Astoria: RightRides, which offers free late-night rides home to female, transgendered, and gay people, has extended its services to the area. [Joey in Astoria]
Brooklyn Heights: What is that piercing alarm coming from Montague Street late at night? [Something Loud and Annoying This Way Comes]
Chelsea: One day after a story is published about David Peckham's lawsuit against his landlord, much of his apartment goes dark. [Blog Chelsea]
East Village: Porny billboards aren't just for the Lower East Side anymore. [Gothamist]
Greenwich Village: No wonder every unit at the new 25 Bond condo is pre-sold. Now that the wrapping's off, we can see how gorgeous it is. [Curbed]
Upper East Side: You know what would really class up the joint? A statue of George Plimpton. [Radar]
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What This Town Needs Is a George Plimpton Statue
Prospect Heights Does More Than Just Hate Bruce Ratner
East Village: Beloved St. Brigid's Church has been spared the Catholic archdiocese's wrecking ball yet again — at least for a few more months. [The Villager]
Fort Greene: The landlord at 20 Grand Avenue is trying to evict its creative-type tenants from the 60,000-square-foot, commercially zoned warehouse. [Brownstoner]
Harlem: What's that weird plant hanging from the wall at the cute new florist shop on 123rd and Freddie Douglass? It's a staghorn fern, duh. [Harlem Fur]
Prospect Heights: Opponents of the Atlantic Yards project flew into action last week … to help find an activist's black Lab, Lady Day, after she was dognapped. Is Ratner involved? [Brooklyn Paper]
Upper West Side: If this condo tower gets built above West-Park Presbyterian Church, the poor folk inhabiting subsidized units will have to use a different entryway — and stay out of the gym. [NYS]
Willets Point: The "Iron Triangle" of car-related businesses near Shea Stadium is up for redevelopment — but with no sewers in the area, what toxic goop lies beneath? [Curbed]
Prospect Lefferts Gardens Latest Victim of Youth Scourge
Coney Island: The kids trying to save Coney from the plans of megadeveloper Thor have erected a MySpace page — so you know they're serious. [Kinetic Carnival]
East Village: The Leaning Tenement of 12th Street? Look at how unaligned this old building is with the new one going up next to it. [Curbed]
Prospect Lefferts Gardens: Here come the low-rent hipsters … not to mention their publicly etched pronouncements on the difference between film and cinema. Oy. [Across the Park]
Richmond Hill: Say good-bye to the beautiful old Vetter Mansion on Lefferts and Hillside, because it's comin' down. [Queens Crap]
Tribeca: It may not be built yet, but that won't stop Elliman from listing the penthouse at 415 Greenwich Street for $32.5 million. [Curbed]
Williamsburg: A fire last night in a garage housing dozens of Koolman ice-cream trucks may mean fewer of the vehicles on the streets plus lost income for their immigrant drivers. [i'm not sayin, i'm just sayin]
The Partial Return of City Hall Park
Borough Park: Due largely to its prolific Orthodox Jewish community, this hood holds the city's record for most babies, pumping out an average of thirteen daily! [Fort Greene Courier via Brooklyn Record]
Brooklyn Heights: Some beautiful old sgraffito façade work at 177-179 Columbia Heights will likely go unrestored due to prohibitive costs. Quel dommage. [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
City Hall: After years of public pleading, City Hall Park will partially reopen in July. [Tribeca Trib via Curbed]
East Village: Guess what's arrived at that longtime mystery lot bounded by Second, Third, 13th, and 14th? Drumroll, please: It's …a bank ad! Wow. [Curbed]
Harlem: Would Langston Hughes have hung out at Starbucks? A new book finds that the uptown scene may be most compromised by the city's increasing "suburbanization." [City Limits via Uptown Flavor]
Prospect Heights: A petition is circulating to spare the lovely 1911 Ward's Bakery building from Atlantic Yards–related demolition. [Gowanus Lounge]
The Splasher Goes Corporate?
East Village: The partly opened Bowery Hotel may be inspiring an Old Brooklyn–style black-star design trend in the area. [Curbed]
Gramercy: Does replacing fluorescent lighting with track lighting make an otherwise cookie-cutter Dunkin’ Donuts outlet upscale? [The Real Estate/NYO]
Greenpoint: Whoever pays $2.5 million for an unlandmarked Victorian gem will likely tear it down to rebuild on its ample land. [Brownstoner]
Harlem: Say good-bye to the Sugar Shack, home to great D.J.'s, dancing, poetry readings, and all-around uptown fun. [Uptown Flavor]
Red Hook: Looks like Ikea is joining the infamous “Splasher” in the assault on Brooklyn street art. [Gowanus Lounge]
Williamsburg: And speaking of the Splasher, does new evidence suggest that the culprit is actually … American Apparel!?!? [i'm not sayin, i'm just sayin]
You, With the Pet Raccoon! Time for Your Rabies Shot
Not the raccoon in question.Photo: istockphotos.com
Chelsea: When you buy into "the most coveted new address" in "New York City's most desired neighborhood," hot babes in fishnets await you on your couch. [Curbed]
East Harlem: Were you one of the two white thirtysomethings wearing scrubs who brought that injured raccoon to the 110th Street animal shelter Tuesday? Well, you better call the Health Department, because that little mofo was rabid! [Flatbush Gardener]
East Village: Complaints from upstairs neighbors have led to a ban on live music at Avenue B punk dive Manitoba's, owned by Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators [Brooklyn Vegan]
Prospect Heights: Those long-sought financials for the Atlantic Yards project are finally out. Now just try to understand them. [Brownstoner]
Sunnyside Gardens: Residents want to turn the pretty area into a landmarked historic district, but their state senator opposes the idea. [Queens Crap via Queens Gazette]*
Sunset Park: A high-rise threatens to obscure the view of Lady Liberty from one of the highest points in Brooklyn … and residents are fuming about it. [NY1 via Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
*Correction: An earlier version of this story suggested that Sunnyside Garden residents opposed the area's historic designation while their state senator supported it. Also, the original item was found in the Queens Gazette, not the Queens Courier.
Chickens Further Brooklyn Gentrification
These chickens are not from Brooklyn, but could be soon!Photo: iStockphoto.com
Battery Park: This funky glass carousel thingy could serve as a spot that links park visitors to the Coney Island aquarium via a ferry. [Kinetic Carnival]
Clinton Hill: Why go to a food co-op or the farmers' market when you can raise chickens right behind your own brownstone? [Brownstoner]
East Village: A first peek inside (and through the windows of) the Bowery Hotel, where rooms start (for now) at $245. [Hotel Chatter via Curbed]
Gowanus: Oh, boy! It's the four-part lecture on the history of the canal we've all been waiting for. [Brooklyn Record]
Morningside Heights: Columbia students use clever street art to strike back at their school's real-estate takeover of the area. [Gothamist]
Prospect Heights: Have you met Sydney, Hudson, Jenny BiBabe, and Dakota on MySpace? They're the new condos that want to be friends with you. [Gowanus Lounge]
H&H; Bagels Completes Harlem Gentrification
Clinton Hill: What the hell is this Legos-meets-Mondrian thing that’s sprouted up on Reuben north of Myrtle? [Clinton Hill Blog]
East Village: Apparently only the "big" L-stations get those train arrival-time signs. So much for Third Avenue. [CitySpecific]
Flatbush: Seems like this ain’t the only Brooklyn hood the city has failed to provide with those free, slickly packaged condoms. [Flatbush Gardener via Gowanus Lounge]
Harlem: If only Bagel in Harlem had stuck it out another month or so. She could have picked up H&H; bagels at the Saurin Park Café. [Harlem Fur]
Maspeth: A local weekly’s coverage of the endangered St. Saviour’s has got readers accusing it of bias and conflicts of interest. [Queens Crap]
West Village: Sure, it’s in a gorgeous Bing & Bing building, has its own terrace, and was featured in a design mag. But (gulp) … $2 million for a studio?? [Curbed]
East Village Not Cool Enough to Justify Tiny Closet
Streamline your life with this tiny closet.Photo: Craigslist
Chelsea: Tourists find Hotel Chelsea to be old and shabby. Well, yeah. [Notes from the Trenches via Living With Legends]
Cobble Hill: Who says you can’t go (to his) home again? Walk to Cobble Hill Park and peer into the dank basement flat that once housed young scribe Thomas Wolfe. [Lost City]
Dumbo: Angry phone calls succeed in putting the temporary kibosh on improper asbestos removal at 205 Water Street. [DumboNYC]
East Village: Chic “lofted living” (right) can be yours for just $1,700 a month! Walk-in closet (for dwarves) included. [Craigslist via Curbed]
Gowanus: City enviro-honchos have released a cleanup plan for the parcel of toxic soup known as Public Place — and locals will sound off on the parcel’s future at a meeting on February 22. [Gowanus Lounge]
Jackson Heights: Next Tuesday, get a free stack o’ flapjacks at the Northern Boulevard IHOP when you make a donation to a children’s charity. [Joey in Astoria]
CB3 Loves Petraske, Hates His Plans
One thing was clear at the Community Board 3 meeting last night: The East Village board loves Milk and Honey proprietor Sasha Petraske. "He is probably the only owner in nine years who has run [his bar] according to his representations," said committee chair Alexandra Militano, who also noted he's received no complaints in nine years, as Daniel Maurer reports on Grub Street. So does all that good behavior and good will mean they'll allow him to open his planned Mighty Ocelot wine and beer bar on East 5th Street? Of course not. Noisily angry neighbors flooded the meeting, complaining that Petraske's establishment would create too much noise. And the board voted to recommend the State Liquor Authority deny his application. The full tale is at Grub Street.
Neighbors Tell Milk & Honey's Sasha Petraske, 'Welcome to the East Village, Now Leave [Grub Street]
No, One Does Not Go to Lucky Cheng's for the Food
Dirty Delta of Lucky Cheng's Serves Orgy Bowls to Britney Spears [Grub Street]
But It Was Easy Being a Photog Shooting the Hell's Angels
The view from Anderson's.Photo: AP
It's Not Easy Being a Hell's Angel
• Anyone who's ever walked by the Hell's Angels' redoubt at 77 East 3rd Street knows the place is a bit creepy. But holy crap: After an injured woman was found outside, the police had to cordon off the block and use rooftop snipers, machine guns, helicopters, and a Bearcat vehicle to storm the mini-fortress. [amNY]
• The Post whips out the trusty "Un-Fare" pun for an unpleasant little scoop: The much-covered Fulton Street Transit Center will force riders switching from, say, J to R trains to swipe their MetroCard twice. And suddenly, we couldn't care less about the shape of its dome. [NYP]
• If you're at all hip, you know that the absolute trendiest thing to do is to beat the living shit out of someone and post the footage on YouTube. All the cool kids are doing it, including four aspiring documentarians on Long Island. One thing about video, however: It makes it awfully easy to identify the perps. [WNBC]
• A Manhattan professor expresses parents' overarching sentiment on the new school-bus routes, as quoted by the Times: "It looked as if a monkey had done it." [NYT]
• And if you like self-piloting trains and automated dry cleaning, you'll love robotic parking. The first such garage opens this February in Chinatown; your car will be lowered through the floor on a moving platform and assigned a free space by a computer. One hopes without you still in it. [FoxNews]
And Another East Village Rock Club Goes Away: Sin-é
Marianne Faithfull plays the original Sin-é in 1992.Photo: Sin-e.com
No Art for You, East 13th Street!
Choi and Rubin's unfinished Opus.Photo: Melissa Hom
Con Ed Terrifies East Village Bargoers
Video Stores Diversify in Carroll Gardens
This puts the variety in Cobble Hill Variety Store Photo: 423 Smith
Brooklyn Heights: Who's that portly older gent who snaps at folks when they step around his little bichon? [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Carroll Gardens: Video stores (above) are dropping like flies — or repurposing to stay alive. [423smith]
Chelsea: Boho hotel residents receive belated, nagging New Year's message from Patti Smith. [Hotel Chelsea Blog]
Clinton Hill:The nabe's Myrtle Avenue gets its own event-listing blog, marking edgy, can't-miss moments like a Bank of America opening. [Myrtle Minutes via Clinton Hill Blog]
East Village: Luxury-tower sales offices face off on lower Broadway. [Curbed]
Park Slope: Slopers worry that old-school sports bar Snooky's may be history. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
Williamsburg: Former Old Dutch Mustard building owner makes nostalgic site visit. [Gowanus Lounge]
The Rushkoff Effect Hits Harlem
Chelsea: Time to rally against the demolition of the Hotel Pennsylvania. [Blog Chelsea]
Crown Heights: The Empire Rolling Rink will have to go if Costco takes over the block. [Across the Park]
East Village: Chase bank is taking over the 2nd Avenue Deli's old spot. You knew it would be a bank. [Curbed]
Fort Greene: As an extra inconvenience for anyone with a job, the Pratt post office on Myrtle Avenue doesn't open till 9:30. [Clinton Hill Blog]
Harlem: The Rushkoff Effect spreads north; blogger moves following unpleasant run-in with crazy guy. [Bagel in Harlem]
Park Slope: The Park Slope Armory should be a community center by September, with athletic and recreational facilities. [Gowanus Lounge]
Bad Tourism Idea Moves South From Boston
Brooklyn Heights: The Heights Players are doing Gemini, sadly without Danny Aiello and Kathleen Turner. [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Dumbo: ModernTots furniture store is that latest example of family infestation. Is no part of Brooklyn safe? [Dumbo NYC]
East Village: Liz Christy Garden, the city's oldest community plot, has reopened to the public with a new lush look. [Curbed]
Park Slope: Don't worry, Blue Apron Foods will reopen in a couple of weeks as Grab. [Brooklyn Record]
Red Hook: The Revere Sugar Plant might come down but not without a fight from the rats. [Gowanus Lounge]
Times Square: Come spring, our tour buses will no longer feel inferior to Boston's duck boats. Thanks, New York Splash Tours! [NewYorkology]
Williamsburg: Spelling bee tonight at Pete's Candy Store made more palatable by being a benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Barely. [NYCStories]
Ugly Buildings Are Attacking the City!
Brooklyn Heights: The mysterious sign maker who guided visitors to the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway has outed herself. Thanks, Roslyn Beck. [Brooklyn Papers]
East Village: When Jane Jacobs and New Urbanism collide, you get New Yorbanism and buildings like "Sculpture for Living" at Astor Place. [Horizoner via Polis]
Gowanus: Once the Whole Foods opens, expect 1,000 people a day to show up at Third Avenue and 3rd Street. [Gowanus Lounge]
Greenwood Heights: If you're a developer missing some permits, the Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights are gonna getcha. [Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights via Brownstoner]
Harlem: Food from the meat truck on 132nd and Lenox may be a little too authentic for city dwellers, unless you want your apartment to smell like a barn. [Harlem Fur]
Park Slope: The campaign begins to get writers–crime victims Doug and Barbara Rushkoff to stay in Brooklyn. [Steven Berlin Johnson via Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
Old East Villager Distressed By Starbucks Influx; Also, Sky Is Blue
Photo: NYTimes.com
Heading toward Astor Place, he discovered that one of his favorite coffee shops had been turned into a Starbucks. Stopping for a light, he said, with less sadness than surprise: "I used to have such a tremendous sense of the city and of this neighborhood, and it's lost to me now."
Well, yes. We all know the Starbucks-is-taking-over feeling. But we'd suggest Stone dig deeper. After all, last time we checked, that Astor Place Starbucks had bathrooms grim enough for any old-timer. Plus, we hear they're doing a brisk business in Venti PizzaCremas.
Hello, Deli!
Photo: Getty Images
• The Lebewohl family, which owned the deli, is about to close on a building in Murray Hill.
• Jack Lebewohl, who owned the deli, will not run the new place.
• Jack's son, Josh, applied for the liquor-license transfer.
• The new location is not on Second Avenue.
Things we don't know about a potential new 2nd Avenue Deli, thanks to a report in today's New York Sun:
• Which Lebewohls, if any, will actually be running it.
• When it might open.
• What it might be called.
• Whether it will be kosher.
You Can't Always Gentrify What You Want
The Italian restaurant Sal Anthony's was an Irving Place institution for 40 years, until it closed last February. Its last supper came after owner Anthony Macagnone lost a five-year court battle with his landlords, allowing them to raise his rent some 500 percent. Unable to afford it, Macagnone closed up shop. And yet still a Sal Anthony's awning leads up to the restaurant's second-floor entrance. Why? Because after insisting in court that a fair-market rent would be much more than what Macagnone was paying, his landlords have been unable to get anyone to pay the new, higher rent.
"I'm amused," Macagnone said recently, speaking at his Movement Salon on Third Avenue, which offers yoga and Pilates classes. (He also still runs two other restaurants, one in the East Village and one in Little Italy.) "I was paying $12,000 a month and they wanted $60,000. They had all these witnesses coming into court who said it was worth so much. It must have cost them a million dollars to get me out." The problem, Macagnone says, is the stairs in front of the building. It's a flight up to his old restaurant space and two steps down to a basement space he used as a catering hall, among other things. The stairs, he says, "are a bane to a retailer's existence. I wouldn't rent [the space] now if they gave it to me for free." Broker Adina Azarian, who is trying to rent the property, agreed that the stairs "have turned off" some prospective tenants. "But the second floor has great visibility and the staircase is dramatic," she says. "It has a beautiful view and the windows are great. It's up for grabs, and I'm sure the right person will come along." Indeed. But for what rent? —Mary Reinholz
Bloomberg Announces $150M Plan to Help Poor
Bloomberg, with Rangel looking on, in the East
Village today.Photo: AP
The Lease Versus the Liquor License
What happens when one guy holds a bar's lease and another its liquor license? You can find out at tonight's Community Board 2 business-committee meeting, when irate regulars from Milanos on Houston Street will protest a possible license transfer from longtime owner Denis Lynch to East Village bar magnate David McWaters, who owns the Library and Nice Guy Eddie's, among other establishments, and now has the lease for Milanos.
McWaters says that he signed a new lease for the property about twelve months ago and that Lynch's lease expired on November 15 — which Lynch, who thought he had a verbal deal for a renewal, concedes. But Lynch won't give up the bar's liquor license. "One is no good without the other," he says. "The license is no good to me without a lease. The lease is no good to McWaters without the license. I'm not agreeing to no transfer of the licensing."
Scenes From the East Village: David Cross Edition
Photo: Patrick McMullan
In front of Professor Thom's, Second Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. Last night, approximately 1 a.m.
ARNETT, POEHLER, and CROSS exit the bar, where apparently, Fred Armisen was hosting an open-bar birthday party.
CROSS
Oh, man, put another one in the bag!
CROSS staggers across the sidewalk and directly into a news box. The news box falls over and hits the ground with a thunk. CROSS does likewise. CROSS slides across the top of the news box in slow motion, then lies splayed on the ground next to it. ARNETT and POEHLER stand alongside, laughing too hard to help. A minute passes. ARNETT composes himself to offer a hand to CROSS. CROSS, suddenly moving quickly, springs up as if on his fifth Red Bull.
CROSS
See ya!
As quickly as he'd arisen, CROSS disappears into a cab.
Exeunt.
— Jada Yuan
Have a Global Warmy Christmas in Prospect Park
Brooklyn Heights: A tree may grow here, but apparently grass doesn't. [Twofones via Brooklyn Heights Blog]
East Village: Cooper Union students respond to impending demolition of the Hewitt building with apropos typeface. [RazorApple]
Kensington: Don't be jealous of South Slope. There are plenty of permit-less contractors for everyone. [Brownstoner]
Maspeth: It's not like you forgot about this neighborhood. You had no idea it existed. [Forgotten NY]
Prospect Park: It's above 60 degrees today, so it must be time to turn on the Christmas lights at Grand Army Plaza. [Brooklyn Record]
West Village: Expect the mother of all beg-a-thons when WNYC moves into new digs. [The Villager]
Park Slopers Denied Self-Righteous Place in American History
East Village: If real-estate agents can make up neighborhood names like BoCoCa, how about Manwood? [East Village Idiot]
Park Slope: The Atlantic listed the 100 most influential Americans, and not one of them represented the Greater Park Slope Community. Outrageous. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
Prospect Heights: Residents get antsy about the type of people who will move into Richard Meier's One Prospect Park Tower now that it's listed with Corcoran. [Daily Heights]
Red Hook: People stuck in the past want to preserve Civil War history instead of letting Ikea pave a parking lot over it. [The Real Estate/NYO]
Staten Island: Happy 42nd Birthday, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge! You make getting off this island so much easier. [Sunset Parker]
Times Square: There are only a few shopping days left to taunt David Blaine. Hurry. [Gothamist]
A World of Wonder Outside Brooklyn
Carroll Gardens: Take your lactose intolerance to Giardini's. [Eating for Brooklyn]
East Village: Unless you borrow shorts, the Russian & Turkish Baths aren't sketchy at all. [My Brooklyn Year]
Park Slope: Everywhere else has rats, but the Slope gets raccoons. [Brooklynian via Brooklyn Record]
Staten Island: Brooklynites do field-study research, report back to the rest of us. [Brooklyn Ramblings]
Times Square: Will the stairway to TKTS heaven be finished in time to ditch our relatives there? [Curbed]
Williamsburg: Condos at McCarren Park Mews are affordable if you don't mind the oily film. [Gowanus Lounge]
Mail, Dates Tough to Get in Brooklyn
• East Village: Landlord sues tenants for not letting loud, dust-covered construction workers tromp through his apartment and build an overpriced penthouse. [amNY]
• Fort Greene: We must all sacrifice imported dates in this time of war. [Brooklyn Record]
• Hunts Point: Why go to Rikers when you can go to your neighborhood jail? [NYDN]
• Ozone Park: Plan to make Aqueduct Racetrack even more depressing is deterred by the delay of video slot machines. [amNY]
• Prospect Heights: The substitute mail carrier won't even ring once. [Brooklynian via Daily Heights]
• Upper East Side: A New York City public high school gets its act together, so it must be time to relocate. [Gotham Gazette]
• Upper East Side: Woody Allen doesn't have any problems with performances spaces; he'd just prefer that they not be in his neighborhood. [NYS]
Blockbuster Video Not Cool Enough for Carroll Gardens
Carroll Gardens: Indie nerds and porn lovers successfully close Blockbuster Video on Court Street. [Brooklyn Record]
City Hall: At a Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief rally this morning, those pushy walkers and bicyclers demanded fewer cars. [Streetsblog]
Clinton Hill: Buy a little piece of Brooklyn and help bring the Broken Angel up to code. [Artez'n via Brooklyn Record]
East Village: "Hot Dog" returns to Avenue A. This time she's almost sober. [Neither More Nor Less]
Long Island City: All those new condo owners will need hospital beds. [NYP]
Williamsburg's Spawn Indoctrinated Early
Boerum Hill: For those keeping score at home, that's 583 car crashes on Atlantic Avenue between Flatbush Avenue and the river since January 2005. [Brooklyn Record]
East Village: East Village blogger Jim returns from Scranton to find his neighbors filching his online style. [Neither More Nor Less]
Prospect Heights: If a 95-year-old bakery can't get landmark status, none of us can. [Brooklyn Papers]
Soho: Following the close of disreputable bar, the Falls, the space is reincarnated as an Indian restaurant. Better luck to Midnight Cafe II. [Villager]
UWS: Metropolitan Montessori School saves energy by switching over to wind power. No word on whether this will make annual tuition dip to $20,000. [NAW via Metadish]
Williamsburg: Beatles covers for your own little hipster-in-training. Yikes. [Willy Bees]
Stop!
Boerum Hill: City replaces stop signs with traffic light at one intersection, and neighbors aren't pleased. [Streets Blog]
Boerum Hill: Who you gonna call? Well, don't bother with the police, if you live on a block stuck between two precincts. [NYDN]
East Village and Lower East Side: Work continues on East River Park, with 6th Street running track reopened and overall project set for final completion in 2008. [Grand Street News]
Fort Greene: There's a new church coming, but don't tell the local prostitutes. [Brownstoner]
Harlem: There's some weird architecture — an old-school front porch, a very new-school modern thing — on East 128th Street townhouses. [Bagel in Harlem]
Lower East Side: Proposed neighborhood-friendly LES rezoning may not be as neighborhood-friendly as it's cracked up to be. [LoHo 10002]
Lower East Side: Thanks to construction-detritus pulverized Styrofoam, you can play in the snow even when it's 60-plus degrees out. [What About the Plastic Animals? via Curbed]
Bruce Ratner, Atlantic Yards Neighbors, All Set to Have Heart Attacks
Atlantic Yards: IRS set to make things more expensive for Bruce Ratner. [Brooklyn Papers]
Brownstone Brooklyn: In fancy-pants gentrified neighborhoods, people binge-drink more and die more often of heart disease. [Brooklyn Papers]
Carroll Gardens: Is a biodiesel plant coming? [Carroll Gardens Courier]
Downtown Brooklyn: Developer wants to "Botox" Fulton Street Mall, adding maybe a Cheesecake Factory and an Equinox. Existing shoppers ain't thrilled. [Brooklyn Record]
East Village: Crappy scaffolding gets a scolding. [Neither More Nor Less]
Flatlands: The Aviator Sports complex, opening soon at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, will be joined by high-end and highly caloric eateries like Junior's, Grimaldi's, and Jacques Torres. [Brooklyn Record]
Fort Greene: Residents fight to save a big rock. [NYDN]
Hell's Kitchen: Pier 76, behind the Javits Center, would be a good place for a recycling transfer station. But then what to do with the tow pound? [Villager]
West Village: Locals still don't think enough is being done about the queer kids who hang out at the Christopher Street Pier. [Villager]
Williamsburg: Northsix to close for renovations, plans are in the works for a new version of the club with a really lame name. [Brooklyn Record]
Condos and Beer (Which Could Well Be New York's New Motto)
Bed-Stuy: A new wave of Bed-Stuy condos go where no condos have gone before. (East, of course). [Brownstoner]
Boerum Hill: Mmmm, beer: Cask Ale Festival kicks off at the Brazen Head on Atlantic Avenue. [Brooklyn Record]
Soho: Bedbugs chase Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson from Greene Street. [NYP]
Financial District: A 24-hour diner will invade Gold Street in January. As if bankers don't just order in, anyway. [MetroNY]
East Village: "Loanshark Bob" Marion returns to Avenue A after years of absence. Hooray. [Neither More Nor Less]
Art Opening: Canvas Is the New Flesh
A work by Chris Taylor.Image: Courtesy of Fuse Gallery
Apartment-Hunting in GramEaVillionSquare
The patch of downtown Manhattan from East 14th Street to East 18th Street and between Irving Place and Second Avenue shape-shifts to suit the mood of brokers trying to sell their properties there. If they want to exude refinement, they call it Gramercy; others choose to glom on to the hipster vibe of the East Village or capitalize on the poised-for-luxury rep of Union Square. Whatever its nom de guerre, the nabe's worth a visit, both for the chance to troupe in and out of all sorts of buildings — the housing stock is diverse, including high-rises, low-slung tenement-style buildings, prewars, and townhouses — and for the hope of finding the perfect apartment. Fuel up at the Greenmarket at Union Square when your energy flags. Here are some spaces to check out.
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