- The “under-the-radar” practice space at 106 Rivington, where “some of New York’s finest jazz, funk and rock musicians found a home for their work” over the course of two decades, is being shut down (NYT).
- Journalism students document deplorable conditions inside LES housing projects (Daily News).
- The demise of 35 Cooper Square (Gamma Blog).
- Police rescue a man who tried to jump from the Williamsburg Bridge (NYT).
- The mayor and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are at odds over the city’s decision to cut fire companies (Daily News).
- The mysterious East River Sea Monster turns out to be an Atlantic Sturgeon (NY1).
- Jerry Saltz reviews Kara Walker’s powerful video exhibition at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery (NYM).
