Crown Heights building for sale, housing prices to stay down in 2009 … and more

1. Partially-constructed Crown Heights building for sale for $8.5 million [Brownstoner]
2. The soon-to-be Brooklyn Bridge Park [NYT]

3. In Manhattan, just 20 property sales more than $5 million closed in the fourth quarter [NYO]

4. On WNYC show, Brian Lehrer looks at building-related deaths in 2008 [WNYC]

5. Housing prices predicted to stay low in 2009 [Business Week] and [Newsday]

6. 402 Washington Avenue gets housing upgrade [Brownstoner]

7. Assemblyman Richard Brodsky wants to delay vote on additonal bonds for Mets and Yankees stadiums [AP via 1010 Wins]

8. Wall Street starts year with rally [Reuters]
9. Interest rates likely to rise on larger home loans [WSJ]
10. Coney Island Coalition creates anti-Joe Sitt flyers [NYO]

11. Gowanus Lounge says real estate crash happened a year too late [GL]

12. Top 10 Brooklyn development stories of 2008 [GL]

13. Might be too late for the New York Times to sell a portion of its headquarters [Bloomberg]