Ramallah-based Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar was supposed to play a key role in events surrounding the New Museum's exhibition of art from the Arab World, but he is being prevented from leaving the West Bank (Artnet).
Ben Shaoul faces...
Bereket on East Houston Street and Orchard Street has closed after 20 years (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY).
The BP gas station on East 1st Street is closing tomorrow but the Avenue C Mobil station is back open (EV Grieve).
Mapping the Lower...
In an appearance before the Real Estate Board of New York, the mayor says he's "deadly serious" about 200,000 units of affordable housing and he's willing to approve taller, bigger buildings to make it happen (Daily News).
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