223-225 Bowery has sold for $30 million and will become a 180-room Ace Hotel with a small number of residential condominiums. [Curbed] Unions want all…
Art Thief Swipes Snoop Lion Portrait; Mini Mini Market Closing After 14 Years
Pols have redoubled their calls for traffic safety in the wake of a Williamsburg traffic death. [Brooklyn Paper] A variety of projects are vying for…
Steve Buscemi Chilled With Anthony Weiner, Is King of Mardi Gras
Former Lower East Sider Steve Buscemi has been bouncing around town lately — and we’re not even talking about Big Lebowski burlesque. Last week he…
Hyper-Gentrification vs. Super Gentrification; How to Squat in NYC
Congrats to Lower East Sider Spike Jonze, who took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay last night. [B+B Twitter] On hyper-gentrification, super gentrification and…
Watch the Oscars at One of These 13 Spots and You’ll Be Golden
At last year’s Oscars, Seth MacFarlane hosted, Jennifer Lawrence tripped, and Ben Affleck called his marriage to Jennifer Garner “work.” Movie musicals and James Bond…
Tomorrow Is Your Last Chance to Drink at Barramundi As You Know It
Much like the fish from which it takes its name, classic LES bar Barramundi is going through some changes. “The barramundi fish goes through these…
Police, Pols Call For More Safety at ‘Most Dangerous Intersections’ and Beyond
It happened again this morning: around 7 a.m., a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Bowery and Hester. The victim was…
Stop And Frisk Complaints Are Declining — But They Haven’t Disappeared Yet
As New York City looks set to settle with civil liberties groups over the Police Department’s long-standing and contentious policy of stopping, questioning and frisking…
Human Hamster Wheel in Williamsburg; Boozy Laundromat in East Village
The Times discovers Bushwick. It’s “a haven for artists, newly minted college graduates, working-class families and freelancers of all stripes, and this shows in its…
Deepak Chopra Scores $14.5M Pad; Spin Doctors Drummer Sells $4M Duplex
The drummer for the Spin Doctors is selling his East Village duplex, which comes with a recording studio, for $3.995 million. [NY Post] Meanwhile, Deepak…