—Last month, we reported on concerns expressed by local residents about the city’s plans for an East River flood barrier. Cable news has now picked up on the story. [NY1]
–A report from the launch party for downtown’s new political club, which covers parts of the Lower East Side. [Tribeca Trib]
–Out with the old, in with the new: “Performance Space New York is adapted to the city’s art world as it has become: a high-production-value outpost of a global intellectual-aesthetic marketplace, not a bohemian semi-abandoned escape-from-capitalism hole in the wall.” [Vulture]
–Live in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue at Brookfield Place: Rivington Tattoo. [Channel 2]
–Checking in with the guys at the Cafetal Social Club on Mulberry Street in the age of hyper-gentrification. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
