Morning Brief: February 25

New York City chain restaurants are facing a new mandate from lawmakers: they’re now required to put a salt warning on some of their menu items, and if they don’t comply, they face a fine. The rule is the first of its kind, and would require restaurants to place a saltshaker icon on menu items that top the recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams of sodium.

NEED TO KNOW

Austria and 9 Balkan States Agree on Steps to Address Refugee Crisis [New York Times]

Obama Offers Supreme Court Hints; Top Democrat Suggests Republican Governor [CNN]

Defendants Plead Not Guilty in Oregon Wildlife Refuge Case [Wall Street Journal]

Long-Awaited $4 Billion World Trade Center Transit Hub to Open Quietly [Crain’s] 

LPC Will Prioritize 30 NYC Sites for Landmark Status [Curbed NY]

WEATHER
53 degrees and cloudy [Full Forecast]

SPORTS

Yesterday

The Knicks fell to the Pacers 105 to 108

Tonight

The Nets take on the Suns at 9

The Rangers face the Blues at 8

The Islanders are up against the Flames at 9

ON STAGE TONIGHT

Kaleo @ The Bowery Ballroom

Yael Naim w/ Ethan Charles @ City Winery

Benjamin Clementine @ Mercury Lounge

Nick Moss Band and Bobby Paltauf Band @ Daryl’s House

Animal Collective @ Irving Plaza

Kamasi Washington @ Webster Hall

TODAY IN HISTORY
On this day in 1866, miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull—human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.