Morning Reads: Bag Fee Push, Grand Street CVS Rat-Roach Haven, Chinatown’s “Off-the-Grid” Dance Parties

By
Ed Litvak
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Margaret Chin and her Council colleagues advocate for a 10 cent plastic bag fee. A committee hearing will be held on the proposal at 1 p.m. (Daily News).

Councilman Rafael Espinal thinks the bag fee is a bad idea (Observer).

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is paying another $141,000 in legal fees associated with the Vito Lopez sex harassment scandal (Daily News).

At the CVS on Grand Street, health “inspectors found dead insects in candy boxes in the basement, another 60 dead flies, half a dozen dead roaches, and 110 mouse and rat droppings. They found either inaccurate thermometers or none at all in seven of the basement and retail level coolers and freezers.” (Channel 11).

A former East 10th Street dorm building is primed for a rental conversion (Real Deal).

The resident of a tenement on 2nd Avenue has a few things he’d like to tell Airbnb guests (EV Grieve).

Inside the dance party scene that unfolds in a Chinese restaurant under the Manhattan Bridge (Gothamist).

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