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Gang Assault in Williamsburg; 12-Story Condo Coming to Great Jones

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Four men assaulted a man around 2 a.m. Sunday morning on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper]

The FDNY reported no injuries in the Greenpoint fire that consumed Best Value Hardware yesterday morning. [Patch]

One Great Jones Alley will be the site of a 12-story condo now that a $58 million construction loan has been green lighted. [The Real Deal]

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Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Stage Funeral in Hopes of Killing Tower Deal

Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park march to Midtown Equities' offices. (Credit: Joshua Alvarez)

Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park march to Midtown Equities’ offices. (Credit: Joshua Alvarez)

Halloween came early for a developer seeking to take over a controversial plot on the Williamsburg waterfront; this afternoon activists hauling coffins and headstones tried to spook Midtown Equities out of building on land once destined to become a park. 

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Greenpoint Hardware Store Fire; Tim Burton Trivia at Otto’s Shrunken Head

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Early this morning a fire broke out at Best Value Hardware on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. [Patch]

AltSchool, a pet project of Mark Zuckerberg that provides tech education to elementary-age kids, will open a location on Houston Street next year. [NY Post]

Thanks to a $22 million loan, RFR Realty acquired the three-story office building at Noho’s 337 Lafayette Street. [Commercial Observer]

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Popping Into Cassette, a French Catalonian Newcomer in Greenpoint

(Photo: Nicole Disser)

(Photo: Nicole Disser)

“It’s sort of an unknown region in Southern France, very poor, with incredible food,” explained Henry Moynahan Rich, owner of neighborhood greats like East Williamsburg’s Fitzcarraldo and Rucola in Boerum Hill. He was talking about the inspiration behind Cassette, his new French Catalonian outpost in Greenpoint. “It’s simple, rustic, healthy food, because that’s how I like to eat.”

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Bushwick Woman Sexually Assaulted; Cozinha Latina Opens in Greenpoint

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

On Thursday night a Bushwick woman, 22, was sexually assaulted and robbed at knifepoint outside her apartment. Police released a sketch of the suspect. [PIX 11]

Two-decade-old Spring Street bakery Ceci-Cela Patisserie will open a new location next door to Bowery Ballroom. [Bowery Boogie]

A French-American restaurant called David’s Cafe will soon replace Paprika at 110 St. Mark’s Place. [EV Grieve]

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Greenpoint Hospital Goes Residential; Deep House Yoga in Williamsburg

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Yesterday Bushwick handyman Luis Perez, 50, received a life sentence for killing and dismembering his boss in 2006. [Metro US]

Plans are back underway to convert the former Greenpoint Hospital into a housing development. [Brooklyn Paper]

A developer submitted paperwork to build a 12-story, 60-unit residence in Greenpoint at 29 Clay Street. [The Real Deal]

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Katz’s Deli Expands to Brooklyn; Lena Dunham’s New Show

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New mural by Dasic Fernandez on St. Marks. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Yesterday morning a 37-year-old woman died after being crushed by a semi truck near the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. [Patch]

Thursday night a Greenpoint man was attacked and robbed by two assailants outside his Freeman Street residence. [The Brooklyn Paper]

Two thieves stole Apple products and camera equipment from a Thames Street apartment in Williamsburg one week ago. [The Brooklyn Paper]

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Lawsuit Over $36M W’burg Real Estate Deal; End of Horseback Party Patrol

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Dalone Jamison, the 26-year-old who a bouncer at Motivo nightclub identified as the assailant in yesterday morning’s fatal Flatiron district shooting, posted an Instagram picture of himself alongside the 24-year-old woman he allegedly killed. [NY Post]

Following a failed real estate deal, investor Shulem Herman is suing the Williamsburg landlord who owns five sites he tried to acquire for $36 million. [The Real Deal]

Isabel Rosado, 81, was reported missing Sunday from her residence in the Baruch Houses project on the Lower East Side. [CBS NY]

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Worst Subway Stations Named; Breaking Bad Cafe in Greenpoint?

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

A 24-year-old woman died this morning following a shooting outside Motivo nightclub at Broadway near 21st Street. Two more women, ages 25 and 30, are in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. Police are looking for the gunman. [NY Daily News]

Both the Broadway-Lafayette and 2nd Avenue F train stations tied for the fifth-worst subway stops in NYC, according to a new study. [Bowery Boogie]

Clinton Street Baking Company has international outposts open in Tokyo, Dubai and now Singapore. [Bowery Boogie]

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Bike Lane Tension in Williamsburg; Will Ferrell-Themed Bar in LES

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Between 2004 and 2014, the average Williamsburg home price climbed by 269 percent. [The Real Deal via Free Williamsburg]

Tensions are climbing over a proposed Metropolitan Avenue bike lane in Williamsburg. [Gothamist]

P.S. 34 Oliver H. Perry students earned the best state test scores in Williamsburg and Greenpoint‘s District 14. [DNA Info]

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