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Ray’s Candy Store owner Ray Alvarez, 82, was back at his Avenue A spot this week for the first time following heart valve replacement surgery in June. [EV Grieve]
In Bushwick last Wednesday around 9 p.m., a man fired a gun on Knickerbocker Avenue, hitting a car. [News 12 Brooklyn]
Both Barramundi and 2nd Floor on Clinton will vacate 67 Clinton Street on July 29. [Bowery Boogie]
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Police are looking for a man who was allegedly masturbating on the L train on June 30. [Brooklyn Paper]
Extell Development Company submitted paperwork to build an 800-foot-tall on the East River waterfront at 250 South Street. [6sqft]
Bowery Mission received a donation of dozens of new mattresses for its men’s shelter. [Bowery Boogie]
It’s getting to that point in the summer where doing much of anything besides moving that lawn chair to the kiddie pool and cracking open your daily 40 seems interminably arduous. For hell’s sake, you’ve been wearing the same sweaty tank top, bucket hat, and cut-offs ensemble for, like, weeks now, dude. Pull yourself together and get to some of these combination music-food-shopping-booze-drink affairs. You’ll realize economy of movement as well as restoration of dignity.
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Eleven-year-old Angelica Chamoro has been missing since 5 a.m. yesterday, when police say she was last seen in her Stanhope Street apartment in Bushwick. [PIX 11]
Saturday night on East Broadway, a 19-year-old Muslim woman suffered a broken jaw and verbal abuse when a man punched her in the face. [NY Daily News]
On Friday morning, a woman was choked and robbed of her phone on S. Ninth Street near Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper]
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Surveillance footage caught a blonde woman stealing a Pomeranian yesterday around 4 a.m. outside Khim’s Millennium Market in Williamsburg. [Gothamist]
The 38-unit rental property at 305 McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint is on the market for $32.5 million. [The Real Deal]
Assess interior renderings of 1 Great Jones Alley, a 14-unit condominium that will rise at the site of Broadway’s former open-air market in Noho. [Curbed NY]
Before you go, preview the fare at El Cortez, a mostly Mexican restaurant on Ingraham Street in Bushwick. [Gothamist]
Ludlow Street handmade jewelry shop Incaze has closed after three years on the Lower East Side. [Bowery Boogie]
From now ’til Thursday, the Foo Fighters are selling their merch at 125 Rivington Street in preparation for their upcoming show at Citi Field. [Bowery Boogie]
Today is National French Fry Day, and black car service Gett will donate $1 from each ride to construction of the new Pommes Frites location.
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Lit Lounge is closing after 14 years in the East Village and will reopen in Bushwick sometime soon. Co-owner Erik Foss, who will be joined by Trash Bar’s owner in the new venture, blames “the new East Village crowd and the flight of the creative types to creative Brooklyn. It was inevitable.” [Clubplanet]
In Greenpoint, 35-year-old Carmine’s Original Pizzeria served its last slice on July 1. [Brooklyn Paper]
Avenue A taqueria La Lucha has closed six years after its debut. [EV Grieve]
Where Greenpoint once had a pool hall, it will now have a rooftop pool. Stellar Management has broken ground on a massive residential development designed by Gene Kaufman Architect, it was announced today.
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Good news for Greenpointers who plan to cycle into Long Island City for PS1’s Warm-Up and outdoor flicks at Socrates Sculpture Park: the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge just got protected bike lanes.
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If you’ve been awake for the past 48 hours or so, you’re probably well aware that it is, in fact, the month of July which means some of you, dearest readers, may be wondering, “Where the hell is that floating barge bar you promised me?” Rest assured, the Brooklyn Barge Bar is not lost at sea — rather she’s docked and nearly ready for seafaring (we jest, the barge itself will remain at the landing, historic boats and scuba excursions will do the launching). “It looks like it’s far from being finished, but it’s actually really close,” owner Will Drawbridge explained. “There’s some final bits of paperwork to do and then we’ll be done.”