Morning Reads: L+M Buys Avenue D Site, Housing Plan Pitfalls, Cutlog Preview

L+M – the Essex Crossing developer – buys a site on Avenue D for $12.5 million, plans a 12-story mixed use project (Real Deal).

Housing activists are opposing two bills in Albany that would loosen restrictions on Airbnb-type firms, saying they could undermine rent regulation laws (Daily News).

Editorial: The mayor’s grand affordable housing plan is bold, but it raises many thorny questions (NYT).

Go to housing court – end up on a tenant blacklist (WNYC).

State Sen. Daniel Squadron quotes Kanye West while speaking out against an extension of the state’s ticket re-sale law (Observer).

A look at the Cutlog Art Fair at the Clemente (The Art Newspaper).