Come away with me to a Cobble Hill brownstone: Norah touches down. [Brownstoner] Red Hook... it's the new DUMBO! [Brooklyn Eagle] West-Park Church gets its crack at landmark status. [Curbed] Want a Northside Piers-style break on your asking price? Just ask! [TRD] Harlem's Riverton Apartments, having sunk below their mortgage value, may go on the block. [Bloomberg, TRD ...

Just hours after Housing Authority officials testified to City Council members on the safety of their elevators, an East Harlem woman is injured in an elevator accident. [City Room] Columbia names associate professor Andrew Scott Dolkart as the university’s director of the historic preservation program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. [City Room] Four vacant lots ...

A visit to the Merrill Lynch boardroom before the collapse. [City Room] Ray’s Candy chops the price of ice cream and fries down to a buck. Avenue A punks and their dogs rejoice. [NMNL via Curbed] Retail brokers predict big rise in vacancy rates during the first quarter of 2009. [TRD] Fight over the Queens racino. [City Room] The ...