• After forty years, the Harlem peirs are coming to town. [NYT]

• Amy Sacco's old eatery, Lot 61, is being turned into an art space. Expect to see the same crowd looking about 10 pounds lighter. [Art News]

• Calling all Bushwick dwellers! Shake Shack sherpas are the new bike messengers. [NYDN]

• The government kidnapped a Columbia engineering student for their secret underground nuclear development program. Ok, we made that up — except for the kidnapped Columbia student part. [NYP]

• If your hipster co-workers rolled into work like half an hour ago, it wasn't their fault. They were stuck on the L train. But now they're free. [Gothamist]