Afternoon Links: Giant Arm Statue to Go Up on Tillary Street

Artist makes a studio out of a Corten steel shipping container, a 20-foot limb will appear downtown, a beloved gay bar relocates and reopens, and more afternoon news.

In the News
City Plans Two-Story Bronze Arm Statue for Tillary Street [BK Paper]
Red Hook Is Home to the World’s First Waterproof Art Studio [BK Mag]
Murder at 248 President Street (1916) [Brownstone Detectives]
Erica Weiner and the Uncertain Future of Brooklyn’s Indie Scene [Racked]
Excelsior, Gay Bar in Brooklyn, Reopens [NYT]

Comment of the Day

I love Sunset Park and its relative lack of chain retail, and the brownstones and limestone blocks particularly around the 59th Street R&N stop, and its mom and pop shops, and of course Chinatown, and I hope the neighborhood remains Starbucks-free, but this pending touristy roastery near the waterfront, not in the residential part, seems harmless enough.

— elizabethJane in ​​Morning Links: Show of Support for City’s Plans to Seize Coney Lots Via Eminent Domain

[Fulton Street in Fort Greene | Photo: Mary Hautman]