- Fred Dicker: a rent deal in Albany is “hours away;” decontrol cap will rise to about $2500; Cuomo read real estate industry honchos the “riot act.” (Post)
- “The board of the Rent Stabilization Association, a group of large and midsize residential landlords… agreed (Friday) to move off of its long-held position that the existing (rent) law must be renewed in its current form (WSJ).”
- Senator Schumer wants the federal government to issue letter grades for discount bus carriers (WABC).
- Speaker Quinn asks Walmart to buy local produce as a condition for opening stores in New York City (Daily News).
- Document drop: new tidbits about our elected officials disclosed in financial statements. Rep. Carolyn Maloney has assets ranging between $12.3 million and $44.6 million; the value of her East 92nd Street town house is (as high as) $25 million. Rep. Nydia Velazquez has assets of up to $5 million, including a brownstone in Carroll Gardens, but her debts total (as much as) $5.2 million (Post)
- The hipster architect dreaming of building floating pools in the East River has started a Kickstarter campaign (NY Press).
