(Photo: Scott Lynch)
During the first eight months of 2014, there were 313 burglaries in Bushwick—up 39 percent from the same span a year ago—which police partly attribute to thieves stealing new appliances from numerous construction sites. [DNA Info]
Permits were filed for three new apartment buildings on Commercial Street in Greenpoint (30 stories, 40 stories, and six stories, respectively). [Brownstoner]
Today OddFellows Ice Cream Co.‘s Williamsburg location will start selling this cotton-candy cone. [Grub Street]
Tonight Beauty Bar on 14th Street is hosting a fundraiser for breast cancer research called Martinis, Manicures & Mammaries from 7 to 10 p.m.; Noho sportswear shop General Idea is having a happy hour (with discount merch) from 6 to 9 p.m. at 355 Bowery’s gallery space; and women’s shoe store Sigerson Morrison will fete its K/LLER jewelry partnership with drinks and a DJ at 28 Prince from 5 to 8 p.m. [Racked NY]
Participants in Sunday’s possible People’s Climate March bike parade (to the U.N.) will decorate their rides and get safety training tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. in Tompkins Square Park, near 7th Street. []
One Saturday per month (beginning tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m.), Tandem Bar in Bushwick will host Multitask, a combo brunch/shopping spree. [Bushwick Daily]
To coincide with its first anniversary, Taquitoria on the Lower East Side is serving up special varieties by guest chefs during the rest of September (a chili lobster taquito by Marc Forgione through Tuesday, followed by a caramel pork belly taquito Phet Schwader). [Eater NY]
Bushwick has a pair of new Mexican eateries: Santa Ana Restaurant on Irving Avenue, and 156 Tex Mex Mexican Restaurant on Knickerbocker Avenue. [DNA Info]
In Soho, French fashion brand Maje opened its sixth NYC store (joining four others in Manhattan and one in Williamsburg). [WWD]
Subterranean clothing boutique Fly Dove NYC opened recently on 7th Street in Alphabet City [EV Grieve]
Here’s a guide to Bushwick’s top seven streetwear sellers. [Bushwick Daily]