Business groups want to change New York’s scaffold law, a move Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver opposes (Daily News).
The mayor will name a new chairman of the Economic Development Corp. today (NYT).
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has an 8-day retrospective of Jim Jarmusch, the LES-based filmmaker (EV Grieve).
Inhibiting new hotel development’s ability to grow “organically and flexibly” is an idea whose time has come. Hotel’s have an awful impact on residential areas.