Morning Reads: Cake Shop’s Woes, Le Baron Sexes up Chinatown, Hole Shop Recaptures ALife Edge

  • Cake Shop gets some high profile attention in its desperate bid for survival (NYT).
  • On the market: the Jehovah’s Witnesses Avenue C building (Crain’s).
  • Congressional candidate Erik Dilan says his opponent, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, is weak on Israel; she obviously disagrees (Daily News).
  • Velazquez disputes claims that she’s a Washington insider who’s too close to Wall Street interests (Daily News).
  • Andre Saraiva talks about his hot club-of-the-moment Le Baron in Chinatown (AFP/Yahoo).
  • “King of the Bowery” Jessie Malin talks about a changed Lower East Side (Nashville Scene).
  • Hester Nights debuts uptown tonight (WCBS).
  • The ALife team launches the Hole Shop (NYT).