The Round-Up: Friday

Tenant advocates claim they have begun to see a pattern of "predatory equity" and harassment of rent-stabilized apartment dwellers. [NY Times]

For the time being Cipriani's won't be serving Bellinis until the family resolves a dispute with the State Liquor License Authority. [NY Times]

Business owners in Willets Point charge the city with neglecting to provide basic services like sewers and snow plowing in an effort to devalue their properties and ease the path to redevelopment. [NY Times]

US retail performance was mixed in April, with discounters up more than expected. [NY Times]

West Hampton residents are up in arms over a local synagogue's plan to erect a symbolic plastic boundary. [NY Post]

A new school is coming to Chelsea. [NY Post]

The city is planning a crackdown on limos and livery cabs that illegally pick up fares. [NY Post]

Governor John Corzine wants New Jersey to be first state in the US North East to build an electricity generating wind farm off the coast of the Atlantic. [Bloomberg]

Flower retailers get a boost from Mother's Day. [NYDN]

The Brooklyn Borough President refuses to accept Mayor Bloomberg's plan to move the city's main intake center for homeless men from the East Side of Manhattan to Crown Heights. [NYDN]

Rudin Management is building a new public school in the East Village. [NY Sun]