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At least nine people sustained injuries in a fire yesterday morning at 314 S. 3rd Street in Williamsburg. [Patch]
Lower East Side assemblyman Sheldon Silver was found guilty yesterday of seven federal corruption charges and now faces up to 130 years in prison. [Daily Intelligencer]
An architect applied to add a 900-square-foot enclosure to the roof of landmarked 315 Grand Street, the former Ridley & Sons department store. [Bowery Boogie]
Xi’an Famous Foods vet Jason Wang relocated his Queens Chinese restaurant Biang! to Alder’s former digs on Second Avenue in the East Village. [EV Grieve]
Brunswick Cafe, originally of Brooklyn, has closed its Clinton Street outpost after seven months. [Bowery Boogie]
In Bushwick, Third Rail Projects will convert 383 Troutman Street into a dance theater beginning next month. [Curbed NY]
Kweighbaye Kotee, director of the documentary The Bushwick Diaries, found that the people angriest about gentrification were the ones who’d resided in the neighborhood for approximately a decade. [DNA Info]
Read a recap of all the companies moving their offices to Bushwick. [Crain’s NY]