We learned that:
- Orthodox rabbis are trying to convert more Brooklyn hipsters.
- Wall Street leaned McCain on Nov. 3.
- Brooklyn went heavy for Obama.
- Related, M.T.A. face delay on their West Side rail yards deal.
- Class A office has dominated Manhattan’s ’08 investment sales.
- Home show popularizer Lauren Zalaznick has $3.35 million Village co-op.
- Obama T-shirt vendors dreaded the end of the campaign.
- The Museum of American Finance on Wall Street faces history head on.
- 15 Central Park West boosts the Upper West Side’s share of $5 million deals.
- The Daily News endorsed Bloomberg’s Willets Point plan.
- The housing market has to bottom out before the economy can recover.
- In October, Queens led the city in first-time residential foreclosures.
- Morgans Hotel staff got full pay during their time off to vote.
- A lot of real estate pros voted Obama.
- Bloomberg wants to immediately increase property taxes 7 percent.
- Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights has a blog!
- The city predicts office rents will fall and vacancy rates soar.
- REBNY reported moderately good health for the Manhattan retail market.
- Daniel Doctoroff has strong opinions on unions, activists and Eliot Spitzer.
- Scott Stringer will seek re-election to Manhattan beep.
- New York’s foreclosure totals pale against Los Angeles’ and Miami’s.
- A Furman study shows ex-homeless housing doesn’t drain property values.
- The Hotel Penn still makes Vornado money–$30 million this year so far.
- There’s a broker who wants to make Jackson Heights the next Park Slope.
- Philly home prices are falling.
- The Port Authority wants federal funds to help build a Jersey Transit tunnel.
- Rosie O’Donnell closed on her Times Square condo for $1.97 million.
