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After deriding “Brooklyn’s Overhyped, Undercooked Restaurant Scene,” the New York Observer has now gone ahead and declared that “Brooklyn is over. Done. Finished. Brooklyn as brand has overtaken Brooklyn as place, turning itself over fully to the project that was always its greatest work in the first place: the cultivation of a luxury lifestyle.” Oh, snap! And here we thought its greatest work was Leaves of Grass.
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After dropping an oral history of the East Village’s Pyramid Club earlier this week, the Red Bull Music Academy has now announced the line up for this year’s month-long RBMA festival, coming in May. Among the 15 events are a party at the Brooklyn Night Bazaar, a laser show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, a record fair at Brooklyn Flea, a Panda Bear show at Warsaw, and a street party honoring Paradise Garage.
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As expected, the new plan for the Domino Sugar factory site won the approval of the City Planning Commission and will now be voted on by the City Council. [NY Daily News]
The deal proves one thing: “the de Blasio administration cares a lot about affordable housing, less about how high the towers grow, and not at all about the minutiae of design.” [Daily Intel]
Yes, it’s finally happening (maybe): a Girls bus tour. HBO is said to be in discussions with the tour company that did the Sex and the City school. The tour would visit locations that “aren’t exactly glamorous” but are “authentic.” [NY Daily News]
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If that new movie about Fort Tilden didn’t have you longing for summer, this new video from The Men surely will: it involves a trip down to Robert Moses State Park and some True Detective-style dabbling in the occult. The song, “Pearly Gates,” is a hard-chugging throwback rawk tune in the spirit of “LA Woman,” and it’s off of Tomorrow’s Hits, out this week via Brooklyn label Sacred Bones (you may have seen a mural for the album — their fifth in four years — in Williamsburg).
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It’s a teenage riot! We’re giving away tickets to the opening night of Teenage, a film adaptation of Jon Savage’s history of adolescence featuring music by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, and we’re giving away tickets to TEEN’s album release party at Baby’s All Right. Take your pick!
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223-225 Bowery has sold for $30 million and will become a 180-room Ace Hotel with a small number of residential condominiums. [Curbed]
Unions want all workers at the Domino site to be organized. [NY Daily News]
Neighbors Allied for Good Growth believes that “the project should include more affordable housing than proposed. We also believe there are other important aspects of the project that must be considered, such as open space, design and neighborhood impacts.” [NAG]
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Yesterday we reported that the city had struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site that would bring some 700 units of affordable housing to the Williamsburg waterfront. Here now is our handy-dandy chart showing differences between the previous developer’s plan, the current developer’s Bloomberg-era plan, and the plan that will be put to the City Planning Commission’s vote this week.
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Pols have redoubled their calls for traffic safety in the wake of a Williamsburg traffic death. [Brooklyn Paper]
A variety of projects are vying for grants from a $19.5 million Greenpoint oil spill fund. [NY Times]
Slain real estate developer Menachem Stark and partner Israel Perlmutter owned around 1,000 apartment units. [The Real Deal] More →
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Mayor De Blasio has struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site, averting a potential impasse over affordable housing.
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Former Lower East Sider Steve Buscemi has been bouncing around town lately — and we’re not even talking about Big Lebowski burlesque. Last week he dropped into Greenpoint’s Over the Eight to participate in what was apparently a “surreal” talk with actor Kevin Corrigan, comic Janeane Garofalo, and surprise guest Anthony Weiner. And tonight, he’ll be crowned King of Mardis Gras at the fifth annual Two Boots Mardi Gras Ball, which doubles as a fundraiser for the Lower Eastside Girls Club.
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