–U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, who represents the Lower East Side, is leading the charge in Washington for a stronger response from the Trump administration to the disastrous hurricanes in Puerto Rico. [NPR]
–A review of Jeremiah Moss’s new book on the hyper-gentrification of New York City: “The pleasure (or agony, depending on your predilection) of reading Moss is his purity… He begins no thought with ‘on the other hand.’ For Moss there is only one hand, and it is the hand of menacing greed and self-interest. His contempt for tourists and transplants who don’t abide the old folkways is uncompromised…” [New York Times]
–Pete Wells visits Cervo’s, the new Canal Street restaurant, concluding that the seafood-centric spot is doing a “good impersonation” of a wine bar. He awards the restaurant one star. [New York Times]
–A strong endorsement for Nom Wah Tu on Orchard Street. [Gothamist]
–High Tea on the Lower East Side: unexpected things happen during the daytime hours at a second floor bar on Clinton Street. [New York Times]
