Gary Sloman sent in this story and photos today:

I am writing to you hoping you might post a notice about David’s Laundry (60 5th Avenue).  After  serving  the neighborhood for more than 30 years it was forced to close several months ago.  I am fuzzy on the details but it seems to have been due to a legal dispute among the heirs to the property.   The store’s proprietor, a lively, lovely, warm and energetic older woman was quite devastated, because the store was her raison d’etre.  So I was quite happy and surprised when I recently noticed it was open again.  When I inquired the  proprietor showed me a little slip of paper with many Chinese characters and the single English word “appeal”, from which I gathered that her return related to something that had occurred in court.  In any case, the proprietor is delighted to have been given a new lease on life (and perhaps the store) but who needs to notify her old customer base that she is back. (I am sorry I do not know the proprietor’s name or the other details usually expected from a thorough journalistic piece, but I am not a journalist.  However,  I think the two photos tell part of the story)