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Just after news of Max Brenner's demise from the EV, the signage is off like a prom dress and workers are already gutting the place of all things bald and chocolate:


On the license notice announcing a new Chipotle for the former Food Bar in Chelsea, someone has scrawled: "another F...g McDonald's? There's one right up the street!" Chipotle, McDonald's, it's really all the same:


Cinema Nolita closes on Mulberry. [BB]

Make a last visit to the lovely and lost Peter's grocery. [FNY]

Bloomberg deports homeless from NYC, begins construction on giant velvet rope to keep rabble out of Manhattan. [NYT]

Sign the petition to save Rudy's, one of the last real dives in Times Square. [LM]

Looking back at a landmark countercultural theatre on Ave B. [EVG]

Another skinny building has been revealed--the glass box that is replacing the more interesting 61 Fifth. [Curbed] Read about the old building here and here.

In Glover's Mistake, "an archetype emerges: the disaffected blogger, 'searching not for things to love but a place to put his rage.'" [NYer]

Novelist Michael Idov on pretend BoHo businesses in NYC: "This is not a real commercial culture. A certain class of people decided to play entrepreneurs and decided to play restaurateurs, and their friends decided to play along as customers." [TONY]

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