EVG Etc.: A new era for Bon Yagi's East Village restaurants; $40 billion needed for NYCHA repairs

[At Houston & Eldridge]

• How Sakura Yagi is helping modernize her father's East Village restaurant empire, which includes Curry-Ya, Hi-Collar and Rai Rai Ken (Eater)

• NYCHA CEO says agency now needs $40 billion for repairs (The Real Deal) ... NYCHA residents filed nearly 60,000 bedbug and roach work orders in 9 months (Gothamist)

• Another expose on the sudden closing of Eleven Consignment Boutique on First Avenue (CBS2 ... earlier on EVG)

• Victim discusses how she was attacked by a homeless man inside the CVS on East Houston at Orchard (PIX11)

• AG Letitia James investigates whether racial bias plays a role in the NYPD's fare evasion arrests (The New York Times)

• Target in the East Village was robbed of $1,200 worth of calculators (amNY)

• Developers plan to demolish 14-16 Fifth Ave. to build a 13-story luxury residential building; preservationist and local elected officials are holding a press conference Friday (Details via this PDF)

• Continuing at Howl! Happening through Feb. 23 on First Street: Jane Dickson’s series of "rarely seen and moody" paintings of Times Square peep shows from the 1980s (Official site)

• At the Anthology Film Archives Saturday: "Booyah! It's the 1990's Marathon!" What to expect? "if you like Hong Kong movies...just buy a ticket and prepare to get hella crunk." (Official site)

... and on Thursday evening, several formerly incarcerated writers are reading at MoRUS, 155 Avenue C... details below...