Morning Reads: School Layoffs, Housing Snafu, Children’s Workshop Q & A

  • Among the school, aides fired last week: Cliftonia Johnson of the Marta Valle High School (NYT).
  • Maria Velez-Clarke talks about her successful school, the Children’s Workshop (NYT).
  • Sheldon Silver still wants a millionaire tax but he won’t hold up the budget in order to get it (Post).
  • The NYC Housing Authority wrongly kicked thousands of residents out of the federally funded Section 8 program. City Councilmember Rosie Mendez is not very happy they ducked her committee meeting called to investigate the problem (WNYC).
  • Yoga helps clients of the LES Harm Reduction Center (CNN).
  • A new, high-end tenant on Extra Place (EV Grieve).
  • Model Luis Borges, photographed on the streets of the Lower East Side (Fashionisto).