Yesterday, city council member Margaret Chin painted over KKK vandalism that recently appeared on East Broadway’s Beth Hachasidim DePolen synagogue. [Bowery Boogie] An Upper West Side church was also tagged with a swastika last week. [NY Post]
East 9th Street ceramics shop Clayworks will shutter in mid-September after 43 years. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
Parker Posey’s former one-bedroom co-op on E. 10th Street was purchased by fellow actor Alexander Skarsgärd for $2.3 million. [LLNYC] More →
(Photos: Daniel Maurer)
WeWork’s Financial District location advertises building amenities such as “fruit water”, but here’s something the co-working company hasn’t publicized yet: In the basement of the former Goldman Sachs building at 85 Broad is a new club called the Mailroom. The place was popping last night as James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem did a set under the disco balls.
Bushwick bike messenger Curtis Valentine, 32, died Saturday after sustaining a head injury at a Head Too Heavy Gallery exhibit honoring artists who died of drug overdoses. [DNA Info] Police are investigating the reported brawl that left Valentine with a cracked skull. [NY Daily News]
Tuesday night, a 49-year-old New Jersey woman who works at an East Village nail salon was shoved onto the Second Avenue F train platform by a man who whispered, “Maybe we’ll die together.” She survived and received 16 stitches. [ABC 7]
A client who rented The Muse circus school’s Moffat Street space for a month now threatens its existence by neglecting to pay the bill. Thus a $30K Indiegogo campaign is underway. [Brokelyn] More →
Council Member Rafael Espinal and others at a hearing on the Office of Nightlife and cabaret law repeal in June (photo: Cassidy Dawn Graves)
(Photos courtesy of Overthrow.)
Yesterday, when I spoke to the Overthrow’s owner, Joey Goodwin, he was excited because Shepard Fairey had just walked into his location at 9 Bleecker with Debbie Harry, the subject of Fairey’s new mural across the street from Overthrow.
On 1st Avenue, Korean restaurant Space Mabi will officially replace Guayoyo on September 19. [EV Grieve]
Williamsburg’s Pasta Wiz, which boasts a Harry Potter aesthetic, will soon debut a second location on MacDougal Street. [Gothamist]
East Village tapas bar Pata Negra shuttered on July 31 after the owner decided not to renew the lease. [EV Grieve]
Village Voice owner Michael Barbey announced yesterday that the 62-year-old paper’s free, weekly print edition will cease publication, but the website will continue. [Variety]
Musicians and comedians raised money for victims of the Charlottesville terrorism attack last night at The Slipper Room. [Brooklyn Vegan]
Bond Street tool and die shop Etna shuttered after serving customers for 71 years. [Gothamist] More →
You’ve probably made a promise to yourself to spend the last days of summer soaking up some sun, but here’s a good reason to cave. As in, literally cave*. Thirty feet below the streets of Crown Heights, in a 19th-century tunnel that belonged to the Nassau Brewery Company, there’s a cave that produces cheese for shops like Whole Foods. Next month, you’ll have a rare opportunity to have a look inside the home of Crown Finish Caves, try their cheeses and drink some beers.
Police are looking for Bushwick Houses resident Gary Correa, 19, who they believe fatally stabbed actor/playwright George Carroll on Friday night in Greenpoint. [DNA Info] More than $18K has already been raised for Carroll’s wife, Christina, via GoFundMe. [NY Post]
Summer high school interns from Hell’s Kitchen and Williamsburg located a dozen previously forgotten “colored” graves (circa 1858) in Green-Wood Cemetery. [DNA Info]
Brooklyn for Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter of Greater New York were two sponsors of an anti-Nazi rally that took place near McGolrick Park on Friday. [Greenpointers] More →
(Photo: Dessert Goals on Instagram)