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Morning Reads: New Museum Names Incubator Director, Tenement Museum Vote, Growing Up in a Synagogue

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December 4, 2013

The New Museum appoints a “rising star” in the tech world to run its new incubator (WSJ).

Editorial: The Moreland Commission’s “Portrait of Sleaze” begins to emerge, evan as “Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Republican boss Dean Skelos (resist) subpoenas aimed at uncovering exactly what they do — or do not do — in return for the huge bucks they pull down from law firms.” (Daily News)

The U.S. House passes legislation that would trigger Park Service recognition of the Tenement Museum’s expanded facility at 103 Orchard St. (Yahoo/PR Newswire)).

The co-owner of St. Mark’s Bookshop talks about the ongoing auction to raise money for a move (Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY).

Casimir Nozkowski talks about growing up at 70 Hester St, a former synagogue (The Times of Israel).

Metropolitan Diary: “The most popular film shooting since ‘The Ten Commandments’ – at least on the Lower East Side.” (NYT)

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