1. HRA rethinking lease at 470 Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn
2. Luxury stores popping up in the Hamptons [Sag Harbor Express]
3. Divorced Brooklyn couple who shared a home still feuding — even at daughter’s wedding [NYDN]
4. Construction at Brooklyn Bride Park’s Pier 1 forces pedestrians into
street [Brooklyn
Paper]
5. New restaurant to open at site of former furniture store on Essex
Street [Bowery Boogie]
6. Column on progress being made on Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower [Arch Daily]
7. Soup Kitchen International returning to West 55th Street in July [NYT
via Grub Street]
8. Cities nationwide overwhelmed by economic downturn and debt
[Washington Post]
9. Second round of protests against proposed Staten Island mosque [SI Live]
10. Exploring NYC’s playgrounds [NY Mag]
11. Life insurers lower interest rates for commercial real estate loan
portfolios [Star Tribune]
12. Fundraiser being held for landmarked West-Park Presbyterian Church
[West Side Independent]
13. Second Avenue buildings crumbling from subway construction [Crain’s]