Morning Reads: Apartment Prices, Regulating Uber, “Offsite” Comes to Chrystie Street

By
Ed Litvak
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The median sales price of a Lower East Side apartment in 2014 was $672,000 (Crain’s).

A City Council committee looks at putting a cap on Uber’s surge pricing. One Council member said at a hearing yesterday: “Many of our cabbies (working as livery and yellow cab drivers) are immigrants who are being punished by a $40 billion corporation.” (NYT)

To bolster NYC’s fading manufacturing sector, the Council examines creating an “industrial employment district” and a “creative economy district.” (Crain’s)

More on the theft of $650 from the Main Squeeze shop on Essex Street, money intended for Walter Kuehr’s funeral (Channel 7).

A conversation with James Shalom of Offsite, who has launched a new exhibition inside 195 Chrystie St. (Art News)

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