Bjarke Ingel's BQE Park Proposal; Bushwick's Secret Vaudeville Past; Eco-Friendly Hotel on Rat Island?

There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• 6sqft ⇒ Bjarke Ingels Group Reveals New Proposal for a Park-Covered BQE
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Orchard Street Haberdasher Featured as One of ‘The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side’
• Brownstoner ⇒ Innovative New Proposal by Bjarke Ingels Group Excites Residents at BQE Town Hall
• Bushwick Daily ⇒ Bushwick's Secret Vaudeville Past
• CNBC ⇒ Manhattan Real Estate Sales Fall for Sixth Straight Quarter — Longest Losing Streak in 30 Years
• Curbed NY ⇒ Bed-Stuy Low-Income Housing Project Will Have Farms, Fresh Food Market
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Joseph R. De Lamar Mansion - 233 Madison Avenue
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ Brooklyn Beerlesque Coming to Brooklyn Brewery With Ballet, Burlesque, and Beer
• Gothamist ⇒ Irving Plaza Will Shutter for an Eight Month Renovation
• Greenpointers ⇒ Sama Street Brings Asian-Inspired Cocktails and Small Plates to Manhattan Avenue
• Metaflix ⇒ Original Loew's Wonder Theater Screening '2001: A Space Odyssey' Sunday April 7th
• New York Times ⇒ Art at the Shed. Rock at the Museum.
• QNS.com ⇒ The Second Annual Bell Boulevard Food and Music Fest Hits the Streets This May
• StreetEasy ⇒ 'Bloody Angle': The Story of Doyers Street and Chinatown's Odd Alleys
• The Infatuation ⇒ Lhasa Fast Food
• The Lo-Down ⇒ Lower East Side Voices: An Immigrant Success Story at the Essex Street Market
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ Owner of Rat Island in Bronx Harbor Dreams of Opening Eco-Friendly Hotel
• The Villager ⇒ Grassroots Group Calls for ‘Shared Streets’ - the Villager
• Untapped Cities ⇒ Go Inside the Living Museum, an Eclectic Art Gallery at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens
• West Side Rag ⇒ A First Peek at the ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Action