Morning Reads: Pedestrian Killed on Canal Street, Clayton’s Taylor Swift Video, Lucy Liu Signs Up For “Snakehead”

At Canal and Centre streets, a man was struck and killed by a garbage truck. Witnesses say it was a hit and run (Post).

Parishes across New York find out Sunday whether they’ll be victims of the Archdiocese’s consolidation plan (NYT).

Developer Gary Barnett, mastermind of the mega-project on the former Pathmark site, says the high-end apartment market will soon be over saturated (Crain’s).

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney debated her GOP challenger last night (Daily News).

Scenes from the final days at WD-50 (NYT).

Video: Clayton Patterson reimagines Taylor Swift’s “welcome to New York” pitch (YouTube).

Lucy Liu will star in “Snakehead.” (Deadline)

A conversation with LES nightlife guy Brett David (Observer).