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An uninsured 37-year-old female cyclist caught on camera sustaining serious injuries from a hit-and-run driver in Bushwick last month says the NYPD won’t interview the driver who allegedly collided with her. [Gothamist]
Thanks to a $2.8 million gift from the city to Brooklyn Public Library, two Bushwick branches—the Bushwick Library and the Washington Irving Library—have added Saturday hours beginning October 4. [DNA Info]
Plans have been submitted in Williamsburg for a nine-unit apartment building with 400-square-feet of retail space at 153 Berry Avenue. [NY YIMBY]
Preview chicken and champagne joint Birds & Bubbles, the opening tonight on the Lower East Side. [Eater NY]
In Williamsburg, Cow & Clover restaurant opened on Kent Avenue. [Free Williamsburg]
Box Kite‘s chefs—who previously said they planned to open a new East Village restaurant—signed a lease on the Upper West Side. [Eater NY]
The filmmakers who made Blackfish and The Cove will next adapt Robert Sullivan’s book Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants. [Hollywood Reporter]
A new round-up of Bushwick’s 10 best restaurants includes Roberta’s, Fritzl’s Lunch Box and Bunna Cafe. [Village Voice]
More than a dozen galleries will partake in Greenpoint Gallery Night this Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. Free. [Greenpointers]
Tour Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s apartment on East 10th Street, which can be yours for just $22 million (down from $25 million this spring). [Curbed NY]
Franklin Street Community Garden will host a benefit for the Greenpoint Church Soup Kitchen on Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $40 each. [Greenpointers]
Read a history of the 121-year-old building at 841 Broadway in Greenwich Village. [Off the Grid]
Scroll through 69 photos from Bushwig, the Bushwick drag festival that took place last weekend. [Gothamist]