While protests against police brutality turned violent in Berkeley, Calif. over the weekend, New York demonstrations continued on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with marchers taking over locations…
Gemma Ward Sells East Village Pad; Batgirl Moves to Williamsburg?
Stanley Cohen, the East Village-based lawyer who has represented controversial clients like Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, got 18 months for failing to pay taxes. [NY…
Mile High Run Club Is Now Up and Running in Noho
The boxing gym that replaced the Yippies isn’t the only sporty newcomer to Noho. Last month, Debora Warner of Mile High Run Club told us her treadmill studio would “evoke the…
Facebook Throws a Housewarming; ‘Fairy School’ in Greenpoint
Last night Facebook feted its new three-floor, 185K-square-foot office space at 770 Broadway near E.9th Street. [Wall Street Journal] In Noho, a 38K-square-foot property at…
Shooting in Bushwick, Stabbing in East Village; Barney Rosset Mural Up For Grabs
Wednesday night in Bushwick, these two 20-something gunmen fired inside a Woodbine Street lobby, according to police. A 31-year-old man who was shot in the…
NYU Buys Noho Building; 150-Year-Old Synagogue Landmarked
Tadelech Yohanis, a 30-year-old nun visiting from Ethiopia, was last seen six days ago leaving Jackson Street’s Sacred Heart Convent on the Lower East Side.…
Call Him Jabby Hoffman: This Man Is Spinning the Yippie Building Into a Boxing Gym
When a messy foreclosure cleared out the Yippie building and a boxing gym took over 9 Bleecker Street, it was easy to see the development as…
Edgar Allan Poe Party at Analogue; Two Doggie Halloween Parades
Following the death of a 3-year-old girl at her Bushwick apartment this weekend, the neighborhood’s 83 Precinct Domestic Violence Unit will host an outreach event…
Bushwickers March Against Gentrification; Lower East Sider Against the Lowline
This week, 100-plus Bushwickers participated in an anti-gentrification march led by the group Make the Road New York [MRNY]. [The Brooklyn Paper] A cyclist who…
Developer Pays $53M For Bushwick Properties; Ludlow Street’s Facelift
According to paperwork filed yesterday, developer Simon Dushinsky spent $53 million for 12 residential properties along Bushwick Avenue between Montieth and Forrest Streets. [The Real…