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Dov Charney in the House; Pot Basically Legal in Brooklyn?

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With the DA saying that his office won’t prosecute adults without a criminal record for “low-level” marijuana offenses, Brian Lehrer asks, “Is pot basically legal in Brooklyn?” [WNYC]

Ousted American Apparel CEO Dov Charney—who in his termination letter was banned from visiting company facilities—was photographed inside the Houston Street American Apparel store yesterday. [Racked NY]

Luis Freytes, 30, will be in court tomorrow on charges that he assaulted his wife and her 11-year-old son this weekend after she woke him up when the bus they were riding on approached their stop at the corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue. [DNA Info]

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Jared Kushner’s LES Empire; Black Seed Now Delivering Bagels

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A $150K fundraiser for money needed to take Cooper Union to court ends Friday night. Currently, the student/faculty/alumni group is less than $4K short of their goal. [Art F City]

Check out the fashions of the women who work at Vice in Williamsburg. [Racked NY]

City Council member Margaret Chin is lobbying to turn a garage on Essex Street into 90 units of affordable housing. [Curbed NY] More →

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Bowlmor Closes After 76 Years; ‘Warm-Up to Burning Man’

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Williamsburg movie theater/restaurant/bar indieScreen 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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At Pasta Shop, You Can Eat Rigatoni Like It’s Ramen

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Now that the Neapolitan pizza craze has come and gone, it might just be time for pasta to take its place at the center of the table. First there was Bar Primi, which jettisoned secondi in favour of showcasing what was traditionally only the semolina-heavy first course. Now, there’s Pasta Shop, which materialized as if from thin air at a former garage space by the Jefferson Ave L stop last week.
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Vice Expands to South Williamsburg; Charges Against Chalk Artist Dropped

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In Williamsburg, Vice will upgrade from its current, just-expanded home at 90 N.11th Street to a 60,000-square-foot office on the corner of S.2nd Street and Kent Avenue. The move will allow the rapidly expanding brand to more than double its Brooklyn staff (from 400 to 925 people), earning the company up to $6.5 million in state tax incentives. [Wall Street Journal]

This Wednesday night at 8 p.m., St. Lucia will play a free show at Bleecker Street’s (Le) Poisson Rouge, which will be filmed for MTV. Click here to RSVP. “Festive/floral attire” is encouraged. [Free Williamsburg]

Longtime East Village drag club Lucky Cheng’s has closed for good on 52nd Street, where it relocated in 2012. [DNA Info]

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Backstage at Shea Stadium With Adam Reich of Titus Andronicus and So So Glos

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Shea Stadium, the DIY music venue in Bushwick, celebrates its fifth anniversary on July 4, thanks in large part to co-founder Adam Reich. Reich is Brooklyn born and raised, and started Shea in ’09 with childhood friends and current bandmates The So So Glos. Besides running a business and playing in the Glos, Reich is also a music producer and plays guitar in Titus Andronicus (releasing a 7″ and July 7). Reich sat down with me on one of Shea’s signature ratty old couches and told B+B a little about himself.
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‘It’s Such an Intense Social Scene’: Talking Bushwick Nightz With Ms. Bushwick Daily

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Bushwick Nightz on Knickerbocker Ave (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)

When Dallas Athent, fashion and shopping editor of Bushwick Daily, approached editor-in-chief Katarina Hybenova with the idea of putting together a collection of Bushwick short stories, Hybenova didn’t hesitate. “I was totally psyched,” she recalls. “I said yes in like three seconds.” Now that dream of a couple months back has come to fruition, in the form of a slim, attractive volume entitled Bushwick Nightz. Released by Bushwick Daily and Catopolis (Athent’s publishing venture), the book promises to introduce the reader to “the famed neighborhood that everyone’s been talking about.”
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The Buildout of East Williamsburg’s Newest Hybrid Venue Has Begun

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From left: Keith Hamilton, Wayne Gordon, Zach Glass at the future site of Our Wicked Lady (Photo: Nicole Disser)

“We’re not guessing what the arts community might be into, because we’re already in it,” Zach Glass told B+B on Monday. Another hybrid bar-something is coming near the Williamsburg-Bushwick border on a block of Morgan populated by artist studios, rumbling warehouses, and an awesome smelling spice distributor.
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Art Jail Opens in Bushwick; Williamsburg’s Oldest Restaurants

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Today is the BP station on 2nd Avenue’s last day in business. [EV Grieve]

East Village cocktail lounge Elsa—the sister bar of Greenpoint’s Ramona—will soon shutter on East 3rd Street. [Eater NY]

Bushwick artist Miao Jiaxin has installed a 6-by-8-by-6-foot jail cell in his Van Buren Street studio, where guests who pay $1 can get the prison treatment for three hours. [NY Daily News]
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Bereket Closes After Two Decades; Alleged Serial Mugger Nabbed

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Travis Taylor— a 17-year-old who lives on East 6th Street—was arrested for allegedly breaking a man’s jaw and then robbing him outside 67 Avenue B two weeks ago. Police say Taylor and two partners in crime carried out four recent Lower East Side/East Village attacks. [DNA Info]

Bereket Turkish Kebab House shuttered after nearly two decades on the corner of East Houston and Orchard Streets. Landlord Ben Shaoul  bought the Bereket space and several of its Lower East Side neighbors earlier this year.  [Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY]

A 61-year-old East Village man, Carlos Pena, has been missing since Tuesday evening. [Town & Village Blog]

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