The Real Estate

The Round-Up: Thursday

Javits Center expansion plan still alive, though in a less ambitious form. [NY Times]

New deal with Spanish energy firm will produce hundreds of wind turbines statewide, doubling the state’s wind power in just a few years. [NY Times]

Small wind turbines—the kind Bloomberg wants to see installed throughout the city—may not produce enough electricity to justify their cost. [NY Times]

Former Credit Suisse brokers indicted for securities fraud. [NY Times]

Bronx and Brooklyn bus drivers were assaulted 103 times over the last year and a half. [NYDN]

Top New York court hears Bianca Jagger’s plea to get her UES apartment back. [NYDN]

City Council to pass bill today making scaling city skyscrapers a criminal A-misdemeanor. [NYDN]

Gimme Shelter: The skinny on Tommy Hilfiger’s recently listed $50 million Plaza pad. [NY Post]

Paul McCartney on the hunt for an eight-figure UES apartment near new lady-friend. [NY Post]

Summer real estate market wasn’t as gloomy as expected, brokers say... [NY Post]

And the future might not be so bad either. [NY Sun]

New restaurants shoring up a struggling commercial real estate market. [NY Sun]

Tenants facing tough rents turn their apartment into a “quasi-hotel” to make ends meat. [NY Sun]

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