Photo: Scott Lynch’s Flickr.
Assemblyman Joe Lentol organized a public forum on community crime in Greenpoint; over 100 people showed up, including Councilman Stephen Levin and the Commander of the 94th Precinct, James Ryan. [Brooklyn Paper]
Over the weekend, Bushwick DIY space Morgan Avenue Underground ran a two-day show entitled “Explicit,” asking the ever-pressing question: can art and porn intersect? [The Cut]
The son of J. Crew’s CEO is opening his own “preppy-meets-classic sportswear” boutique at 268 Elizabeth Street. [Bowery Boogie]
Attention, writers! Bushwick Daily is looking for your short stories about life in Bushwick, for a book to be published in collaboration with Catopolis. [Bushwick Daily]
But you can’t make this up: a Bushwick realtor was arrested today after using a phony license to collect and sell thousands of gallons of used restaurant grease. [DNAinfo]
Watch a video of plainclothes cops arrest a man by shoving him into an undercover taxi last night outside Thompson LES. Sike! At least the fare is covered by the taxpayers? [Bowery Boogie]
Brooklyn Standard, the organic, vegan-friendly bodega on Nassau Avenue, is opening a second location at 766 Grand Street, in East Williamsburg. [Greenpointers]
In Greenpoint, “about a dozen men and women who attended an emergency town hall meeting Tuesday night to deal with a sudden crime wave volunteered to revive a defunct “Block Watch” program to assist what many say is an overwhelmed police force.” [NY Daily News]
Tickets for Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint food festival are on sale. [Daily Meal]
Virginia K. Smith discovers that “everything is Williamsburg” on Craigslist: a lot of people claim their Bed-Stuy apartments are in “Williamsburg adjacent.” [L Magazine]
Rabbi David Niederman, leader of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, “boasted today that his endorsement would deliver more than 10,000 votes to his chosen candidate, former comptroller Bill Thompson.” In turn, Thompson promised that “he would revisit the controversial issue of regulating the ritual circumcision practice known as metzitzah b’peh if elected mayor.” [Politicker]
A married woman who moved to Williamsburg confesses: “I found myself getting annoyed by the hipsters I once thought were so cool.” [Purple Clover via Brokelyn]
Four were seriously hurt in a car accident on Eastern Parkway in Bushwick. [News 12]
For some reason a Lower East Side apartment hasn’t sold for three years and the owner has had to chop its price from $5,068,500 to $3,500,000. [Curbed] 
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