Feng Shui Affordable Housing Coming to Flushing; Bronx Man Squatting in a Barn Won’t Budge for Developers

• Downtown Brooklyn’s Marriott Hotel will get a major makeover that includes a Navy Yard-inspired lounge and a bar stocked with local craft brews. [DNA Info]
• Inside the restoration of the gothic-style Bush Terminal International Exhibit Building on 42nd Street. [NYT]
• Garland Roberts, an Army veteran and a longtime activist, has been squatting in a condemned barn in the Bronx for more than a year. A developer wants to bring a seven-story apartment building to the site, but Roberts is dead set on staying. [NYT]
• A properly feng shui-d affordable housing complex is coming to Flushing. [Crain’s]

Images: A rendering of One Flushing by Bernheimer Architecture (L); Garland Roberts by Victor J. Blue for The New York Times (R)