"30K runners finish annual Tunnel to Towers charity run from Brooklyn to World Trade Center," Daily News, 9/28/14. "The annual Tunnel to Towers charity run carried an even more somber tone Sunday after the deaths last week of three retired FDNY firefighters who toiled at Ground Zero after 9/11," says the Daily News. "An estimated 30,000 runners finished the 3.1-mile course from Brooklyn to the World Trade Center, the route that hero FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller took on Sept. 11, 2001, as he raced to the burning buildings. The 34-year-old, who made the run in full gear, met up with his colleagues at the site and was among the 343 members of the FDNY who died that day. And 13 years later, the 9/11 death toll continues to rise. Last Monday, retired Lt. Howard Bischoff, 58, and retired Firefighters Robert Leaver, 56, and Daniel Heglund, 58, died after suffering the effects of 9/11-related diseases." For the complete article, click here.

"Sizing Up a Downtown Sale," Wall Street Journal, 9/28/14. "The downtown real-estate market has been on a tear this year with media and publishing tenants signing leases, the residential population growing and Saks Fifth Avenue planning a new luxury department store in the area," the Wall Street Journal observes. "So some analysts were surprised earlier this month when a venture of SL Green Realty Corp. and the Moinian Group announced plans to sell 180 Maiden Lane, an office tower positioned to benefit from downtown's improving fortunes. The venture is selling the 1.1 million-square-foot building to a group including Murray Hill Properties and Clarion Partners in a deal valued at $470 million, including debt. That price represents a decent profit for the sellers but not the kind of eye-popping returns that other sellers of Manhattan office buildings have been making lately, analysts say. SL Green purchased its 49.9% stake in the 41-story tower in a 2011 deal that valued the property around $425 million." For the complete article, click here.

"Sales launch at Metro Loft Developers' 443 Greenwich Street," The Real Deal, 9/29/14. "Metro Loft Developers' 443 Greenwich Street condominiums, the site of a long-stalled condominium-hotel conversion project before the developer purchased the property in 2012, are now officially on the market," says The Real Deal. "Cantor-Pecorella is the exclusive marketing agent for the Tribeca properties. On Monday, a total of 13 units were listed ranging from $7 million to $20.5 million, including two penthouses, four four-bedroom-, five three-bedroom- and five two-bedroom apartments." For the complete article, click here. 

"Downtown development site fetches $171M," Crain's New York Business, 9/30/14. "The Lightstone Group has sold a downtown development site at 112, 114, 116 and 118 Fulton St., on the corner of Dutch Street, for $171 million to a California firm that plans to build a 63-story tower there," says Crain's New York Business. "The property, including development rights, was purchased by San Francisco-based real estate firm Carmel Partners. The transaction comes less than two years after Lightstone reportedly paid $63 million for a number of sites along Fulton Street, along with hundreds of thousands of square feet in development rights from surrounding parcels." For the complete article, click here.

"New York's Slow Comeback to Title of the Big Oyster," New York Times, 9/23/14. Now known as the "Big Apple," New York City was once known as the "Big Oyster," says The New York Times. "Some naturalists are building reefs in New York Harbor for oysters to live on. Some even import the oysters to local waters. Last year, about 100,000 farm-raised baby oysters were relocated to an artificial reef in the Bronx River, just off the shore of Soundview Park in the South Bronx." But Chris Anderson, the lead diver for the River Project, "goes looking for wild oysters that have found places to live on their own - places in a tiny area of the Hudson, beneath the old wooden pilings around the former Hudson River Pier 42, only a few hundred yards from the West Side Highway at Morton Street." For the complete article, click here.

Ongoing: The National Museum of the American Indian is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free admission. It offers free films, docent-led tours of its exhibitions and tours of its premises, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, designed by Cass Gilbert. The building, which was completed in 1907, is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One Bowling Green. Phone: (212) 514-3700. For the museum's calendar, click here.

Ongoing: "Give Me Liberty," a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Sylvanus Shaw, is at the Fraunces Tavern Museum. In this site-specific exhibition, Shaw utilizes images from the Museum's permanent collection, invoking imagery of early American statehood in media ranging from oil on panel to collaged holograms, security envelopes, and other mediums.

Through March 16, 2015. Place: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St. Museum hours: Mon.-Sat., noon to 5 p.m. Admission: $7; $4 (seniors, students, children 6-8); free (children under 5 and active duty military). For more information, click here.