1. Fashion retailer Charming Charlie nabs first Manhattan location at Joe Sitt’s 445 Fifth Avenue [NYO]
2. Whole Foods comes to Newark [WSJ]
3. Taxes make New York worst state for business, report says [NYDN]
4. Grammy-winning sax player asks $3.75 million for Clinton Hill townhouse [Curbed]
5. Lower East Side historic synagogue a month away from becoming a cafe [DNAinfo]
6. Caesars Palace lures gamblers with gargantuan Ferris wheel [Bloomberg News]
7. 23 ways to prepare for the next Hurricane Sandy [Crain’s]
8. Tracking Chinatown’s change over two decades [Curbed]
9. Ridgewood Theater owner files to convert property into mixed-use building [Wyckoff Heights]
— Hiten Samtani