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A 22-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot in the back on Rivington Street on the LES. [Gothamist]
A man was shot in the chest by police officers who said he was holding a knife to a woman in a Lower East Side building. [NBC NY]
A man who was stabbed on the Lower East Side in the 1950s has finally died of his wounds. [NY Daily News]
Jimmy McMillan, the flamboyant leader of the Rent Is Too Damn High, has received an eviction notice on his St. Marks Place apartment. [NY Daily News]
A visit to Streitz’s, the matzo factory that’s closing after 90 years. [The Guardian]
The Daily News rates NYC’s remaining delis, including Katz’s. [NYDN]
A Greenpoint church is now taking in homeless people after the death of a man in November. [DNA Info]
Broth is the hot new thing, thanks in part to Brodo in the East Village. [Cosmo]
A colorful, eclectic East Village townhouse is asking $8.3 million. [Curbed]
The century-old Adas Yisroel Anshe Mezritch Synagogue, on East 6th Street, will reopen soon after a long renovation which began six months ago. [Jewish Business News]
Triskelion’s Never Before, Never Again festival will be a night of completely improvised dance and comedy. [Brooklyn Paper]
A visit to the home of rug designer Aelfie Oudghiri’s textile-strewn apartment on the Greenpoint-Williamsburg border. “It’s halfway between Grand Street and the Grand Bazaar.” [Racked]
Ten Thousand Saints, set in the East Village, is among the New York films getting buzz at Sundance. [NY Daily News] 