Morning Reads: Success Academy Followup, New Allen Street Hotel, Remembering Walter Keuhr

By
Ed Litvak
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Parents braved the cold last night, showing up at P.S. 20 for a hearing regarding Success Academy’s plans to open a school on the Lower East Side. The DOE canceled the hearing after the charter school chain withdrew its proposal but activists went ahead with the meeting anyway (Chalkbeat).

Permits are filed for a 7-story hotel at 88 Allen St. (NY YIMBY).

The company that owns Zara is buying a retail condo in Soho for a record price, $20,000/sq. ft. (Real Deal).

Under a proposed settlement of a federal lawsuit, the city agrees to change the way police patrol NYCHA buildings (NYT).

The Times remembers Walter Keuhr of the Main Squeeze accordion shop. The store lost its lease and will be closing Jan. 15 (NYT).

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