Morning Reads: SPURA Signals New Political Era, Squadron Fires Consultant, Photos Then & Now

By
Ed Litvak
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The Seward Park development project “spells decline of old Jewish power brokers,” Sheldon Silver, Willie Rapfogel, Heshy Jacob.” (The Forward)

Report: Sheldon Silver seeks to raise retirement age to keep “longtime pal” Judge Jonathan Lippman on the bench (Post).

A campaign consultant fired by State Senator Daniel Squadron, who’s running for public advocate, is not going quietly (Capital).

The new plan for the old Domino Sugar factory site; what you could be staring at across the East River in a few years (Capital).

Heart n’ Soul to open in old Mama’s Food Shop space (EV Grieve).

Comedian Jim Gaffigan films on the LES (The Local EV).

Then & now: another look at Brian Rose and Ed Fausty’s Lower East Side photo project (NYT).

 

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