• MTA leaders mull a COVID-19-related financial crisis that could potentially see a 40-percent cut in weekday subway service and layoffs of more than 9,000 transit workers (Daily News) ... MTA looks to borrow $3 billion from the Feds (Streetsblog)
• NYC restaurants restaurants report a drop in sales with the new 10 p.m. curfew (The Post)
• Anti-nuclear pacifists, seen on Saturdays in Tompkins Square Park protesting the war in Yemen, are headed to federal prison (The Intercept)
• Q&A with East Village artist-musician Kembra Pfahler: "Being creative and sharing is a benevolent human trajectory that's difficult to irradiate even under the most heinous conditions. It lifts the spirits." (Whitehot Magazine)
• Thoughts on Luc Sante's new collection of essays, which includes remembrances of the East Village music scene from his youth (The New York Times)
• Complaints increase about the sight-seeing helicopter excursions over Manhattan (The City)
• Singer-songwriter Jill Fiore on her fire escape performances on Essex Street (NY1)
• Yellow Rose is a taco hit on Third Avenue (Eater ... previously on EVG)
• Introducing "The Encyclopedia of New York" (New York)