If you’re considering a vacation home in Connecticut, New Milford is nice. [NYT]
Who needs vegetables? Long Island City brewery will offer beer CSA. [DNAinfo]
Despite fair housing laws, gays have a harder time renting. [Atlantic Cities]
Rubin Schron offers $2 billion for the Empire State building. [TRD]
Preservationists hope JFK’s defunct Worldport Terminals will be saved. [WSJ]
Lisa Simonsen snaps up Dolly Lenz’s $95 million Pierre listing. [TRD]
LIC parents’ group wants 5 Pointz artists to graffiti dull school wall. [BS Queens]
Park Slope’s magnificent Adams Mansion sells right at $5.9 M. ask. [Brownstoner]
Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle plan in bullet points, maps and pictures. [Gothamist]
For those who love River House, but can’t handle its infamous board. [Curbed]
Court rules that the Parks Department can put a restaurant in Union Square. [Crain's]
Speaking of Parks controversies, locals are enraged over the club in Fort Washington Park. [NYT]
MTA may speed up Greenpoint Citibike roll-out because of G train closures. [Daily News]
What will the Brooklyn Public Library do with the spared Pacific Street branch? [Bk Paper]
Coney Island is poised for a comeback, but Horace Bullard’s visions remain unbuilt. [NYT]

NYU gives its academic stars loans for summer homes. [NYT]
Some Stuy-Town tenants may get a reprieve from mid-lease rent hikes. [Curbed]
Chelsea Clinton’s husband lists condo, prepares for Whitman relocation. [TRD]
New York’s narrowest house finally finds a buyer. [Curbed]
Bloomberg’s SeaPort City plan hits with a thud. [WSJ]
Iggy Pop’s video tour of the East Village. [Gothamist]
Developers can’t agree on a name for the far East Village, but sales are brisk. [NYT]
Brooklyn paper reporter tries out for the Brooklynettes. [Bk Paper]
BAM South plan wins city council approval, but with a few concessions. [Crain's]
Michael Kimmelman on MoMA’s Le Corbusier exhibition. [NYT]
What we can take away from the Phoenix housing market’s resurgence. [WSJ]
Hundreds of residents are pissed about J. Crew pushing out Cobble Hill grocery. [Bk Eagle]

The Brooklyn Tech Triangle wants to become mandatory. [Crain's]
Another festival coming to destroy Prospect Park. [BK Paper]
22-story hotel planned for East 47th Street. [TRD]
Eight units spread over 44,500 sq. ft. planned for Pat LaFrieda’s Village meathouse. [BBH]
Quinn, de Blasio and Liu want a rent freeze. [NYT]
Developers and contractors push Scaffold Law reform by June 20. [Curbed]
The sequester could force layoffs at NYCHA. [NY1]
James Gardner calls 3 Hudson Boulevard “another phoned in high-rise.” [TRD]
Sixth Avenue rents are falling. Good luck, 3 Hudson Boulevard! [WSJ]
Yorkville building continues NIMBY crusade against subway entrance. [DNA]
Left turn ban dooms Fourth Avenue safety improvements. [BK Paper]
Summering in New York: “Now it’s like all my peeps—it’s all Jewish women my age.” [NYT]
18 Gramercy Park sets a neighborhood price per square foot record. [TRD]
The EDC seeks developers for mall developers on Staten Island’s South Shore. [WSJ]

E gads! A woman sustained minor injuries on a Citibike. [DNAinfo]
How Superstorm Sandy will reshape the building code. [Crain's]
A changed neighborhood houses two architectural retail gems. [NYT]
Housing group presses New York’s next mayor to make affordable housing gains. [WSJ]
Ben & Jerry’s to create city-inspired ice cream flavors. [Atlantic Cities]
Manhattan broker investigated for photoshopping townhouse photos. [Post]
Related to ban smoking in all apartments nationwide. [NYT]
Williamsburg community board to fight boozy barbershop. [Gothamist]
Neither cars nor bikes flock to Barclays, arena-goers favor public transport. [NYT]
Thor Equities is also going on a buying spree in Chicago. [Bloomberg]
Midtown South office leasing tightens, but Downtown lags. [TRD]
Mansion supply dwindles in America’s wealthiest towns. [CNBC]
Meditation is becoming more mainstream in New York. [DNAinfo]
Now renters are unable to find a $2,800 a month two-bedroom in Greenpoint? [Brownstoner]
Storage companies focus on increasingly lucrative Manhattan market. [TRD]
Neo-traditional affordable housing rises in Bed-Stuy. [Brownstoner]
Daily News claims that Coney Island is attracting “hip” chains. Like Applebees. [Daily News]
MTA awards $208 million contract to complete the first phase of Second Ave. subway. [Crain's]
Fed paper revives debate about taking over underwater mortgages via eminent domain. [Bloomberg]

Some people are using Citibike for spinning (why not just bike?). [NYT]
Barclays brings a few new customers to nearby businesses. [WSJ]
New Bay Ridge massage parlors stoke fears of prostitution. [Bk Paper]
Dolly Lenz is leaving Douglas Elliman—but where is she going? [TRD]
A happy ending: Story House condo sells out. [Curbed]
The carriage houses of Brooklyn Heights. [Brownstoner]
Hasidic women complain that there’s no guarantee of a female lifeguard. [DNAinfo]
New York City beaches get sharp new signs after Sandy. [Atlantic Cities]
Florida billionaire Jeff Greene is planning two Manhattan condo projects. [TRD]
McCarren Park tennis courts to get heated bubbles in the winter. [DNAinfo]
We all scream for ice cream: the frozen yogurt invasion of Astoria. [Daily News]
Firefighters rescue trapped firefigthers dangling outside of Hearst Tower. [Post]
NYCHA plans layoffs and senior, community center closures in response to sequester. [WSJ]

The Super Bowl will bring a toboggan to Times Square in 2014?! [Gothamist]
Marketing professionals rejoice at finding $2,500 one-bedroom in Boerum Hill. [NYT]
Coney Island businesses want city to subsidize ferry from Manhattan. [Bk Paper]
Soho Louis Vuitton adds in-store atelier. [Racked]
Rents rise in Manhattan; the median rent in Soho/Tribeca is now $5,300. [Crain's]
Bike share is popular, but plagued by uncommon glitches. [NYT]
Subtle forms of discrimination still persist in the housing market. [Atlantic Cities]
The 1910 “high class” apartments of New York. [Curbed]
Goldman Sachs to get huge property tax break on headquarters. [TRD]
Cobble Hill produce store space to become bar. [DNAinfo]
But you know who isn’t complaining about Citibike glitches? Queens. [Brownstoner]
Dumbo mom takes storage ottoman to the next level with storage beanbag. [DNAinfo]
At $30k a month, triplex loft in the Village is too rich for even successful artists. [WSJ]
Letitia James threatens to withhold support for condo and cultural center. [Crain's]
A lot of people are still against the NYCHA land-lease luxury housing plan. [WSJ]

Veterans find V.A. mortgage loans hard to swing in New York City. [NYT]
A tour inside Greenwood Cemetery’s catacombs. [Gothamist]
Is Related delaying the on-sale date of One Madison Park again? [Curbed]
Park Slope’s Tracy Mansion gets second price chop, is now just $15 M. [TRD]
Corcoran courts potential brownstone sellers in Bed-Stuy. [Browntoner]
New York’s population is growing, but where will we put them? [WSJ]
Harvard to women in 1961: graduate urban planning study not worth it. [Atlantic Cities]
Moving forward: RFP goes out for Queensway park design. [DNAinfo]
New York City’ newest immigrant enclaves. [NYT]
Are corporate home buyers inflating housing costs across the country? [WSJ]
Project Runway’s Christian Siriano has a kick-ass loft. [Village Voice]
Your Bushwick apartment may be rent stabilized. [Brokelyn]
Foreclosure threatens to shutter a counter-cultural soapbox. [NYT]
Owner wants hardship exemption to tear down landmarked UES apartments. [Crain's]
Parents at UWS’s P.S. 199 break from PTA to openly fight redevelopment plan. [DNAinfo]
Super generic blurb about Greenwich Village residents opposing a new development. [Post]

Co-op at 778 Park Avenue wants $29 million (and the board demands all cash). [NYT]
In fact, a lot of places are demanding all cash, and not just in New York. [NYT]
Inside Dumbo’s new $4.1 million townhouses. [Curbed]
Coney Island beach boutique Lola Star re-opens post-Sandy. [Crain's]
New York’s movie theater revival, with architecture both good and bad. [WSJ]
Tenant lawsuit against NYCHA forces immediate repairs at Smith Houses. [Daily News]
Christian Candy tries to sell Plaza penthouse for $59 million. Good luck. [Curbed]
Broken hearts, but not leases: living together when the love is gone. [NYT]
Luxurious stud farms, where race horses go to retire. [WSJ]
Developers flocking to Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Crain's]
UWS in tizzy over ramshackle brownstone, demand owner sell. [Daily News]
Hasids divided over bike share; some want it, others really don’t. [DNAinfo]
WSJ columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz doubles down on her bike hating. [Gothamist]
Residents forced to evacuate after Hudson Heights retaining wall collapses. [Daily News]
Boerum Hill building comes with a “squatter”—the former owners’ lease-holding son. [Post]

With end of Rockefeller Center lease looming, Warner Music considers W. 34th. [Crain's]
Midtown hotel cuts power, evacuates guests after electrical fire. [DNAinfo]
City plans to transform vacant Coney Island restaurant into amphitheater. [Bk Daily]
Art group rents a Soho wall from co-op to create reverse graffiti. [WSJ]
And in Brooklyn, an artist creates plaques for the borough’s forgotten historic sites. [Curbed]
A house cleaner, of the spiritual sort. [NYT]
Times Square tower to try for $1.6 billion. [Post]
Forest City Ratner selling stakes in national shopping malls for $425 million. [Crain's]
Court Street grocer doesn’t want to be displaced by J. Crew. [DNAinfo]
Kate Spade stores to open with no products, only a touchscreen for ordering. [Crain's]
McCarren Park finally re-opens after months of repairs, just in time for summer. [DNAinfo]
Chelsea community board has numerous issues with bike rack placement. [DNAinfo]
Realtors’ commissions jump by the largest amount in the last eight years. [WSJ]
If you can get them to pay: broker sues “Baby Jane” Holzer for dodging $720k commission. [Post]

Bloomberg’s post-Hurricane rebuilding effort, buyouts included. [Capital NY]
Fort Greene townhouses are now renting for $14k a month. [Brownstoner]
New York City ranks second in national survey of city parks. [NYT]
The R Train to Brooklyn will close for a year as MTA repairs East River damage. [WSJ]
Brooklyn Heights residents bury Citi Bikes in trash to protest station placement. [Post]
Lax zoning and a love of big houses leads to lots of teardowns in Englewood Cliffs. [NYT]
Woman starts petition to oust adult kickball league from LES park. [DNAinfo]
Check out the renderings for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s newest condos. [Curbed]
NYCHA nearing the halfway point on meeting its backlog for repairs. [Crain's]
Empire State IPO moves forward, despite ongoing legal challenges. [NYT]
Technology companies spreading beyond traditional Midtown South stomping grounds. [WSJ]
Plaza gets huge tromple l’oeil banner to cover up restoration work. [Post]