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Morning Reads: After Sandy, Lou Reed Bowery Interview, Knish Calamity

A new report shows Lower Manhattan has bounced back from Hurricane Sandy (Real Deal). A "constitutional activist" goes head-to-head with Sheldon Silver's attorney in an Albany courtroom (Times Union). An update on the effort to protect the East 14th Street synagogue...

Morning Reads: Burglar Mishap, Lou Reed RIP, Clinton Street Exported to Dubai

A guy falls from a fifth floor window on 2nd Avenue after allegedly trying to steal items from an apartment (Daily News). Arguments will be heard today in a lawsuit against Sheldon Silver for his handling of the Vito Lopez...

Morning Reads: Passenger Stabs Cab Driver, Mobil Station’s Future, Russ & Daughters Cafe

Police are looking for a man who was picked up by a cab driver at Delancey and Ludlow streets Saturday night and allegedly stabbed and beat the driver after he took him to the wrong address in the Bronx...

Morning Reads: Bowery Whole Foods Robbery, Silver Successor Talk, Noah’s Ark Deli Fallout

More details on the brazen $60,000 robbery at the Bowery Whole Foods (NYT). There are no indications Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is planning to step down, but there's no shortage of speculation about an heir apparent (City & State). Members of...

Morning Reads: Loeser Speaks For Judy Rapfogel, Hell Square Ad Nauseam, Jewish Burlesque

Political consultant Stu Loeser on why he was quoted in the Times defending Judy Rapfogel: "My role for Shelly is not to speak for him, but to offer advice (but) in this case it seemed clear that someone had...

Morning Reads: Seaport Plans, Star-Gazing at the Girls Club, Silver Watch

New South Street Seaport mall plans are unveiled (WABC). A look at the New Girls Club planetarium (NY1). A controversial study in the 1950's involving men living in Bowery flophouses was denounced yesterday by medical scholars (NYT). A key member of a...

Morning Reads: Airbnb Investigation, Arrest in Attempted Rape, Pulino’s is Closing

New York's attorney general wants Airbnb to turn over data on residents listing their apartments on the web site (Post). Police make an arrest in connection with an attempted rape in Soho (NY1). Keith McNally concedes that Pulino's "hasn't fully worked,"...

Morning Reads: Renovating Around Him, Street Art Debate, Taquitoria on Ludlow

A lone resident of a building on East 6th Street refusing to leave as a renovation project proceeds (WCBS). An attorney is suing Sheldon Silver on behalf of "the people of New York state." (Times Union) Banksy's New York installation renews...

Morning Reads: Assembly Moves, Slow Zone, Richard Price’s Lower East Side

Sheldon Silver is shutting down a policy unit within the State Assembly; there's speculation that the "embattled pol wants to allocate its funding to his members in hopes of strengthening his standing." (Daily News) The area around Tompkins Square Park...

Morning Reads: NYCHA Lawsuit, Girls Club’s New Building, More Ridicule For CBGB Film

The City Council and a group of tenants sue the Bloomberg Administration to block NYCHA's luxury leasing proposal (NYT). Sheldon Silver backs Bill de Blasio's plan to change the admission process for the city's elite schools (Daily News). Previewing the LES...
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