Tishman Era at S-Town & PC-Village Is Over

WSJ: Tishman Venture Gives Up Stuyvesant Project
NYT: Huge N.Y. Housing Complex Is Returned to Creditors
CNY: Tishman, BlackRock hand over Stuy Town keys

Flash Flood Watch and Wind Gusting to 42 MPH

Football Champ. Game Day: Indi. Colts Beat NY Jets 30-17, NO Saints Beat Minn. Vikings 31-28

For Indi. Colts and NO Saints, next stop: the Super Bowl (February 7, 2010)

For NY Jets, fast-forward: Sunday, January 16, 2011

Film Shoot on Smith Street: "Arnold's vs. Parson's"

Free Fallin'

Joseph Stiglitz on WNYC (audio): "There was a party going on and the regulators did not want to be a party pooper."



Andrew Ross Sorkin on WNYC (audio): "Most of these people, frankly, are to blame... Really, the blame is so far across the board... You'd have to build a new jail... You really would. It's that difficult."



Rewind: Somehow, Kaptur: "Wall Street and Washington Is a Circuit"

Fast forward: Feb. 3, 2010: WNYC: Eliot Spitzer discusses the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the current state of Wall Street, and what regulations might prevent banks from taking the kind of dangerous risks that caused the crisis.

Football Playoffs: NY Jets Beat SD Chargers 17-14

Final team to topple in order to reach the Super Bowl: Indianapolis Colts (Sunday, January 24, 2009)

Fast-forward: Football Champ. Game Day: Indi. Colts Beat NY Jets 30-17...

Somehow

(192 Smith Street, formerly a branch of Washington Mutual -- the largest failure in U.S. bank history -- which JP Morgan Chase acquired on September 25, 2008 via the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

"In mortgage underwriting, somehow we just missed that home prices don't go up forever."

-- 53-year-old James ("Jamie") Dimon*, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Company, testifying before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission at 10:45 AM EST on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 in Washington, D.C. (http://www.c-spanvideo.org/person/1023454)

*2008 compensation valued at $35.7M (salary of $1 million and perks valued at $348,101)
*2009 salary: $1 million (additional $322,094 in deferred earnings and other forms of compensation)
*2010 compensation valued at $20.8M ($1 million salary and a $5 million cash bonus, which he didn't receive the past two years)

Fast forward: Free Fallin', Alyssa Katz (on WNYC) explains how economic anxieties and realities of ordinary Americans, combined with greed and delusion on Wall Street and in Washington, inflated the real estate bubble...



Rewind: 10 Years After the Berlin Wall Fell..., Washington and Wall Street Is a Circuit

Football Playoffs: NY Jets Beat Cinci. Bengals 24-14

Update: Next weekend: New York Jets versus San Diego Chargers.

Fast-forward: Football Playoffs: NY Jets Beat SD Chargers 17-14

Holiday Buzz Wears Off

Tree time is over. (Rewind: December 4, 2009)

The Scholars of Smith Street

(151 Smith Street)

(Bergen Street / 148 Smith Street)

Free Reading, No Free Reading

New Year (and Decade), New Sounds (and Shakeups)

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2010/01/04

Rewind: TV Crunch, People Not Machines, Grandma Take Me Home, Shake Shack

Fast forward: Free Reading, No Free Reading

Fast forward: Open Source or Closed Doors? (WNYC: Jan. 19, 2010), Scoring Avatar and the State of Contemporary Film Composition (WNYC: Jan. 19, 2010)