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On the Market: One57 Penthouse Buyer Revealed; In Favor Of Demolishing the Folk Art Museum; Union Square Condo Prohibits Smoking

A-Train service to the Rockaways to be restored by month’s end. [Crain's]
Buying vs. renting in Brooklyn’s tight real estate market. [DNAinfo]
Tear the Folk Art Museum down! cries critic. [TRD]
Rent-hiked tenants groups hate Anthony Weiner for decontrolling units. [Post]
Jersey City Heights creates arts district, hopes to draw creative types. [WSJ]
Only fair-market tenants allowed to use Tribeca condo’s gym. [Tribeca Citizen]
Garodnick questions sunrise provision in Midtown East rezoning. [Crain's]
Flowerbox apartment wants more in resale attempt. [Curbed]
Inside Eli Zabar’s UES townhouse. [NYT]
City plans to sell off councilwoman Inez Dickens’ real estate debts. [Daily News]
Elderly woman is the last to leave Fourth Avenue development site. [DNAinfo]
Bill Ackman leads a group set to buy One57 penthouse for more than $90 M. [WSJ]
Union Square’s Zeckendorf Towers becomes largest no smoking building in US. [Post]
Critics slam plan to swap Flushing Meadows greenspace for old airport. [Daily News]

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On the Market: Crowdfunding Real Estate Developments; Gowanus Gets a Bridal Boutique; City Must Continue to House Sandy Refugees

Here comes the bride! Gowanus to get its first bridal boutique. [DNAinfo]
Greenpoint residents love the mysterious rooster who wakes them up at dawn. [Bk Paper]
Crowdfunding real estate projects spreads to Brooklyn. [NYT]
Judge orders city to continue housing residents displaced by Sandy. [WSJ]
Finishing up a nine-unit apartment building in Bed-Stuy. [Brownstoner]
Shuttered seaport bars open wine and beer pop-up. [DNAinfo]
Developers put a fence through middle of magical children’s garden on LES. [Curbed]
Will generation Y and their downtown-living ways change the housing game? [WSJ]
Rockaway co-op claims that rush to repair beach damaged the property. [Daily News]
Stuy-town’s mid-lease rent hike infuriates tenants. [Crain's]
Architect Ismael Leyva lists Central Park West apartment for $7.75 million. [TRD]

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On the Market: Cipriani Gets Newsstand Moved Down the Street; No Pets In Real Estate Photos; Does Everyone Hate Bike Share Racks?

Loving the idea of bike share, hating the racks. [NYT]
Meanwhile, Brooklynites stock up on aesthetically-appealing bikes. [Bk Paper]
Want to start co-working in Brooklyn? [DNAinfo]
Hedge funds are betting on Fannie and Freddie. [WSJ]
Cipriani Wall Street gets newsstand moved down the street. [Post]
Abingdon penthouse sells for $22 million. [TRD]
A look back at Brooklyn’s automobile industry. [Brownstoner]
Keep the pet out of the picture when you’re trying to sell a house. [WSJ]
Locals agitate to have Fort Greene “dust bowl” astro-turfed over. [DNAinfo]
One Hanson Place penthouse returns to the market for $3.6 million. [Curbed]
POPS! A new plaza opens by the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. [Crain's]
New York spends about $95,000 a year on body bags. [NYT]
Larry Silverstein gets another shot at super-luxury hotel-condo in Lower Manhattan. [WSJ]

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On the Market: Gowanus Canal To Become Less Sewagey; America Hates Its Hipsters; Revamping Midtown East Streetscapes

City seeks developers to rebuild Sandy-ravaged neighborhoods. [Crain's]
They’re also looking for developers to restore Staten Island wetlands. [DNAinfo]
Greenpoint architecture is super, super contextual these days. [NYT]
Don’t you wish that your house had a trellis room? [WSJ]
Jenny’s new block: J-Lo set to buy a $10 million mansion in the Hamptons. [Post]
City hires consultants to revamp Midtown East’s (soon-to-be-rezoned?) streets. [Curbed]
Soccer arena parkland is totally replaceable, says Bloomberg. [CapitalNY]
East River floating pool just needs half-a-mil for a mock-up. [DNAinfo]
Considering the tiny, beloved antique Carroll Street Bridge.  [NYT]
Check out what the Hudson Yards culture shed would look like inside. [WSJ]
Citi Bikes are not racing bikes or fixies and that’s not a bad thing. [Streetsblog]
Americans hate hipsters but still love PBR. [Post]
Privately-funded public parks: still controversial. [Atlantic Cities]
Gowanus Canal will become 34 percent less sewagey. Will still be super-fundy. [CapitalNY]

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On the Market: 1 WTC Spired But Struggling; Side Boob at Stuy Town; Bangladeshis Rebuild Brownstones

No major leases signed at the WTC since Condé Naste. [Crain's]
WeWork joints Forest City Ratner for Seward Park bid. [WSJ]
One World Trade Center gets its spire [AP]
TRD reviews Charles Bagli’s Other People’s Money [TRD]
Side boob at Stuy Town! [NYP]
Bangladeshis in Kensington dominate brownstone restoration. [NYT]
The Journal thinks Prospect Park South is next to Park Slope. [WSJ]
Guys, people like skyscraper views and The Times is on it! [NYT]
Greenpoint gripes about the G train. [Crain's]
Eyal Ofer switches from offices to apartments and gets noticed. [WSJ]
Two alternative beaches for Pier 42 on the Lower East Side. [DNAinfo]
Floral Park gets anti-McMansion rezoning. [WSJ]
Park Slope mansion with 90-foot ballroom asks $6.5 million. [Curbed]

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On the Market: MoMA May Not Demolish Folk Art Museum After All; Co-op Sues Over One57′s Crane Plans; Ben Stiller Sells Apartment At a Loss

Greystone acquires half-finished Williamsburg condo coversion for $16 million. [TRD]
Bullet-scarred doors reveal violent realities of living in the projects. [NYT]
Real estate developer plans to build fine art storage facility in LIC. [WSJ]
New York will receive $10 million for affordable housing from new state program. [Crain's]
Not very funny: Ben Stiller takes a $1 million loss on Riverside Drive duplex. [Curbed]
New affordable artists’ housing development is coming to West Chelsea. [DNAinfo]
Firm issuing foreclosure settlements flubs up yet again, delaying homeowner relief. [NYT]
Two of the Clinton Hill homes featured in sisters’ vintage decorating book. [Curbed]
Alwyn Court sues Extell to halt second evacuation because of One57 crane. [WSJ]
Naftali Group pays high above $45 M. ask for old parking garage on West 77th. [Crain's]
Opponents rally to protest renovation of Fifth Avenue Library. [NYT]
Poet Taylor Mead succumbs to stroke after settlement with Shaoul. [Bowery Boogie]
Replica of iconic Dumbo watertower to be displayed at Brooklyn Bridge Park. [DNAinfo]
MoMA might not demolish the Folk Art Museum after all. [Architect's Newspaper
In "Related" news: Time Warner is considering a move west, to Hudson Yards. [WSJ]
New condos in a historic district: 20-story glass tower rises by Madison Square. [NYT]
Pearl clutch! Upper East Siders are all in a tizzy over proposed medical complex. [Curbed]
Hell’s Kitchen just wants a normal grocery store, not some posh Eataly-style market. [DNAinfo]

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On the Market: Graffiti Artists Tag Brooklyn Bridge Construction Panels; Back When the Battery Was a Beach; Documenting Truly Awful New York Apartments

A reflection on money, power, real estate and the One57 crane. [NYT]
Rockabus will still ferry sunbathers to the ravaged Rockaways this summer. [Crain's]
Graffiti artists love the construction paneling covering the Brooklyn Bridge. [WSJ]
A Tumblr of truly terrible affordable New York City apartments. [Atlantic Cities]
How Williamsburg rallied around Olso Coffee after the coffee roaster’s fire. [Grub Street]
City hopes that co-operative in Bk Navy Yard will kick off a manufacturing resurgence. [NYT]
Dueling candy stores to duke it out this summer on the Coney Island boardwalk. [Bk Paper]
Remembering Battery Park City when it was actually a beach. [Tribeca Trib]
The St. Regis is the most expensive hotel in Manhattan. [Post]
The old brick building at 301 West 46th Street is not long for this world. [Vanishing NY]
H.H. Richardson’s early work still stands in Staten Island. [Curbed]
Stretch of Water Street slated to become pedestrian shopping and dining plaza. [WSJ]
City Council plans to greenlight Cornell’s Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island. [Curbed]
Silverstone buys Dumbo site for $45 million with luxury condos in mind. [TRD]
Lawsuit accuses Hasidim of racial discrimination in Broadway Triangle apartments. [Daily News]
Swanky Post House restaurant at the Lowell Hotel will close for six months of repairs. [Crain's]
What to do when you inherit 700 dolls from your mother? [NYT]

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On the Market: Inside a $10 EV Apartment; Controversy Grows Over Soho Nonprofit’s Expansion Plans; Why Are We Flipping Out Over Bike Share?

A look inside the $10 East Village apartments at  Jupiter21. [Gothamist]
Spit it out! Bruce Ratner stumped by SPURA acronym. [DNAinfo]
Meanwhile, does SPURA really need 500 parking spaces? [Streetsblog]
Thor Equities pays $23 million for mixed-use development by Barclays. [TRD]
Surprise! Lower Delancey Street’s quiet character is being colonized by commerce. [NYT]
State Senator John Sampson charged with embezzling foreclosure funds. [Daily News]
Exploring some of the more unusual apartments on the Upper West Side. [DNAinfo]
Soho nonprofit’s expansion and sale of air rights to a condo next door riles neighbors. [NYT]
Boerum Hill is invaded by a giant, but gentle, bee swarm. [Gothamist]
Long Island laboratory used by Tesla is purchased by nonprofit. [WSJ]
Is the city tracking drivers with EZ pass meters stationed at intersections? [Bk Paper]
Deconstructing New York”s total meltdown over bike share. [Atlantic Cities]
Mayoral candidates call on Forest City Ratner to hurry up with the Atlantic Yards housing. [Bk Paper]
Tennis Association makes land swap agreement with city, enabling Flushing Meadows expansion. [Crain's]

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On the Market: Public Housing Agencies Push For Time Limits; Greenpoint Will Get A New Park (and Condos); How Much To Get Your Name On a Building?

A Tribeca street now seems to be closed off because of Citi Bike. [Tribeca Citizen]
But at least this brewery in Astoria supports bike share. [DNAinfo]
Public housing agencies push for time limits, work requirements of residents. [WSJ]
What’s a house doing in the middle of Grand Central? It’s a promotional ploy. [NYT]
City inks deal with Chetrit and Bistricer to build condos in Greenpoint. [Crain's]
What you can expect to see on the Park Slope historic home tour. [DNAinfo]
Tracking Gatsby’s influence in the world of real estate development. [NYT]
Is there a shark living in the Harlem Meer!!?? (Probably not.) [Gothamist]
Architect pens another defense of the doomed Folk Art Museum. [Design Observer]
Like everything, getting your name on a building is more expensive in NY—about $100 million. [NYT]
If Martin Amis ever left his gentrified bubble, maybe he wouldn’t hate Brooklyn so much. [Atlantic Cities]
Plans for a newer but smaller, Donnell Library space in the basement of the Baccarat Tower. [WSJ]

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On the Market: Seward Park Bids Submitted Today; Swig Sued By Ex-Wife for ‘Wanton Dishonesty’; One57 Crane Requires Residents To Vacate a Second Time

Kent Swig sued by ex-wife over $12.5 million loan taken out on 740 Park spread. [Daily News]
Alwyn residents ordered to vacate because of One57′s crane for a second time. [NYT]
Is it bars’ responsibility to prevent patrons from drinking too much? [DNAinfo]
Jones Day considers move to 400,000 square foot space downtown. [Crain's]
Developers will submit bids, with some unusual partnerships, on Seward Park today. [WSJ]
Historic churches threatened with demolition as developers close in. [Post]
How parents use real estate to get their kids into a good public school. [NYT]
Is a reality show to blame for Marble House’s sales problems? [Curbed]
Car-hailing app Uber expands offices in Long Island City. [WSJ]
Politicians want to tout Queens tourism, transform it into the next Brooklyn. [Crain's]
Rents in North Williamsburg on average $1,600 more than in South Williamsburg. [DNAinfo]
Cyclist dies after suffering a heart attack in the Five Boro Bike Tour. [Daily News]
Real estate reporter falls in love with $11 million gingerbread home in Bay Ridge. [Daily News]
Man’s apartment-seeking poem has actually netted a lot of promising leads. [Gothamist]