Morning Reads: Chinatown Fish-Skin Infection, Silver on Charter Schools, Red Room Projects Debuts

There have been at least 30 cases in which people have contracted a rare skin infection after handling fish purchased in New York’s Chinatown neighborhoods (NYT).

Sheldon Silver says there’s no “charter school crisis” and that any debate about funding should include all schools (Daily News).

You read it here first; now The Forward catches up on plans for a kosher restaurant in the former Noah’s Ark space (The Forward).

Red Room Projects, a new performance space, opens on East 4th Street (EV Grieve).

Stairs, a newish gay venue on East 2nd Street, has transformed a former Italian restaurant into “a two-level club with somewhat mixed results.” (NYT)