(Photos: Scott Lynch)
The body of 31-year-old Bushwick designer Jay Ott, who went missing on March 22, was found Thursday night in the New York Bay near Sunset Park. [DNA Info]
Lifelong housing activist Edward Delgado is working to make sure Puerto Ricans displaced from the Lower East Side have a chance to inhabit the affordable housing in Essex Crossing. [NY Times]
The team behind the forthcoming Level Hotel in Williamsburg will kick off a sculpture design contest for Brooklyn artists. One winner will receive $200,000 to execute their design, which will be permanently housed in the new hotel’s lobby. [Curbed]
A Colombian coffee connoisseur has reportedly spent $2.5 million on his new Williamsburg coffee shop, Café Devotion, which will open on Grand Street this summer. [NY Post]
Now that reBar has abruptly closed for good in Dumbo, several Brooklyn vendors chipping in to help both former employees and couples whose wedding deposits will not be refunded [Eater NY]
Lena Dunham’s parents sold their Tribeca duplex–the backdrop for her 2010 film Tiny Furniture–for $6.25 million. [NY Observer]
Elsewhere in the Hannahsphere, Cafe Grumpy’s Grand Central location has opened. [Grub Street]
Plantworks, in business since 1974, is closing in the East Village next month. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
Here’s a review of Miki Orihara’s “Resonance,” which the dancer performed at the La MaMa Moves festival Friday. [NY Times]
Lafayette does an excellent brisket burger at lunch. [Grub Street]
In the ’80s, there was a plan for a two-story restaurant atop the Williamsburg Bridge. [Gothamist]