Morning Reads: BP Station Property Sold, New Buildings Commissioner, Chinatown BID’s Coop Plan

The site of the former BP gas station on 2nd Avenue has been sold for $32 million (Real Deal).

The mayor finally picks a buildings commissioner (Commercial Observer).

The Chinatown BID wants to buy up vacant properties and create a coop to combat high rents crushing local businesses (New America Media).

A restaurant worker is suing his former employer, a dumpling shop on St. Mark’s Place (Post).

Art Review: The New Museum’s exhibition, “Here & Elsewhere,” is praised for “thrillingly” fulfilling the institution’s mandate of “giv(ing) us art we barely knew existed.” (NYT)

Massimiliano Gioni, the New Museum’s star curator, is promoted (Artinfo).

A Tommy Ramone memorial is in the works (EV Grieve).

Vintage photos: Lower East Side kids actually having fun (Bowery Boys).