–A hidden camera “investigation” finds the Chinatown counterfeit trade is still thriving, while some say the de Blasio administration has not made enforcement a priority. [Channel 7]
–A look at why former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has not begun serving his prison term. [WNYT]
–The president of the Real Estate Board of New York says Essex Crossing, the large Lower East Side development project, “represents the best of what can happen when the city works together with builders and local stakeholders to strengthen neighborhoods.” [Real Estate Weekly]
–The final chapter is being written for several doomed row houses on East 7th Street. [New York Times]
–A production at the Public Theater recalls the revolutionaries who fought for social justice from their outposts on the Lower East Side and in the South Bronx a half century ago. [New York Times]
