Crossing Houston at 2nd Avenue the other day
• There's a Celebration of Life tomorrow (Feb. 7) at 1:15 p.m. for Tara Moran at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. The longtime East Village resident passed away on Jan. 4. She was 71. (Legacy.com)
• More about the arrest of the suspect in the rape of a 14-year-old in Stuy Town. Some Stuy Town/Peter Cooper residents are faulting management for a tardy response to the attack. (Our Town) ... an NYU angle (Washington Square News) ... previously on EVG
• Frigid-weather death toll hits 17 in NYC (THE CITY)
• NYC tenants are making a record number of complaints to the city about lack of heat and hot water (Gothamist)
• Affordable housing lottery underway at 115 Delancey St. on the Lower East Side (This PDF has info about applying)
• Eleven days after the 10 inches of snow, fewer than one-quarter of Citi Bike docks are cleared of snow — a responsibility of Lyft, not the city (Streetsblog). Notably, per Streetsblog: "The current membership fee is 151 percent higher than it was in 2013, while over the same period, inflation has raised prices 37 percent." (EVG photo below from Fourth Street at Second Avenue)
• Keith Powers wins the race for the 74th state Assembly District... a seat vacated when Harvey Epstein successfully ran for City Council District 2 (NY1)
• A look at Odo East Village, a 24-seat, counter restaurant at 536 E. Fifth St. — the former Minca space (Eater) ... we had the scoop about Odo here.
• There are some great films in this "The Year Begins in Silence" series at Metrograph on Ludlow Street (Official site)
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