Morning Reads: Little Italy Rape, Yippie Museum Troubles, Slumming It at Contra

Police have released surveillance video showing a “person of interest” wanted in the rape of a woman in Little Italy (Channel 7).

Albany historian: Sheldon Silver will be around for a long time (Capital).

More signs of trouble at the Yippie Museum (EV Grieve).

British artist Ed Fornieles’ “semi-fictional” art benefit at the New Museum (Interview).

Gael Greene endures a terrifying taxi ride way down to the Lower East Side, breezes through an “inauspicious narrow storefront”  and, after a bit of kvetching, concludes that Contra, the new Orchard Street restaurant, is worth revisiting (Insatiable Critic).