(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Last night four people sustained injuries in a Greenpoint fire that began at 49 Diamond Street, according to the FDNY. [Pix 11]
At 11 Bond Street, developer Aby Rosen got the go-ahead to turn a women’s shelter into a retail space. [DNA Info]
Record shop Halcyon, which until recently was located under the Williamsburg Bridge, has a new home inside the Billyburg nightclub, Output. [Brooklyn Paper]
What seemed to be remnants of the Bull’s Head Tavern, where Gen. George Washington assembled with his troops when the British left Manhattan, were discovered at a hotel site at 50 Bowery, but subsequent excavation hasn’t cleared up the mystery. [NY Times]
And here’s a history of 50-52 Bowery, which “has been a lodestone for cultural, political and demographic changes of the city.” [NY Times]
The Wall Street Journal devoted real estate column space to Bushwick’s “special charisma.” [WSJ]
Calvin Klein and Dazed magazine hosted a New York Fashion Week party in Bushwick on Friday evening. [T Magazine]
The five-generation-old Russian and Turkish Baths in the EV were recently profiled in The New York Times. [NYT]
And today, East Village institution McSorley’s Old Ale House turns 162 years old. [EV Grieve]