- Overnight firehouse closures inevitable – a list will be released by the end of the week (NY1).
- Prosecutors: 18-year old Victor Fong was not merely “defending himself” in the brutal murder of another teen on Hester Street (DNA Info).
- New Siena poll: 22% view Sheldon Silver favorably (Politics on the Hudson).
- Writer Royal Young escapes a Hebrew name and life on the Lower East Side (Jewcy).
- Mars Bar mourning: the ghost of Robert Moses is swinging the wrecking ball (Jeremiah).
- Artist Jennifer Williams traces “those weird angles” off the Bowery (Bowery 2.0 via EV Grieve).
- The Lower East Side History Project sponsors a gallery exhibition on the life of gang leader Joey Gallo (LESHP).
