(Photo: Scott Lynch)
The drummer for the Spin Doctors is selling his East Village duplex, which comes with a recording studio, for $3.995 million. [NY Post]
Meanwhile, Deepak Chopra just picked up a $14.5 million unit in the Delos building on East 11th. [NY Post]
Here’s the audio of Spike Lee’s rant about gentrification. [Daily Intel]
Meanwhile, can everything that’s wrong about gentrification be found in a Crown Heights woman’s account of “riding the sea foam of the latest wave of gentrification on a blow-up dolphin from Disney World”? [BK Mag]
Williamsburg retail sales quadrupled last year, and the average price per square foot more than doubled. []
A video documents the abuse among female day laborers in South Williamsburg. [Vocativ]
A round-up of new LES restaurants and galleries. [The Lo-Down]
The Bad Film Fest returns to Williamsburg soon. [Brokelyn]
With Photoplay closing, here’s a q&a with the owner Film Noir nearby. [Greenpointers]
Art studios are being added to the Williamsburg and Red Hook public libraries. [Brooklyn Paper]
A q&a with Christopher Allen, founder of Uniondocs, which is working on a “collaborative web documentary” about South Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Spaces]
Narnia Williamsburg is discounting everything 40 to 80 percent. [Racked]
Here’s a photo of Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant outside of Physical GraffiTea. [Gothamist]
The East Village’s “borscht belt” restaurants and lunch counters. [Serious Eats]