(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Near the intersection of S. Ninth Street and Division Avenue in Williamsburg, a 27-year-old woman walking her dog was physically assaulted by a man and a woman who lamented the number of white people and their animals overrunning the neighborhood. [NY Daily News]
A North Brooklyn councilman is lobbying against the city’s proposal to possibly build a jail in Greenpoint to house Rikers Island prisoners after that facility is closed. [DNA Info]
Tour “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk,” the exhibition opening later this week at the Queens Museum of Art. [Gothamist]
See renderings of the 10-story mixed-use building developers hope will replace the Mobil station that once stood on the corner of Houston and Avenue C. [EV Grieve]
On Starr Street, barbecue restaurant The Shop will shutter after 13 months in business. [Bushwick Daily]
Williamsburg’s six-month-old Experimental Comedy Gallery is relocating from Broadway following a dispute with a neighboring tenant. [Brooklyn Paper]
The duo behind the East Village eatery Root & Bone has debuted The Sarsaparilla Club, a dim sum spot in Miami. [Observer]
Extra Butter on the Lower East Side made this round-up of the 10 best NYC sneaker stores for women. [Racked NY]