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Culprit in W-burg Hit-and-Run Gets 25-to-Life; Indoor Treehouse in Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A judge sentenced Julio Acevedo to at least 25 years in prison for the 2013 hit-and-run accident that killed an expectant Williamsburg couple. [Brooklyn Paper] Norman Brodsky,...
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Talks and Readings: ‘Badass’ Novelist, Comic Books Club, and Trivia Tidbits
Tonight The Sellout, the latest novel by satirist Paul Beatty (The White Boy Shuffle), takes on some pretty big themes; it challenges “the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life,...
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Your Comprehensive Guide to a Nasty Week of Punk Festivities
(poster by Alexander Heir) It’s finally almost here, New York’s Alright 2015! Get excited for this year’s all things punk fest where tons of related official and unofficial happenings are being held in...
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Via Della Pace Owners Worry That Without Help, Blast Site Will Be a ‘Ghost...
Marco Ventura and Giovanni Bartocci. (Photo: Lindsay Smith) “It’s been a long two and a half weeks,” City Council Member Rosie Mendez said today at a meeting with owners of East Village businesses...
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Stage Diner Evicted Amid ‘Absurd’ Accusations of Covering Up Gas Siphoning
An attorney for Icon Realty said this photo, taken by Icon realty, shows a shiny, apparently new round piece of equipment installed to replace an illegal siphoning device. The photo at left is evidence...
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Skirmishes, Arrests as Police Brutality Protesters March Over Brooklyn Bridge
(Photos: Hannah McCarthy) Hundreds of New Yorkers protesting police brutality took over Broadway today and marched from Union Square to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some clashed with police amidst...
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Pinball Laundromat Goes For Beer; East Village Rapist Gets 14 Years
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Brian Montes, 16, was arrested yesterday for groping an 11-year-old boy at a Williamsburg bus stop this past Sunday. [NY Daily News] Yesterday 33-year-old Fermin Flores received a...
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Louis CK’s ‘Only Fantasy’ Is Being One of ‘Those Dudes in Bushwick’
On the heels of his “crabby, epic love letter to NYC,” Louis CK went on The Howard Stern Show today to talk about everything from Bill Cosby and Brian Williams to his issues with “adorable” comics...
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MGMT’s Will Berman On His Synthy Soundtrack for Throwback Sci-Fi Film Jackrabbit
The Tribeca Film Festival is here and one of the more exciting feature films on view is Jackrabbit, a throwback dystopian sci-fi film that follows the lives of people who cordoned themselves off from...
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AvroKO Opens a Cali-Style Superette With Ice Cream Sandos By Sam Mason of...
(Photo: Sebastian Pinzon, courtesy of AvroKO) Hot on the heels of the new Dimes, here’s yet another eatery with a breezy, white-walled California vibe. The folks behind Genuine Superette, the new...
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These Construction Worker Paintings Give New Meaning to ‘Artistic Development’
(Photo: Jaime Cone) When walking into a luxury Manhattan highrise, most of us don’t normally stop to think of all the construction workers who lent their hard work and expertise to the project, and all...
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‘Bad Film’ and Kung Fu Festivals; Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan Museum Opens
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Brian Montes, a 16-year-old who allegedly groped an 11-year-old boy at a Williamsburg bus stop this weekend, told police that he spent days following the victim. [NY Daily News] A...
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Alter Opens New Shop in Greenpoint, Returns to Vintage
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Alter, the mid-scale, vaguely alt Brooklyn fashion boutique, has expanded its lineup to include a vintage store located directly across from its Franklin Avenue flagship location...
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Bushwick Circus School in Full Swing, Celebrations Are On the Horizon
(Photo: Nicole Disser) When we last visited the Muse, the Williamsburg circus school that (along with Death By Audio) became another victim of VICE’s southward expansion, they’d just found a new home...
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Sheldon Silver at Schools Meeting: ‘I’m Confident That I’ll Be Vindicated’
Sheldon Silver (Photo: Mary Reinholz) Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver entered a cramped conference room late yesterday afternoon to a round of applause from about 50 constituents...
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Week in Film: Get Super Real with Death Docs and Master Manipulations
film still from The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Light Industry) Sup guys? Stuff got a little out of hand last week with all those space films and so this time around we’re bringing you back down...
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This Electro Installation Will Be a ‘Futuristic-Psychedelic Version of the Past’
Yesterday we stopped by D & F Contemporary, a new gallery located in a former discount lingerie store at the corner of Delancey and Orchard, to chat with Don Devore of New York hardcore band Sick...
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Art Openings: Twisted Fairy Tales, Drug Tourists and More
Time again for our weekly roundup of what’s new on the art scene. Art by Brice Brown Buccaneer, Masquerade, Suspence, Abundance, Thorn, Champion. Recent works by Brice Brown April 17 (opening reception...
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Israel Brother Landlords Arrested; Bedford Salvation Army Site Goes For $36M
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Michael Keating, who fled to Jamaica after a jury found him guilty of killing a Bushwick teen in 1997, was extradited back to Brooklyn and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison....
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The Wolfpack Documents a Band of Brothers Cloistered On the LES
The Angulo brothers. Last time Crystal Moselle ventured into a Lower East Side apartment and emerged with a documentary that showed at the Tribeca Film Festival, she was documenting a Warhol as the...
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