Morning Reads: Driver in Grocery Crash Pleads Not Guilty, Silver Appointee Quits, NBA Pioneer Dies

The allegedly drunk man who drove into an East Village grocery last month pleads not guilty (Post).

Sheldon Silver’s appointee to the state ethics board resigns (Daily News).

A look at X’ian Famous Foods, the growing restaurant chain that has an outpost in Chinatown (Forbes).

Ratner’s, the next generation, comes to Brooklyn (The Forward).

Hyman Bloom’s paintings are on view at the White Box Gallery (Bloomberg).

Ossie Schectman, who scored the first NBA basket and who grew up on the LES, dies at the age of 94 (USA Today).