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  • Brooklyn Industries is opening an art gallery in Williamsburg, on the site of their old retail location on Broadway and Driggs.
  • Oh no! Eric Brown has reached the shark-jumping point of his internet celebrity-- posing drunk and surly at a K-Y Jelly party.
  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: gas leak on East 4th Street, suspicious package on the Upper West Side, and two missing kids in Harlem.
  • Who doesn't love a classic New York City lost and found article? A list of things that turned up at the MTA's Lost Property Unit: dentures, Bibles, a bowling ball, a prosthetic leg. A list of things that did not: Slurpy, the goldfish, and an envelope filled with $40,000 in cash.
  • Frozen boats in the Hudson. Frozen trucks in Queens.
  • Why shoplift, when you can shopdrop? Oh right-- with the shoplifting, you get free stuff.
  • The Post continues its Dinapoli: Dumb as Bricks campaign. Today's article has a lot of anonymous people in the Comptroller's office saying he's totally unqualified for the job of Comptroller.
  • When a Bennigans in Hells Kitchen is turned into a Duane Reade, is that a step-down, or a step-up? Discuss.

Al's Grocery, by Dalton Rooney.

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By Jake Dobkin in on February 13, 2007 6:15 PM

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  • TomP

    Sorry for the multiple posts.

  • TomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • TomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • TomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • TomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • tomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • TomP

    Forget Hell's Kitchen -- I think it's fair to assume that Duane Rude and Bennigan's are the only franchises in Hell itself.

  • strawoman

    why are dudes that use the word hipster so dull? fashion is not equal to system, and anti-consumption is not the point of the video anyway.

  • straw woman

    why are dudes that use the word hipster so dull? fashion does not equal the system, and anti- consumption is not the point of the video anyway.

  • Toby

    I once lost a camera on the LIRR, and it was amazingly found, although it had some shots of some LIRR backrooms on the roll of film when I developed it.



    Now a fake Irish pub themed "casual dining" chain restaurant being replaced by a Duane Reade is a good thing. Given the large Irish-American population in the Greater New York, one could expect to find many more authentic Irish drinking and eating establshments that are not part of some chain based in Texas.



    Given the menu on their website, it appears that Bennigan's is doing some things that are purely evil, not natural and otherwise wrong with Guinness, such as glazing various foods such as burgers, chicken and shrimp with this fine beverage.



    Also, sticking Irish names on things like club sandwiches doesn't make them Irish fare. Oddly, they ignore centuries of Irish history and name a dessert after "Big Ben" in London, which is part of the complex of buildings where many decisions that screwed over the Irish people took place.



    So yeah, Duane Reade is a big step up for the space.



    As for Shelly Silver's pet Comptroler Dinapoli - do you really expect a competent person to come out of an Albany back room deal? Shelly Silver is starting to look more and more like someone who should be in Trenton and not Albany.

  • kil

    2007 Brooklyn Industries = 1997 Triple 5 soul. Seriously, It seems they took all of Triple 5 soul's old designs and reused them for Brooklyn Industries with cheaper fabric.

  • hipsterdropping

    Why is it that most anti-consumerism or consumer-awareness pranks are commited by fashion victims, hipsters and other people who are so obvioulsy whored-into the system themselves?

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