Two people suffered minor injuries following a second-floor fire at 73 Monroe Street on the Lower East Side yesterday afternoon. [NY Daily News]
Approximately 100 firefighters extinguished a fourth-floor blaze at NYCHA’s Taylor-Wythe House in Williamsburg on Saturday morning. [News 12 Brooklyn]
In Bushwick, 232 Seigel Street is the prospective site of a new 10-story, 144-room hotel. Heritage Equity Partners paid $28 million for the land late last year. [The Real Deal]
Today Narifuri, a Tokyo import and apparel brand for cyclists, will soft open it’s first brick-and-mortar outpost at 143a Orchard Street. [Bowery Boogie]
Meanwhile, its former neighbor, 96 Orchard Street, is on the market now that Cafe Dancer has closed up shop. [Bowery Boogie]
On Avenue A, Galleria J. Antonio will relocate to the smaller storefront next door. [EV Grieve]
Next Tuesday, former Weekend Update anchor Colin Quinn will sign copies of his new book, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America, at Barnes & Noble Union Square.
This weekend, the LES was the subject of a Times real estate piece titled, “The Lower East Side Goes From Gritty to Glossy.” [NYT]
