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New footage shows missing Bushwick designer Jay Ott walking over the Williamsburg Bridge around 5 a.m. Sunday. [Brooklyn Eagle]
And now another Bushwicker, 15-year old male Casey Chance, is missing. [Free Williamsburg]
Sources tell the Post that an arrest is imminent in the slaying of developer Menachem Stark. [NY Post]
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As of this post, there are 30 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes and 19 seconds until the reopening of Rockaway Taco, per the countdown clock. But that isn’t even the most exciting thing coming to Bushwick-by-the-Sea.
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Sure enough, Richard Gere was homeless in the East Village last week — as he shot scenes for an upcoming film this week. Time Out of Mind returns to the neighborhood today. [Euro Weekly News]
Police are looking for a bank robber who hit the Popular Community Bank on the Lower East Side, among others. [NY1]
Sean MacPherson’s long in-the-works Ludlow Hotel is aiming for a spring opening. [Hotel Chatter]
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Gavin Compton, owner of Variety Café and Miller’s Tavern, brewed up a hot idea for his latest endeavor: coffee roasting. The newest addition to the Variety family is at 146 Wyckoff Avenue; as of April 1st, it’ll be offering a variety (yes, we went there) of coffee from around the world.
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This weekend, a London-based theater troupe will tap into Williamsburg’s history.
ONE OF US, formed in March 2013, puts on site-specific, immersive performances related to the history of its venues. In this case: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Williamsburg. The church was founded by a group of German Lutherans in 1853, making it one of the oldest churches in north Brooklyn. If you’ve ever walked near the Montrose stop, you know its brick and terra cotta spire.
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New mural by Stephen Powers at The Strand. (Photo: Scott Lynch)
A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at Cooper Square and East Fifth last night. [NY Post]
In case you haven’t seen the flyers around the East Village and elsewhere, a Bushwick man has gone missing. [Greenpointers]
Sweet Chick has been granted a liquor license for the old Max Fish space. [The Lo-Down]
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A Williamsburg penthouse just hit the market at $8,900 per month. [Curbed]
A portfolio of three buildings off of McCarren Park is going for $25.5 million. [The Real Deal]
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This week’s issue of New York features an Encyclopedia of New York Pop Music featuring downtown acts spanning Pete Seeger to the Moldy Peaches to the Strokes to Lady Gaga, plus a map of bygone venues like Coney Island High.
Speaking of which: at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Questlove taught a course on Prince. [Noisey]
El Sombrero, our go-to for to-go margaritas, closed after three decades in business [EV Grieve] More →
Williamsburg Bridge (Photo: Jenna Marotta)
151 Bowery and its Noho neighbor, 331-333 Broome St., were reportedly purchased for $23.5 million [Curbed]
A 16-year-old evaded security and scaled Freedom Tower’s spire because he thought it’d make a cool picture [NY Post]
This slideshow reveals the disarray left behind in Bushwick by sibling slumlords Joel and Aaron Israel. [Gothamist] More →
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While I usually look down on eulogizing something that hasn’t yet passed, I thoroughly endorse any preemptive tributes for Goodbye Blue Monday. This isn’t to say that I want or expect the longstanding Bushwick venue to close. The opposite is true: I think anyone who’s ever gigged or killed time there should come out black-veils-and-all and throw money to its piles of twisted scrap-heap metal and forever-untouched records.
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