Morning Reads: IBM Watson’s Big Day, Park Spending Details, LES Restaurateur’s Design Sense

IBM Watson, boasting a workforce of 600, opens its new Astor Place headquarters today (NY Business Journal).

Police look for a bank robber who has hit locations throughout the city, including on 2nd Avenue (Channel 2).

Why a Lower East Side man was sentenced to six years in prison for carrying a knife (Village Voice).

More on the mayor’s initiative to improve neglected neighborhood parks. Work is not expected to begin until 2016 at the earliest (NYT).

Balthazar has signed a 10 year lease in Soho (Page Six).

Hanging out on the Lower East Side with Phil Winser of Fat Radish (Esquire).