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Morning Reads: SantaCon Backlash, Chinatown Bus Investigation Ends, Tuli Kupferberg’s Archive

Cops are telling bar owners to require SantaCon participants to remove their fake beards before entering drinking establishments (Daily News). Opinion: The time has come to bring SantaCon under control (NYT). The federal government has concluded its investigation of interstate bus...

Morning Reads: Guilty Plea in Met Council Case, Fine Fare Credit Card Theft, Greenspan Exits LES

An insurance executive at the center of the Met Council corruption case pleads guilty (NYT). Sheldon Silver says his job is secure (Newsday). Credit card numbers were stolen from the Fine Fare on Clinton Street (Post- fourth item). There's a rally this...

Morning Reads: LES Rents Fall, New Orchard Street Gallery, Watchmaker Closes Shop

New York City rents are dipping, but experts says you should "contain your glee." On the Lower East Side, prices are off about 2.5% year-over-year (Curbed). The legal battle for the Hells Angels' clubhouse (Post). The judge in a lawsuit against...

Morning Reads: Battling Illegal Hotel Law, Santacon Tips, Typhoon Benefit Auction

A new advocacy group seeks to weaken New York's illegal hotels law (Daily News). The city is going after Jerry's Newsstand again (EV Grieve). Helpful advice from Santacon organizers: no puking, "messing with kids or cops," or sexually assaulting people (Eater). The...

Morning Reads: NYCHA Contractor Under Fire, Co-op Board Members Investigated, Cop Shooting Trial

The New York City Housing Authority awarded a new contract to a construction firm accused by the federal government of cheating workers on the renovation of the Grand Street Guild apartments (Daily News). Claiming that she really lives in Italy,...

Morning Reads: Silver Set to Re-Emerge?, NYCHA Lawsuit Dismissed, Avenue D Building Revealed

Report: Sheldon Silver is preparing to "re-emerge as a forceful liberal counterweight" to Governor Cuomo (Capital NY). A judge declines to hear the City Council's lawsuit against NYCHA's market rate housing plan, saying it's premature (Capital NY). Here's what the new...

Morning Reads: SantaCon Scourge, LES Retail in 2014, Cronuts at the New Museum

In spite of protests, SantaCon will return December 14, launching from Tompkins Square Park and "wend(ing) its way through the East Village and the Lower East Side before jumping over to Brooklyn." (Daily News). Sheldon Silver has paid $65,000 in...

Morning Reads: New Museum Names Incubator Director, Tenement Museum Vote, Growing Up in a Synagogue

The New Museum appoints a "rising star" in the tech world to run its new incubator (WSJ). Editorial: The Moreland Commission's "Portrait of Sleaze" begins to emerge, evan as "Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Republican boss Dean Skelos (resist)...

Morning Reads: Cab Clash, Celebrating 7-Eleven’s Closure, Kosher Food Scene Fades

A drunken passenger, who hailed a cab on the Lower East Side, refused to pay her fare and now faces assault charges (Post-last item). Sheldon Silver's law firm wrote a big check to the political action committee that unsuccessfully pushed...

Morning Reads: 7-Eleven on St. Mark’s Place Closes, Revisiting Leo Fitzpatrick, Katz’s Hoopla

The 7-Eleven on St. Mark's Place has closed (EV Grieve). Bill de Blasio will drop in on Sheldon Silver's annual holiday luncheon today (Daily News). Kids actor Leo Fitzpatrick - hanging out around his Forsyth Street gallery and lamenting the death...
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