We unveiled Jean Nouvel’s new MoMA tower plans.

Houston-based Hines cornered Bryant Park.

Governor Cuomo hung a U-turn on congestion pricing.

The financial sector and the office market: how close for how long?

Christine Quinn and Scott Stringer (and a bunch of other pols) wrote the Chelsea Hotel’s tenants. Meanwhile, we had news on Joseph Chetrit’s loan for the big buy and his junior partner in the deal.

A supermajority of New Yorkers now support bike lanes.

We launched our campaign to be C.E.O. of the M.T.A.

W&H’s revamped 112 West 34th nailed two new deals.

A nonprofit decided to grow in Newmark’s 505 Eighth Avenue.

Bike lane advocates had high hopes for Caswell Holloway.

Harry Gross has very big hotel plans on Broadway.

Chris Ward shared the ground zero spotlight.

The East Village stretched to 20th Street and Avenue C.

American Idol‘s producer signed a deal in Trinity’s 435 Hudson.

We saw what is fermenting with Harlem’s first brewery since Prohibition: not a whole lot.

Suggestions were offered for where to reconstruct the Twin Towers.

Jeffrey Margolis had his first installment of the Dirt Dictionary.

Michael Stoler broke down the suburban markets.

Robert Ivanhoe talked about the recovery.

Robert Sorin talked about the big Google HQ buy and other large deals he’s worked on.

And Sam Chandan parsed the jobs report and the downgrade. And found…

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Vornado’s would-be Port Authority tower appeared to be running low on gas.

appeared to be running low on gas.

Tom Colicchio has a farm on East 29th, apparently.

We found out the condos coming to the new Brooklyn Bridge Park. There could be some real soon like.

Dan Biederman slammed cabbies and our beloved Steve Cuozzo.

Billy Macklowe and Jones Lang LaSalle turned 636 Avenue of the Americas into the SecondHand Building.

An era ended at the Chelsea Hotel as Joseph Chetrit closed on his buy.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission O.K.’d a new plan for St. Vincent’s.

We had more on that mini-development boom uptown.

The so-called ground zero mosque might, in fact, be five years off.

We wondered where Class A midtown availability was headed.

There was a full-floor deal in 1385 Broadway.

And another one at 561 Seventh.

Sam Chandan breaks down the debt-ceiling deal in D.C. and is not impressed.

We profiled Josh Kuriloff at Cushman & Wakefield. They love him in Chicago.

And we interviewed Shimon Shkury about uptown investment sales.

William Lie Zeckendorf basically flipped Bruce Wasserstein’s old 927 Fifth place.

We gauged the height of the south tower in Related’s Hudson Yards.

Blackstone kingpin Tony James bought Hal Prince’s 834 Prince duplex.

An ex-Deutsche Bank exec clinged to Tribeca.

Ex-New York Ranger captain Darius Kasparaitis was checked on 59th Street.

The wonks—and ourselves a bit—grew immediately wistful for outgoing M.T.A. head Jay Walder.

Getty moved upstairs from New York at Trinity’s One Hudson Square.

Shack Shake pondered a Grand Central location…

…While Apple confirmed it would, indeed, open one.

Related drew closer to its first lease at Hudson Yards.

Two artists bought a rather funky-looking place on the Lower East Side.

Deepak Chopra’s personal yoga instructor got a deal on Prince Street.

Robert Knakal analyzed what’s driving the investment sales market now.

Sam Chandan reported from Europe on the Italian financial crisis.

And we wondered aloud about what would become of the Muppet Mansion with James Murdoch so indisposed across the pond.

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A Sydney investor bought a studio apartment here—sight (site?) unseen.

We learned why the laundromat always wins in housing considerations.

We toured Tower 4 and came back with photos showing the end of ennui over ground zero.

Insurance companies are the big lenders in the commercial marketplace right now, don’t you know?

The world’s largest LGBT synagogue bought its first property.

Paul Glickman filled us in on what he’s been doing since joining Jones Lang LaSalle last winter.

David Winoker talked about what he would do with garment center—and what he is doing.

We implored a thought for the FiDi residents without retail.

Single women are buying more real estate than single men, and brokers are responding sexist-ly in kind.

The real estate party has returned—but hold the Seal.

We learned about how 116 John Street became an apartment building.

Harlem will likely get its first brewery since Prohibition—we can’t believe this hasn’t gotten more pick-up!

There is a mini-development boom set to begin in Washington Heights and Harlem.

Brooklyn apartments in the second quarter: everything you would want to know here and here.

Sam Chandan wrote about the lousy jobs report and its effects on real estate investment.

Robert Knakal went after Albany on rent-regulation changes that aren’t really changes at all.

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We learned a lot about Joseph Chetrit, buyer of the Chelsea Hotel.

Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair writer and mother of Luke Russert, sold an apartment on the Upper West Side.

David LaChapelle sold one on the Lower East Side.

Sting’s kid, Jake Sumner, got a deal on one on Orchard Street, apparently.

Du Ponts swarmed a property on Bleecker (they’re WASPs—”swarm,” get it?)

Mystery maestro Harlan Coben sold his writer’s lair.

A Goldman Sachs VP sold his place in R*ver H*ouse.

The number of 100K-foot office leases has shot up.

As have rents in trophy towers about town.

Brookfield’s Grace Building grabbed one of the biggest law firm leases of `11.

A barbecue joint will join a beer bar in our building.

Manhattan apartment rents just don’t seem to vary that much.

And Uncle Junior got whacked on the Upper East Side. Read More