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East Village: An anonymous donor has given $20 mil to restore and basically save long-endangered cause célèbre St. Brigid's Church on Avenue B. And can we also just say, how awesome is this Frank O'Hara poem about the church? [Vanishing NY]
Flatiron: Dutch rock-star architect Rem Koolhaas (the Prada store!) is moving his office here and designing a condo tower with "zigzag units" on Madison Square Park. [Curbed]
Manhattan Beach: If you go to Kingsborough Community College way out here in Brooklyn, you will have your own beach! But if you go for a dip during the school year, you'll get in trouble. [NYT]
Randalls Island: A judge says that the city can continue building ball fields here, though she previously nixed the deal in which a bunch of private schools would pay for the work to gain prime access to the fields. So now, to quote Curbed, "Who's paying? Unclear." [Curbed]
Prospect Heights: Developer Bruce Ratner is looking for a tenant to rename Miss Brooklyn now that the Gehry-designed centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards project has been shrunk back and redesigned. Guess that working title "B1" isn't lyrical enough. [No Land Grab]
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