As the privileged class loses its privileges, a collective moan rises from the canyons of Wall Street.

“Jeffrey Robbins” strikes again.

When the Speyers bought Stuyvesant Town for over $5 billion, they were buying one of the last refuges of the Manhattan middle class. And remaking it was harder than it looked.

In the bleakest stock market of the past 70 years, when hedge funds and 401(k)s alike have cratered, few people are smiling. But short-seller Jim Chanos, whose fund is up 50 percent, is having the time of his life.

A Manhattan transfer?

A Lehman trader copes with the sudden onset of income shrinkage.

Checkbook scoop “sad.”

How Frederick Law Olmsted’s 843 acres of civilizing wilderness became a type-A battleground.

When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach?

They’d seen hard times, and knew more were coming. But no one at Bear Stearns expected to become Jamie Dimon’s trophy.