High-end restaurants in trouble, UCB to take over Two Boots Pioneer Theater … and more

1. High-end restaurants close, cut prices [WSJ]
2. Upper East Side penthouse with 1,100 square feet of indoor space and 1,400 square feet of outdoor space on the market for $4.5 million [NYDN]
3. Nolita eatery Lovely Day reopens today, while the Upper West Side’s Madeleine Mae may close [Eater] and [Eater]
4. Staten Island’s King Kullen to close next month [SI Advance]
5. The Upright Citizens Brigade will take over the former Two Boots Pioneer Theater in the East Village [Villager]
6. Students visit Forest CIty Ratner’s tower-in-progress on Beekman Street [Downtown Express]
7. $32 million in renovations on Fulton Street expected to be completed in 2012 [Downtown Express]
8. Renovated Glad Tidings church to Reopen On Franklin Street next fall, without six-foot-tall cross [Downtown Express]