(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Kim’s Video & Music in the East Village could shutter before the month’s end. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
Robert Durst, the real estate developer who sold 234 Union Avenue in Williamsburg for more than $21 million this month, was arrested in Houston for allegedly exposing himself and urinating on a CVS cash register. [NY Daily News]
Yesterday 28-year-old Google engineer Jason Chan was arraigned on charges that he raped a 19-year-old woman in his East Village apartment in June. [NY Post]
Four cars in Williamsburg have had their windows smashed and contents stolen last week. []
Police in Williamsburg are looking for this man, who they say stole a bicycle from inside an apartment building on North 5th Street. [Gothamist]
Displayed in the window of the Rivington Design House, a NSFW, full-frontal nude photograph of a man—from Bek Andersen‘s gallery show “Clothed Female/Naked Male”—is eliciting complaints. [Bowery Boogie]
The New York Theatre Ballet is relocating from Midtown East to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. [Town & Village Blog]
Real estate company MNS reports that the median price of a new apartment in Williamsburg rose $423 per square-foot last quarter, a 52 percent increase. []
I Coppi, a Tuscan restaurant that closed in September 2012 after 14 years in the East Village, reopened on 11th Street, near Avenue C. [EV Grieve]
James Fuentes Gallery on the Lower East Side will expand its Delancey Street storefront into the neighboring space that last belonged to Robinson Architects. [Bowery Boogie]
Some real estate trendcasters are wondering if East New York is the next Bushwick. [Gothamist]
A local restaurant critic asks, “Did I Give Russ & Daughters Five Stars Because of the Holocaust?” [NY Observer]
Mile End Deli in Noho will host Mission Chinese Food’s new
A local restaurant critic asks, “Did I Give Russ & Daughters Five Stars Because of the Holocaust?” [NY Observer]
Mile End Deli in Noho will host Mission Chinese Food’s new pop-up; details TBD. [Eater NY]
A round-up of the 10 best rooftops in NYC includes Sheltering Sky at the McCarren Hotel & Pool and The Ides at the Wythe Hotel, both in Williamsburg. [Refinery 29]
And of the “13 New Burgers That Demand Your Attention,” two are in the East Village (Cherche Midi and Narcissa), one is on the Lower East Side (Rosette), and one is in Bushwick (Fritzl’s Lunch Box). [Grub Street]
Lower East Side pizzeria Via Tribunali will serve free slices of cheese Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Donations will be accepted on behalf of God’s Love We Deliver. [Eater NY]
According a study by academics in Vancouver, New York is the unhappiest American city. [Science of Us]
Actress and East Village resident Julia Stiles plays 21 Questions. [Daily Intelligencer]