· Those Park Avenue dumpster pools open tomorrow! [Runnin' Scared]
· There’s a really weird mushroom growing on Park Slope’s Lincoln Place [City Room]
· Extell finds a taker, from India, for International Gem Tower space [NYP]
· Brooklyn’s One Hanson Place has only 18 units still on market [Crain's]
· UWS co-op asking $325K about to hit foreclosure auction block [Malcolm Carter]
· Inside the celebrity-only floor of the Empire State Building [Gothamist]
· Bloomberg still speaking out against those speaking out against mosque [City Room]
· Greenpointers upset over delays on two new parks [BK Paper]
· Meanwhile, in Atlanta, house sells with $25M PriceChopper after 15 years [WSJ]

· Whitney MePa groundbreaking will be May 2011 [Downtown Express]
· Stuy Town rent refunds could lead to chaos, landlords complain [NYP]
· Historic preservation tax credits cut from new state budget [Archpaper]
· LES auto garage sprouting 3 floors of apartments [BB]
· Extell’s 29-story hotel plans at Chelsea’s Antiques Garage delayed [NYT]
· Jersey’s Xanadu amusement park going to creditors [WSJ]
· Art vendors fight new park rules while adhering to them [Villager]
· Hidden Harlem art scene gets a trolley tour [NYT]
· Classic Jackson Heights movie theater could become a bank [WSJ]
· 97-year-old Sunset Parker pays less than his age in rent [NYDN]
· New brownfield cleanup program aims to entice developers [WSJ]

· Apartment hunter refuses to live with iPhone users [NYO]
· Renters struggling to readjust to the post-renter’s market reality [NY1]
· Bed bugs trying to get smarter by invading mid-Manhattan NYPL branch [Gothamist]
· Roosevelt Island, meet your new leader!
· Guy who put Spiderman on Governors Island to explain why he did it [GI Blog]
· Inside a pothole in Greenpoint (made ya look!) [NYS]
· Older building finally gets some props for being green [Crain's]

· Final WTC deal between Port Authority and Silverstein still not reached [NYO]
· The architecture arguments of the anti-mosque lawsuit [City Room]
· Hotelier Vikram Chatwal buys $5.4 million pad at Soho Mews [NYT]
· Union Square still has an old-school newsstand! Well, had [VNY]
· At home with Jonathan Ames in his $1,400/month Boerum Hill pad [NYP]
· A video game arcade survives in Chinatown [NYT]
· Group rallies at City Hall to support saving community gardens [City Room]
· Conversion of Greenpoint hospital into affordable housing smells fishy [BK Paper]
· DOB enforcer subdues wife beater on Queens highway! [NYDN]
· Street artist targets dog poop in Washington Heights [NYC The Blog]

· Tribeca branch of upscale Indian place Tamarind gets two stars [NYT]
· Food at Plein Sud is pretty but doesn’t taste like it [VV]
· Latin-Asian fusion at Zengo just doesn’t work [NYP]
· Star chefs coming to culinary wasteland LaGuardia Airport [NYT]
· Is Sheepshead Bay landmark better as a grocery store? [SB]
· New three-story dance club coming to…Gowanus? [NYP]
· Meanwhile, south Queens blowouts will be stopped by the NYPD [NYDN]
· Manhattan chain Dallas BBQ expanding to Brooklyn College [NYP]

· Condé employees react to 1WTC move: better than Times Square! [NYO]
· Buy the mansion where Chelsea Clinton got married! [WSJ]
· Iran’s Ahmadinejad may stay in the Hilton Manhattan East next month [NYP]
· Disgruntled WTC church says forget mosque, what about us? [AMNY]
· Bloomberg staffer owns stock in Atlantic Yards arena builder [NYP]
· 10 foreclosed Bronx buildings being sold to mystery buyer [Crain's]
· After auction, deal for m127 penthouse may finally be near [Malcolm Carter]
· Brooklyn cemetery sale will clear some shadow grave inventory [City Room]

· Last Aqueduct bidder standing gets state’s approval for $380M project [Crain's]
· Hotel Toshi office burglarized in possible inside job [NYP]
· Prospect Park’s Vanderbilt Playground finishes up $1.8 million renovation [IMBY]
· Only one person appears to want to run Roosevelt Island [RI]
· In mosque controversy, there are NIYBYs instead of NIMBYs [NYO]
· Nike has released a sneaker for each borough [Runnin' Scared]
· Newark may be getting a nifty vertical farm [PSFK]
· Beach Boy Mike Love sells a $1.6 million condo [NYT]

· Fort Greene’s BRIC TV studio/arts center getting glitzy makeover [BK Paper]
· Harlem’s rent-regulated Savoy Park having Stuy Townish problems [WSJ]
· Twilight babe checks out rentals on Bowery and in West Chelsea [Page Six]
· Only Aqueduct casino bidder left expected to win development rights [NYP]
· Queens couple has secret garden behind their house [NYT]
· A little late, but May condo sales report shows some impressive numbers [WSJ]
· Only 10 swimmers at a time in Park Avenue dumpster pools [NYP]
· Times Square may be anti-car now, but it ain’t anti-chariot! [NYT]
· BK woman electrocutes raccoons, compares them to Moby Dick [BK Paper]

· Woman dressed as sunflower climbed Central Park tree in garden protest [City Room]
· Guys allegedly bury $10,000 in NYC, hiding clues in puppet videos [Runnin' Scared]
· Chuck Schumer bought his Park Slope apartment for $157,000 in 1982 [NYO]
· A few fresh progress shots from the 96th Street subway station construction [MUW]
· Market is in the middle of a “seasonally” slow period, not another slide [UrbanDigs]
· But it hasn’t exactly bounced back, either [Crain's]
· UWS FSBO sellers contemplate giving up on FSBO experiment [BrickU]
· NYC still has a construction industry thanks to schools and hospitals [NYO]
· Upcoming dumpster pools show off for the cameras [Gothamist]

· Bicyclists dress as Paul Revere (above) to save community gardens [NYT]
· Donald Trump and Duane Reade, together at last in FiDi [WSJ]
· Mo Vaughn’s affordable housing empire motivated by his Mets failures [NYT]
· Upside of MTA’s bus cuts? More parking spots! [NYP]
· Chinese airline may buy NYC landmark at a discount, says China [Sun Kai]
· Glass master James Carpenter says we’re burnt out on glass buildings [NYT]
· Architect says his glassy new 1055 Park Avenue fits in just fine [WSJ]
· DoBro gets plaques to celebrate destroyed architectural heritage [BK Paper]
· L train tech problems to be 7 train tech problems come 2015 [NYP]
· 20-year-old killed in crazy Park Slope street brawl [NYDN]

· Renfro speaks on the architecture of the new Lincoln Center [Capital]
· Brownsville theater-to-school conversion officially gets rendered [Archpaper]
· Five co-ops and condos sell at city estate auction [Malcolm Carter]
· Chloe Sevigny has yet to actually apply for Community Board 3 [EVG]
· Brooklyn’s 25 Carroll Street converting to residential lofts ['Stoner]
· The long, strange story of a loft sale at 111 Hudson Street [MLG]

· Use of rent-stabilized apartment for campaign part of Rangel’s oopsies [NYT]
· Shorter Domino towers are also bulkier Domino towers [NYO]
· More details on Flushing Commons agreement at City Council [NYT]
· Harlem brownstone residents dealing with plant thefts [WSJ]
· Larry Silverstein doesn’t want to pay Windows on the World [NYP]
· Summer heat turns Gowanus Canal bridge into pedestrian hazard! [BK Paper]
· Harder to develop on Long Island than in Manhattan? [Developments]
· Rooster struts in City Island barbershop like it own the freakin’ place [YourNabe]

· Judge dismisses lawsuit by Aqueduct reject [Crain's]
· Citigroup forks over $75 million to settle subprime troubles [NYT]
· MTA chief Jay Walder buys $1.6 million UWS condo [NYO]
· Times Square’s new InterContinental Hotel opens with vine-cutting ceremony [NYT]
· Why are the Watchtower properties worth $1 billion? [BHB]
· Eliminating a niche, Brooklyn’s oldest black-owned gay bar to close [Gothamist]
· Adventures in marketing: try flyers on cars [EVG]
· Condo-gone-rental 349 Metropolitan officially hits the market ['Stoner]

· Carlos Slim paid cash and outbid Russian for $44 million mansion [NYP]
· Betsey Johnson designs bright pink Eloise Suits in Plaza hotel [NYT]
· Time for the annual story about the South Bronx heating up [NYP]
· Owner of obnoxious East Village bar says 100% of alcoholics love it [EV Grieve]
· Ex-head of NY carpenters’ union pleads guilty to decade of corruption [NYT]
· Mortgage broker says getting a loan now harder than passing a co-op board [BU]
· Damon Dash condo auctioneer cracked a joke! [NYT]
· Citibank sues developer to stay in Toy Building branch [Real Deal]
· City tells Kensington homeowners to fix their damn sidewalks [NYDN]
· Pair of new historic districts likely coming to Brooklyn [BK Eagle]

· New celeb hotspot The Lion gets one star [NYT]
· But another critic thinks same food is better and cheaper elsewhere [Bloomberg]
· At Torrisi, appetizers are good, entrees too forceful [New Yorker]
· New East Williamsburg bar is in an old coffin factory [NYP]
· DBGB is applying for sidewalk cafe license [Lo-Down]
· New West Village restaurant will use 60 percent produce from its rooftop farm [NYT]
· Community Board 7 wants bike deliverymen to wear numbers [DNAinfo]
· Latest food truck is Mexicue, offering, yup, Mexican barbecue [ML]

· Conan didn’t get asking price on his $29.5M Majestic penthouse [Page 6]
· MTA officially announcing its absurd fare hike proposals today [NYT]
· Community board doesn’t want ‘ground zero mosque‘ landmarked [NYP]
· Village’s Fedora closes, awaits transformation to glamour restaurant [VNY]
· NYT’s High Line obsession grows to include drum circles and knitters [City Room]
· Speaking of, High Line Section 3 takes another step towards preservation [NYO]
· Real estate exec’s collection of miniature landmarks is impressive, geeky [WSJ]
· Mayor’s bedbug-fighting plan will include a ‘bedbug czar‘ [Brick U]
· Architect creates cheap casket theme in new E. Williamsburg bar [BK Paper]
· Prospect Park geese return to the site of their slaughter [BK Paper]

· St. Brigid’s construction should be done next summer [EVG]
· Not all Shepard Fairey murals are vandalized equally [VNY]
· One Times Square hotel makes 10 ugliest list [HC]
· Rent-stabilized apartment hoarder Charlie Rangel hoping for a settlement [WSJ]
· Are people hallucinating marijuana plants on East Village sidewalks? [DNAinfo]
· Chef David Bouley sells his co-op on East 10th Street [NYT]
· McCarren Park getting new tennis courts [Greenpointers]
· A few hints of what’s to come in mayor’s bed bug report [BU]

· Latest crazy new playground about to debut at South Street Seaport [City Room]
· After audit, EDC will fork over $20 million in Times Square rent [NYT]
· Retail at gorgeous 225 Lafayette becomes mega Duane Reade [Bowery Boogie]
· Old boat remains found at WTC excavation get bagged & tagged [DNA]
· Some making big stink about city’s idea to charge for garbage collection [WSJ]
· Polluting buildings will heat with recycled restaurant cooking oil [NYP]
· Investigative report: commuter trains are slow during peak hours! [NYT]
· Old Spalding Building in Atlantic Yards footprint set for demolition [BK Eagle]
· Two-year Flatbush Avenue narrowing starting for arena construction [BK Paper]
· Second Ave. subway slowed by mechanical problems and slow digging [NYDN]

· No one knows when the Trump Soho pool will open [Hotel Chatter]
· Roosevelt Islanders respond to suburbia accusations [RI]
· A sales update and foreclosure avoidance plan for troubled 75 Wall Street [Crain's]
· Take a look at the retail and restaurant floorplans for 2 Cooper Square [EVG]
· Willis Avenue Bridge spent today traveling up the East River [DNAinfo]
· Billy Macklowe and dad officially split companies [NYO]
· Red Hook’s 123 Coffey Street will someday be residential but doesn’t look it ['Stoner]
· Chelsea Theatre sells for $4.1 million [NYO]
· Analyzing the numbers on affordable housing in Fort Greene [WSJ]
· Watching the light bounce off city buildings [Tribeca Citizen]

· From mob dumping ground to Target on Harlem’s Pleasant Avenue [NYT]
· Starwood opening 7 new NYC hotels, headlined by Harlem Aloft [WSJ]
· More delays for renovation of Pier A in Battery Park as contractor quits [Broadsheet]
· Soho stroller repair shop in Maclaren’s busiest in the nation [WSJ]
· WTC’s success hinges on lots of stuff we don’t understand, but there’s hope [NYP]
· ‘Rubulad’ artists allowed back into building, but rave space is closed [BK Paper]
· Upper East Side suicide inconveniences Starbucks customer [NYP]
· South Slope parking garage becomes special needs housing [BK Paper]

· 245 Tenth Avenue is ugly, but at least it wants to be [Real Deal]
· There’s only one bidder left, but Aqueduct contest continues [Crain's]
· 1200 Broadway loft sells now at close to ‘09 price [MLG]
· More pot found on the wild sidewalks of the East Village? [NYC The Blog]
· LIC probably getting a 20K-square-foot library, despite cleanup dispute [Crain's]
· Netting is now off on Scarano-trainee-designed 277 19th Street ['Stoner]
· EVill businesses not totally thrilled with new bike lanes [Runnin' Scared]
· Conservation group trying to get rid of Gowanus Canal stink with…a garden [NYP]

· Apartments selling faster, if they’re not ridiculously overpriced [NYT]
· Rep. Charlie Rangel still in hot water over four rent-stabilized Harlem apartments [NYP]
· Does Ray ever know peace? Now he’s threatened by an icey war [Villager]
· NYC recession ended in November 2009, but where the jobs at? [NYT]
· Newt Gingrich joins Sarah Palin as reasons to support ground zero mosque [NYDN]
· After outcry, empty Staten Island convent will not become a mosque [NYT]
· Planned new Greenpoint pier (and ferry!) hits snag over ownership [BK Paper]
· Residents at LIC’s Citylights driven batty by alarm from LIRR vent [NYDN]

· Tracking the uprooting of trees from Empire Fulton Ferry State Park
· Art dealer picks up neighbor’s pad for, oh, $5 million [NYO]
· A river now runs through Times Square (sorta) [Gothamist]
· Another Alexico Group project, this time a hotel, faces foreclosure [Real Deal]
· Preservationists withdraw landmark application for UES block [DNAinfo]
· One of Convent Avenue’s twin townhouses on the market for $1.21 million [HB]
· No approval for your brownstone side windows? Just paint them on, duh! ['Stoner]

· Mysterious-yet-powerful state agency approves Moynihan Station [NYO]
· Related Companies may invest in stalled Meadowlands crazyville Xanadu [NYT]
· Jersey City market check: stuff in new buildings going cheap [NYP]
· LES’s landmark Jarmulowsky Bank Building finally loses scaffolding [Bowery Boogie]
· Co-op boards can’t keep bedbugs off of Park Avenue [WSJ]
· Griffin Court mural artist read about contest on Curbed! (Yay us!) [NYT]
· Avenue D apartment building/girls club finally breaks ground [WSJ]
· High Line’s saviors winning Jane Jacobs Medals [Archpaper]

· Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit takes home two stars [NYT]
· Cuozzo likes the experience at Russian restaurant Mari Vanna [NYP]
· Another critic unimpressed by Plaza’s Todd English food court [TONY]
· Upcoming Lincoln Center restaurant will be called…Lincoln [NYT]
· Nolita finally getting a cupcake shop: Billy’s Bakery [Crain's]
· Managing partners of UWS wine bar forcibly removed from the premises [NYP]
· UWS’s Gus & Gabriel gastropub headed for closure [Grub Street]
· Prime Meats retail store opening soon ['Stoner]