Photo: Seward park Library, which is expected to reopen this month after a three-month closure.
In the news this past week:
–Citing family issues, Nancy Yao withdraws as director of the Smithsonian’s new Women’s History Museum. The Smithsonian just completed an investigation of Yao’s handling of sexual harassment claims at the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown. The Smithsonian and Yao are declining to comment on the results of the investigation. [The New York Times]
–Family members bury loved ones who died in the fire at 80 Madison St., which fire investigators say was caused by an exploding e-bike battery. [Bayard Bugle]
–After a fire, Chinatown’s Yu and Me Books raises more than $300,000. [Publishers Weekly]
–Clayton Patterson is, “The Lower East Side’s folk historian… His camera is ultimately just one tool behind his decades-long project of preservation.” Patterson told Miss Rosen, “My art is not the individual pieces. It’s about the large vision: survival, being and continuing to be creative.” [The New Yorker]
–A new documentary, “Make Me Famous,” profiles Lower East Side artist Edward Brezinski and explores the neighborhood’s creative energy during the 1980s. [Hollywood Soapbox]
–While so many other Jewish businesses on the Lower East Side have moved elsewhere or closed, Mendel Goldberg Fabrics has endured for 130 years. [JTA]
–Chad Senzel is behind Street Rack, “a makeshift vintage boutique” at Ludlow and Canal streets. [GQ]
–Chang Lai Cheong Fun Cart, which has been a mainstay at Bowery and Grand streets now has a brick-and-mortar location at 55B Bayard St. [Eater]
