The plywood came off of the former Blimpie on the corner of Fourth Avenue and 13th Street to reveal – you guessed it – another Liquiteria! The juice bar’s latest forthcoming location – after the one that’s replacing Gray’s Papaya, which seems to be coming along slowly – is opening “soon,” according to an employee at the chain’s original Second Avenue store who said there’s no exact date yet. It’ll be the same as the three locations that are currently open around the East Village and Chelsea, she said.
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Hunter S. Thompson Carved From a Phone Book, David Bowie Made With a Typewriter
For Raoul Duke fans, the highlight of Select Fair, which opens on West 18th Street today at noon, has to be this Hunter S. Thompson bust, carved by Alex Queral from three glued-together phonebooks.
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Blind Barber Opens in Bushwick; Titus Andronicus Plays Strawberry Fest
Brooklyn federal court has ordered a former broker at the Williamsburg real estate firm Nooklyn to pay $15K in damages after she uploaded nude photos of herself onto the company server. [NY Post]
NYU’s Strawberry Festival takes place today from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Besides the usual block-long strawberry shortcake, this year’s fest will feature musical performances by Titus Andronicus, The World Is A Beautiful Place…, Rozwell Kid, and For Everest. [NYU]
Blind Barber, the East Village barbershop/watering hole hybrid, has opened a barbershop/coffee shop in Bushwick. [Barely Bushwick]
Sweet Chick Delayed in Ex-Fish Digs; GalleryBar Closing in Future Fish Digs
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Take a ‘Sewage Bike Tour’ and Then Drink Free Beer at Bikestock’s Launch
Saturday is going to be the shit for bikers: in the morning, there’ll be a 19-mile “very scenic, if somewhat fragrant” trek around three of the borough’s five sewage plants. And in the evening, free beer will flow at the launch of Space Ninety 8’s new bike-supplies kiosk.
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And Now, Some Gut-Wrenching Photos From Ludlow Street
Welcome to Mourn Porn, where we present bygone institutions in states of disheartening disarray, just to ruin your day. Above we bring you the former Motor City Bar, completely gutted. (Those poles are not there for Anna Copa Cabanna, who lately has been dancing in Williamsburg, at Passenger Bar’s Disco Night.) Workers were paving new, bizarrely unsticky floors today.
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Penn Badgley Will DJ at iO Tillett Wright’s Portrait Party
Funny we were just talking about iO Tillett Wright and the East Village memoir she just sold: Sunday afternoon at the Wythe Hotel, she’ll be at a party for “Self-Evident Truths,” her quest to photograph 10,000 LGBTQ people around the country so their portraits can be installed on the National Mall.
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The L and G Trains Got Mocked in a Video and Immortalized in a Mural
With service set to be suspended over the course of 12 weekends this summer, we’ve kind of blocked the G train out of our minds. But a new mural and a satirical video has sent it screeching back into our train of thought.
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Split an Entire Suckling Pig While Springtime Carnivore Plays
Babys All Right is really pulling out all the stops in its quest to distinguish itself from concert halls where your only food option is the gyro cart on the corner. For instance: the build-your-own Bloody Mary brunch.
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Spend the Next Three Minutes Blissing Out With Roberta’s
To celebrate its sixth anniversary, the one and only Roberta’s just dropped a new promo video. Unlike the absurdist mindfucks the Bushwick pizzeria has unleashed in the past, this one is rather ethereal, with languorous slo-mo footage of pies being fired up for the Bushwick Block Party and the Frieze Art Fair. Never has funneling a beer looked so chill.
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