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This Man Shot a 19-Year-Old in the East Village, Police Say
The man shown here shot a teenager in the East Village late Friday night, police say. The shooting occurred around 11:2opm, outside of a building in the Lilian Wald Houses on Avenue D, near East Third...
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Broad City Secretly Previewed Season 2, Gave Em Something to Talk About
The standby line. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) The tweet came from UCB on Saturday afternoon: “SECRET REVEALED: @broadcity live will have the last show of their tour TONIGHT AT UCB CHELSEA.” Free tickets for...
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Meet the Kitties of Meow Parlour, NYC’s First Permanent Cat Cafe
16-month-old Marty, pigeon hunting in the window. (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Liza and Spot, pigeon hunting. (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Bottom bunk:...
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Rostarr’s New Mural On the Roof Of The Standard Will Floor You
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Rostarr, the artist who did a mural for our pop-up newsroom a little over a year ago, has taken things to a whole new level — the rooftop level of The Standard, High Line, to be...
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James Franco Screened a New Film, Held Forth About Teaching Among ‘Shitheads’
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) James Franco drew a line when he appeared at the Strand last week and is making headlines on Gawker today, but only a few dozen people filed into Village East Cinema last night...
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Williamsburg Dance Destination TBA Tries to Bounce Back From Shutdown
(Photo: TBA’s website) TBA Brooklyn, a stripped-down South Williamsburg bunker for house and techno music that operated away from the flash of the Northside’s clubbing district, has been closed by the...
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Office Building Rises on Kent, Uruguayan Food Comes to LES
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Thanks to a $70 million construction loan, an eight-story luxe office building will rise in Williamsburg at 25 Kent Avenue. [The Real Deal] Box Kite’s former chefs will co-own...
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‘Starrs’ of Bushwick Collide For Some Literary-Musical Performance
Roarke Menzies. (Photo: Benjamin Lehn) For those of us who use “right off of the Jefferson L” to describe where we live, Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies are familiar faces at the very least. Rome manages...
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They’re Putting the ‘Art’ in Cartography and Taking Subway Maps to New Places
L train map by Andrew Lynch. There are few useful maps that blur the lines between reality and fantasy as completely as a subway map. Curves are smoothed, the space between stations is adjusted and...
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Sweatshop, an Aussie-Style Coffee Spot Where You Can Buy the Barista’s Socks
(Photos courtesy of Sweatshop) Feel guilty every time you turn a coffee shop into your personal workspace? No need to at this new Williamsburg spot – the owners of Sweatshop use the place as their...
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Rudy’s Barbershop, a Sibling of Ace Hotel, Has Opened in Williamsburg
(Courtesy Rudy’s)Rudy’s — the rock-n-roll barbershop that Alex Calderwood and Wade Weigel launched in Seattle in 1993 before going on to create the Ace Hotel — has finally opened its Williamsburg...
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Three More Holiday Shopping Hoo-Has (Two of ‘Em With Free Booze)
Forma de Ser. Been too busy drinking to get any holiday shopping done? You know you can combine those two things, right? And maybe you better, because you’re about a week away from making your loved...
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Williamsburg Lumberyard Heist; ‘Saddest Building in Brooklyn’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Almost $10K in cash was looted from a lumberyard on Williamsburg’s Stewart Avenue. [The Brooklyn Paper] If all goes well for developers, the warehouse at 105 S. 5th Street in...
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Tomorrow: Snag Some Free Cookies and Celebrate 120 Years of Veniero’s
With all the mourning over the loss of De Robertis, it’s easy to forget that another old-school Italian bakery is still going strong right around the corner. Tomorrow, Veniero’s celebrates 120 years...
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Death By Tire Swing in Tompkins Square Park Was a ‘Terrible Tragedy’
The suspect in last week’s shooting. The East Village’s commanding officer gave a gut-wrenching account last night of how a 39-year-old man was fatally hit by a tire swing in Tompkins Square Park....
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Spike Hill Has Closed, and Just Sold Off Its Beautiful Old Bar
Gavin Thomas (Photo: NY Mag) Spike Hill has closed and is auctioning off its every last bottle this afternoon. We just came from the public auction, where the globe lights went for $5, a refrigerated...
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NYU Taps 9/11 Memorial Architects to Design Controversial New Building
University Hall. (Photo: NYU) With a lawsuit contesting the construction of NYU’s new Coles Sports Center up for appeal, the university has named the architects that will design the controversial...
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We’re Not Shitting You: These Two Williamsburg Rest Rooms Are the Shit
Everyone likes to dump on Williamsburg. You tell people about a fancy new place opening and they say, “I don’t give two shits.” But even if you’re the type to turn your nose up and poo poo Williamsburg...
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A Visit to the Baron-Von-Fancy New Williamsburg Location of Sweetgreen
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Nearly a year ago, we got word that Sweetgreen, the crunchy fast-casual chain, was plunking down in Williamsburg, in a building near the forthcoming Whole Foods that will also...
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Apartment Building Replaces Stuyvesant PO; Champagne-Fueled Shopping
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund announced plans to dole out $11 million in grant money to six projects. The biggest benefactor is the Norman Avenue library, which will...
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