- Max Fish owner Ulli Rimkus: landlord wanted $24,000/month; looking for a new space but nothing’s turned up yet (Grub Street).
- A CB3 committee votes to approve a mixed-income housing plan for several properties along 2nd Avenue — a project that will lead to the temporary closure of the Mars Bar (EVL).
- 135 Bowery, “endangered relic,” on the market (Curbed).
- The Chinatown Working Group’s transportation plan gets a warm reception at CB1 (Downtown Express).
- Powerful lobbyist Pat Lynch, a former aid to Sheldon Silver, is caught up in the state’s pension fund scandal (Capital Tonight).
- 57% in a new poll say Sheldon Silver is part of the problem in Albany (Yeshiva World News).
- Cops arrest a messenger who was supposed to deliver $50,000 in precious “baubles” to a LES jewelry designer, but failed to show up (Post).
- New Museum director talks about decision to show video the Smithsonian banned (Hyperallergic).
- The East River String Band profiled (WSJ).
