- The federal government is providing $750,000 for transportation improvements in Chinatown, including new parking (US China Press, via Voices of NY).
- A financial adviser sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement steps in to sponsor LES People’s Credit Union fundraiser, after Goldman Sachs backed out (Investment News).
- The FDR South/Brooklyn Bridge ramp will be closed this weekend (Lower Manhattan Info).
- A look at the last shows in the old ABC No Rio building (Brooklyn Vegan).