Foreclosure for Stalled Hotel, Superdive Successors Face SLA Hearing, Art Star Sells Apartment

  • The stalled hotel project at 138 Allen/139 Orchard faces foreclosure (Real Deal).
  • After being rejected by CB3, the team behind 200 Avenue A (the former Superdive space) take their case to the State Liquor Authority tomorrow (EV Grieve).
  • U.S. Department of Transportation documents detail major safety problems on Megabus (Post).
  • After last week’s Pennsylvania shooting rampage, Lower East Side residents remember Monica Shay (WCBS Radio).
  • Roger Ebert weighs in on Blank City, the documentary revisiting the “golden age” of film and music on the Lower East Side (Chicago Sun Times).
  • A look at philanthropists Stephen and Pilar Crespi Robert, who recently donated almost $100,000 to Henry Street Settlement (WSJ).
  • David LaChapelle has sold his East Village apartment (Observer).
  • Art insider recommends: On Stellar Rays (Racked).