SantaCon Starts in Williamsburg Saturday; Eleven Madison Park Opening Fast Casual Spot; Crazy Midtown Supertall Skyscraper Proposed

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 ⇒ First Look at Mark Foster Gage's Sinuous Facade Proposed for 141 Chrystie Street
• Atlas Obscura ⇒ St. George's Syrian Catholic Church
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ ‘Something for Everyone’ At Spiffy New Cooper Skate Park
• Bensonhurst Bean ⇒ After Three Year Delay, Checkers Opens in Coney Island
• Brooklyn Magazine ⇒ SantaCon Reveals Booze Crawl Will Start in Williamsburg This Saturday
• Curbed NY ⇒ What $1,300/Month Can Rent You in New York City
• Crain's 5 Boros ⇒ The Most, the Merrier: Follow the Bright Lights to Dyker Heights
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Duggan's Saloon -- No. 557 Third Avenue
• DNAinfo New York ⇒ 11 New Restaurants for You to Try Right Now
• Ephemeral New York ⇒ The Most Spectacular Mansion on Riverside Drive
• Gothamist ⇒ Eleven Madison Park Team Opening Flatiron Fast Casual Spot
• Guest of a Guest ⇒ Booth Life: NYC's Most Plush Restaurant Seating
• The Lively Morgue ⇒ April 1976: A performance by Balaban and Cats, a jazz outfit playing at a club called Eddie Condon’s
• The Lo-Down ⇒ Zero Food Waste Popup Debuts This Coming Weekend
• The New York Times ⇒ Mosque Shows That Muslims Have Long Been a Part of New York
• Racked NY ⇒ Backstage at the Rockettes' Radio City Christmas Spectacular
• Second Ave. Sagas ⇒ The 10 Train and an Appreciation of Soon-to-Be-Extinct Rollsigns
• SILive.com ⇒ West Shore Development Study Receives Funding
• Street Art NYC ⇒ A Interview With La-Based Street Artist Kai Aspire in NYC
• Thrillist ⇒ The 13 Best Restaurants for Solo Dining in NYC
• Untapped Cities ⇒ A Fantastical Proposed Skyscraper for NYC’s Billionaire Row by Mark Foster Gage
• Uptown Collective ⇒ Washington Heights Welcomes First Ramen Restaurant