• Keeping up with old friends: Brooklyn Ale House Owner Sean Connelly On Leaving And Loving Williamsburg.
• Let loose an all-star crew of graffiti writers and street artists inside an abandoned NYPD precinct and… well, exactly what you would expect to happen, has, in fact, happened. An amazing, amazingly dope show inside the former 21st Precinct building at 237 22nd Street.
• Yes, we know that NYC is dog crazy, but just how dog crazy? The American Veterinary Medical Association said that as of 2011, there were roughly 3 million dogs in the state of New York, and roughly 1.2 million of those dogs live in New York City.

• This is terribly sad. Jim “Mosaic Man” Power began tearing down his multicolored mosaics from lampposts around Astor Place Wednesday as a preemptive strike against the city, which had planned to remove the art, he said.
• Tens of thousands of protesters from across the United States are expected to fill the streets of Midtown Manhattan on September 21, including an artists alliance from the People’s Climate March, which has set up shop at the newly opened Mayday Bar and Community Arts Space in Bushwick.
• Gigantic elephant and birdcage murals cover the exterior of the triangle building at 970 Flushing Avenue, site of a soon-to-be-opened restaurant from the owners of nearby 983 Bushwick’s Living Room.
• Kickstarter gets a new neighbor on Kent Street – Caerus Group is in contract to buy one of the buildings at the former Eberhard Pencil Factory Greenpoint.

• The dog bone has been passed; say goodbye to “the best chili cookoffs, the best fried chicken-offs, corned beef and cabbage and the best damn Kentucky Derby party in the city” – after 17 years, the original Dog Bar, Brooklyn Ale House, has been sold.
• Gentrification, Inc.: Real estate developer Jamestown has perfected the “art of creating the next hot neighborhood,” and this how they do it.
• The rent is too damn high! Uma Thurman’s brother can’t afford the rent in Bed-Stuy.
• Office space in Brooklyn isn’t keeping up with the demands of high-growth tech tenants, and high-growth tech tenants are leaving. Here’s why.
• A worker upset at being told how to do his job stormed off a Wythe Avenue construction site and returned with a gun to shoot at his coworker, police said

A Bloody Mary garnished with, among other insanities, ANOTHER Bloody Mary. pic.twitter.com/J6GJkRizY4

— lisa nikolidakis (@lisanikol) August 8, 2014

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“It’s a dirtbag hipster tornado and it’s Brooklyn’s.” – video maker Mike Gambale

This just in from Mother Jones – it seems that a dust devil picked Sunday to visit McCarren Park:

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