(Photo: Nicole Disser)
Jose Luis Santos Vasquez, 22, was arrested Sunday for physically assaulting a 22-year-old woman and stealing her designer handbag on October 1 in Williamsburg. The young teenager who accompanied Vasquez during the robbery has not been located by police. [DNA Info]
According to the office of the New York City Medical Examiner, the heart discovered in an East Village trash can last week was not a human’s and likely belonged to a pig. [DNA Info]
Japan-based Kirin Brewery now owns a stake in Brooklyn Brewery. [Gothamist]
An 80-seat restaurant/cocktail bar called Guadalupe Inn debuted yesterday on Knickerbocker Avenue. [Eater NY]
The owner of Empire Biscuits must pay $29K in back rent by Tuesday or he’ll have to turn over possession of the Alphabet City storefront. [EV Grieve]
Dollar pizzeria Joey Pepperoni shuttered on E. 14th Street after a four-year run. [EV Grieve]
A block of Broome Street (near Allen Street) will be rechristened Hy Genee Way this Sunday to honor the late president of Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue. [Bowery Boogie]
Next month, Bushwick actor-turned-playwright Jay Winston Gill will premiere “Let There Be Stuff,” a Biblical satire, at Studio 301 NYC. [Bushwick Daily]
Read a business profile of Miscelánea, E. 4th Street’s Mexican general store. [Edible Manhattan]