–The owner of Yep Tour Inc. doesn’t think Senator Schumer’s bus safety rating system will work. Jeremy Walker says,“To just give someone an A, B, C, does he really think that’s going to change people riding… The problem is those grades don’t specifically tell the complete truth… It’s like a two-year review, and if a company makes changes, nobody’s going to know that” until the next ratings are issued. [New York Times]
–Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen makes a bold pronouncement about the new Essex Street Market opening next year: “If I were a betting person, I’d guess the (foot) traffic is going to increase like crazy once (the vendors) are in a new space.” [AMNY]
–Interpol revisits an era “when the Lower East Side wasn’t just a never-ending grid of condos and bank branches.” [Los Angeles Times]
–At the Seward Park Library tonight, three films made by local teenagers representing three eras (the 1960s, the 1980s and the present day.) [Facebook]
