- Sign of the times: The Bean is replaced by Starbucks (NYT).
- The fight for St. Mark’s Bookshop: an open letter to Cooper Union (Jeremiah).
- Neighborhood group sues State Liquor Authority over La Esquina license (Post).
- Pyro Mixologist Albert Trummer is ordered to perform two days of community service after lighting drinks on fire at Apotheke, his Doyers Street bar last year (NYT).
