Music: Five Brooklyn nightlife mini-moguls have taken over the Galapagos site in Williamsburg and turned it into Natural Selection. It’s a Darwin joke, get it? Comment.
Books: When author Jami Attenberg decided to write a "love letter" to Williamsburg, she didn't prattle on about its hipster denizens. She wrote about a little known segment of its population: It's "kept men." Comment.
Crime: Police locked up a Williamsburg man suspected of at least four knifepoint robberies that horrified the hot neighborhood, an NYPD source told The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (1).
Crime: Three thugs intimidated a Havemeyer Street man into forking over his wallet and cellphone on April 20. Plus the rest of the crime news from Bushwick and Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct. Comment.
Williamsburg Waterfront: A power plant that would block a proposed park on the North Brooklyn waterfront came back to life nearly a month after the state pulled the plug on the idea. Comment.
Williamsburg Waterfront: After weeks of denials, Con Edison admitted this week that it will demolish a defunct power plant on the South Williamsburg waterfront, leveling a neighborhood landmark to make space for possible high-rise condo development. Comment.
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