–The Rent Guiidelines Board meets tonight at Cooper Union for its final vote. Last month, the board agreed to consider an increase of zero to two percent on one-year lease renewals, and .5 to 3.5 percent on two-year renewals. [NY1]
–“How high can he fly?” A profile of Michael Stern of JDS Development Group, which is planning to build a one-thousand foot rental tower in the Two Bridges area. [Real Deal]
–Developer Gregg Singer has reportedly secured a new loan to complete the conversion of the former P.S. 64 to a dorm facility. [EV Grieve]
–Judy Rapfogel, Sheldon Silver’s former chief of staff, has a new job working for a real estate company in New Jersey. [Daily News]
–An expanded version of la MaMa’s digital archive, being released today, “reads like a who’s who of the past half-century’s downtown performance scene.” [New York Times]
–Lower East Side History: When summer meant taking the plunge in the icy East River. [Ephemeral New York]
