We learned that:
- David Shuster has his facts wrong on ground zero, not afraid to show it.
- The current tenant of Obama’s old 109th Street apartment is nonplussed.
- The city has put Tavern on the Green on the leasing block!
- A rezoning could add 3,400 apartments to 30 blocks of the South Bronx.
- Polo Ralph Lauren re-upped at 650 Madison in ’09’s biggest leasing deal.
- Soho eatery Lola shuttered after bitter feud with neighbors.
- Related gave $8 million to M.T.A. as consolation for rail yards delay.
- Vavilov is selling a disputed Plaza condo he just bought.
- The middle class is fleeing New York, partly because of rising housing costs.
- In January, Queens again led the city in residential foreclosure auctions.
- Manhattan apartment rents are falling fast, a new Citi Habitats report says.
- New York State could get $41 billion-plus from the federal stimulus.
- Bill Thompson, comptroller and candidate, rejected Brooklyn jail contract.
- There’s an industry push to include affordable housing in federal stimulus.
