Barclays Center isn’t doing much for neighboring businesses, Sandy-ravaged trees used to build Brooklyn Botanic Garden treehouse … and more

1. Barclays Center isn’t doing much for neighboring businesses [Crain’s]
2. Sandy-ravaged trees used to build tree house at Brooklyn Botanic Garden [NYDN]
3. Singer John Legend makes tidy profit on East Village pad [TMZ]
4. FEMA to extend Sandy housing relief [Brooklyn Daily]
5. Googleplex set for 1.1 million-square-foot expansion [LA Times]
6. Barnes & Noble’s chairman says he wants to buy company’s retail assets [CNBC]
7. Christine Quinn stands tall on Upper East Side waste transfer station [Capital New York]
8. Townhouse at West 76th Street lists for $15 million [Curbed]
9. Meteors in the sky … in New York [NYT]
10. Bloomberg responds to de Blasio’s “boroughism” critique [Capital New York]
11. Introducing Brooklyn’s Bath Beach neighborhood [NYT]
12. Plans for Kaufman Astoria Studios could include luxury hotel [NYDN]
13. Union Square, in the beginning [Ephemeral New York]