Morning Reads: Church of Nativity Parishioners Fight Closure Plan,In Defense of NYC as Art Center, Tenement Museum Photos

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Ed Litvak
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Parishioners at the Church of Nativity battle the Archdiocese’s consolidation plan (Channel 2).

Miguel Valez, a former cop, recalls being shot and beaten on the Lower East Side in 1962 (Post).

A new look at photographer Ken Schles’ 1980’s images (NYT).

Art in New York may be changing but it is not dead. One point made by Alan Feuer in a year-end culture piece is that some in NYC’s creative community are stuck in the past. He writes, “there is “often a fetishized nostalgia for the 1970s and early ’80s, a cheaper, more chaotic time when high crime, civic neglect and the threat of bankruptcy opened whole neighborhoods to artists.” (NYT)

A photo tour of the Tenement Museum (Daily Mail).

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