Lower East Side Links

–A man has been arrested in connection with a robbery pattern on and and around Clinton Street. [DNA Info]

–New Neighbor: Mexican drug lord Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman was extradited to the U.S. yesterday. He was taken to the federal detention facility in Lower Manhattan. [Daily News]

–“Lambs being led to slaughter,” is how one attendee described this week’s Two Bridges environmental review meeting. [Curbed]

–The Real Estate Board of New York’s annual gala was attended, as usual, by the mayor and several of his underlings. [The Real Deal]

–Remember when there was a bank in the middle of East Houston Street? [EV Grieve]

–Wayne Barrett, the legendary Village Voice muckraker, has died at the age of 71. [New York Times]