Three individuals sustained minor cuts after a FDNY truck’s tire blew out on the corner of Clinton and Delancey Streets. The burst also shattered the store windows of Snea Jean Inc. a Lower East Side clothing shop. [DNA Info]
The man on the run in this six-second surveillance video allegedly attempted to rape a 25-year-old woman near the Greenpoint intersection of Morgan Avenue and Driggs Street around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, according to the NYPD. [DNA Info]
Police also say this man followed a delivery worker into Kickstarter’s Greenpoint HQ Wednesday night and made off with three laptops and an iPhone 5s. [Gothamist]
In Williamsburg crime news: 74 laptops—valued at $111K total—were stolen from a Hooper Street school between August 15 and 19, and an engagement ring and two Macbooks were taken from a Havemeyer Street apartment. [The Brooklyn Paper]
G&S Sporting Goods will shutter after more than seven decades in business on the Lower East Side. [Bowery Boogie]
Demolition permits were filed for six buildings in Greenpoint’s former Harte and Co. plastics factory, which sits on a Superfund site. [Brownstoner]
Natasha Lyonne, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson back in April.
Broad City filmed on the Lower East Side last week and now it’s the East Village’s turn: film shoot signs indicate that “BCB Productions” (or, as we like to call it, Broad City — outed!) is taking over St. Marks Place and also East Ninth Street, between Second and Third Avenues. Strangely, the shoot times are listed as 4 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday so we may or may not be awake to see Abbi and Ilana camping in the middle of St. Marks, Lena Dunham-style.
Update: An employee of Kenka says the St. Marks izakaya will be closed tonight because the show is shooting “inside of the building,” so expect Kenka’s giant tanuki to make an appearance in the upcoming season.
Now that Adam Driver is spreading his wings (witness his brotastic wingman character in the just-out What If) and now that Hannah is off to grad school, she’s going to need a new gentleman caller on the upcoming season of Girls. More →
Sure, it’s been unseasonably chilly lately, but why the hell was it snowing on South 2nd Street, between Bedford and Berry, today. Ah, ok: it’s just Lena Dunham filming Girls in Williamsburg again. More →
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. More →
Yesterday, when we considered dropping $25,000 to dine with Lena Dunham, we had no idea we might just bump into her on the street, a couple blocks from our office. More →
Williamsburg movie theater/restaurant/barindieScreen closed after four years, presumably to make way for Vice’s new offices. [Grub Street]
The Coffee Shop, Bushwick’s newest place to caffeinate, is selling 2-for-1 coffee this week to celebrate its grand opening on Wilson Avenue. [Bushwick Daily]
According to just-filed paperwork, the tallest tower at the Domino Sugar factory site will contain 36 stories and nearly 400 apartments. [YIMBY]
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Mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg, who achieved a measure of mainstream success with last year’s Drinking Buddies, is back with this comedy about a newly single woman crashing with her brother. Lena Dunham makes an appearance.
A 15-year-old autistic boy went missing Saturday afternoon after visiting his sister’s middle school on Bushwick Avenue. Darrey Crosby is six-foot-one and 135 pounds; he was last seen wearing a burgundy shirt, black Nike pants and orange sneakers. [NY Daily News]
In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning, a man was slashed in the face outside the Manhattan Express Deli Grocery on the corner of 7th Street and Avenue D. The subject fled the scene and the victim was treated at Bellevue Hospital. [NY Post]
Lobster Joint on Houston, which suffered thousands of dollars in damage after a water main break on May 22, may reopen today. [Gothamist]
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