Oh, THIS again.
My friend has this wheel, and has ridden it hard without incident for the past six months in all kinds of miserable Chicago weather. NYCBikes is certainly a gamble, but this wheel arrived pretty true, and there've been no problems.
We went around to a lot of different shops, and none of them could build one for anything close to that price.
It's not nice enough to warrant finding a "matching" front wheel. Use any old thing.