*Everyday Chatter

Will the fantastic Five Pointz be razed for luxury towers? If so, says Curbed, it would be "one of the more blatant and heavy handed examples of gentrification taking its toll on urban art in the city." [Curbed]

Steve Cannon's Gathering of the Tribes home being sold out from under him: "The news sent shudders through generations of poets, artists, musicians and others." [NYT]

The shuttered Chinatown Fair resurfaces in Sunset Park. [Gothamist]

Setting the record straight about Puerto Rican Lower East Side-based artist Angel Ortiz and his role in Keith Haring history. [Villager]

Look out Queens: "droves of young people dressed to the nines make the 15-minute trek from the subway...to the urban no man’s land at the edge of the East River under the 59th St. Bridge... Some pull up to valet parking in BMWs, Mini Coopers and stretch limousines. The women get out in groups wearing short-short dresses with big hair and high heels... It felt like an Edward Hopper painting from an alternate universe." [NYDN]

The "Crazy Landlord" is back to being crazy in the EV. [EVG]

Temporary closure for Jeffrey's Meat Market. [BB]

Ted Barron photographing Robert Frank photographing Tom Waits in Tompkins Square Park, 1985. [NYT]

A then-and-now of the Bowery and Chatham Square. [MU]