[A sign of spring in Tompkins Square Park...]
Author Cari Luna on the squatters of the East Village (Jacobin via The Lo-Down)
A look at the possible development for the former Billy’s Antiques space on East Houston (BoweryBoogie)
Yet another push for Beastie Boys Square on the LES (DNAinfo)
A look inside the former Domino Sugar Factory (Curbed)
What tickets for the rides at Coney Island looked like 100 years ago (Amusing the Zillion)
Details about a memorial to honor Rene Ricard (Hotel Chelsea Blog)
Rough Trade NYC is hosting an interactive LCD Soundsystem gallery (East Village Radio)
$6 million in upgrades at the "dirty and dangerous" Aqueduct Racetrack (The Wall Street Journal)
And the Times has a feature on Jim Jarmusch:
Though he misses the wildness of those days (in the SoHo of the late ’70s, “I looked out my window at about 3:30 a.m., and I saw a man walking a llama down Prince Street”), “I’m not nostalgic,” he said. “Because New York’s only about change and conning everybody out of whatever they have. That’s just what New York is.”
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... and via the EVG inbox... the Ruff Club at 34 Avenue A is hosting fundraiser this Sunday to benefit Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue ...
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