The mayor makes pedestrian safety a high priority (NYT)
Rosario Dawson says her new film, Gimme Shelter, struck a personal nerve, reminding the actress of her Lower East Side upbringing (Daily News).
Robert Sietsema outlines an "historic restaurant preservation plan." (Eater)
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A state Assemblyman wants to reduce the speed on city streets to 20 m.p.h. (Daily News).
The mayor decides to appoint a new head of the Housing Development Corp., a key player in financing affordable housing (City & State).
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Jared Kushner keeps up his East Village real estate spending spree (Real Deal).
Steve Cuozzo: "Developers can relax — Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t turn New York City into a communistic realm where no one can build a candy store...
Police arrest a suspect in the rape of a young woman on East 7th Street (Daily News).
A new study shows that intercity bus travel is much cheaper than driving and that the "number of scheduled discount intercity bus trips...
Surveillance video: suspected East 7th Street rapist (WABC).
Silver: not ready "to blow up the state- yet" over Pre-K (Daily News).
Thanks to Mayor de Blasio, Jerry's Newsstand is going to reopen (NYT).
The Salvation Army's old building on the Bowery is...
IBM's Watson will become a major new player at 51 Astor Place (Forbes).
Study: Charter school students are not more likely to transfer than traditional public school students; but charters lose special needs students at a high rate (NYT).
Parking ticket...
"They came, they schmoozed, they noshed;" scenes from Sheldon Silver's bagel breakfast (Capital).
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is profiled (Metro Focus).
An owner of East 10th Street restaurant Quintessence dies; an effort is underway to save the business (EV...
A New York state court blocks part of NYU's expansion plan (NYT).
Mayor de Blasio is "working to reach a better outcome" for Jerry's Newsstand (Daily News).
Silver: Albany would clear the way for de Blasio's plan to tax the rich...
Jerry Delakas fights to keep his newsstand (NYT).
Jerry meets the mayor and prepares for a court date (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY).
The governor "threw Sheldon Silver a bone" yesterday, "saying that combating sex-harassment scandals in the Assembly requires changes in rules,...
Living Theater co-founder Judith Malina may have departed the Lower East Side but she still thinks it's a place where a "beautiful, nonviolent revolution" can occur (NYT).
Sheldon Silver appoints the husband of a top Assembly staff member to the...
