–One in four luxury apartments in NYC are unsold. “The single largest reason the Lower East Side tops the list is because of the massive One Manhattan Square, an 815-unit skyscraper that towers over nearby Chinatown, where prices ranged from $1.2 million for a one-bedroom to over $13 million for a penthouse. Among seven new buildings in the neighborhood that have recorded sales, it represents three-fourths of the new inventory.” [New York Times]

–Essex Crossing is touted as a “model mega-development.” [City Lab]

–William Y. Chang, who published the Chinese-American Times, has died at the age of 103. The newspaper “chronicled life, culture and politics in the Chinese community in New York, particularly in Chinatown.” [New York Times]

–Tributes to photographer Robert Frank who died at the age of 94. [EV Grieve]

–A new exhibition on Russ & Daughters opens today at the Center for Jewish History. [New York Times]

–“Tables for Two:” Checking out Jajaja, the almost always packed vegan Mexican restaurant “with a millennial tinge.” [The New Yorker]

–The popular Taiwanese bubble tea shop, Tiger Sugar, opens Saturday at 197 Canal St. [Eater]

–Previewing the San Gennaro Festival. [Untapped Cities]

–Deputy Mayor Vicki Been scolds local elected officials who fight the city’s development agenda, saying lawsuits such as the ones holding up the proposed East River mega-towers only undermine the creation of affordable housing. [Crain’s]

–The borough president and Council member Carlina Rivera have hired a consultant to evaluate the city’s controversial East Side Coastal Resiliency Plan. [Crain’s]

–Claude Tinnin has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for suffocating his infant son at the Rutgers Houses in 2012. [Daily News]

–A new Japanese fast casual spot, Otaku Katsu, will open next week at 137 Rivington St. [Eater]

–COLORS restaurant is announcing its reopening on Stanton Street. [AM New York]

–Fashion Week dispatch: Tom Ford stages his show in the Bowery subway station. [New York Times]

–Local City Council members are reportedly pushing for height reductions in the mayor’s proposed borough-based jails. [Queens Daily Eagle]

–“For the first time, the City Council will get a chance on Thursday to formally weigh in on the proposal” for four new jails in local communities, including a big new facility in Chinatown. [New York Times]

 –Cops are looking for a suspect who kissed a 12-year-old girl in an elevator at the Smith Houses. [Channel 7]

–Slateboarders plan a rally on Saturday at Tompkins Square Park, part of their battle to keep a section of the park free of synthetic turf. [EV Grieve]

–Property owners are stepping up their battle for zoning changes in Soho. [Real Estate Weekly]

–Major disruptions are ahead in L Train service. [Curbed]

–More fall restaurant previews. Dhamaka in the Essex Market readies an October launch; Francesca Chaney is preparing to open “First Sunday,” an ambitious vegan spot at 324 Grand St.; Saigon Social aims for November debut at 172 Orchard St. [Eater]

–The Meatball Shop, born on the Lower East Side, was a flop in Washington D.C. [Eater]