Morning Reads: DOE Makes a Deal With Success Academy, Organizing the Gentrifiers, Mission Chinese Opening

The Department of Education agrees to provide space in traditional public school buildings for at least some of Success Academy’s new charter schools. The charter chain plans to site one new school on the Lower East Side, although the location remains unknown (School Book).

There are concerns about a recently launched initiative to engage new residents in gentrifying neighborhoods (Gotham Gazette).

“A true gem,” Ben Shaoul’s latest East Village luxury project (EV Grieve).

An employee says Mission Chinese will open by Tuesday (Eater).

Auctioning off a bit of culinary history — the contents of wd-50 are sold to the highest bidders (Eater).