Must-reads headlines from around the city curated by the WNYC Newsroom.

HOUSING
Lawsuit Seeks to Block City on Evictions (WSJ)
Michael Howard Saul reports: “Thousands of low-income families in New York City are at risk of becoming homeless because they have been blocked from applying to a rental-assistance program designed to ward off eviction, a lawsuit contends. The Family Eviction Prevention Supplement program, a joint initiative by city and state governments, provides back rent and continuing aid to families on public assistance who face eviction. But high demand combined with state funding cuts mean eligible New Yorkers are turned away each week, advocates say.”

REAL ESTATE
1 World Trade Center Now 55 Percent Leased (DNAinfo)
Julie Shapiro reports: “The rising 1 World Trade Center is now more than 55 percent leased, thanks to a new deal inked this week, officials announced Wednesday morning. The U.S. General Services Administration, a federal agency, will take more than 270,000 square feet on the 50th through 55th floors of the skyscraper, which already stands tallest in the city and is scheduled to open in 2014, the Port Authority said.”

ELECTIONS
BOE Considers Moving Up Mayoral Primary to June (NY1)
Bobby Cuza reports: ”In May, the New York City Board of Elections sent state leaders a letter requesting a 30-day window before any potential runoff. That would likely require pushing up the primary date.”

REAL ESTATE
Plan to Build Atop Chelsea Market Hits Resistance From Stringer (NYT)
David W. Chen reports: “A much-debated proposal to build above Chelsea Market has hit another obstacle, in the form of Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, who plans to recommend on Thursday that the project be vetoed unless it is significantly scaled back.”

HEALTH
After Boy’s Death, Hospital Alters Discharging Procedures (NYT)
Jim Dwyer reports: “NYU Langone Medical Center announced on Wednesday significant changes in its procedures after the death by septic shock of a 12-year-old boy who was sent home from the center with fever and a rapid heart rate.”

POLITICS
Hipster PAC Downtown 4 Democracy Eats Well With Purpose (NY Magazine)
Joe Coscarelli reports on a re-energized D4D : “‘It wasn't until Sarah Palin that everyone woke up again,’ she explained. That missile dodged and the world still intact, D4D has risen from apathy's ashes this year and partnered with CREDO, a liberal super PAC, with the aim of unseating ‘The Tea Party 10,’ the most extreme and vulnerable members of the U.S. House of Representatives, from Pennsylvania to California. Without their own Sheldon Adelson, the group hopes to make its dent in smaller markets.”

POLITICS
Hikind’s Campaign Donations to Wife’s Non-Profit Raise Election Law Questions (City & State)
Chris Bragg reports: “Going at least as far back as 1999, and with increasingly frequency in recent years, Hikind has given a total of nearly $43,000 in donations to a Manhattan-based non-profit and two heavily overlapping organizations. Hikind’s wife, Susan, has for years run the daily operations for at least one of the organizations, earning $80,000 a year at American Friends of Ateret Cohanim as its executive vice-president.”

EDUCATION
City Kids To Be Automatically Enrolled in Kindergarten (NYP)
Erik Kriss reports: “City five-year-olds will automatically be signed up for kindergarten in the public schools starting in 2013-14 unless their parents tell school officials otherwise. Gov. Cuomo signed a bill yesterday allowing the city to require children that age to attend school unless their parents object.”

HEALTH
Mayor Bloomberg Takes Aim at Bodega Junk Food (NYDN)
Erin Durkin writes about the mayor’s Shop Healthy program: “Unlike his push to outlaw large sodas, Bloomberg is asking store owners to voluntarily give healthy foods prime space in their shops. The Shop Healthy program announced Wednesday asks for changes in stores in two Bronx neighborhoods — Fordham and West Farms — where almost 70% of adults are overweight or obese.”

EDUCATION
Queens High School Principal Arrested for Meth Possession (NYDN)
Rachel Monahan and Sarah Armaghan report: “Carl Hudson Jr., 33, was around the corner from Flushing High School on Northern Blvd. about 8:35 p.m. on Tuesday when police discovered the meth in the bag in the car’s center console, police said.”

CRIME
Off-Duty F.B.I. Agent Thwarts Car Thieves in Queens (NYT)
Joseph Goldstein reports that the NYPD and the FBI are conducting parallel investigations into this shooting that left one man shot in the back: “The vehicle the robbers singled out just after 5 a.m. belonged to an off-duty agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the police said. It was parked on the street, outside the agent’s home, and when he spotted the would-be thieves, he fired at them from his second-story window, wounding one of the suspects, the authorities said.”

CRIME
DUI Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Killer Not Charged for Death of Harlem Man (StreetsBlog)
Joseph Goldstein reports: “A driver who left a trail of carnage through East Harlem, killing an innocent bystander, has been sentenced to as little as a year in jail after she escaped charges for taking a life.. A motorist with a suspended license, who has been drinking, mortally wounds a man, pinballs through more than a dozen city blocks, crashing into other vehicles until a wheel falls off her car, and is not charged for killing. How can this be?”

BUSINESS
Water-Only Cafe Sells Filtered H2O from City’s Taps (DNAinfo)
Serena Solomon reports: “A new café recently opened up on East 10th Street — but don't expect to find customers sipping on lattes. Molecule, aka the Water Café, is filtering New York City water down to its purest form and serving it up to thirsty local patrons using a custom-made device worth more than $20,000.”