New Yorkers get pinched … and more

1. New Yorkers are feeling the economic pinch [NYT]
2. Actor Tracy Westmoreland is looking at a Crown Heights location for a third version of his Siberia bar [NYO]
3. Daniel Baum, the 31-year-old co-founder and COO of The Real Estate Group New York, discusses city rents [NYO]
4. Older office buildings are getting retrofitted with new facades to cut energy costs [NYT]
5. Tenants at an East Tremont building in the Bronx are suing over collapsed ceilings, water leaks and moldy walls [NYDN]
6. How J.P. Morgan avoided the credit crunch [Fortune]
7. Vantage Properties has been hit with a housing court lawsuit over alleged violations at 43-43 91st Place in Queens [NYDN]
8. The 57-unit 339 Greene Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant is rising slowly [Brownstoner]
9. Demolitions are making way for more hotels on Gowanus’ hotel row [Gowanus Lounge]