The Weekly Walk-Through

We learned that:

• Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will have to testify in Trump-Times lawsuit.
• A Sam Chang-affiliated Chelsea hotel sold for $66 million.
• The "current business climate" dooms a CBRE business conference.
• Lev Leviev has sold a 49.9 percent stake in his New York towers.
• The property insurance lobby was busy in St. Paul.
• The Republicans still love the ownership society idea.
• Bensonhurst has gone from "Little Italy to Chinatown."
• Roosevelt Island's got 2,500 apartments on the way.
• The Republican Party officially doesn't support the Bear Stearns bailout.
• Dennis Hastert really digs green architects.
• Trump donated to the state Senate Dems for the first time since '02.
• Nick Sprayregen had some words for Columbia in the Wall Street Journal.
• A Japanese firm bought Macklowe's old 527 Madison Avenue.
• Queens once again led the city in first-time foreclosures.
• Downtown Brooklyn had the city's highest job growth rate from '97 to '07.
• Roosevelt Island's population boom is straining its transportation.
• Florida Congressman John Mica really wants a DC-NYC bullet train.
• $48,836,000 is New York's official new co-op record.
• New York's economy wasn't too hot or too cold in July and August.
• Queens zip codes dominated first-time foreclosures in August.
• Coney Island's Astroland will likely close for good this Sunday.
• Nick Sprayregen has more words for Columbia and its eminent domain push.