Morning Reads: Bank Employee Charged, Speed Camera Push, Pig & Khao Reviewed

A Sovereign Bank employee in the East Village is accused of stealing almost $300,000 from a customer’s account (Post).

The Jewish Paper of Record notices the news about Beth Hamedrash Hagadol (The Forward).

More on the push for speed cameras; Silver includes funding in the Assembly budget (Streetsblog).

Actress Jennifer Esposito opens a bakery on East 10th Street and now films a reality show pilot (EV Grieve).

Pete Wells says of Leah Cohen’s Pig & Khao: “I felt as if I were poring over an album of carefully edited postcards from her travels.” (NYT)

Rock writer Mark Spitz looks back on a Lower East Side that has all but vanished (Village Voice).