The Real Estate

The Round-Up: Tuesday

Bush announces plan to invest $250 billion in U.S. banks and a federal guarantee of new debt issued by insured banks. [WSJ]

Dow jump 11.1 percent, while stocks soar worldwide. [NY Times]

Goldman Sachs applies for a New York State bank charter. [NY Times]

Fire that killed five family members in Chelsea this weekend caused by a child playing with a lighter or matches. [NY Times]

Skyrocketing rents at the West Village’s Federal Archive Building could force four theater groups to abandon a community long lost to gentrification. [NY Times]

Columbus Day parade goes off without a hitch. [NY Times]

A first look at the 330,000-square-foot slot-machine parlor—known as the “racino”—that Paterson hopes to build at Queens’ Aqueduct racetrack. [NYDN]

More than just judges have been using a controversial parking lot reserved only for them at Borough Hall’s Columbus Park. [NYDN]

As the nonprofit Berkeley Carroll School expands, a tenant is forced to leave her rent-controlled Park Slope apartment after 50 years. [NYDN]

Bed-Stuy group sponsors a workshop for prospective homeowners. [NYDN]

A “mini-vacation” on Brooklyn’s elevated subway lines. [NYDN]

City to develop three parcels of land (encompassing five and a half acres) in the South Bronx into mixed-income housing and ground-floor retail. [NYDN]

Tenant frustration grows over a mysterious explosion at a Flushing apartment building last July. [NYDN]

Tenants, including a 64-year-old disabled woman, claim landlord has been strong-arming them out of their apartments in order to turn their Bayside building into a co-op. [NYDN]

Realty Check: Law firm Orrick Herrington hires Cushman & Wakefield to market their 666 Fifth Avenue space; a beloved UWS Irish pub may get a new home; a 9.8 acre hole along Fifth Avenue awaits Sheldon Solow’s towers. [NY Post]

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