Morning Reads: Brooklyn Bridge Repair Woes, Documenting LES Gentrification, “Naked City” Revisited

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Ed Litvak
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The Brooklyn Bridge repair project is behind schedule and $100 million over budget (Daily News).

Time to end subsidies for billionaires? Tenant advocates push to end the 421-a tax abatement. The fight over the issue in Albany is sure to put the mayor in a tight spot (Capital).

Gentrification Watch: New works from longtime Lower East Side artist Anton van Dalen “still contain the familiar symbols from his past next to wry reminders of the sterile present. The Lower East Side’s proud tradition of nonconformity mutates into excessive pizza consumption.” (Gothamist)

The Lower East Side figures prominently in “The Jewish Journey: America,” a documentary on PBS (JTA via The Forward).

1947 flashback: Recalling the Lower East Side filming locations of “Naked City” (Scouting NY).

Five months after opening, “The Comfort” hits the reset button (Daily News).

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