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]

Astoria: At the Queensview Co-op, squirrels are chewing vehicle wires and getting into homes, but wildlife activists say they should be deterred (chimney caps, anyone?), not trapped and killed. [Queens Crap]
Belmont: People thought that Jose, the Bronx River beaver named for Bronx state representative Jose Serrano, was dead. But telltale new tooth marks on a tree here at the zoo suggest otherwise. [NYDN]
Brooklyn Heights: Look at the scaffolding going up for one of those artsy waterfall installations for this summer. We thought it was for a really skinny new waterfront luxury condo! [Gowanus Lounge]

Chelsea: Curbed goes up on the semi-constructed High Line, where vegetation will be planted prior to the elevated parkway's fall/winter opening. These pics are cool, thank you, Curbed! [Curbed]
Dumbo: Two West Coast finance guys (lovers? Brothers? Bachelor buds?) just put down more than $7 mil to buy the penthouse in the Clock Tower Condos, breaking the record for Brooklyn's priciest condo. The property had been on the market since 2006, when it listed for $10.5 mil. [Real Deal via DumboNYC]
Park Slope: Mommies with strollers are plowing down the childless with impunity on the sidewalks, and the childless are cowering at home, terrified to say anything about it. Or so goes the latest cry for help on the topic. [Brownstoner via Slackjaw]

Atlantic Yards: Behold these dueling visions of the future Atlantic Yards: Gehry's dramatic, all-promises fulfilled futurescape or the Post's stadium and office tower only surrounded by acres of parking lots where homes were demolished. Which will it be? [Curbed]
Dumbo: The remake of the seventies subway-heist classic The Taking of Pelham 123, which will star John Travolta and Denzel Washington, shoots here tomorrow. [DumboNYC]
East Village: The old Italianate building at 62 East 4th Street used to house Andy Warhol's gay-porn theater, but why are the top three floors empty today? [Gothamist]

Brooklyn Heights: Why'd the chicken cross the street? To get to James Weir Floral Company, the oldest business on Montague, which is moving…across the street! Get it? [Brooklyn Eagle via Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Park Slope: Slopies wonder if they'll be portrayed as glamorous, svelte, child-neglecting, adulterous hedonists in the possible TV show based on the hood. They can hope. [Curbed]
South Bronx: This summer, the floating swimming pool's coming here, home of the only community board in the city without a pool. Everybody on the 6 and into the SoBro pool! [Brooklyn Paper]

Coney Island: What is it about Grand Theft Auto's IV's desolately wintry "Firefly Island," with its "Johnson's" hot dogs, parked school buses, "Firefly Theater," and "Beach Gate," that feels so familiar? Oh, duh! It's really Coney! [Kinetic Carnival]
Cooper Square: I am a wee wittle two-hundwed-year-old house tewwibwy afwaid that the big new gwassy hotel towewing over me is going to fall on my wittle, wittle head. [Lost NY]
Clinton: When Madison Square Garden said it was staying put recently, the deal to redo Penn Station and MSG kind of fell apart. But now developers Vornado and Tornado want to lure the stadium back by asking the state to back a $900 billion loan to get it built. [NYO]