Fire wipes out East 14th Street businesses (Daily News).
Assessing the conspiracy theories in the aftermath of the fire (EV Grieve).
Residents weigh in on the DOT’s Bleecker/Houston/Bowery traffic study (Villager).
Paterson (obliquely) blames Silver for budget gridlock (Capital Tonight).
Evaluating the push for redistricting reform (Gotham Gazette).
Rebecca Lepkoff’s Lower East Side: see the slide show. Incidentally, Lepkoff speaks at the Tenement Museum tonight (NYT).