Old LIC motor factory could become studio, parents worried about city day care centers closing … and more

1. Old motor factory could become production studio in Long Island City [NYDN]
2. City was $20,000 short of protecting World’s Fair area in Queens [NYDN]
3. New Jersey’s Public Service Electric and Gas plans to install solar panels on utility poles, schools, municipal buildings and low-income housing projects over five years [NYT]
4. City parents worried about day care centers closing [NYDN]
5. Crumb rubber, made from recycled tires, will no longer be used for synthetic-turf fields for parks and schools [NYDN]
6. $52 million Grand Concourse renovations completed nine months early [NYDN]
7. Black history bookstore in Fort Greene to close next month because the city Department of Education canceled a deal to buy textbooks from it [Brooklyn Paper]
8. The “Bard of Coney Island” sings song to save the neighborhood [Brooklyn Paper]
9. Domino Sugar factory plan will enter public review soon [NYO]