent-stabilized apartment [Sun]
10. Scarsdale offers big homes [NYT]
11. Preservationists are working to save the old homes on West End Avenue [NYT]
12. Mortgage lenders have gotten more selective [NYT]
13. Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers filed a hardship application with the Landmarks Preservation Commission to demolish a building [Crain’s]