Morning Reads: Johnny Marines Profiled, Saving Punjabi Deli, Nine-Man Volleyball on the LES

“The man behind the man;” Lower East Side native Johnny Marines, who works closely with Latin musical star Romeo Santos, is profiled (Daily News).

Today the New Museum’s latest exhibition, focused on art from the Arab world, opens to the public (Time).

A petition has been started to bring a taxi relief stand to Punjabi Deli, a Longtime LES business that has been crippled by East Houston Street construction (Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY).

Chinatown’s renegade sport: nine-man volleyball in Seward Park (NYT).