On the Market: ‘Like’ Your Block; Lights Out for Lady Liberty; Big-Money Chinese Changing Face of City

Big Ideas competition winners want you to ‘like’ your block and other brilliant ideas [BetaBeat]

Lady Liberty will close for a year for renovations. [NY Times]

Plunging stocks can cause real estate buyers to hold back (but on the bright side for the buyer, prices might drop). [Journal]

This “Entourage” star wanted her East Village apartment to feel like home. [NY Post]

New York City Housing Authority is seeing an exodus of top officials. [City Hall News via The Real Deal]

Upper East Side pizza shop moving to Williamsburg because of Second Avenue subway construction. [DNAinfo]

George Soros’ ex-girlfriend is suing him for not giving her an Upper East Side apartment he had promised. [NY Post]

As though we needed more proof that Lower Manhattan is making a comeback. [Journal]

Chinese investors are buying into New York. [NY Times]

Colicchio & Sons are using a parking lot under the High Line to create a public plaza with food trucks and drinks. [Journal]

City officially challenges official Census numbers. [Daily News]

Tishman Speyer’s big French move. [Journal]