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Morning Reads: Ludlow Street’s New Aristocracy, Hotel Slump, Squatters of the LES

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March 4, 2015

A dispatch from Monday night’s VIP reception at the newly minted Taittinger Gallery on Ludlow Street: “It will not be your typical downtown gallery—the high walls and sleek facade strut and soar like a Chelsea stalwart.” (Observer)

Gallerist Bridget Donahue settles in on the Bowery (WWD).

A full page ad in the Post pitches 190 Bowery’s “prime retail.” (EV Grieve).

The Howard Hughes Corp. continues to gobble up properties near the Seaport, most recently snatching a commercial building on Front Street for $24 million (Real Deal).

As the hotel building boom continues, hotel occupancy in New York sags (NYT).

Photos: Ash Thayer documents her years squatting on the Lower East Side (New Yorker).

Remembering Charlotte Spiegel, local politico and inventor of the city’s window guard program (NYT).

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