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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final hours included a stop into his usual coffee shop, dinner at Automatic Slims, and a phone call to his longtime girlfriend during which he seemed high, per CNN. Police are looking for the actor’s drug dealer after dozens of baggies of heroin were found in his apartment.

Frank Prisinzano, the owner of Frank, said on Instagram that Hoffman was a regular and “a real New Yorker and a super low key.” Yesterday, Ajay Naidu recalled being taken under the actor and director’s wing.

Rents went up in Williamsburg in December but down in Bushwick and (for studios and two-bedrooms, anyway) Greenpoint. [MNS]
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The NYPD are looking for the drug dealer who, they say, provided shrooms to Titan Lee-Hai before he plunged from an NYU dorm. [DNA Info]

A faux ConEd bill collector is getting Williamsburg shopkeepers to turn over bundles of cash. [Brooklyn Paper]

In Greenpoint, a 25-year-old is accused of jumping off his moped to bash strangers with a metal pipe. [Brooklyn Paper]
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A police source tells the Post that NYU freshman Titan Lee-Hai was high on mushrooms when he plunged from the roof of Third North. A fellow student says that Lee-Hai, who was clearly “not in his senses,” punched him in the face shortly before the fatal fall. [NYP, NY Daily News]

Rapping under the name Trizzykid, the Trinidadian had built a substantial following of fans, and was remembered fondly. [NY Observer]

200 people gathered in Bushwick to mourn traffic fatalities and rally for safer streets. [The Weekly Nabe]

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An NYU student jumped to his death from the roof of the school’s Third North dorm. [NY Post]

A partnership is seeking $1 million to map Grenpoint’s toxic sites. [NY Post]

In the meantime, avail yourself of the city’s block-by-block Rat Information Portal. [NYC via Gothamist]
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Court records show that $1.7 million was “improperly removed” from a bank account belonging to Menachem Stark, the slain Williamsburg developer. [NY Daily News, NY Times]

Zosia Mamet of Girls dropped a cool million on a fixer-upper in Bushwick [Daily Mail]

Twitter, which was rumored to be considering a move to 51 Astor, is moving to Chelsea instead. [NY Post]
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The city has agreed to drop its discrimination case against Williamsburg shops accused of enforcing dress codes to keep away women and non-Orthodox men. [NY Times]

With the death of his victim, the bail of the man alleged to have struck an East Village florist while drunk and high has been upped to $1 million. [NY Post]

In the wake of a hit-and-run accident last year, the DOT has proposed slowdown measures for Kent Avenue. [NY Daily News]
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As you can see from this and other photos Scott Lynch added to our Flickr pool, the mannequins at the American Apparel on East Houston got a merkined makeover. A company employee tells the Observer “rawness and newness” to Valentine’s Day.

Curbed takes an in-depth look at Bloomberg’s rezoning of the industrial waterfront and its effect on manufacturing. []

Cops took down a gunman in Bushwick yesterday with the help of a brave bystander. [NY Daily News]

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The East Village florist who was struck by a drunk, high and speeding driver in June has died while on life support. [NY Daily News]

Police may have found the minivan used to abduct Williamsburg developer Menachem Stark. [NY Times]

Nearly $1.2 million in “unauthorized” withdrawals were made from Stark’s corporate bank account in the weeks before he died. [Newsday]
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