(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Actor Nick Lashaway, who appeared in season two of Girls, died Sunday in a car accident in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was 28 years old. [People]
On Bowery, The New Museum launched an $80 million capital campaign, and a portion of the funds would go to doubling the institution’s size. [Bowery Boogie]
According to the developer of a forthcoming mixed-use building between Avenues A and B, Trader Joe’s might open a second 14th Street location. [DNA Info]
The City Planning Commission made strides this week to curtail future tall towers along the Williamsburg waterfront—with the exception of the eight-story office buildings at 25 Kent Avenue known as the Brooklyn Generator. [Gothamist]
In Vino, the 13-year-old Italian restaurant on E. 4th Street, will shutter early next week. [EV Grieve]
Founded by a Williamsburg couple, Kin Coffee is in the midst of a $14K Indiegogo campaign to make a vintage trailer a traveling java spot. [Bushwick Daily]
If you went crazy for Smokey the local pet lamb, meet Dexter, a pet peacock in Bushwick with its own Instagram account. [DNA Info]