- Sheldon Silver said he won’t oppose the Islamic Cultural Center near the WTC site, but he thinks it would be better if they found a different location (Daily News).
- Congressional candidate Reshma Saujani decries Democratic silence on the “mosque.” BTW, her opponent, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, put out a statement on the issue August 5 (Capital Tonight).
- Shelly’s had it with dictatorial governors (Daily News).
- A Chinatown bus operator is accused of having beaten a driver with baseball bats and allegedly asking, “are you afraid of dying?” (Post).
- Reminiscing about 150 Bowery’s colorful past – and speculating about what the future might bring (Curbed).
- Fringe Festival Journal: “Selling a portrait of drawling, rickety Thermal City, N.C., to a room of downtown New Yorkers” is a tall order (NYT).
