- Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe “sets the record straight” on community gardens (Post).
- Another look at Tuesday’s public hearing on community gardens (Gog Log).
- New York voters will weigh in on term limits once again (NYT).
- Councilmember Margaret Chin emphasizes community outreach after two recent suicides in Chinatown (DE, World Journal)
- Liz Weinstein is Michael Bloomberg’s new director of operations. Weinstein is married to State Senator Daniel Squadron (Gotham Gazette).
- CAAAV/Organizing Asian Communities has a new director (CAAAV).
- Kampuchea will close and reopen as “something else.” Owner Ratha Chaupoly says the restaurant was turning a profit but the overhead was too steep in a neighborhood that is “not as happening” as it once was (Grub Street).
- Hanging out in the neighborhood with “Lush Life’s” Richard Price (New Yorker).
- Jesuit school moving from the neighborhood, or to put it another way, “Last poor person related thing leaving the Lower East Side.” (Gawker)
- The heat wave of 1896 (Fresh Air).
- Brooklyn boutique takes over Orchard Street Guitar Man storefront (Bowery Boogie).
- David Arquette crashes Lockhart Steele’s rooftop poker party (lockhartsteele.com).
