Union Square Coffee Shop Vanishing; Proposed Soccer Stadium Back in the Bronx; NYC's Most Filmed Alley

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 ⇒ Grow a Green Thumb This Weekend With Free Activities at Over 70 of NYC’s Community Gardens
• Bedford + Bowery ⇒ Massive Mowing Picasso Will Stay in Brooklyn a Little Lawnger
• Bklyner ⇒ Where to Celebrate National Ice Cream Day in Northern Brooklyn
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ Opening Mic: Brooklyn Gets a New, Full-Time Comedy Club
• Curbed NY ⇒ Brooklyn Bridge Beach Will Open for One Day Only on the East River
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ Charles Oakley's 1833 No. 262 Bleecker Street
• Forgotten NY ⇒ WILHELMUS STOOTHOFF HOUSE, Cypress Hills
• Gothamist ⇒ This Is the Most Filmed in Alley in NYC
• Greenpointers ⇒ Free Family Movies in Transmitter Park—"Inside Out" Shows Tonight (7/13) - Greenpointers
• Harlem + Bespoke ⇒ BESPOKE: VINTAGE 1970s CARS ON SUGAR HILL
• New York Times ⇒ Finding Repose in New York City’s Hidden Spaces
• The Bridge ⇒ Was a Fire Set to Destroy Part of Brooklyn's Industrial Past? - the Bridge
• The Real Deal New York ⇒ This Time, It’s Different: Soccer Stadium May End Up in Bronx After All
• Thrillist ⇒ Everything You Absolutely Have to Do in NYC This Weekend
• Untapped Cities ⇒ Step Onto 1767 NYC Literally With Enormous Sidewalk Maps at 85 Broad Street
• Vanishing New York ⇒ Coffee Shop