We learned that:
- The financial crisis has hurt FiDi's 24-7 rep.
- The Real Estate Book is trying to change the conversation through advertising.
- Richard Rogers unveiled his Port Authority tower plans.
- Interior designers are facing more skittish clients.
- CB Richard Ellis declared Fifth Avenue the world's priciest retail corridor.
- Cushman & Wakefield did, too.
- London's swankier neighborhood homes sales could hold lessons for New York.
- IFC is airing a film bashing the media for not bashing Atlantic Yards.
- Crisis or not, Manhattan rents remain absurdly high.
- Shoe retailer Camper bought a Soho spot for $16 million.
- Law firm Pryor, Cashman leased 100,000 feet in Times Square Tower.
- NYU's I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers won landmark status.
- Marc Shaw has left Extell Development to work for Governor Paterson.
- CBRE has formed a group to broker distressed assets.
- Ground was broken on East Harlem's first green affordable apartment tower.
- The City Council OK'd a downzoning of 111 Lower East Side blocks.
- The townhouse at 11 Spring has been price-chopped to $36.5 million.
- Related, Durst and YoungWoo unveiled proposals for Pier 57.
- The M.T.A. caught a lot of angry flak over its proposed service cuts.
- The city's joblessness, surprisingly enough, stayed flat in October.
- The 10023 zip code has had a plethora of $5 million home deals.
- Brooklyn retailers dread the holiday shopping season.
- Newmark predicts 4 million feet of Manhattan office space will come online.
- City Housing Authority Chairman Tino Hernandez resigned.