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An unknown assailant shot a man in the thigh around 8:45 p.m. last night on Lorimer Street between Stagg and Ten Eyck Streets in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper]
On Pilling Street in Bushwick, NYPD officers responding to a 911 call found a badly damaged coffin with bones inside. [News 12 Brooklyn]
The East Village’e Orpheum Theatre filed a lawsuit to try to keep STOMP from relocating uptown. [NY Post]
LES Assemblyman Sheldon Silver took a respite from his legal battles Friday to announce a new program that will replace schoolyard basketball nets. [Lo-Down NY]
Twenty-year-old Cafe Pick Me Up in Alphabet City will reportedly shutter at month’s end. [EV Grieve]
Today $25 tickets go on sale for The Village Voice 4Knots Music Festival, happening in July at Hudson River Park’s Pier 84. [The Skint]
Tomorrow at noon, Willie Nelson will sign copies of his new memoir, It’s a Long Story: My Life at Barnes & Noble in Union Square.
To raise funds for artist-residents evicted from Bushwick’s 345 Eldert Street, photographer Christiana Martin put together a calendar starring the displaced tenants in the nude. [DNA Info]