The Round-Up: Tuesday
- Following Ugly Lawsuit, Senegal Closes on Site for New Mission
- Atlantic Yards Decision Drama! More Lawsuits as Financing Questions Remain
- Controversial Meatpacking District Tower Approved by City Board
- Harper's Bazaar's Valerie Salembier Gets a Bargain at UN Plaza
- Atlantic Yards Passes State’s Top Court [Updated]
Schumer report says there are as many as 60,000 low-income apartments in NYC in danger of falling into ruin because of “predatory” real estate investors. [NY Times]
Long-time Statue of Liberty concessionaires fend off challenges from bigger companies to have their contract extended for another 10 years. [NY Times]
Facing a massive rent increase, the Theater District’s famous Ray’s Real Pizza decamps to Jersey. [NY Times]
The Landmarks Preservation Commission struggles to balance the needs of anxious developers and well-mobilized preservationists. [NY Times]
New report reveals the scope of the elevator malfunction behind Jacob Neuman’s death. [NY Times]
Alain Robert—the first man to scale the New York Times building last summer—gets a $250 fine and three days community service. [NY Times]
NYC fixing up the worst housing complexes and charging the landlords. [NYDN]
As the economy tanks and more workers are laid off, New Yorkers are turning to “co-workspaces” to save money as they change career paths. [NYDN]
DOT balks on signing off on a new firehouse for the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department. [NYDN]
The city’s budget problems stall a plan to replace the 110th Precinct building near Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. [NYDN]
As the Yankees get set to enjoy their second baseball stadium, the local Bronx community will have to go without the four regulation ballparks swept away by the construction. [NYDN]
Realty Check: Eighty-story Park Hyatt Hotel to rise from Extell’s West 57th Street hole. [NY Post]
Vintage M.T.A. buses from the 60s and 70s return to NYC streets for the holidays. [NY Post]
In today’s restrictive lending culture, self-employed professionals can’t secure mortgages like they used to. [WSJ]
As giant mortgage lenders are slain by the credit crisis, smaller lenders step up to the plate. [WSJ]
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