The Weekly Walk-Through

We learned that:

• There's unfinished condos haunting McCarren Park.
• Douglas Durst had to add another digit to the national debt clock.
• Advocates and critics continue to spar as the Willets Point vote nears.
• Mort Zuckerman's not too fond of the Wall Street bailout.
• Columbia bought a warehouse in its West Harlem expansion footprint.
• Manhattan's office vacancy rate's expected to climb into double digits.
• CB Richard Ellis is the new leasing agent for the Hearst Tower retail.
• Sex shops and dominatrix schools are weathering the recession.
• Brooklyn open houses are empty.
• The city picked General Growth to lead a team to build big on East 125th.
• REBNY pegged the average city home sales price at $783,000.
• CBRE wants everyone in commercial real estate to calm down.
• Sam Chang wants to build a 25-story hotel on West 36th.
• Lehman's ex-mortgage banking chief bought a 10-room condo.
• The city projects fewer tourists this year than last.
• The city's environmental commissioner joined Trinity Real Estate.
• Former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff hired a former Spitzer deputy.
• NBC Universal keeps mulling its midtown office options.
• MTV promised contest winners a stay at "luxurious" Hotel Penn.
• A new Web site tracks New Yorkers' carbon footprints.
• Gentrification has started to roll back in some neighborhoods.
• Prices are jumping for four-bedroom Manhattan co-ops.
• New operators are making plays for Scores' buildings.
• A lawyer wants to flip an East 65th townhouse for $15 million.
• Two Lower East Side apartment buildings traded for $170.8 million.