- The Sue Scott Gallery on Rivington Street is closing after four years on the Lower East Side (Gallerist).
- Quite a few art world insiders are buying apartments in the Grand Street cooperatives (Gallerist).
- Police Commissioner Ray Kelly steps up his war on leaders in “predominantly minority communities” who he says are all-too-eager to protest police tactics but unwilling to proactively curb gun violence in their neighborhoods (Post).
- A proposed law strengthening the role of community boards in influencing state liquor license applications could come up for a vote in the Senate in the fall (Queens Gazette).
- The conversion of the former Cabrini nursing home has begun (EV Grieve).
- An update on the renovation of P.S. 122 (The Local EV).
