- Revisions to the education department’s rezoning plan may send Financial District students to the Lower East Side. (Downtown Express)
- An announcement about the future of St. Marks Bookstore is expected at a press conference later today; store owners and city officials seem to have worked out an arrangement. (DNAInfo, EVGrieve)
- Asian longhorned beetles may be creeping down Avenue A’s trees. (EV Local)
- LES residents’ view of the skyline across the East River may be in for a big change: a 440-foot hotel is in the works on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge. (L Magazine, Gothamist)
- Rapper Mac Miller looks for gefilte fish at Katz’s. (MTV)
