We learned that:
- There's unfinished condos haunting McCarren Park.
- Douglas Durst had to add another digit to the national debt clock.
- Advocates and critics continue to spar as the Willets Point vote nears.
- Mort Zuckerman's not too fond of the Wall Street bailout.
- Columbia bought a warehouse in its West Harlem expansion footprint.
- Manhattan's office vacancy rate's expected to climb into double digits.
- CB Richard Ellis is the new leasing agent for the Hearst Tower retail.
- Sex shops and dominatrix schools are weathering the recession.
- Brooklyn open houses are empty.
- The city picked General Growth to lead a team to build big on East 125th.
- REBNY pegged the average city home sales price at $783,000.
- CBRE wants everyone in commercial real estate to calm down.
- Sam Chang wants to build a 25-story hotel on West 36th.
- Lehman's ex-mortgage banking chief bought a 10-room condo.
- The city projects fewer tourists this year than last.
- The city's environmental commissioner joined Trinity Real Estate.
- Former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff hired a former Spitzer deputy.
- NBC Universal keeps mulling its midtown office options.
- MTV promised contest winners a stay at "luxurious" Hotel Penn.
- A new Web site tracks New Yorkers' carbon footprints.
- Gentrification has started to roll back in some neighborhoods.
- Prices are jumping for four-bedroom Manhattan co-ops.
- New operators are making plays for Scores' buildings.
- A lawyer wants to flip an East 65th townhouse for $15 million.
- Two Lower East Side apartment buildings traded for $170.8 million.
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