We learned that:
- Northern Brooklyn awaits its first new movie theater of the century.
- Harrison LeFrak loves McCain; Edward Linde loves Obama.
- The Beatrice Inn's neighbors haven't yet begun to fight!
- An ex-EDC official was fined for accepting honeymoon money from a contractor.
- A powerful Minnesota congressman pledges big transit bucks for New York.
- Edgar Bronfman Jr. sells his 1040 Fifth duplex for $21 million.
- Brooklynites have their own views on the Wall Street crisis.
- Harlem's evicted Record Shack owner is selling on the street.
- The credit crunch has driven some city property prices downward.
- The Bloomberg administration has a low foreclosure rate in its housing plan.
- Manhattan office leasing has slowed; it will keep slowing.
- The Planning Commission OK'd Willets Point and Hunter's Point South.
- Alex Rodriguez officially put his Trump Park condo on sale for $14 million.
- The Willets Point fight has spawned another blog.
- New York hotel room and occupancy rates jumped in August.
- Wall Street may unintentionally be undergoing a major rebranding.
- Commercial real estate pros face a tougher future in tougher times.
- Home sales are sluggish and prices down in the New York area.
- There's a deal at hand on simplifying the Calatrava transit hub.
- Plus, the Port Authority says the September 11 memorial will open by 2011.
- The mayor wants the Port Authority to absorb any memorial overruns.
- The city plans to memorialize Brooklyn's abolitionist activities.
- Extell has nixed its Costco plans at Riverside South.
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