Updated: January 8, 2015

Morning Reads: Silver Sails to Victory, Mining the Marijuana Market, Marky Ramone Reminisces

January 8, 2015

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Sheldon Silver was re-elected yesterday as Speaker of the New York Assembly. “I enjoy and am very heartened by the support that I get from members of the conference. And I’m honored that they chose me to support them,” he said (WSJ)

Silver said he has not personally heard from federal prosecutors looking into his relationship with a Manhattan law firm (Daily News).

The Speaker said a top priority for him in 2015 will be enacting a strong rent regulation law (Daily News).

A “nondescript four-story former tenement at 149 Bowery” may be the “unlikely staging ground for the next push in the battle against the prohibition of marijuana.” (TechCrunch).

It looks like a few people still remain inside the Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (EV Grieve).

Lunching at DBGB (where they’ve got his marinara sauce), Marky Ramone observes, the “Lower East Side is like anywhere else in the country now.” (Post)

Fashionistas in search of deep discounts on high-end designer labels will be heading to the Bowery Hotel Jan. 16 for Fivestory’s off-site sale (Racked).

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