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Controversial landlord Samy Mafar unloaded 210 Rivington Street for $12.5 million. [Bowery Boogie]
The five-story East Village residential building at 249 E. 2nd Street is on the market for just under $7 million. [StreetEasy]
Williamsburg thrift store Junk closed its N. 9th Street location following a rent increase, and the owners are planning a new housewares shop for Union Avenue. [Brooklyn Paper]
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After 21 years at the Orpheum Theatre, Stomp is departing the East Village for Times Square, citing poor venue conditions. [NY Post]
The former creative chief for designer Elie Tahari, Kobi Halperin, sold his Astor Place apartment for $15.5 million with help from Million Dollar Listings. [NY Daily News]
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Bushwick, tour Roberta’s kitchen garden, sip a beer and take home a potted plant for $25. And at 7 p.m., John “Johnny Rotten” Lyndon will sign copies his new memoir Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored at Strand. [The Skint]
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It’s not often you see Monty Python and John Lydon in the space of a week, but there was Britain’s other living legend at St. Vitus last night, chatting with Pitchfork’s Jenn Pelly about his new autobiography Anger Is an Energy. The book, out this week, tells how a childhood bout with meningitis shaped his personality (“I’m a shy, sensitive kind of fellow,” he insisted to the incredulous crowd at St. Vitus) and then goes on to recount his trailblazing and troublemaking with the Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., and, of course, his later dalliances with reality tv (that time he showed off his “fried-egg breasts” in I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!) and butter commercials (“the most anarchistic thing I’ve ever been presented with”).
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Former Sushi Park chef Machendra Chongbang filed a lawsuit against Maria Hrynenko— owner of the destroyed restaurant’s building on Second Avenue—after a gas line exploded in March, killing two and injuring others. [NY Daily News]
Check out Nicolas Heller’s short documentary, above, about Jim “Mosaic Man” Power, who wants to “mosaic the whole city.” [No Your City]
Police are looking for a man who followed a Williamsburg woman into her apartment building on April 18, grabbed her behind, and fled. [Brooklyn Paper]
Don’t judge us for this, but we’re kind of still recovering from New York’s Alright. Having engaged in more than our fair share of jostling and mayhem, we’re taking this week to mend our bruises and douse our wounds in extra-strength liquor. R&R calls for a brief break from sonic masochism so this week we’re feeling dancey stuff, psych, and dare we say even a little bit of pop. Thankfully lineups around town reflect this inclination, take advantage of it while you can.
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According to the NYPD, a 33-year-old man was shot and killed near the intersection of Bedford Avenue and S. 9th Street in Williamsburg this morning around 1 a.m. No arrests have been made. [DNA Info]
Felix David, the 24-year-old man who died after being shot by an NYPD detective Saturday afternoon on Sixth Street, had reportedly been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. [NY Times]
Contrary to articles in The Post last week, the homeless shelter at 400 McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint will not be the new home of a dozen-plus convicted sex offenders. [Greenpointers]
Above, go behind the scenes of the making of Man in a Cube, a stunt about a man who pretended to call the Astor Place Cube his casa. [Curbed NY]
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum launched a fundraiser to help repair the Orchard Street building’s infrastructure. [Bowery Boogie]
Next week Evolve Health + Wellness will open in the ground-level space at 36 Rivington Street. [Bowery Boogie]
From left: Jeff Schroeder and Christopher Williams (Photo: Nicole Disser)
Shaking hands with Chris Williams and Jeff Schroeder immediately made me feel not only very un-tan but also very un-rad. The two friends recently moved from California and have opened up Union Surfboards in their new neighborhood, Greenpoint. We met inside their studio that’s just big enough to sand off a board and drink a few beers in the process. The place is dusty, but in a clean beachy sort of way and is by no means a faddy showroom– it’s a real workshop. As we spoke, Williams, despite having a broken hand, would compulsively polish one of the boards propped up on a saw horse.
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Following an article in The Post about the number of sex offenders residing in a Kip’s Bay homeless shelter, the Department of Homeless Services relocated the 12+ men to a facility on Greenpoint’s Clay Street. [NY Post]
Ben Shaoul’s real estate company received a $97 million loan for a planned residential complex at 196 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side. [The Real Deal]