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During a domestic abuse call Friday night at 30 Avenue D, a police officer shot and killed a pit bull that bit his partner’s vest. [NY Daily News]
Queens resident August Watkins, who was arrested last week, is the suspect in 16 recent robberies, including ones in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. [Gothamist]
Developer Yoel Goldman paid more than $72 million for 28 Stanwix Street, part of the former Rheingold Brewery in Bushwick. [The Real Deal]
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Francis Salud, who was out on bail for a previous slashing that occurred three months ago, was arrested again for this weekend’s East Village slashing that resulted in a 30-year-old man needing 150 stitches. [NY Post] The victim’s face is now partially paralyzed. [Gothamist]
On Monday, a 39-year-old East Village man was arrested for child endangerment and harassment after following a 12-year-old girl from Washington Square Park to her apartment building, where he asked her if she would let him hide. [NY Daily News]
Tenants at 43 Essex Street on the Lower East Side claim to be without heat or hot water. [Bowery Boogie]
Williamsburg resident Elizabeth Clarke, 45, has been reported missing from her Graham Avenue home. [CBS NY]
Near Tompkins Square Park, asbestos is currently being removed from Peter Brant’s soon-to-be gallery. [EV Grieve]
Developer Joel Goldman picked up the second portion of the former Rheingold Brewery site. [City Limits]
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This weekend, 100-plus Bushwick residents lobbied at Cathedral of Joy Church of God for affordable housing on the development underway at the former Rheingold Brewery. [Gothamist]
The James Cohan Gallery is slated to open a third location this Halloween at 291 Grand Street, which was previously a fish market. [NY Times]
After 45 years in business, Vic’s Pizza on Essex Street will shutter sometime before October. [Bowery Boogie]
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Good morning, all. Here’s what happened over the weekend.
As you can see from Francisco Valera’s photo above, we’ve survived another SantaCon — see Saturday’s slideshow for more shots, from Scott Lynch. The Red Menace officially dodged the Lower East Side this year, but that didn’t stop the angry Tweets from the East Village and beyond. According to the Wall Street Journal, there were no arrests, eight summonses for open alcohol containers and two summonses for disorderly conduct related to the event — a drop from last year’s numbers. But, yeah, check out this brawl outside of Joe Jr. in Gramercy.
Pretty much everyone who wasn’t in a Santa suit this weekend was seeing The Pizza Underground at Baby’s All Right. Gothamist has video footage of Macaulay Culkin’s kazoo solo. [Gothamist, Free Williamsburg, Stereogum]
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Photo: Scott Lynch)
Bushwick neighborhood groups are circulating a petition calling on the developer of the Rheingold Brewery complex to include affordable housing units that are in keeping with the neighborhood’s median income. [Brownstoner]
“Brooklyn’s first dinner boat,” a World War II-era minesweeper called The Water Table, officially launches for Friday and Saturday dinner service this week. [NY Daily News]
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Long-time Community Board 3 member and E.V. bar owner David McWater will resign from his volunteer post following controversy that his spot on the State Liquor Authority subcommittee conflicted with his duties as an owner of three local bars. [Village Voice]
Prosecutors allege that William E. Rapfogel stole more than $5 million he headed the Metropolitan New York Council on Jewish Poverty; “investigators found $400,000 squirreled away in his Lower East Side apartment” (and more in his home in Monticello, of course). [NY Times] More →
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Whenever we ogle the renderings of future buildings slated for construction, our eye is drawn to the aspirational humans within. They’re always pretty good for a laugh, and an idea of what the developers are after, despite their lip service to affordable housing and community spaces.
Where are the teens of color hanging out, street vendors selling fruit or tamales, Chinese seniors doing tai chi? Maybe architecture firms should take a cue from Barbie and diversify their paper dolls? Here’s a roundup of some of the “types” we’ve glimpsed traipsing through the future versions of North Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. Welcome your new neighbors!
With the 50th anniversary of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair upon us, the Queens Museum has unveiled a new exhibit featuring everything from one of the animatronic brontosauruses from GM’s “Futurama” attraction to a Bell System Picturephone that was created way before FaceTime.
If you’re a fan of Mad Men–era NYC you should definitely see the exhibit, on view till Oct. 18, along with the museum’s long-term display of over 900 smaller artifacts from the fair. But let’s face it, all of the ephemera can’t do justice to what was truly a mind-blowing extravaganza made up of 150 fantastically designed pavilions offering everything from utopian visions of the future, to Jurassic Park-style dinosaur battles, to canoe rides through replicas of exotic island paradises — not to mention, of course, the Unisphere and the Panorama, among the few attractions that outlasted the fair.
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Darrey Crosby, the 15-year-old autistic boy who disappeared Saturday after a trip to a Bushwick Avenue middle school, is back home safe. His sister found him walking the streets of Williamsburg on Sunday night. [NY Daily News]
There will now be 25 percent more afternoon and evening G train service, at least until that five-week hiatus later this summer. [mcbrooklyn]
And weekend M trains are now running to the Essex/Delancey station, the first time they’ve made a Saturday/Sunday appearance in the borough since 1958. [MTA]
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