We learned that:
- Hillary Clinton doesn't want your subway fares to go up.
- The Wall Street crisis will impact city real estate immensely.
- Mario Batali's Del Posto took a PR hit regarding its sanitation.
- The city's hitting an affordable-housing roadblock in Hell's Kitchen.
- Mayor Bloomberg was optimistic in the face of the Wall Street crisis.
- Governor Paterson, on the other hand, was rather pessimistic.
- A less-slow bus service launched on 34th Street.
- The East Village's Death & Co. wants its landlord to pay doorman fees.
- Mayor Bloomberg thinks the downturn could be good for development.
- Richard Meier worries the downturn will affect his work here.
- Barclays will take Lehman's tower at 745 Seventh in $1.5 billion deal.
- Viacom's likely to re-up at SL Green's 1515 Broadway.
- REBNY loves the latest government bail-outs.
- The calls are growing for stricter eminent domain laws.
- New York's walkability could affect property prices.
- The city warned that Coney Island really needed to be rezoned.
- Two Upper West Side buildings traded for $111.5 million.
- The Milsteins and LeFraks are New York's richest real estaters.
- Donald Trump endorsed John McCain.
- The city fired back at Richard Brodsky over Yankee Stadium funding.
- The Paterson administration's ground zero report will be out Oct. 2.
- Park Slope is eating Fourth Avenue alive!
- Travertine restaurant will open at troubled 19 Kenmare Street.
- Kathy Sloane and Hall Willkie disagree about the Wall Street crisis.
- The Bronx and Brooklyn spurred the city's August unemployment jump.
- Commercial brokers expect rough times locally in 2009.
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