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The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

Another crazy day on Wall Street, as the Dow swings 1,000 points before closing 100 points down. [NY Times]

The leaders of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
’s biggest companies met at the Stock Exchange today to discuss solutions to the nation’s financial crisis, and no, they didn’t mention more taxes or regulation. [City Room]

Swig suspends condo sales at 25 Broad. [Curbed]

Pieces of condo are falling from the sky at Williamsburg’s mega-development, 184 Kent. [Curbed]

Construction on the Whitney’s dowtown branch—due to open in 2012—officially begins. [Curbed]

More legal trouble for the Plaza: the building’s developer is suing its award-wining architecture firm for poor workmanship and breach of contract. [TRD TRD Trading
TRD Toyota Racing Development
TRD Transition Radiation Detector
TRD Technische Regeln für Dampfkessel (German: Technical Regulations for Boilers)
TRD Technical Requirements Document
TRD Trust Deed
]

DUMBO architect recycles buildings as he renovates them. [Brooklyn Eagles via TRD]

Guess where the oldest standing townhouse town·house or town house  
n.
1. A residence in a city.

2. A row house, especially a fashionable one.
 in Manhattan is? [Lost City via BoweryBoogie]

Revamped South Ferry South Ferry may refer to:
  • South Ferry, Manhattan, the ferry landing at the tip of Manhattan
  • South Ferry, Brooklyn, the former ferry landing at the foot of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
  • South Ferry (ferry), the former ferry between these two points
 subway station to open in December. [TransitBlogger]

Trader Joe’s coming to the Upper West Side next year. [Grub Street Grub Street

London street; home of indigent writers. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 394]

See : Poverty
 via City Room]

New York’s other Little Italy. [BoogieDowner]

Manhattan's celebrities are nesting as the economy tanks. [Daily Transom]
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Author:John S.W. MacDonald
Publication:The New York Observer
Date:Oct 10, 2008
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