The Round-Up: Wednesday

Recession or not, it’s business as usual for most New Yorkers. [NY Times]

Retrofitting old buildings with newer, sleeker, more energy-efficient facades. [NY Times]

Brooklyn finds room for national chains in the oddest of places. [NY Times]

Lincoln Center’s construction “maze” to stick around until 2011. [NY Times]

What $150,000 gets you. [NY Times]

When the marriage ends, what happens to the home? [NYDN]

MTA developing plan to crack down on bus fare-evaders costing the agency millions of dollars a year. [NYDN]

Residents of a five-story East Tremont building with collapsed ceiling and toilets that haven’t flushed for years suing its owners over shameful living conditions… [NYDN]

While residents of a Queens building with exposed electrical wires and raw sewage do the same. [NYDN]

Lehman Brothers continues negotiations with Korean Development Bank to sell a 25 percent stake in the investment bank. [NY Post]

Request for bidders released on the $27 million contract to demolition Yankees Stadium next year. [NY Post]

Times Building climber supports new bill that would throw daredevils like himself in jail. [NY Sun]

Columbia’s president seeks “conciliation” during one of the last public hearings on the university’s $6 billion expansion plan. [NY Sun]

Op-ed: Columbia’s proposed expansion violates Fifth Amendment. [WSJ]