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  • Jersey Senate approves plan to buy Stewart Airport.
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  • Home-builder Toll Brothers' profits fall 67 percent.
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  • Mortgage rates fall on slow housing market.
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    ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35776#comments Real Estate Cable News Network LP LLLP New York City The New York Times Company Toll Brothers Inc. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:59:11 -0500 Observer Staff 35776 at http://www.observer.com For Whom the Newspaper Tolls http://www.observer.com/node/33205 Having spent three years working for the Philadelphia Daily News (and having learned more about journalism from its former editor Zach Stalberg than just about anyone), I read about the paper's sale today with hope. I have to admit my heart sank a little when I saw that the lead owner is one of the Toll brothers. Memo to the glossy shelter books: The Toll Brothers are the builders who are helping to transform America, they are the demigods of sprawl, specializing in McMansions, those little big monsters with atriums, simulated divided light windows, polished granite countertops, unablock driveways for the SUVs and brick-veneer foundations. Ugh.

    I suppose the lesson is something I heard my wife saying on the phone to a friend the other day, when the friend was complaining about noise in her Westchester neighborhood. We are all now part of this awful sprawl, no one has immunity, we all must come to terms with it. Though $4 gas will do something.

    ]]>     http://www.observer.com/node/33205#comments Philadelphia Daily News Toll Brothers Inc. Westchester Zach Stalberg Wed, 24 May 2006 09:26:47 -0400 Observer Staff 33205 at http://www.observer.com