Chief-of-staff handoff: Moving on to an exciting new opportunity is Matt Borden, who recently left his post as chief of staff to Assemblymember Deborah Glick to become assistant commissioner of Government and External Affairs at the city’s Department of Homeless Services. Taking over as Glick’s new chief of staff is Sarah Sanchala, who was formerly read more here »

Stirring it up in stir: Activist John Penley reports on Facebook that he recently received a long letter from “Inmate Stanley Cohen” from federal prison. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to tax obstruction and got 18 months, is currently working in the prison library and hopes to begin teaching GED classes soon. “The funniest line,” Penley read more here »

Giving it her all: Sports Illustrated swimsuit supermodel, wife of Grammy winner John Legend and Nolita resident Chrissy Teigen was signing autographs and meeting her fans Tuesday morning at the S.I. Swim City pop-up pavilion in Herald Square. She and other S.I. models were promoting the mag’s new swimsuit issue, which was just hitting the read more here »

The final squat deal? We hear things are heating up at 544 E. 13th St. It’s one of the two former East Village squats still left from when the city sold 11 of them to the squatters in 2002 for $1 per building. Under the deal, the squatters were supposed to bring the D.I.Y. buildings read more here »

Some cutting words: The day after probably the worst day in Sheldon Silver’s life, what did he do? He stuck to his routine, getting his regular haircut at Astor Place Hairstylists, where rates start at just $16. By chance, we happened to go there for a trim ourselves on Monday and couldn’t help recalling that read more here »

Je Lis Charlie: On Tuesday, New Yorkers were able to purchase the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, published on schedule by the grief-stricken colleagues of the magazine’s four lead cartoonists, Cabut, Charb, Wolinsky and Tignous, who were murdered by two militant extremists firing AK-47s into their weekly editorial meeting on Jan. 7 in Paris. Six other read more here »

Movin’ on up: With many of her Downtown friends and allies on hand, Kathryn Freed was recently sworn in as a New York State Supreme Court justice. A former city councilmember for Lower Manhattan’s District 1, Freed was term-limited out of the Council, and in 2004 was elected a Civil Court judge. Last year, she read more here »

On the waterfront: We got the story from Borough President Gale Brewer this week on what went down between her and Franz Leichter and why the former state senator recently abruptly announced — as The Villager reported last week after he sent us a copy of his resignation letter — that he is stepping down from read more here »

Call it a dynasty: The new president of the Village Independent Democrats political club is Nadine Hoffmann, who succeeds her husband, Tony, in the position. Hoffmann faced a challenge by Jim Fouratt, though he actually ultimately withdrew from the race. Before club members cast their votes, each candidate spoke for 10 minutes, followed by 10 read more here »