Photo: Scott Lynch)
Bushwick neighborhood groups are circulating a petition calling on the developer of the Rheingold Brewery complex to include affordable housing units that are in keeping with the neighborhood’s median income. [Brownstoner]
“Brooklyn’s first dinner boat,” a World War II-era minesweeper called The Water Table, officially launches for Friday and Saturday dinner service this week. [NY Daily News]
There’s a new Lou Reed tribute mural in Williamsburg. [Curbed]
Sperone Westwater gallery has failed to stop Ian Schrager’s 25-story hotel on Chrystie Street. [Bowery Boogie]
The sudden closure of the 7-Eleven on St. Marks Place is getting mixed reactions: most locals say good riddance, but one Harlemite misses the low prices. [NY Post]
Here’s a lovely video tribute to the dive-bar bathroom graffiti of North Brooklyn. [Gothamist]
Joshua Gurwitz’s Good Property Co. has seized on “one of the last development opportunities on Bond Street,” for an undisclosed sum. [Crain’s]
Bed Stuy’s Daily Press Coffee has opened a Williamsburg outpost, at 181 Havemeyer. [Brownstoner]
Bauhaus chef-owner Eddie Huang has started a fashion line in hopes of spreading “benign HPV.” [Grub Street]