Morning Reads: Chin Pushes Plastic Bag Fees, Gun Case Has LES Angle, Penny Arcade

By
Ed Litvak
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City Council member Margaret Chin is helping to lead a push for plastic bag fees (Capital).

Gun smuggling bust: court documents detail Lower East Side connection (Daily News).

Two former Vito Lopez staffers, who have filed a lawsuit, claim that Sheldon Silver failed to stop sex harassment in the State Assembly (Post).

Did Silver do it? Speculation abounds as to who slipped generous tax breaks for developers into an Albany housing bill (Daily News).

“The Brownstone,” a Jewish social club on East 12th Street, has been temporarily closed by the city (EV Grieve).

Nail art takes off: Vanity Projects gets more press (Artinfo).

A conversation about the demise of the downtown scene with Penny Arcade (Observer).

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