Morning Reads: Bob Marley Marijuana Brand, Pop-Up Gallery at Wing Shoon, Santacon 2014 Stays Clear of LES

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Ed Litvak
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Marley Natural, “a premium cannabis brand rooted in the life and legacy of one of marijuana’s most devoted sons,” will be operated out of a loft space on the Lower East Side (USA Today).

Tenant advocates remain optimistic about strengthening the state’s rent law next year in spite of Republican Senate gains (Crain’s).

The Reena Spaulings Fine Arts gallery held a one-day show in the shuttered Wing Shoon Chinese restaurant space; “the gallery says it took three days of industrial cleaning to get the place looking respectable, and even then, one would be hard-pressed to say it was spotless.” Among those slumming it on the lower LES: Wendi Deng Murdoch, Eric Schmidt, Dasha Zhukova, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and Larry Gagosian (Vulture)

Community activists are hopeful about the prospects of saving Siempre Verde Garden (Curbed).

Santacon 2014 will terrorize Bushwick instead of the Lower East Side (Gothamist).

A list of endangered places in NYC (Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY).

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