NY YIMBY reports the affordable housing lottery opened for 132 Brown Place in Port Morris, the Bronx — a sign that project's construction is largely wrapped. newyorkyimby.com

NY YIMBY reports new building permits filed for a development at 1712 Jerome Avenue in Mount Hope, the Bronx. newyorkyimby.com

Planetizen reports more than half of NYC's luxury second homes could qualify for exemptions under the proposed pied-à-terre tax, shrinking the pool it's actually meant to hit. Planetizen

CommercialSearch ranks July's five largest Manhattan office building sales, a lens on which towers landlords are betting will need capital work next. CommercialSearch

The National Law Review details Pennsylvania's new executive order tying faster data-center permitting to compliance with the state's grid-reliability rules. The National Law Review

Gov. Hochul marked the start of construction on an 80-unit affordable housing development in Tupper Lake, the latest state-funded groundbreaking upstate. Homes and Community Renewal (.gov)

Mesirow advised building-products distributor Prestige Distribution on its sale to Vector Building Products, one more consolidation move in the supply chain contractors buy from. prnewswire.com

XCMG unveiled what it calls the world's first 14,000-ton ring crane, a new ceiling for heavy-lift capacity on mega-projects. prnewswire.com

The New York Times reports White House construction work may have contributed to a close call involving the presidential helicopter, a reminder that active-site coordination failures aren't just a New York problem. The New York Times