Morning Reads: Sunshine Cinemas Terror Threat, Tompkins Square Park Death, Fung Wah Back in Business

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Ed Litvak
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The premiere of “The Interview” at the Sunshine Cinemas, scheduled for tomorrow night, was cancelled after terror threats were received from the Sony hackers. Homeland Security has said, “there is no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters within the United States.” (Post).

A man from Harlem died after a tire swing at Tompkins Square Park hit him in the face (NYT).

Fung Wah has been cleared to resume operations. The company plans to restart New York-Boston bus service next year (Reason).

Members of the City Council give NYCHA an earful about its management problems (NYT).

Sheldon Silver challenges the governor’s assertion that lawmakers oppose campaign finance reform (NYT).

The Assembly is on track to spend over $1 million on legal fees to keep details about lawmakers’ outside income secret (Capital).

Bil Hammond: Silver has created a “judicial hellhole” in New York (Daily News).

As we noted a few weeks ago, the gas is now on at Moscow 57 after a seven month delay and the kitchen is serving its full menu. Now the partners are suing Con Ed for $1.6 million (Crain’s).

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