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Actress Drea de Matteo and 35 other plaintiffs who lost their homes in last spring’s Second Avenue gas explosion filed a $17 million lawsuit against the city, Con Edison and other parties. [Gothamist]
Brooklyn music venue Palisades closed suddenly after a Northside Festival show last week, but will reopen in August. [Gothamist]
This week Community Board 1 rejected a liquor license application from Williamsburg pop-up nightclub Mirage. [Brooklyn Paper]
An 800-to-900 unit apartment building called Bushwick II is planned for the former Rheingold Brewery site in, you guessed it, Bushwick. [The Real Deal]
As an alternative to riding the L train (which will undergo a long closure for repairs beginning in 2019), one designer proposed connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn via a tunnel resembling a “giant, inflatable condom.” [DNA Info]
Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Company will open a location on 48th Avenue in Long Island City. [Long Island City Post]
People’s Pops has reportedly closed its First Avenue outpost. [EV Grieve]
Azaleas in the East Village and Brooklyn Fox Lingere in Williamsburg both made this round up of the best lingerie shops in Gotham. [Refinery 29]