- East Village bar owner Ray Deter dies after bicycling accident (Daily News, EV Grieve).
- Police in Pennsylvania kill a man wanted in the murder of an East Village man and his toddler (Post).
- The Department of Education removes Ling Ling Chou, the principal of the embattled Shuang Wen School (NY1).
- Protests could accompany the opening of the new Wyndham Hotel in Chinatown if the owner refuses to compensate tenants of 128 Hester, the neighboring building, for their displacement (WSJ).
- Shep Fairey’s latest Lower East Side creation (Vandalog).
- Punk rocker John Joseph of the Cro-Mags says the Lower East Side has lost its edge (Noise Creep).
- A flea market find triggers an exhaustive historical search for Sol Goldman on the Lower East Side (NYT).