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The Closing: IHOP at The Limelight; Four Year-Old TriBeCa Condo Closes on it’s First Sale; Family Time at ‘Occupy Wall Street’

A poetic look at Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Bloomberg]

Columbus Day meant a day of furiously angry political non-violent protest—err, make that quality family time, down in Zucotti Park. [WNYC]

You were totally correct about what the Limelight shopping area was missing… an offering of international pancakes. [Rea lDeal]

What cyclo-fascists can learn from the folks of “Occupy Wall Street.” [StreetsBlog]

From the “Sign O’ the Times” Files: high-end Italian eateries with Batali lineage are being repossessed by the bank. In Cobble Hill!. [Brownstoner]

Only four years after going on the market, TriBeCa’s V33 sells its first unit. Congrats all around… [Curbed]

If Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk don’t get their collective act together, it looks like Fifth Avenue might be screwed. [Gothamist]

A former Morgan Stanley hedge fund called PDT will sublet two floors of space from Random House at 1745 Broadway. Best thing we’ve seen today? A hedge fund called “PDT.” (You’re welcome “Occupy” readers). [Crain's]

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Can You Really Put a Price on An Unparalleled View of Queens? (Would it be $16 Million?)

New York City is home to an almost endless plethora of unique and breathtaking views, from the skyscraper-laden length of Manhattan island, to the one and only Statue of Liberty and the harbor over which she watches welcomingly, and the watery quasi-tunnel of love created by the arches of iconic bridges like the Brooklyn, Williamsburg and 59th Street.

Just get up to a roof in any part of this grand ole’ town and look around! Aren’t you just dizzy from the majesty?

Dizzy enough to let Corcoran talk you into spending almost $15.75 million on a view of Northern Queens and the city’s largest mental hospital? Read More

The Neverending Story

Will NYC be moving in or what?

Lease for City Offices at 4 WTC Not a Done Deal

Recently percolating rumors about the NYC Human Resources Administration taking up space at 4 WTC upon its completion might be just that, according to The Post.

4 WTC is shaping up as Larry Silverstein’s less expensive option to his 7 WTC development, with spaces reportedly going at $10-$15 less by square foot, but that isn’t apparently stopping Silverstein & Co. from trying to find potential private sector tenants to outbid public ones like the Federal Government’s General Services Administration, which just took up a space at 1 WTC. Read More

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On The Market: Jay Walder’s Verazano Joy Ride; Time Square Affordable Advertising; Somewhere, DJ Kool Herc is Crying

You down wit’ L.P.C.? The Bronx’s hip-hop ancestral home is facing foreclosure. [Daily News]

A drop in prices for Times Square billboards seems to be good for businesses of all kinds. [Journal]

So what if Jay Walder likes a little (taxpayer-funded) adventure on his way out the door at the M.T.A.? [NY Post]

Meet the 97 year-old panhandler who plies his trade in the name of a free Cuba. [NY Times]

Greenpoint Avenue will now face the Hamlet-esque “to park or to bike lane?” dilemma. [Brooklyn Paper]

Occupy Wall Street: Now with home visits! [Crain's]

Will the Village ever be happy with the Rudin’s St.  Vincent’s plans? [ArchPaper]

DOT expanding the sidewalks on the way to Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brownstoner]

Can City Center revive that old magic? [NY Times]

Building a Victorian hotel, down to period antiques and materials. [Journal]

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The Closing: Rich People Who Love Dirt; The UES ‘Mullet Tower;’ M.T.A. Is Growing Dangerous, Erasing Whole City Streets

Local college students will soon be able to seek substance abuse counseling in TriBeCa. What could go wrong? [NY Times]

One synagogue in Park Slope might just have the sukkah of the future, and it’s beautiful. (“Your cousin Ari worships there, you know,” says your mother. She’s “just saying”) [Brooklyn Daily]

Fun fact of the day: In the tony suburb of Bedford, wealthy locals apparently fetishize dirt. Kinky. [The Journal]

That neon condo-thing in LIC is going back to the proverbial drawing board for marketing ideas. [Curbed]

BrickUnderground bids a sad “adieu” to its anonymous doorman columnist. [BrickUnderground]

So, that guy who’s rabidly protesting Corcoran in Ft. Greene? Yeah, he’s blogging now… [buyersbewarecorcoran.com]

Is Global Holdings playing a financially dangerous waiting game at 120 Park? [Crain's]

The M.T.A. didn’t actually make a whole West Village street disappear… did they? [NY Times]

Go check out Edward Hopper’s old studio this weekend, courtesy of “The Purple Fog.” [DNAinfo]

Alright you bike fascists, get “geared up” for bike share presentations tomorrow (ed note: we spoke your language with the “geared up” thing so you don’t come complaining to us when you’re inevitably disappointed with the bike sharing plans. See? we’re cool). [StreetsBlog]

How is a new UES condo project like a mullet? Here’s how… [The Journal]

Chill! It's just art babydoll.

New Yorkers Are Now Officially Afraid of Art

It was the second phrase written in the sky yesterday afternoon that sent a collective shiver down the spines of many New Yorkers, and sent their apparently fertile imaginations reeling for meaning. In fact, the disembodied phrase led many to believe that the message, taken out of context, was the declaration of an impending attack on the city by a terrorist group as opposed to what it really was; an art project from those scallawags the Friends of The High Line, responsible for such terrifying public works as a certain West Side park. Read More

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On The Market: Latin Kings New HQ in The Slope; Traffic Mimes; A Fight to Keep The Bowery Sketchy

Park Slope is having it’s own “Occupying” issues with its public parks. [Daily News]

Some are fighting to keep The Bowery as seedy as possible. [NY Times]

Issues in the Park Avenue Tunnel are causing massive delays for M.T.A. riders this morning. [NY Post]

The South Slope is having a moment. [Crain's]

Koreatown! The only Manhattan ethnic enclave that’s growing, not shrinking. [Journal]

Here’s an interesting approach to traffic control. Thanks Venezuela. [Gawker]

Chutzpah alert: M.T.A. plans to create more “Minor Holidays” with reduced service. [NY Post]

A costly renovated Park Slope library will stay behind plywood for at least another year. [Brooklyn Paper]

There’s some backlash to local deliverymen using electric bicycles. (Wait, really?) [NY Times]

One foreclosure flunkies fall from grace. [Journal]

The Closing: NYC For Nerds; No Indoor Soccer For Brooklyn; A New Hope for Care at St. Vincent’s Site

The 9/11 Memorial might be TOO good for downtown businesses. [DNAinfo]

If you love the East Midtown “Greenway,” you’re not gonna be too happy with the UN for the next decade or so. [StreetsBlog]

Remember that awesome indoor soccer field proposal for Brooklyn Bridge Park? Yeeeeeah, it’s not happening… [BrooklynPaper]

There might yet be a future for health care at the the former St. Vincents site. [Crain's]

One Ft. Greene homeowner is going to war! Against Corcoran(?) [The Voice]

NYC: The Ultimate Guide for Nerds. [Gothamist]

Yet another delay for Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Ave. bike lane. [Brownstoner]

A slice of life from inside occupied Zucotti Park. [WNYC]

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Finally, a little truth!

For $30K a Month, You Can Pretend to Live in a Well Appointed Florida Retirement Home

Have you ever dreamed—at the end of the daily grind that is your Gotham-paced, workaday life—of returning to your very own Floridian, retirement community apartment?

Have you yearned for a home that conjures the laissez faire, laugh-track-accompanied lifestyle lived by The Golden Girls or Jerry’s parents on Seinfeld, but have been unable to rectify the time and cost of air travel and airfare with the rest of your lifestyle?

Well, if you make at least $360,000 a year in the course of that working life, we might have just stumbled upon your dream come true… Read More