Morning Reads: Hit & Run Arrest, Gentrification Watch, Lindsay Lohan’s Bowery Wall Moment

Thanks to a witness who snapped a photo, cops arrest a hit-and-run-driver following an accident at Hester Street and Bowery (WCBS).

An MTA employee was arrested for allegedly selling cocaine in the Bronx; he was also busted for dealing on the Lower East Side six months ago (Daily News).

A 7-Eleven might be coming to the LES Girls Club building on Avenue D (EV Grieve).

Long Read: the rise of hyper-gentrification (Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY).

A Cronut imposter in Little Italy? (Post)

Yeah that’s Lindsay Lohan at the Bowery mural wall (Instagram).