News Links Morning Reads: Ebola Preps at Downtown Hospital, Luxury Tenement Conversions, Crowdfunding Rikers Inmate By Ed Litvak - October 24, 2014 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinReddIt New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital says its ready to deal with ebola (Tribeca Trib). Developers are in an “arms race” to transform tenements on the Lower East Side and elsewhere as luxury properties for 20-somethings with deep pockets (Daily News). The real estate resurgence in Lower Manhattan is sending Soho retail rents even higher (Commercial Observer). An inmate who allegedly tried to sell an undercover cop cocaine in Chinatown is crowdfunding to raise money for his bail (Daily News). Caught on tape: A tour bus guide goes on a racist rant through Chinatown (Daily News).