This week's Easter and Passover holidays are a natural breaking point for us to take a quick look back at some of the articles we've presented here at gbNYC over the course of the first quarter of 2009. Those that we selected represent a pretty wide cross-section of what we've been tracking; affordable housing, green homes, and even some commercial real estate transactions, including retail, were all topics that we've touched on thus far in 2009. Not surprisingly, given the state of the economy, there were very few green leases that we identified; the recent Beijing Vantone deal at the Freedom Tower was the only lease in a green building that we wrote about during the first quarter. We've seen an uptick in smaller green condominium projects, particularly in Brooklyn, where we wrote about 100 Gold Street in Vinegar Hill and 580 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights. We also featured two much longer posts about BIM and green building project site location issues and continued to follow numerous green affordable housing projects across the five boroughs.