Legendary Lincoln Plaza Cinema to close next month; food truck industry won’t get legislative boost

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• Kwanzaa Crawl returns this month to support Black-owned Brooklyn bars. [Brokelyn]
• After the building owner declined to renew its lease, art house movie theater Lincoln Plaza Cinema announced it will close. [NYT]
• Mapping the city’s top-10 tax abatement condos. [CityRealty]
• Renzo Piano explains why he decided to design the New York Times Building as a transparent tower in the wake of 9/11. [Dezeen]
• NYC landlords may soon be required to post their buildings’ energy ratings. [WSJ]
• City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s proposed bill to add 335 more food vendor licenses over 10 years won’t move ahead. [Crain’s]