Billy Reid’s sample sale space on Bond/Bowery (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)
This year, Billy Reid turns 10. And to celebrate the big one-oh, the high-end Americana clothier (originally hailing from the South), is holding a blow-out sample sale at 57 Bond Street, just steps away from its usual NoHo storefront.
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Move over, Ramen Burger (and generic ramen burgers). The rice burger has arrived.
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Hannah works on her novel. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
After hiding away inside of Saxon + Parole yesterday, Girls is turning the East Village’s biggest shitshow into an HBO show. Yep, they’re filming on St. Marks Place, between Second and Third.
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Ilan Hall, head chef of The Gorbals Brooklyn, the new restaurant inside Urban Outfitters concept store, Space Ninety 8 (Photo: Nicole Disser)
If you enter Space Ninety 8 and make a beeline for the elevator instead of getting sucked into its predictable selection of identical cut-offs and drapey woven things, you’ll get to The Gorbals. The outpost of Top Chef alum Ilan Hall’s renowned LA restaurant, which opened in the Urban Outfitters concept store last night, is a respite from a corner of Williamsburg that reminds me more of SoHo these days than anything else.
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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Yesterday morning we noticed that a couple of panels of the boarded-up graffiti wall at Bowery and Houston had come down; today Cope2’s entire piece has been torn to shreds. It’s being unceremoniously loaded into the back of a dump truck.
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A scene from Short Lived
Brooklyn-based director Michael Hobbs only ever imagined he’d have the opportunity to work with a dream team on his latest short film, Short Lived. But when Hobbs sent an email on a whim to Brooklyn-based director of photography Alexander Crowe, he got more than he bargained for. “I didn’t expect a reply because of his caliber, but he got back to me,” Hobbs says. “This was a really big deal.”
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(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Kim’s Video & Music in the East Village could shutter before the month’s end. [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]
Robert Durst, the real estate developer who sold 234 Union Avenue in Williamsburg for more than $21 million this month, was arrested in Houston for allegedly exposing himself and urinating on a CVS cash register. [NY Daily News]
Yesterday 28-year-old Google engineer Jason Chan was arraigned on charges that he raped a 19-year-old woman in his East Village apartment in June. [NY Post]
This could be the antidote to all the tot shots that have been flooding your Facebook feed lately. Umbrella Arts is putting on a show called “Kids (Not Cute)” — as the title implies, it’ll be dedicated to photographs of yung’uns that are “a bit out of the ordinary, not the conventionally cute and sentimental images that are often seen.”
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Dear: Rivington + owner Moon Rhee in the new Noho location (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)
High-end fashion retailers are staking out Noho like there’s no tomorrow. First there was A.P.C., then Filson landed, and Phillip Lim scored a still-under-construction spot. Now, vintage/modern luxe store Dear: Rivington+ has just moved into 37 Great Jones, fresh from its former digs on Rivington Street.
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The relatively unknown author whose debut novel vaulted to the top of the bestseller list after The Colbert Report made it a weapon in its war against Amazon is appearing at a local bookstore tonight. And yes, it’s an indie — namely, Greenpoint’s Word.
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