Morning Reads: Brooklyn Bridge Climber, Met Council CEO Search, Fairey: Artists Priced Out of NYC

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Ed Litvak
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Cops arrest a guy who climbed up on the Brooklyn Bridge. Yes, there’s video (Post.)

The Met Council might hire Rabbi Moshe Wiener, a member of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to lead the embattled organization. He would be the “first ultra-Orthodox Jew in recent memory to lead a major mainstream non-Orthodox Jewish charity.” (The Forward)

Margaret Chin and Corey Johnson, leaders of the City Council’s Manhattan delegation, warned that leakers might be barred from future meetings (Daily News).

ICYMI: How rent regulated apartments in New York become market rate (WNYC).

Street artist Shepard Fairey, who just finished a mural on the Bowery, says high New York rents are driving away creative people and sending them fleeing to Los Angeles (Post).

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