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San Loco Is Closing Its Williamsburg Outpost, Plans to Relocate
637 Driggs last year, when it was vacant. Just weeks after San Loco closed its Avenue A store of 15 years, there’s been another shakeup in the empire: the Williamsburg store will close April 20,...
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Another Vape Store Blows into Williamsburg
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) San Loco isn’t the only new tenant coming to the once controversial Karl Fischer building at the corner of Grand and Driggs. On the southern side of the brick behemoth, at 229...
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Summerscreen Lineup Announced; Bushwick Building Goes For $58M
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A five-story rental building at 1209 DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick sold for $58 million and will start leasing soon. [The Real Deal] A rendering for Karl Fischer’s new South...
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Bushwick’s Massive New Beer Garden, The Well, Aims to Open Next Month
(Photo: Scott Lynch) One of the highlights of last weeks’s Newmerica show (besides the bodega in an art gallery) came when the party spilled into the adjoining beer garden. The cavernous interior and...
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Jason Wishnow Did a Secret Sci-Fi Film With Ai Weiwei and Ended Up Near Bald
L to R: Weiwei and Wishnow. Jason Wishnow has told the story of Oedipus with vegetables and documented zombie yoga in Williamsburg. Now, fresh off a stint as TED’s director of film and video, the Lower...
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Stanley Cohen Says He’ll Appeal ‘Crap’ Conviction of Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law
Stanley Cohen at his Avenue D loft. (Photo: Mary Reinholz)Stanley Cohen has defended a slew of unpopular clients, including a political leader of Hamas and an assortment of drug dealers, anti-war...
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Would You Pay $75 For a Kale Salad Workshop?
Not the kale salad at Tiny’s, but. (Photo: Melissa Hom) Kale salads kind of jumped the shark when the Times said they were “hot in Manhattan social circles” a year ago, and we definitely aren’t going...
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This Is Not a ‘This Is Not an April Fools Joke’ Mural
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Centre-Fuge, the art project that has brought portraits of the Beastie Boys and Philip Seymour Hoffman (among other art) to the side of a trailer on East First Street, has...
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Max Fish Wins Support For Reopening On Orchard Street
Gallery Bar. Last month we reported that Max Fish was planning to take over the Gallery Bar space at 120 Orchard Street. Ulli Rimkus, the bar’s owner, has now announced on Facebook that it got the...
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LPC Okays Hotel Next to Merchant’s House; Conviction in Damien Hirst Forgery
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved plans to build that nine-story hotel next to the Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village. [NY Observer] Former New York Times...
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Pop-Up Seeks Throw-Ups
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) After debuting in Williamsburg, Class Attire has brought its Pop-Up Tour to the East Village. And just like Pawel Althamer did at New Museum, the creators of the chalkboard...
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See Bob Saget, Nicolas Cage and John Leguizamo For Free This Week
Here are three opportunities for you to break out your #celebphoto hashtag on Instagram. At Barnes & Noble Union Square tonight at 7 p.m., comedian Seth Herzog will interview Bob Saget about the...
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Sunburnt Cow’s Goodbye: ‘We Have Eaten, Drunk, Danced and Partied Together...
(Photo: Shanna Ravindra, New York Magazine)Last week, East Village brunch fixture The Sunburnt Cow announced that it was throwing in the towel. “Following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy we are...
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Steal This Building: Former Yippie HQ Is Up For Grabs
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The Yippie! Museum, which long served as a home for counterculture and protest movements in Greenwich Village, is up for rent just months after it was compelled into foreclosure....
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East Village Loses a Beloved Gallery: ‘Tribes As a Space Will Be Nonexistent’
(Photo: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation) A Gathering of the Tribes, which has been fighting for years to keep its East Village gallery and performance space, is finally moving out...
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Sweet Chick Will Cluck Up Max Fish’s Old Place Next Month
The Max Fish space after its last party. (Photo: Anna Silman)If yesterday’s news that Max Fish is returning to the Lower East Side via Orchard Street caused you to wonder whattup with its old home on...
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DJ Spooky Will Spin Some Seoul Music This Weekend
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, aka the busiest man alive, is just back from a couple of months in Seoul (where, during our own recent travels, we snapped the above photo of South...
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Fatal Hit-and-Run in Bushwick; Kickstarter’s New Greenpoint HQ
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 46-year-old man on a bicycle was struck and killed by a BMW in Bushwick. Before the car fled the scene, it also struck a parked car, leaving another person injured. [Gothamist]...
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The ‘Ultimate Stoner Cupcake’ Is Coming to Bedford Avenue
An Everything Cupcake from sweethaus (Photos courtesy of the bakery) Tara and Billy Koenig met while working as managers at Balthazar in 2006. Two years later, they moved to Charlottesville, VA, where...
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Could This Rat-Riddled Lot Become Your New Picnic Spot?
(Photo and rendering courtesy of Gardeners of Hooper Street Park) Could your next kale salad come from what’s currently a trash-strewn, rat-infested lot in Williamsburg? The Gardeners of Hooper Street...
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