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After 11 Years, The Sun Has Set On the Sunburnt Cow

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(Photo: Kate Beaudoin)

The first thing we noticed when we walked into the Sunburnt Cow yesterday was the penetrating smell of vomit. And the first thing that happened? A complete stranger hugged us for 30 seconds without letting go. It was the final day of operation for the Australian-themed bar that’s been on Avenue C for the better part of 11 years, and the crowd was already hammered drunk by 6 p.m. Emotions ranged from nostalgia to tears to just plain drunkenness; click through the slideshow below to find out what the staffers and regulars had to say.
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Dan Savage Did It at The Vatican, Has an Amazeballs Story About a Sex Party

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Last night, before screening 20 of the best shorts that have been submitted to his Hump! Film Festival since it launched in Seattle in 2005, Dan Savage warned against documenting the amateur porn flicks, which ranged from a vignette about a Dungeons & Dragons orgy to a celebration of Mormon masturbation to a NSFW trailer for a sequel to ET.
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Woman Killed by Train at Astor Place; Kim’s Tries to Relocate

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Centre-fuge Public Art Project, Cycle 13: Lexi Bella does Rosario Dawson

As you can see from Scott Lynch’s photo above, the latest installment of the Centre-Fuge project — part of Lower East Side History Month — features renderings of Rosario Dawson, Debbie Harry, and La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart.

On Saturday afternoon a 55-year-old woman was struck and killed by a 6 train at the Astor Place subway stop. [NY Daily News]

The Bushwick bodega owner who was murdered in his store earlier this month was apparently involved in cross-continental family turmoil. [DNA Info]
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Get Up Close and Personal With Chuck Close

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Chuck Close and Jenny Holzer (Photo: Liz Ligon)

Chuck Close and Jenny Holzer (Photo: Liz Ligon)

Last time we saw Chuck Close, the photorealist painter was rocking an unreal outfit at the Brooklyn Artists Ball. If you didn’t have the $1,000 to hobnob with him there, you can do it for a lot less May 1, when he appears in The Strand’s Rare Book Room to celebrate the re-release of Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.
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City Goes After Aggressive Landlord; Schumer Pushes Brooklyn ‘Nerd Bus’

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New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development are trying to remove landlord Joel Israel from a Bushwick building where he’s accused of destroying tenants’ apartments in an effort to get them to move. [NY Times]

Meanwhile on Rivington Street, a building that’s undergoing a gut renovation is “one of the latest battlegrounds in the age-old struggle between rent regulated tenants and landlords in New York City.” [The Lo-Down]

Charles Schumer has lots of ideas about luring tech to Brooklyn, including a “nerd bus” and “nerd ferry.” [Crain’s]
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City Council Set to Approve Domino Sugar Factory Development

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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

The City Council’s Land Use Committee put its seal of approval on a plan for the site of the Domino Sugar refinery today, bringing it ever closer to becoming a reality. Councilman Stephen Levin said in a statement that “after weeks of discussions we have reached an agreement on the project at the Domino Sugar site that will build on the gains made by the de Blasio Administration to maximize affordable housing and open space to the Williamsburg community.”
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