Morning Reads: Assembly Moves, Slow Zone, Richard Price’s Lower East Side

By
Ed Litvak
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Sheldon Silver is shutting down a policy unit within the State Assembly; there’s speculation that the “embattled pol wants to allocate its funding to his members in hopes of strengthening his standing.” (Daily News)

The area around Tompkins Square Park is getting a slow zone (EV Grieve).

Lush Life author Richard Price is back with a another story from the neighborhood: “A white kid, a black guy, two cops, and a great American novelist have a run-in” on the Lower East Side (Esquire).

Book excerpt: Jewish Daily Forward founder Abraham Cahan’s Lower East Side story (Tablet).

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