[At $37.5M, this Time Warner Center penthouse became the biggest deal of '09.]
We're taking the day off to get our America celebrations started early, so here's a look back at some of the week's top stories: Curbed Roundtable: July State O' the Market Report, That's Rather Fraudulous: A Peek Inside Madoff's Penthouse, Madonna's $40M Townhouse Now Just a $32.5M Townhouse, Hammocks Run Amok on Long Island City Waterfront, Sex and the Slope: Did SJP Buy Prospect Park West Mansion?, Symbols of Bowery Gentrification Becoming a Bit Too Overt, Inside the Craziest New Building in Williamsburg, John St. Chronicles: Vanishing Condos, Penthouse PriceChops!, Flower Tower Offers Further Proof of The Genius of LIC, Hitchcokian Nightmare Proposed for Battery Park City