• Shaka, dudes: looks like Roberta’s will be hitting the beach, Rockaway Beach, that is. DNA Info reports that Bushwick’s wood-oven pizza pushers have signed a lease at Beach 96th Street, just blocks away from the erstwhile Rippers, their snack shack colab with Williamburg’s Meat Hook.
• Liza de Guia’s documentary series, Food Curated, is all about the city’s small-batch food producers. The New York Times has picked it up as a weekly feature, and it starts today. Watch the video of Sonya Samuels putting together her kickass, fruit-based habanero sauce, Bacchanal Pepper Sauce.
• Heads up, Greenpoint! “Young gun restaurateur Jason Wang is expanding his family’s wildly popular cheap eats chain Xi’an Famous Foods to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.”
• Like spring and Godzilla, the waterfront feast known as Smorgasburg returns. This year’s whopping lineup of 100 vendors at East River State Park debuts newcomer Fanny Moy, with LA-style seafood tostadas of fish, octopus, shrimp, and fresh, local vegetables. Smorgasburg Kent Ave at No. 7th Street, Saturdays, 11-6

Frantic search for missing Bushwick man. [Gothamist]

Look at these NYC storefronts pre- and post-gentrification, from the project “The Storefront:10 Years Later”, by photographers James and Karla Murphy. [CurbedNY]

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• Seminal and highly influential 1970s NYC band Television is featured as Classic Album Sundays presents “Marquee Moon” at the Panther Room this afternoon.
• North Brooklyn Parents Oppose Standardized Testing for Young Students.
• Nobody’s 100% sure yet, but a spring ‘Nor’easter bomb’ could bring a giant snowstorm to basically anywhere along the East Coast on Tuesday.
• Brooklyn Vegan was so wowed by La Femme at SXSW that tonight he presents the band’s “crazed psychedelic pop with a krautrock/coldwave backbone and an affinity for surf rock…a sound magnifique”, at Glasslands. The show has been sold-out for weeks, but Brooklyn Vegan has compiled a page of videos, including a full-album stream, so grab a bottle of vin and enjoy them in the comfort of your own maison. Happy Sunday!

Here are twenty minutes of Super8 film of New York in the 1970s, by amateur filmmaker Irving Schneider.

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• Guinness pulls sponsorship of New York parade over gay ban.
• Soaring Brooklyn rents have tenants searching for more affordable apartments — in Manhattan.
• Near the corner of North 5th Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, there lies a special place…how Catbird came to dominate the cool-girl jewelry world.

• A baby seal washed ashore along Newtown Creek in Greenpoint Sunday, and sunned itself before returning to the water.
• Heavily armed Homeland Security agents raided East Williamsburg early Sunday morning.
• On Locations Tours is negotiating with HBO for Greenpoint neighborhood tours featuring settings from the hit tv show Girls.
• Beacon’s Closet to reopen in Greenpoint this Saturday.
• Meet leech therapist Andrew Plucinski.