New York City has been lying about its age for centuries, charge some historians. [NY Times]
Park Slope residents will welcome the resumption of alternate side parking today. [NY Times]
Yankees fans bid farewell to the best seats not in the house. [NY Times]
The city has refined the formula used to measure poverty to take into account housing, childcare, and clothing costs. [NY Times]
Governors Island is inviting development proposals for an arts and entertainment complex. [NY Times]
Without the promise of hefty bonuses, investment bankers and others on Wall Street have been transformed from aggressive apartment buyers to real estate pariahs. [NY Times]
The stripping of the 10th Church of Christ, Scientist, on Macdougal Street to expose the decaying face of its 19th-century precursor poses a curious question in preservation. [NY Times]
The South Carolina-native who made a fortune with an iPod case paid $6 million for one of the most expensive condos above West 96th Street. [NY Times]
Kathryn Suggs, who has been called “the most successful and reviled Harlem broker,” was involved in another legal wrangle over the sale of an apartment at Hillview Towers, a co-op at 345 West 145th Street. [NY Times]
Southampton is proposing a downtown-style center with housing and stores, a village green and a main street, but many residents worry that the stores may never show up. [NY Times]
Vornado plans to reduce height of Harlem Park by a third. [NY Times]
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo struck a deal with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would prevent them from buying a mortgage from a lender unless the home has been evaluated by an independent appraiser. [NY Times]
Federal regulators are bracing for dozens of banks to fail over the next year. [NY Times]
South Street Seaport’s Fulton Ferry Hotel is being restored. [NY Times]
A year after legislation was passed to regulate the pedicab industry, violations still abound. [NY Post]
There will be no more subdivisions in Stuyvesant Town. [NY Post]
New York is the biggest “political ATM” in the country, report shows. [NY Post]
The FAA is offering air traffic controllers in other parts of the country a $100,000 bonus to come to New York. [NY Post]
City Hall is looking to loosen the Cabaret Law making it “less onerous for patrons to engage in dancing.” [NYDN]
Investors appeared to welcome Washington’s efforts to shore up confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Monday. [WSJ]
