Morning Reads: “Club Queen” Buys $7 Million Condo, Taking on “Tenant Relocators,” East River Ice Floes

By
Ed Litvak
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Emma Hsieh, a real estate investor who owns two Lower East Side bars, buys a $7 million penthouse at 100 Norfolk St. (Post).

Local City Council member Rosie Mendez is co-sponsor of new legislation that would crack down on landlords that rent vacant apartments on Airbnb (Post).

Another Council bill takes aim at so-called “tenant relocation specialists.” (Crain’s).

Development plans for the former Mary Help of Christians lot are changing (EV Grieve).

The eulogies for Streit’s Rivington Street production facility keep on coming (JTA).

A man was critically injured in a fire on East 13th Street (Daily News).

This winter’s East River ice floes are a throwback to the 1800s (Scientific American).

 

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