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Williamsburg and Village Cinemas Screen The Interview; Back Forty Closes
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Three thieves stole an Xbox, a pair of Playstations and 11 sets of Beats by Dre headphones just before 4 a.m. Saturday morning from a Williamsburg game/electronics shop. [Brooklyn...
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Can ‘Local’ and ‘Sustainable’ Do For Fashion What It Did For Food?
Jars of angora, cotton and flax at the BF + DA’s “petting zoo” of materials. (Photo: Heidi Harrington-Johnson) Gone are the mom-and-pop sewing shops that once lined the area between Fifth and Ninth...
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The Story of Greenpoint’s ‘Onion’ Dome May Well Bring a Tear to Your Eye
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. (Photo: Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration)...
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Inside St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn’s ‘Castle Out of the Past’
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. St. John the Baptist, boarded up. St. John the Baptist is...
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The Secret Lair of Dr. Strange, His Creators, and a Ghost of Christmas Past
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. A passerby casts a typical Dr. Strange magical spell. If...
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Christmas With the Deadbeats at Boss Tweed’s Ludlow Street Jail
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. The exterior of the Ludlow Street Jail in 1895. (Source:...
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From ‘The Witch’ to La MaMa: How Radical Art Tumbled into the East Village
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. The raucous audience inside Turn Hall grew increasingly...
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‘You See It All’: The Wedding Mansion That Played Host to Warhol’s ‘Male Parade’
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. Theatrical reappropriation in the second-floor theater....
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Beneath Baruch Houses, a ‘Rough Block’ Wiped Off the Map
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. Demolition in Progress 83-90 Goerck st, Rivington-stanton,...
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Reality Star’s BF Attacked in Williamsburg; Matcha Now Brewing in EV
(Photo: Scott Lynch) London Rene, boyfriend of Mob Wives cast member Natalie Guercio, reportedly received 250+ stitches after being slashed with a box cutter along his face, arm, and stomach outside...
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This Man Raped a Woman in an East Village Stairwell, Police Say
The man shown in the above security footage allegedly raped a woman in her East Village apartment building. Around 6 a.m. Sunday, the suspect followed a 22-year-old woman into her East Sixth Street...
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The Whitehouse Hotel: a Home For Transients, Now in Transition
(Photo: Makini Brice) All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. The Whitehouse Hotel hasn’t been open...
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Pulling Back the Curtain On the Amato Opera House, Before Its Next Act
The Amato Opera in Sept. of 2014, before construction. All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. It’s...
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Man Dies in LES Shooting; The Trash Bar Might Dump W-Burg
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Just after 7 p.m. Sunday evening, a 31-year-old man was shot and killed in front of 78 Catherine Street on the Lower East Side. [Gothamist] Police are looking for Rodolfo “Rudy”...
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How a Home For the Homeless Became a Celebrity Crash Pad
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. 295 East 8th Street (Daytonian.com) An ad for apartment 2W,...
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These Luxury Lofts Are Home to Rock History and a Rocket-Related Mystery
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. The building at 104 South 4th Street today. (Photo:...
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Affordable Housing Insanity in BK; Bid on Goodbye Blue Monday’s Treasures
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death Monday night outside his Dupont Street home. Police are currently investigating; Greenpoint was just three days away from completing the year...
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‘The Hottest Love Letter’: A Very Private Moment at The Public
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. The Astor Library’s exterior in 1875 (Source: Manuscripts...
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Yellow Fever and Red Scare: the Very Colorful History of Knickerbocker Village
All week, we’re bringing you a series of deep dives into the surprising histories of storied addresses. Back to our usual after the New Year. Aerial view of Knickerbocker Village (Courtesy Downtown...
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Fatal NYE Shooting in Bushwick; Ivan Ramen Now Accepting Reservations
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A Bushwick man, 36, was shot and killed in his Chauncey Street apartment around 4 a.m. yesterday when four masked men broke in and demanded money. No arrests have been made. [NY...
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