Shawn Talavera (Photo: Elizabeth Flock)
A candlelight vigil was held today for the 29-year-old Bushwick resident who was shot and killed last night off of Maria Hernandez Park.
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A makeshift memorial outside of 320 Suydam. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock)
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After 35 years, iconic LES documentarian Clayton Patterson is leaving the Lower East Side for Austria. He echos what he told us at the B+B Newsroom: “I didn’t really leave the Lower East Side. It left me.” [NY Times]
But hey, at least East Village DJ Mia Moretti is keeping the “it girl” dream alive. [Syndey Morning Herald]
A Williamsburg woman who was arguing with her boyfriend fell to her death as she tried to climb into his window. [NYDN]
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(Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz)
My ride-along with Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct landed on a sunny afternoon. I was told the sunny days are the busiest ones for the NYPD — something that rang true when, an hour into the ride-along, three teenagers opened fire on a public park, injuring a 19-year-old with a bullet to the back.
I’ve never trusted cops. I signed up for the ride-along because I was curious to see things from the perspective of a police officer.
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Last night Bushwick’s Exit Room gallery hoisted the flag for “Newmerica: The Birth of a Nation,” a tightly-focused group show (and burgeoning art collective?) of new works from Icy and Sot, NDA, Sonni, Matta Ruda, and LNY. Some of the work was so new, in fact, the LNY was still finishing his final piece even after the crowds started to arrive.
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Sitting at B Bar, Jim Jarmusch tells The Times, “I’m not nostalgic, because New York’s only about change and conning everybody out of whatever they have. That’s just what New York is.” [NY Times]
Ridgewood, Queens is the “next big thing” for creative types priced out of BK. [NY Daily News]
Some say the Domino deal isn’t as big a win for De Blasio as it would appear. [Real Deal]
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If you get off at the L train at Wilson Avenue this Easter Sunday and walk just a few blocks north, you’re likely to hear the strains of an evangelical megachurch pastor’s sermon — all the way from Oklahoma.
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Five more cases of measles have been diagnosed and attributed to that outbreak that started in February, bringing the total number of patients to 25. Three of the newest people to be diagnosed are Lower East Siders. [NBC NY]
Local firefighter-turned-film star Steve Buscemi will have an AOL web series beginning in May called “Park Bench,” where he interviews New Yorkers while sitting streetside. [NY Daily News]
Next time you start complaining about how easy kids have it these days, remember that your parents never put you on a juice cleanse, an icky pint-sized trend. [NY Post]
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At a contentious City Council hearing, there was some lively debate about the number of market-rate apartments that the Domino development could bring to Williamsburg. [Crain’s]
Offices for the art website Hyperallergic will relocate from Williamsburg to the Upper East Side later this month now that the web platform has been purchased by Buzzfeed. [Hyperallergic]
On Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, a man stole his date’s phone after she declined to go back to his place. Cops haven’t caught him yet, but they suspect he just wanted to put a ring on it. [NY Observer]
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Last night, friends and family members of Christo Buffam gathered at Cheap Storage to commemorate the life of the musician and artist who, last Wednesday, died in his apartment of unknown causes at the age of 31.
The Bushwick venue filled quickly, leaving no question that Buffam — who played guitar with The Vandelles and Dead Leaf Echo — was loved. “There are people from Iceland, Switzerland, San Antonio, the UK,” said Eric Ervin, manager of the Vandelles and the event’s DJ.
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