At the risk of being NSFW, I offer the following puerile observation.

On my recent tour of the “upper High Line” area, I passed a gallery exhibit entitled NAKED! A better title would be PENIS! because all of the images were of naked men, or just disembodied penises.

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Wow! The infinitely tacky, tourist-attracting East Village Max Brenner has closed for good! [Gothamist]

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Five notable nightlife openings.

Let the de-gentrification of the “Vanishing Block” of 9th Ave begin. MePa is not moving in (yet). A taker has been found for the long-empty Chelsea Liquors spot. It’s a Subway:

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There’s something about the South Brooklyn Casket Company. Maybe its the name, the startling word “casket” right out there in the open as you walk along Third Avenue in Gowanus. Maybe it’s the fact that you can see right into the warehouse, to its cache of caskets, all gleaming silver and polished wood, waiting to be filled with, let’s face it, your future.

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Say it ain’t so! Guss’ Pickles is leaving the LES for Brooklyn. One more reason to stop loving the LES. [LD]

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Hey Murray Hill douchebags: Party with 100 people in this sick Orchard St. douchepad. [BB]

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