The challenge is always the same: how to translate the urgency, the lawlessness, the serendipity of discovery inherent in street art and graffiti into the gallery setting. For street artist/graffiti writer Elle, the answer lay in a collaboration with legendary street photographer Martha “Marty” Cooper, and the result is the excellent exhibition at East Williamsburg’s Mecka gallery, “Unextinguished.”
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Woman Killed by Train at Astor Place; Kim’s Tries to Relocate
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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City Goes After Aggressive Landlord; Schumer Pushes Brooklyn ‘Nerd Bus’
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
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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Cat Cafe Coming to LES; Taiwanese Night Market Headed For Williamsburg
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
Our cat cafe dreams have been realized: the Bowery will be home to Purina ONE Cat Cafe, a pop-up coffee shop with free food and drinks, plus plenty of felines available for adoption. [Sprudge]
A 2.3-acre site in Bushwick, with five industrial properties, is on the market for close to $30 million. [Brownstoner]
The East River Ferry might not be operating by the time Greenpoint’s five week G train shutdown begins in July. [Capital NY]
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Bushwick Open Studios Gets… NEWD
Art Basel and the Armory Show have always had their share of satellite fairs, but they haven’t really sprouted up around Bushwick Open Studios. Until now.
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Arrests Made in a Pair of Bushwick Shootings
A memorial of Ivan Martinez, shot dead earlier this month. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock)
A 14-year-old Bushwick resident, Richard Gonzalez, has been charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon following a shooting that occurred Saturday morning outside a Foot Locker on Knickerbocker Avenue, the police said.
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Onur Tukel On His Bushwick Vampire Comedy Featuring Alex Karpovsky of Girls
One of the buzzed about movies at the Tribeca Film Festival this season is Bushwick filmmaker Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood, a vampire mumblecore rom com that Vulture describes as “what might happen if Woody Allen and Lena Dunham found themselves collaborating on a Roger Corman movie.” The Dunham comparison is apt: Tukel co-starred in Alex Karpovsky’s Red Flag and now Karpovksy (Ray from Girls) appears in Tukel’s movie, as an office drone who watches his neurotic, lazy manchild of a co-worker descend into insatiable blood lust.
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Bushwick Bodega Worker Killed; Bay Ridge the New Williamsburg?
(Photo: Polsia Ryder)
Yesterday morning a 52-year-old father of 13 was shot and killed while working behind the bodega counter at 427 Central Avenue in Bushwick. No one has been arrested. [NY Post]
With DNA Info wondering, “Is Bay Ridge the new Williamsburg?”, Free Williamsburg compiles a list of every city or neighborhood that has achieved new Williamsburg or new Brooklyn status. [Free Williamsburg]
Drinksmith Thomas Waugh talked about the cocktails he has planned for the Ludlow Hotel’s new restaurant, Dirty French, on the Lower East Side. [Grub Street] More →
J. Crew Coming to Williamsburg; Michael Alig Soon to Be Free
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
A 32-year-old man who mistakenly turned into oncoming traffic flipped his car while attempting to correct the mistake yesterday morning. He is in “grave” condition at Woodhull Hospital. [NY Daily News]
Michael Alig — the club kid and convicted murderer played by Macaulay Culkin in the 2003 film Party Monster — might be getting out of jail next month. [Gothamist]
J. Crew is said to be closing a deal for a space on Wythe, and Apple is looking in Williamsburg, too. [Crain’s NY] More →
A Shooting and A Stabbing in Bushwick, Greenpoint Couple Found Dead in Hot Tub
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
A Bushwick police officer told B+B that a man was stabbed on Broadway at 11:15 p.m. Monday. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to survive. No arrest has been made.
That night there was also an apparent shooting at Knickerbocker Avenue and Putnam Street in Bushwick. This is the neighborhood’s second shooting in as many weeks. [Bushwick Daily]
Investigators are trying to determine what happened to the middle-aged Greenpoint couple who was found dead in their hot tub on Sunday. [NY Daily News]
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