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Linkage: Jay-Z Bows Out of Aqueduct Project; Atlantic Yards in Images

[Hey, Capital One, cool roof! Via Curbed Photo Pool/Harris Graber]

· A visual history of the Atlantic Yards project [Atlantic Yards Report]
· Before there was the Roosevelt Island tram, there was the Queensboro Bridge trolley [RI]
· Community boards start taking sides in Silverstein-Port Authority fight [Trib Trib]
· Construction, DOB complaints resume at Sam Chang's 132 Fourth Avenue [A Fine Blog]
· Jay-Z withdraws from Aqueduct racino project [Crain's]
· So where's Leona Helmsley's dog these days? [WSJ]
· Renovations about done at 47 East 1st Street [EVG]
· Murray Hill phone antennas hidden behind faux walls [PSFK]
· Annie Leibovitz has new creditors who probably won't take her townhouse [Reuters]
· Architects Polshek Partners design FDNY rescue company firehouse [Archpaper]
· Searching for Soho's most untouched block [Lost City]

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Linkage: Crane Owner Pleads Not Guilty; 7 Train Shutdown Ends Early; More!

[A bearded gent assesses Brooklyn's corpse, via Curbed Photo Pool/Josh Derr.]

· Injured worker at Ground Zero adds to Port Authority/city feud [NYDN]
· Harsh words for indicted crane owner as he pleads not guilty [NYT]
· Controversial-in-LIC weekend 7 train repairs mysteriously finished early [NYDN]
· Upper West Side taxi share sign is on the wrong block [DNAinfo]
· Wild possums threatening to plunge Brooklyn into total chaos [NYP]
· Skyscraper architect Frank Williams (had a hand in 20 NYC buildings) dies at 73 [NYT]
· Andre Balazs bringing Standard hotel antics to the small screen? [Page 6]
· Gowanus Canal Superfund designation derailing more real estate deals? [NYP]
· BPC condo owners getting relief on upcoming ground rent hikes? [DE]
· EV's Russian Orthodox Cathedral calendared for landmarking [Bowery Boogie]

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Linkage: Construction Workers Plan WTC Rally; Repairing Buildings With Lego!

[NYC in 8-bit map, via Kottke.org]

· What are the chances of landmarking for Coney's Shore Theater? [ATZ]
· New NYC real estate site calls itself "Priceline meets a dating service" [Malcolm Carter]
· The history of proposals for moving sidewalks in New York [Gothamist]
· Worker falls 20 feet into a hole at WTC site [DNAinfo]
· The scene at a few Harlem open houses this weekend [NYO]
· That neon signage in the Atlantic Yards renderings? Not actually allowed [No Land Grab]
· As WTC funding argument drags on, construction workers to rally [Crain's]
· Artist still repairing walls with Lego throughout the city [Newyorkology]
· Broker offers to give back fee from illegal rental [Real Deal]
· Ridgewood Theater will reopen this year [Bushwick BK]

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Linkage: FiDi’s New Hotel; New Zealand Loves Trump Soho; More!

[A federally recognized environmental disaster, via Curbed Photo Pool/Barry Yanowitz.]

· Obama administration looks to make short sales easier and more popular [NYT]
· FiDi's new World Center Hotel tries to cash in on WTC pit views [AP]
· Tenants at Harlem's foreclosed Riverton Houses rally to keep place affordable [NYDN]
· Affordable homes built by the city are avoiding the foreclosure bug [NYT]
· New Zealand lottery prize includes six-night stay at Trump Soho [Page 6]
· Bowling alley in old NYTimes building will be in former newsroom [NYP]
· New Coney Island amusement park to recreate old Astrotower ride? [CIHP]
· Related sued for not taking Queens apartment complex market rate [Real Deal]
· Save Ray's Candy Store: the clothing line [EV Grieve]
· Why won't you darned Upper East Siders share cabs!? [City Room]

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Linkage: More Scarano Reactions; Powder Mailed to Atlantic Yards Judge

[I.M. Pei on his unbuilt Hyperboloid project, via Real Deal]

· Freddy's Bar gets evicted [Village Voice]
· Atlantic Yards judge gets white powder in the mail [NYP]
· New York broker becomes e-pals with British dude, lists his medieval house [NYT]
· NY Mag's Justin Davidson on how Scarano deserves what he's getting [NYM]
· Tracing the changes at Atlantic Yards [Brooklyn Speaks via 'Stoner]
· Former city building inspector arrested for selling fake safety certificates [NYDN]
· Reporting from the front lines of a tram-less Roosevelt Island [RI]
· "Retail terrorism" hits an American Apparel in Williamsburg [FreeWilliamsburg]
· Sculptor sells Tribeca loft with 40 percent chop [Co-op Sales]
· Plans for I.M. Pei's unbuilt Hyperboloid [Real Deal]

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Linkage: NYC Unemployment Dips; Red Hook’s Wine Wars; More!

[Fresh looks at Staten Island's Freshkills Park, via Archpaper.]

· World Trade Center dispute appears headed for panel's binding ruling [NYT]
· NJ gov. wants Port Authority to finance two new WTC towers [NYP]
· NYC's unemployment rate bottoming out? [Crain's]
· Loan for 666 Fifth, biggest office building deal ever, seeks restructuring [Real Deal]
· Plenty of snacks coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park [Brooklyn Blog/NYP]
· Revamping of BPC's West Thames Park slipping behind schedule [Broadsheet]
· Inside the MTA's renovation of FiDi's historic Corbin Building [Downtown Express]
· Red Hook wine shop war less violent than old Red Hook wars [BK Paper]
· Washington Heights tenants complain about no bathrooms ... for two years! [NY1]
· Snowstorm took out Brooklyn Botanic Garden's prized tree [NYDN]

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Linkage: Port Authority Offers Silverstein a WTC Alternative; More!

[A new "green" project at 605-607 Manhattan Ave., via NYS]

· Port Authority offers Silverstein a little more money for WTC [NYO]
· Harlem church in contract for $2.2 million [Harlem Condo Life]
· Councilwoman Gale Brewer is standing up for Magnolia's sidewalk cafe [WI]
· Brooklyn contractors, at least, excited about Atlantic Yards [NYP]
· Woman raises bar for neighborliness by giving neighbor a time-share [BU]
· 452 Lafayette Avenue gets glassed ['Stoner]
· LIC's Queens West is getting Mexican restaurant from the guys behind Shi [Crain's]
· Why calculating apartment square footage is so complicated [Real Deal]

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Linkage: Baldwin Drops By 54 Bond; Wild Animals in Strange Place; More!

[Another look at Harlem's Aloft hotel, via Curbed Photo Pool/Tecttonic.]

· Alec Baldwin's housing hunt takes him to Bouwerie Lane Theater penthouse [NYP]
· Prostitutes, others on the Superfunded canal they love so much [NYT]
· Meanwhile, dolphin spotted swimming in polluted Newtown Creek [Gothamist]
· After Columbia and Central Park visits, coyote heads to West Chelsea [Huffington Post]
· Empire State Building getting 6,500 energy-saving windows [Crain's]
· Inside Andy Warhol survivor Ultra Violet's Carnegie Hill penthouse [NYP]
· Designers renovate young lawyer's FiDi bachelor pad on the cheap [NYT]
· Former mayoral candidate Bill Thompson new leader of Battery Park City [TribTrib]
· Sunnyside and Woodside join the rezoning party [Times Ledger/NYP]
· Upper West Sider emotionally recounts the death of her doorman [NYT]

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Linkage: Weekly Food Edition: Tables Still Set at Abandoned EVill Restaurant

[Teary restaurant closure signage at FiDi's Soda Shop, via Eater]

· West Village newbie Choptank comes away with no stars [NYT]
· But Jay Cheshes thinks the burgers there are okay [TONY]
· Sutton thinks Carroll Gardens' Prime Meats can compete with Manhattan [Bloomberg]
· Lights still on, tables still set at EVill's long-closed Sea Salt. Creepy! [EVG]
· What a night is like on the Rusty Knot Party Bus [NYT]
· Rules of conduct at a Harlem Chuck E. Cheese's: no knives, chains [AFB]
· Does the credit crunch mean the end of the interesting freestanding restaurant? [NYP]
· Owners of BLT restaurant empire part ways [NYT]

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Linkage: Knickerbocker Hotel Up for Grabs; UWS Trader Joe’s Delayed; More!

[Scaffolding coming off Park Avenue's Helmsley Building, via Restless.]

· UWS Trader Joe's at Broadway and 72nd pushed to Sept./Oct opening. [Westside Indy]
· Designer Isaac Mizrahi buys West 12th Street condo for $1.1 million [NYO]
· Troubled developer Kent Swig's 80 Broad Street in 'imminent default' [WSJ]
· Poverty in NYC either rising or declining, based on formulas [NYT]
· Times Square's Knickerbocker Hotel on the market after Dubai defaults [Globe St.]
· MTA getting earful on service cuts during citywide public hearings [NYT]
· 92-year-old Holocaust survivor wins Bensonhurst eviction battle [NYDN]
· Big commercial landlord Jamestown is giving green overhaul to buildings [NYT]
· PETA wants Times Square aquarium to have mermaids instead of fish [Developments]
· Bowery Boogie chats with the mayor of upper Orchard Street [Bowery Boogie]

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Linkage: TV Show Floorplan Porn; Gowanus Batcave in Photos; More!

[What 34th Street will look like with NYC's first busway, via Streetsblog]

· 34th Street might soon be home to a separated "busway" [Streetsblog]
· Floorplans of TV show NYC apartments [Gothamist]
· SL Green and Macklowe Properties headed for battle on 510 Madison Ave [Real Deal]
· Norah Jones window count now up to six [Lost City]
· Why Penn Station is so unbelievably confusing [Slate]
· Burj Khalifa aside, how are the world's other really tall buildings? [Bloomberg]
· Sheepshead Bay Hell House not too badly damaged in fire [Sheepshead Bites]
· Outraged Brooklynites already against 414 Hicks Street ['Stoner]
· Atlantic Yards' Mikhail Prokhorov loses $53.7M deposit on French mansion [NYP]
· A photo tour of Gowanus' Batcave squat, now less squatty [Nathan Kensinger]
· Sylvan Terrace row houses for sale in Harlem [Harlem Bespoke]

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Linkage: MTA’s Reality Show Delayed; Atlantic Yards Street Closures; More!

[Bright lights, big city; photo via Curbed Photo Pool/SpecialKRB.]

· MTA's budget woes claim new A&E reality show that would follow workers [NYT]
· Fallen Marines' families want control of Iran-connected 650 Fifth Avenue [NYP]
· Jay-Z, Russell Simmons getting subpoenaed in Aqueduct probe [NYP]
· Teetering-on-foreclosure 290 Mulberry appears to be peeling [Bowery Boogie]
· Unclear if Albee Square Mall demolition is a human rights violation [BK Paper]
· City largely spared from state's park cuts [NYT]
· Kent Swig sued for unpaid office renovation bills [NYO]
· City told to house more mentally ill in apartments, not group homes [NYP]
· Atlantic Yards street closures to go into effect March 8 [BK Paper]

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Linkage: Fire at Sheepshead Bay Hell Building; Norah Jones Adds Windows

[The ugliest building in Brooklyn? Brokelyn readers think so.]

· Sheepshead Bay Hell House catches on fire [NYP]
· Norah Jones window count increases to five [Lost City]
· Roosevelt Island residents do okay on first day without tram [RI]
· Citi Field loses its "C." Whoops! [NYP]
· Architecture critics start criticizing each other instead [Archpaper]
· What your apartment would look like if your mom worked for Martha Stewart [AT]
· Will NYC's million new trees actually destroy the city? ['Stoner]
· Gowanus building voted ugliest in Brooklyn [Brokelyn]

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Linkage: Real Estate Mogul’s Collapse; DOB Busts Contractor; More!

[Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/how_long_it_takes.]

· The rapid rise and shocking fall of real estate mogul Adam Hochfelder [NYT]
· Queens contractor forges certification on 195 documents filed with DOB [NYP]
· Roosevelt Island bids farewell to its tram for six months [NYDN]
· Glass atrium at Sony Building shatters, threatening Snooki [NYP]
· Linda Evangelista rents pied-a-terre at UES's Miraval Living [Page 6]
· Marriage problems for Kent Swig mean he's out at 740 Park [NYP]
· Forget Aqueduct, Long Island in line for glamorous casino project [NYDN]
· Harlem building foreclosure could kick out several businesses [NYP]
· Pol joins activists against school's Carroll Gardens expansion [PMFA]

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Linkage: New Harlem Hospital Has Projection-Screen Facade; More!

['Twas a dark and stormy day, via Curbed Photo Pool/Amazin' Jane]

· New Harlem Hospital Center has wacky glass projection facade [Harlem Bespoke]
· Jonathan Kimmel named as next head of ~~circus~~ Rent Guidelines Board [Real Deal]
· "Marketing magician" buys $5.27 million loft in at 143 Reade Street [NYO]
· NYC construction industry gets some good numbers news [Crain's]
· Examining fragile buildings along the Second Avenue Subway route [SAS]
· Foreclosed Red Hook townhouse sells for $270,000 ['Stoner]
· East Harlem non-profit hopes to buy a whole lotta troubled buildings [DNAinfo]
· Market for apartment buildings looks better [NYO]
· In Russia, world's biggest ad laughs at NYC advertecture [Animal New York]

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Linkage: High Line’s Scent Bottled; Toll Brothers Comedy Hour; More!

[High Line gets snowicaned! Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/Jason Kuffer.]

· Still no renderings of SOM's new Fifth Ave. building for New School [Villager]
· High Line perfume selling for $145 and up [NYP]
· Aspiring Village restaurateurs head to jail for threatening landlord [NYDN]
· Ex-mayoral candidate Bill Thompson to lead Battery Park City Authority [DE]
· Naked lady standing in Village art gallery's window: indecent? [NYT]
· Moinian defaults on loan backed up by new W Hotel in FiDi [Real Deal]
· Live blogging Bob Toll's quarterly conference call! (Dude's funny!) [Developments]
· DoBro finally gets something hipster-friendly: art gallery/taco stand [BK Paper]
· Meanwhile, new Bushwick café pushes gentrification along [BK Paper]
· $542 million contract (biggest so far) awarded on WTC Transportation Hub [Globe St]
· History of the LES's recently landmarked 143 Allen Street [Villager]

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Linkage: Still April for Trump Soho; Barclays Center Suites To Go on Sale

[Imagining a miniature New York, via Gothamist]

· People killed by falling trees in Central Park, on Fifth Ave [Gothamist]
· Amassing further evidence that April 9 is the big day for Trump Soho [Hotel Chatter]
· Advice to sellers on dealing with multiple offers [UrbanDigs]
· Roosevelt Tram closure starts Monday [NYP]
· Greenpoint commercial building going illegally residential? [NYS]
· Convicted concrete-testing exec tried to kill himself after conviction [NYT]
· Harlem shell still on the market after three years [Harlem Bespoke]
· Sale of Atlantic Yards' "brownstone suites" to launch [Real Deal]
· New York, in miniature and on video. Nifty! [Gothamist]

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Linkage: Deutsche Demo Getting Dollars; FiDi Rents Plunge; More!

[Abandoned squatter's shack on the banks of the Gowanus Canal, by Nathan Kensinger.]

· Concrete test fakers guilty on most serious charge: enterprise corruption [NYT]
· FiDi real estate dude says neighborhood rents off 25% from peak [NYP]
· Insurers to pay 1/3rd of Deutsche Bank Building deconstruction costs [NYT]
· But Deutsche still actin' all crazy, as now contractor is suing for $80M [NYO]
· Wood for Brooklyn Bridge Park's benches coming from demo'd building [BK Eagle]
· Watchtower will 'listen to any offers' on Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo properties [NYP]
· Apocalypse again avoided as Dolly Lenz wins annual award [Real Deal]
· Woman ditches Slope for Clinton Hill and does nice things to old co-op [NYT]
· PR gal fired on Kell on Earth is now a Halstead real estate broker [Page 6]
· Things not to tell your broker when selling (murders, etc.) [Brick Underground]

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Linkage: Weekly Food Edition: Eat for $1 in Hell’s Kitchen; More!

[Opening day at K! Pizzacone]

· Sam Sifton gives one star to Bay Ridge's Middle Eastern Tanoreen [NYT]
· Robert Sietsema likes Choptank, even with some crabcake silliness [Village Voice]
· Gael Greene likes Picholine, despite recent ch-ch-ch-changes [IC]
· A long look at the recent history and trauma of Tavern on the Green [NYO]
· Where to get food for $1 in Hell's Kitchen [Metromix]
· Breslin/Spotted Pig chef says he wouldn't open in Brooklyn [TONY]
· Bowlmor Lanes headed for second Times Square location [NYP]
· Robots make ramen! Cool or terrifying? [NYT]

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Linkage: UES is City’s Safest ‘Hood; Cooper Union Barf Blog; More!

[New homes in Red Hook via Curbed Photo Pool/b'klynborn.]

· Murdered celebrity broker Linda Stein's assistant found guilty [NYP]
· Ouroussoff pans new U.S. embassy in London designed by Philly firm [NYT]
· Archpaper shows rejected embassy designs by Pei, Morphosis, Meier [Archpaper]
· Posh section of Upper East Side deemed safest part of the city [NYDN]
· Nerds working on 3-D renderings of entire neighborhoods and cities [NYT]
· EV Grieve documenting Cooper Union barfing on EV Heave spinoff! [EV Barf]
· Nearly one in four U.S. homeowners underwater on mortgage [Developments]
· Russell Simmons vs. Jay-Z in Aqueduct casino feud?! [NYP]
· Calpers backtracks on predatory equity deals like Stuy Town, Riverton [WSJ]
· 340 Madison Avenue could be rare office building sale that makes money [NYP]
· Heavily subsidized Rockaway-Wall Street ferry getting killed off [NYDN]

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Linkage: Willets Point’s Traffic Strategy; A Couple’s Accidental Illegal Rental

[Beaming up passersby on Avenue A? Via Curbed Photo Pool/joannabethpdot]

· Willets Point opponents hope to derail redevelopment using traffic complaints [Crain's]
· The Novogratz clan adds what looks like showerheads to outside of penthouse [EVG]
· Taking a look at Brooklyn's Commandant's House [Scouting NY]
· Port Authority, Silverstein finally sit down for a chat about WTC redevelopment [Crain's]
· Soho's Ohio Theatre to close in August [Broadway World]
· Brooklyn's bike wars of 1896 [Gothamist]
· Manhattan couple finds out they're renting an illegal apartment [NY1]
· Myrtle Avenue Pratt building getting wrapped ['Stoner]
· Real estate bigwig sues over dumpy Hamptons rental [NYDN]
· Underwater mortgage stats keep getting worse [WSJ]

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Linkage: The Broker as Backup Plan; Subway Station Makeovers; More!

[The bike laneing of NYC, via Restless.]

· Recession turns aspiring housing advocate into real estate broker [NYT]
· Bonus bouncing tally: '09 bonuses up 17% to over $20 billion [NYP]
· Deliberations beginning in case of murdered broker Linda Stein [Real Deal]
· New five-year, $700M plan to fix up 150 subway stations [NYDN]
· New Treasury rules could make slow foreclosures even slower [Developments]
· Wacky retail scene on 57th Street is like 'four different markets' [NYP]
· City plans on saving $3.1 million by cutting parade lengths by 25% [NYT]
· Coney Island's Wonder Wheel goes green with solar panels [NYDN]
· Photo of bald eagles frolicking in Harlem! [NYP]

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Linkage: Carroll Gardens Residents Still in a Tizzy About Gardens; More!

[Urban exploration, now with fire! Via Gothamist]

· Adelphi finger building has topped out ['Stoner]
· Slow foreclosure process may get even slower [WSJ]
· Carroll Gardens residents still worked up about protecting their gardens [PMFA]
· How to make NYC even more walkable [Streetsblog]
· Urban exploration now involves setting things on fire [Gothamist]
· Inside the old powerhouse at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field ['Stoner]
· Ohio man bulldozes own home to avoid foreclosure [Zillow]

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Linkage: Mayor Alters Affordable Housing Plan; Red Hook Wine Whines; More!

[The former Hell's Kitchen Swimming Hole is rapidly rising; Photo via Curbed Photo Pool/Tecttonic.]

· Mayor switches affordable housing plan from creation to preservation [NYT]
· Violations and poor conditions mount as recession derails maintenance [NYP]
· Here's the web version of 60 Minutes' World Trade Center story [CBS News]
· Red Hook Gentrification Watch: Too many wine stores! [BK Paper]
· Lobbying for 3rd extension of first-time home buyers tax credit [Developments]
· Man spends 30 years turning rent-stabilized Avenue A apartment into log cabin [NYT]
· New Coney Island amusement park launches blog, is hiring [ATZ]
· Confusing but cheap share-a-cab pilot program to begin this week [NYT]
· Parks Department adopts policy of encouraging crazy pigeon ladies [NYP]
· St. Vincent's has been paying Eli Manning to stump for the hospital [NYP]

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Linkage: Bloomberg Sides With Silverstein on WTC; Cassa Aims for April 1

[Checking in on the Solow site at York Avenue and 61st Street, via Restless]

· Bloomberg still riding with Team Larry in WTC dispute [Crain's]
· Cassa Hotel still shooting for April 1 opening [Hotel Chatter]
· What 2009 was like for the furnished apartment market: not great! [NYHB]
· Unit in landmarked former synagogue now on the market for $1.295 million [EVG]
· A few more details on Hell's Kitchen homeless shelter-turned-gay-hotel [NYM]
· State park cutbacks hitting UWS pool, Jones Beach Fireworks [Crain's]
· How rezoning has failed to create walkable neighborhoods [Streetsblog]
· Checking in on rental 307 Atlantic Avenue ['Stoner]
· New Zealand's latest invention for renters: speedrenting! [PSFK]

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