Morning Reads: Allen Street Accident, Prison For Former Met Council Exec, Airbnb Ruling

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Ed Litvak
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Two pedestrians were injured when a car jumped the curb on Allen Street yesterday afternoon (Channel 2).

Herbert Friedman, former finance chief at the Met Council, was sentenced to four months in prison and ordered to pay $775,000. William Rapfogel, ring leader of the audacious embezzlement scheme, will be sentenced next month (Post).

A court ruling could let some tenants renting their apartments via Airbnb off the hook (Post).

City Council members want NYCHA to set aside more apartments for homeless families (Daily News).

Gertrude Stein set to music at the Abrons Arts Center (NYT).

New York’s “love affair with the summer sprinkler,” part of the “physical and psychic fabric of the city” that has its roots in Seward Park, on the Lower East Side (NYT).

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