But here's some new information that everyone loves: Rent numbers!

Wonder how these numbers will affect Home Depot's strategy. The retail giant, according to various media including Real Estate Weekly, has been dragging its feet on signing a 107,000-square-foot deal at 345 Hudson.

The chairman of the Working Families Party wants to bet that his party will get more votes than the Conservative Party.

Josh Marshall thinks otherwise.

John Sweeney isn't hiding. He's campaigning in Home Depot.

Maybe it worked. Perhaps all the sympathy people just couldn't work up for Jeanine Pirro goes to our besieged and embattled state numbers guy.

The Fix has a list of the top 10 campaign commercials.

On the eve of a landslide victory in New York and Washington, Daily Gotham posts a list of Democratic Ideals.

Can you really pronounce this?

• Tribeca residents don't shop for food. They get Hermes and BMW instead. (Metro)
• Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to spend $19.5 million on six parks and public spaces in Lower Manhattan, including the lot bordered by Canal, Varick and Laight Streets. Oh, and frozen weeds. (The New York Times)
• The planned Cirque du Soleil theater at West 42nd Street did not receive a zoning bonus meant for Off-Broadway companies, striking a blow to developer Stephen Ross of Related Companies. (The New York Times)
• Brooklyn Bridge Park is approved. Officials wait for big name stores and hotels to buy in. Law suit is on the way. (New York Post)
• Mobsters find Home Depot an overrated supply store for home repairments. Instead, they choose tools with proven use and steal from a house under construction. (New York Daily News)
• Brooklyn Rock Festival begins next week. (BRF)
• Is it surprising that a Times Square venue is the biggest offender on the health department's restaurant inspection list? (Hotel Chatter)
• Table XII is unfashionable, traditional Italian to Frank Bruni. But is traditional the same as retro? (The New York Times)
• Jonathan Miller wonders, if budget surpluses allow politicians to push their agendas without giving sacrificing other necessities, will government housing projects increase, "assuming the housing boom is largely over and the market moves sideways for a while." (Matrix)
• Also, what does it mean that The National Association of Home Builders released a report that shows optimism has grown for rental apartments, but declined for condos? (Matrix)
• Page Six is merely asking: "WHICH scion of a real estate empire was slightly aghast when his surgically enhanced daughter-in-law sat down for dinner at San Pietro in a way too low-cut outfit and both of her new breasts popped out?"

• A wrap-around loggia porch makes for outdoor living and memorable parties. (The New York Times)
• The dumbest moments in real estate, including New York developers paying $37 million for air rights. (CNN)
• Mayor Bloomberg wants to speed this business of redevelopment downtown. But, the Port Authority moves at its own pace. (Crain's)
• The Outsider Fair comes to New York. (Sanford Smith)
• Why hasn't Newark experienced an economic boom, like Philadelphia or Detroit? (The Village Voice)
• New York Community Bank gives mortgages to the city's worst landlords. (New York Post) And, the group Housing Here and Now is asking that the bank's planned acquisition of Atlantic Bank of New York be stalled until it "compels its clients to maintain their buildings, which the group said the bank has the power to do under a so-called good repair clause in its mortgage agreements." (The New York Times)
• They serve good meat in Williamsburg. (The L Magazine)
• Hermes may join the great retailers' move to Lower Manhattan, beside the likes of Sears and Home Depot. (The New York Sun)
• A picture of the Long Island City development taking over the Pennsylvania Railroad Power House building, erected in 1909. (Curbed)
• Your Blackberry, one of approximately 4 million used in the U.S., may be shut down. It's must be Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley's scheme. (Inman News)
• It's all in the details, and fabrics, when creating comfort in your home. (Inman News)
• There are actually some 350 American members in the International Feng Shui Guild. (Forbes)
• There are more visitors to New York than ever. Here, the most expensive rentals in the U.S. (Forbes)
• That excitement, gratefulness for warmer city weather, can become a global weather problem. (National Geographic)
• The Underground Marijuana Railroad: 60 feet below ground, the trafficking tunnel began near the Tijuana, Mexico airport and continued for 2,400 feet to San Diego. (SF Gate)
• Central Park is the only park in New York City for which crime statistics are available. Unfortunately, it isn't the only park where crime is committed, but a new law may make the difference. (Gotham Gazette)

He and his family contributed $64,000 to Suozzi's "liberation" (as Tom has described it); Citizen Action counts up a total of more than $500,000 linked to Langone. (Some of those links seem a bit thin, but much is from Home Depot execs and other friends.)

Today's spin on the turf war included a letter to Fifth Ave. co-op board presidents, in which Mike implored them to leave parade security to the NYPD. Traditionally, the mayor's neighbors fortify their own digs with sheets of plywood, chain-link, and plastic netting, much to the chagrin of City Hall.

The Mayor's press office also disseminated a letter from parade organizers, who thanked Mike for his "personal intervention" in the matter and called him "a friend in City Hall."