Palm Sunday crosses at St. Mark’s Church, marking Americans killed by guns each year.(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Longtime Brooklyn Flea vendor Wreckords by Monkey — which makes jewelry, iPhone cases and clocks from vinyl — will host an opening party Saturday for its Boerum Street brick-and-mortar store, The Crate. [Brooklyn Vegan]
Beginning Friday, the Greenpoint bookstore Word will have a week-long pop-up shop in the Wythe Hotel with 150 food-and-drink themed titles, a tie-in to this month’s upcoming Food Book Fair in Williamsburg. [Racked NY]
One little surprise orgy ruined AirBnB for the rest of us — the site will start taxing New York users this summer. [Curbed NY]
This is what a $12,000/month loft in Williamsburg look like. [Curbed]
And this is what a $425,000 studio on the Lower East Side looks liked. [Curbed]
Compare that with an Eldridge Street “microdwelling,” selling for $425K on the Lower East Side. [Curbed NY]
Another candidate for “the next Broad City” honorific has emerged in Gold Stars, a Bushwick-filmed webs series. [Bushwick Daily]
Every Saturday afternoon, Williamsburg’s Fit and Flow Yoga has a $20 “ear acupuncture happy hour.” [Brokelyn]
Oddfellows, the Williamsburg ice creamery, will open an East Village outpost on May 1. [Grub Street]
Also for East Village sweet tooths: Spot Dessert Bar‘s Chocolate Terrarium, made with edible “rocks, dirt, and moss.” [Gothamist]
The Blind Barber has opened a Williamsburg outpost. [WWD] 