ATLANTIC YARDS—Not satisfied by our iPhonetactular liveblog of the Barclays Center groundbreaking today? The city has distributed this up-close photo of Bruce, Mike, Dave, Marty, Jigga and the gang putting shovel to dirt. Gotta love how Jay-Z even does that cool hat tilt thing with his hardhat. Hov! [CurbedWire Inbox]

UPPER WEST SIDE—Yesterday we pointed out a glorious Architectural Digest slideshow of a 46th floor Upper West Side apartment, and we figured someone would ID the mystery building while yelling at us for our ignorance. A tipster writes: "Hopefully you don't mind if I don't yell, but it's almost assuredly from The Park Millennium aka 111 w67th St nee 1992 Broadway. There aren't many other buildings that tall in the area with that set of views, and the window spandrels match perfectly. They must have a unit that's the whole south side of the building, since you can see the Trump Riverside stuff from the bedroom and the smoke stacks at Ravenswood out the other side (and then there's the view of TWC to the south). I was going to mention the April AD too, since I bought a copy for the great 15CPW photos, but clearly someone yelled me to it." [CurbedWire Inbox]

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[An LIC construction site by moonlight, via Curbed Photo Pool/liQcity]

· Riverton Houses' special servicer wins title to property for $125 million [Real Deal]
· Crane's coming down at Gehry's Beekman Tower [LMCCC]
· Port Authority digs in heels before tomorrow's WTC deadline [NYDN]
· Tracking Manhattan's serial renovators [MLG]
· Construction watch: Prospect Park's Lakeside project [PMFA]
· Art collectors put gallery-style staircase in their apartment [Dezeen]
· Answers to some questions about Gowanus Superfunding [NYT]
· Rubenstein Atrium gets LEED Gold certified [My Upper West]
· CB 3 committee likes new LES bike lane proposal [Streetsblog]

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And now, the results of this week's PriceSpotter asking price guessing game!

Location: 142 Prospect Park West, Third Floor
Asking: $1.595 million

Despite some accusations of cheating in the comments, there were no correct guesses this week. Most came in too low. A few guessers pooh-poohed the floorplan or suggested something fishy going on with school zoning to account for the low maintenance charges. We've got no explanation: sometimes the universe just works in mysterious ways, folks.
· Listing: 142 Prospect Park West [Corcoran]
· 142 Prospect Park West in Park Slope [StreetEasy]
· How Much for Some Park Slope Greenery (and Park Views)? [Curbed]

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Yesterday it was accusations of fraudulent signature shenanigans, so what new craziness does One Madison Park have in store for us today? Buyer refunds! The Real Deal's David Jones reports that State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office has told One Mad Park's developers to offer refunds to buyers who haven't yet closed on their contracts. Half of the 69-unit building is in contract but only about a dozen sales have closed so far, so the developers could be on the hook for refunds for more than 40 percent of the apartments. Refund offers are legally required after what one attorney called "material" events like a foreclosure. On the bright side for the developers, maybe a few more of those in contract units will turn out to be freebies?
· One Mad. Park told to offer buyers refunds [Real Deal]
· One Madison Park coverage [Curbed]

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The recent news that a "maintenance and operations" building for the High Line was moving ahead at 820 Washington Street left some doubts about architect Renzo Piano's plan for a new Whitney Museum at the edge of the Meatpacking District. After all, the two were supposed to share space. But the Piano is still in tune. We dug into the High Line Maintenance and Operations Facility RFP (warning: huge PDF) from the NYC Economic Development Corporation, and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop is listed as the design consultant on the project. Phew! We don't want the High Line's new Love Shack clashing with all that fancy Italian starchitecture!

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And now, the latest from Racked NY, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up.

1) LES The speculation is that the upcoming Hester Street Fair is going to be Manhattan's version of the Brooklyn Flea, and hip merchants are already signing up. Given that exciting visual seen above, we can see why!

2) Midtown: It's flower mania near Bryant Park at Target's Liberty of London pop-up, and Racked thinks it's Target's best collab yet. Which might explain the lines.

3) Greenwich Village: Diesel's slightly infuriating "Be Stupid" ad campaign has been defaced throughout the West 4th Street subway station! But since the whole thing is stupid, we guess the company is on board?

· Racked NY [ny.racked.com]

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Maybe it wasn't very nice of us to gloat about the 58-piece plastic model of Herzog & de Meuron-designed 56 Leonard currently residing at Curbed HQ. But now you can have your very own! One of the models—apparently #37 out of the 300 made—is now up for sale on eBay, with a starting bid of one cent and an unknown reserve. (And shipping'll set you back another $30.) The model is "designed to be taken apart and reassembled as a means of exploring the tower's radically innovative design." Fun! Cotton gloves also included so you don't get your pawprints all over the starchitecture. Centerpiece for your next holiday dinner? A playful way to teach young children about the sad times we live in? Up to you!
· 56 Leonard St. Building Model (Herzog & de Meuron) [eBay]
· 56 Leonard coverage [Curbed]

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Long Island City art museum P.S. 1 had big plans for the renovation of its Jackson Avenue entrance, including some snazzy LED lighting. One thing they didn't change: the concrete wall that separates P.S. 1 from its neighbor, Community Board 2. And it turns out a 16-foot wall translates to at least 16 feet of pure Community Board rage. Or, as CB 2's chair put it to the Post, "The prison on Van Dam Street has a better feel than this concrete wall....The amount of input that was put into this was zero from the community." The wall encloses a courtyard where art exhibitions are held. CB 2 had suggested maybe adding some plants along the wall, but P.S. 1 said plant maintenance would cost too much. But maybe they were just trying to keep the pole dance away from impressionable community board eyes?
· P.S. 1 entrance plan draws CB 2 anger [NYP]
· P.S. 1 coverage [Curbed]

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Stand up and make some noise for your Brooklyn Nets, because it's Barclays Center groundbreaking day! Curbed papa bear Lockhart Steele is on the scene in Prospect Heights to taste the fruits of six years of Atlantic Yards delays and lawsuits. Check back for frequent updates on all the controversial fun!

12:35pm: Before the "real" groundbreaking, we're live on the scene at the Freddy's Bar/Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn protest! About 50 folks and lots of media. Fake Marty Markowitz slamming Jay-Z.

12:35pm: Mild booing on cue.

12:38pm: Oh, the protest has a protester! Angry Dean Street resident: "I live here! You don't live here!"

12:39pm: Speeches by Fake Bloomberg and Fake Paterson undermic'd. Fake Marty is genius, however. Handouts are being distributed. There will be a quiz.

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