What I read today oct 17

• What Happened to the West Village?, NYR Daily

• The Police Can’t Solve the Problem. They Are the Problem., NY Times

• City could lose nearly 100 community gardens over contract dispute, Brooklyn Daily Eagle

• The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood, Atlas Obscura

• Picturing China’s Bamboo Chopstick Industry From the Sky, Atlas Obscura