CHINATOWN TOO WEALTHY FOR GRANTS?
Gothamist picked up a story from SinovisionNet that shows that parts of Chinatown and Two Bridges were left out of a grant program for storefront businesses in lower income areas. The city somehow could not look closer than the zip codes 10013 and 10038, which include parts of Tribeca and Fidi but also census tract 29, by example, which has a median household income of a little over $27,000 and where 47% have used food stamp benefits in the past year.

UBER DRIVER ON SATURDAY’S ATTACK
One of the victims of Saturday’s violent rampage, where one man attacked 10 people over the course of an hour, talks to CBS2 news.

CURBSIDE CANVAS MOVES UPTOWN
The blog I Love the Upper West Side reports on the expansion of local resident Bill Tsapalas’ Curbside Canvas Project, still expanding around other neighborhoods.