Morning Reads: Velazquez vs. Lopez, High School Closes, Bowery Club Plans Opening

  • Brooklyn political boss Vito Lopez “goes for the knockout” against Rep. Nydia Velazquez (Capital NY).
  • Nativity Mission Center, a high school that previously announced it was leaving the Lower East Side, is closing, after failing to find a new location (Fox NY).
  • Travis Bass, the “king of downtown nightlife” will oversee the EMM Group’s giant new venue on the Bowery (Eater).
  • Rats about to get some company at 35 Cooper Square (Curbed).