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

Bjarke Ingel's BQE Proposal
Bjarke Ingel's BQE Proposal
Photo: Bjarke Ingel

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

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Decade Of Fire: New Documentary Reexamines South Bronx Blight in the 1970s

Decade of Fire is an interesting new documentary from directors Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vazquez that reexamines the history of South Bronx blight in the 1970s, from the perspective of somebody who was in the middle of it all.

Throughout the 1970’s, fires consumed the South Bronx. Black and Puerto Rican residents were blamed for the devastation even as they battled daily to save their neighborhoods. In DECADE OF FIRE, Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires – uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today.

The documentary opens at the Metrograph on May 3rd.