Local blogs take note of a New Year's revolt brewing in Coney Island. The Brooklyn Paper draws up an ambitious list of 90 to watch in '09. [BP] A business leader in Willets Point says no one expects to relocate until at least 2011. [ITT] Developer Vornado filed papers to rezone the Hotel Pennsylvania, which probably means they want ...

In mid-November, my colleague Chris Shott recounted that even marquee hotels in New York were dropping room rates--a sure sign that the much-ballyhooed hotel boom was waning, if not completely over. A basic room at the Hotel Pennsylvania tonight would also cost $189, down from $222. The price of a superior queen at the Philippe Stark-designed Paramount Hotel Times Square ...

Last November, the Post's Steve Cuozzo railed against the campaign to preserve Hotel Pennsylvania, which he called "one of the gloomiest structures between the Battery and The Bronx." Now, the paper is listing the old Glenn Miller hangout among its "10 Endangered Buildings Worth Saving" -- No. 2, in fact, just behind Harlem's Corn Exchange Bank. Built in 1919 ...