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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 ⇒ Salted Fish, Puppet Shows, and Spitting: Strange Ways to Break the Law in NYC
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Mission Accomplished! Mission Chinese Expands to East Williamsburg
• Bklyner ⇒ Brooklyn Dancer Named MacArthur Genius - Meet Okwui Okpokwasili
• Bowery Boogie ⇒ Extell’s One Manhattan Square Is Now ‘Fully Enclosed’
• Brooklyn Heights Blog ⇒ Allen Robinson Instituted as Fifteenth Rector of Grace Church
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Chester W. Chapin House -- 331 West End Avenue
• Gothamist ⇒ A Look Inside NYC's Mysterious Masonic Hall
• Harlem World Magazine ⇒ When Gristede Was in East Harlem, 1921
• Laughing Squid ⇒ MTA Partners With NYPD Transit to Give NYC Subway Riders an Elaborate Haunted Halloween Experience
• New York Times ⇒ 7 Reasons the Subway Is a Major Problem for Cuomo
• NextCity ⇒ What Happens to Street Performers in a Cashless Economy?
• Pardon Me for Asking ⇒ Carroll Gardens' Finest Show Up in Force to Take an Unruly Passenger Off the F Train
• StreetEasy ⇒ How Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza Grew From War Memorial to Culture Hotspot
• Thrillist ⇒ Everything You Need to Know About the Village Halloween Parade
• Tribeca Citizen ⇒ More on Amazon’s Brookfield Place Store
• Vanishing New York ⇒ Glaser's Interior