Congrats to Lower East Sider Spike Jonze, who took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay last night. [B+B Twitter]
On hyper-gentrification, super gentrification and the third wave of gentrification. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
Gothamist uses the closing of Williamsburg’s Supercore to ponder gentrification some more. [Gothamist]
Videos, photos of those guys who are living in a Williamsburg hamster wheel. [Gothamist]
A woman was struck and killed by a city bus in Williamsburg. [CBS Local]
A cab hopped the curb and smashed into a store in the East Village. [CBS Local]
Photos of naked folks in Bushwick are being shown on the LES. [Bushwick Daily]
22 new hotels coming to Brooklyn, including a 182-unit one coming to Wythe. [NY Observer]
A four-story building is coming to 34 Conselyea Street. [BuzzBuzz Home]
A roundup of the last of downtown’s record shops. [Flaming Pablum]
Happy 40th to Ray’s Candy Store. [NY1]
Inside painter Cleo Wade’s East Village apartment. [Refinery 29]
A custody battle over a building at 97 Second Avenue. []
A foreclosure case over an Allen Street hotel is nearing its end. [The Real Deal]
A guide to squatting in NYC. [Curbed]
Amy Arbus’s photos of St. Marks life during the ’80s, now on display in NoHo. [NY Times]
Interview with the founder of Sage Music school, which just opened a Greenpoint location. [Greenpointers]