Thursday, September 24th 2009About two-thirds of Manhattan's roughly 1.6 million residents live in rented residences, according to Census Bureau data.The economic downturn is giving renters a break.Manhattan apartment rents dropped an average of 8% in the year's most active leasing

By John GittelsohnSept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Manhattan apartment rents dropped an average of at least 8 percent in the year's most active leasing season as Wall Street job cuts and the recession rippled through the economy, real estate broker Citi

Wednesday, September 23, 2009, by Sara Polsky...It seems unlikely that the market will rebound in 2009. Given the depth that the market has fallen to date, significant gains are necessary for a recovery. Such increases, which would have been a

An experiment has confirmed that spinons, particle-like magnetic excitations, can be confined in a magnetic insulator similar to the way elementary quarks are confined within individual protons and neutrons.