Bushwick: Some people think the local community board should maybe hold its meetings elsewhere than in the projects so as not to scare off the hood's new Central American and hipster contingents. [BushwickBK]
Lower Manhattan: Bargain store Syms, the longtime ego-stroker of shopping addicts who fancy themselves educated consumers, is buying property next to its Greenwich Street flagship, apparently to build a skyscraper. [NYP via Curbed]
Meatpacking District: Year for year since 1999 (Pastis opens!), exactly how the meatpacking district went from cow blood and tranny hookers to babes, bankers, and boutiques. [Sheckys via Vanishing NY]

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Borough Park: An indictment has been handed to the landlord who, in 2002, planted a bomb on a tenant who owed him $100,000. The bomb went off, the tenant lost a leg, and the landlord faces ten years in prison. And you're mad your apartment is never the right temperature. [NYDN]
Coney Island: Developer Thor Equities will make this the "Summer of Hope" at the amusement park, complete with the world's smallest horse and woman, largest alligator, and a 1,000-pound rat. Sounds like a typical Tuesday night out for us. [Curbed]
Downtown Brooklyn: There's a chance that members of MTV's The Real World shooting in the BK this summer may live in the new BellTell lofts on Willoughby Street. But the real question is this: Will they do shirtless Jell-O shots with Marty Markowitz? [Brooklyn Paper]

Brighton Beach: Brooklynites don't want Manattanites to know about a swank new Russian bana (bath) where they'll beat you with a bundle of birch leaves for $40. [Flatbush Pigeon via Curbed]
Clinton Hill: This is your big chance to be in a Talib Kweli video about abortion. You won't get paid, but you'll get free food. [Bed-Stuy Blog]
Long Island City: The owner of the graffiti-soaked 5 Pointz building wants taggers to paint all over it…until he sells it, that is. [Real Deal]

East Village: Obama's spray-painted puss is in the middle of a smackdown on Houston and Bowery between graffiti artists Shepard Fairey and MARTY. [Gothamist]
Gowanus: Nasty, toxic Gowanus Canal is where this artist dunks canvases, pulls them out months later, then displays them. See his stuff at a Park Slope gallery starting May 18. [NYP]
Greenpoint: Leave it to infrastructure watchdog Miss Heather to video the, uh, "shit juice" that bubbles out of the floor when you flush the toilet at LaGuardia Park. [Newyorkshitty]

Bushwick: OMG, how could we have missed that the hood's doing its own look book? Look at these cute little hipsters and their blasé remarks! [BushwickBK]
East New York: A bill passed the U.S. House last week that would preserve affordability at the 5,800-unit Starrett City, the nation's largest federally subsidized rental complex, a year after the government blocked a group of investors from buying up the place for $1.3 bil. [Brownstoner]
Gowanus: The Toll Brothers have launched a fancy community-outreach Website for the controversial, mixed-use development they're planning to build alongside the canal. [Curbed]

Upper West Side: The Jeffersons producer Norman Lear moves into 15 Central Park West, nabbing a $10-mil pad there and joining other celeb buyers Sting and Denzel, plus a lot of dull bankers. Um, weren't they supposed to move on up to the EAST Side? [Real Deal via Curbed]
Clinton: The Orchestra of St. Luke's aims to drop $35 million to turn half of a building on West 37th Street into its permanent home, plus rehearsal space for other orchestras. [NYT]
Coney Island: The city's scraped up $36 million to give Asser Levy Park a world-class amphitheater, to be designed by the same U.K. firm that did the newish Cemusa bus shelters. [Brownstoner]

Chinatown: Locals want efforts to stem outrageous development in the East Village and on the Lower East Side to be extended down here, too. [Villager]
Gramercy: This smart, young blogger still wears Uggs, loves JetBlue's new ad campaign, and is so glad that the Sean Bell protests were a flop, because Bell had to be doing something shady at that dive, right? Don't you wanna move to Gramercy just to be her friend? [Gramercy Cafe]
Greenpoint: Just in time for summer, the 'point gets its own swimming pool! And, fittingly, the water is, well, green. [Newyorkshitty]

Greenpoint: Someone's getting artsy in the subway to protest the oil spills here. [Gothamist]
East Village: Just a day after we linked to a bitchy new blog satirizing the newly gentrified Stuy Town, there comes word that, to boost rentals, 3,800 units have been given "condo-style" makeovers. Meawhile, check out the hatefully young, hip, and pretty people on Stuy Town's glossy marketing site. Please say they're models and not the complex's next wave! [Curbed]
Park Slope: Is this cozy-chair bus station for real? Plus, the F stop at Fourth and 9th's getting a face-lift. [Gowanus Lounge via all.growns.up]