Joe Ficalora and his ragtag collection of street artists at the Bushwick Collective have been turning the neighborhood’s dreary industrial walls into what amounts to an en plein air gallery. Now, for the first time, the Collective takes its talent indoors for a grown-up exhibition as part of Bushwick Open Studios.
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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
A new food stand sells poutine that’s anything but routine: when it opens in Bushwick today, The Diggs will be topping fries with everything from lobster to smoked tempeh.
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(Photo: Scott Lynch)
After four decades in business, Plantworks closed for good yesterday in the East Village. [Bowery Boogie]
Be Electric, a new video and photography workspace in Bushwick, opens tonight with a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., coinciding with the start of Bushwick Open Studios. [Free Williamsburg]
A five-story, 10-unit apartment building is coming to the former Bushwick Tire Shop site, where the owner was murdered by a gunman in 2011. []
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The ’70s were a wild time to be in Bushwick: following a major blackout in 1977, shops and homes were devastated in a wave of riots and looting. Meryl Meisler began teaching art at a public school there in 1981 and spent her early adulthood capturing both the hedonistic disco scene of Manhattan and the bombed-out streets of de-industrializing North Brooklyn. The native New Yorker’s snapshots, taken during the height of the city’s crack epidemic, will go on display Friday as part of Bushwick Open Studios.
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What you see above is the bum of Lena Dunham. She wrote on Instagram yesterday: “My dog bit me on the ass and Jemima Kirke captured the image of a life time #hopelessromantic #therewillbeblood”
Here’s a guide to dozens of free concerts this summer. [Bushwick Daily]
Avalon Chrystie Place, the 72,000-square-foot complex containing nearly 400 apartments and Whole Foods Bowery, is in contract for a $400 million sale to development firm Ashkenazy Acquisitions. []
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(Photo: Lisa Larson-Walker)
Per his sentencing yesterday, the East Village former hacker known as “Sabu” will be under probation for a year but will not face additional jail time. [Gizmodo]
There’s a new 8,000-square-foot “music fortress” in Bushwick called The Wick, complete with a disco ball and a food truck permanently parked on the outdoor patio. [Bushwick Daily]
NYC’s first Dairy Queen opens today in Union Square. Customer incentives include $60 gift cards to the first 50 Blizzard buyers, free t-shirts for the first 200, and 15 percent off for students. [Grub Street]
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When we told you to go see H. Jon Benjamin at last month’s installment of Late Night Basement at Pinebox Rock Shop, we had no idea this would happen or we would’ve gone our damn selves: the man with one of the most distinctive voices in comedy (you know him as Archer, Carl on Family Guy, Bob on Bob’s Burgers, etc.) went and played the role of HAL 9000, the painfully self-aware computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The folks at Late Night Basement sent over the above clip. When you’re done watching it, check out another recent video in which Chris Rose — the host of the live late-night show — takes a Vice-esque journey into North Koreatown.
Tim Kent’s home studio at last year’s BOS. (Photo: Alexandria Glorioso)
Bushwick Open Studios is happening this weekend and once again local artists will open their private studio doors to the public for a few days of art consumption, mingling, and performances. This year’s 600 related events stretch all the way from Decatur Street to just north of Grand. But don’t freak out just yet, because we’ve planned a pretty solid weekend for you below.
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(Photo: Lisa Larson-Walker)
After a scuffle between a prostitute and client sent both men to Bellevue Hospital with stab wounds early yesterday morning, East Village police got a break from actor David Schwimmer, who offered up security camera footage taken from his neighboring building. [NY Post]
According to a press release, East Village developer Ben Shaoul has settled the $50 million lawsuit brought forth by his parents. However, the attorney representing Shaoul’s parents says that an agreement has yet to be finalized. [The Real Deal]
Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka “Sabu“), the Alphabet City hacker-turned-FBI informant originally arrested in June 2011, will be charged today. The government is seeking a seven-month jail stint. [Wired]
