The Marc Jacobs effect further pushes Bleecker to be “Gold Coast for designer boutiques” as rents continue to skyrocket. [WSJ] via Curbed

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Sadly, the ginormous fingernails have vanished, without a word–going as mysteriously as they came:

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If you’re not sick of hearing about Shepard Fairey murals yet, here’s more. Yesterday, Fairey borrowed a couple of ladders from neighboring Billy’s Props & Antiques so his graffiti friends could tag the sides of the Houston Wall.

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When hipsters move to Chinatown: “look, this is Manhattan: Neighborhoods change, neighborhoods become yuppie. I don’t feel I’m doing anything criminal by living here. I don’t know, maybe I’m being nave. It doesn’t feel like an issue to me, but maybe that’s ’cause I’m on the good end of it.” [Voice]

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Graceland shutters after 25 years on Avenue A. [NYDN]

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Were sitting in a tiny commercial studio in East Williamsburg on a Saturday afternoon, watching the first trickle of legally distilled whiskey to be produced in New York City since Prohibition drip into a graduated cylinder.