[UPDATE] Between the temperature suddenly dropping about 25 degrees and DNAInfo’s eyewitness report of actual snowflakes manifesting in the skies, we’re ready and willing to believe that it truly is snowing outside…except we haven’t seen any real proof of it yet. “I can reliably report that snow or asbestos flakes or styrofoam fragments or something resembling snow is now swirling in the NYC sky,” tweeted RGA. Anyone have any photographic proof? [ more › ]

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[UPDATE] To The People Claiming It’s Snowing Right Now: Pics Or It Didn’t Happen

          After a decade of brisk business on the north side of Williamsburg, the Bedford Avenue location of the popular Bagel Store has moved on down to the neighborhood’s Southside . The smaller location opened two days ago on the corner of South 4th Street and Bedford Avenue, and owner Scott Rossillo tells us he’s still “doing old fashioned handmade bagels with state of art equipment.” Rossillo also says he feels like he’s “free” after over a decade at the old location, which is owned by local real estate mogul Yehuda Backer, whom Rossillo calls “a liar.” [ more › ]

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Popular Williamsburg Bagel Store Relocates Down Bedford To Southside

Last month, we reported the sad news that much-loved DJ Jonathan Toubin, known for his New York Night Train soul-music dance parties, was critically injured in a horrific freak accident in Portland, Oregon . Since then, dozens of shows in New York and a tour across the country have been launched to raise funds for Toubin, who remains hospitalized in Portland. Tomorrow night, the nationwide tour is coming to the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and it looks to be a doozy. [ more › ]

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Giant Benefit Party For Horrifically Injured New York DJ Jonathan Toubin

The NYPD says they have arrested a taxi driver accused of raping a passenger who passed out in Williamsburg earlier this year. Gurmeet Singh, 40, was charged with rape, robbery, menacing and sex abuse . [ more › ]

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Cops Arrest Taxi Driver Suspected Of Williamsburg Rape

        Instead of just piling up the dead Christmas tree bodies on the street like so many Romanovs, area artist MIchael Neff has gathered up some of the fallen evergreen soldiers and honored them with a fitting tribute: hanging from the underside of the BQE in Williamsburg. The ingenious installation can be found where Metropolitan Avenue crosses North 6th Street. This is conveniently located not far from Union Pool, making jumping and tackling floating Christmas trees the perfectly ironic end to any evening. Here’s video of the trees in action: [ more › ]

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Video: Dead Christmas Trees Lynched Under BQE, For Art

Two months after Zuccotti Park was forcibly evicted by the NYPD, the metal barricades and constant security presence remain, making the space less like a public park and more like a frozen zone. Today the NYCLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NLG fired off a letter [ pdf ] to Department of Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri asking him to “ensure that Zuccotti Park is open and accessible to all members of the public on an equal basis.” [ more › ]

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NYCLU Demands City Loosen Zuccotti Park’s Restrictions

Unemployment may be down but it certainly isn’t gone. And one Bed-Stuy salon is doing its part to pitch in. In the vein of the pay-what-you-can Greek restaurant in Williamsburg comes Donna’s Hair Salon in Bed-Stuy , which is offering job seekers free haircuts. [ more › ]

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Free Haircuts In Bed-Stuy For Job Hunters

                          And here we have One Stop Beer Shop , a casual new bar/growler shop that just opened on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. (Greenburg?) If you prefer to be by yourself, you can get your beer to go in one of their customized 64 ounce growlers, choosing from their nice selection of 15 draft beers—which includes a non-alcoholic kombucha from Brooklyn Kombucha—as well as Van Steenberge (Belgium), Sly Fox (Pennsylvania), and Dogfish Head (Delaware). Or pull up a chair and broaden your choices from their menu of 100 beers, or if you really want to go crazy try one of their special beer cocktails. [ more › ]

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One Stop Beer Shop: Growlers, Beer Cocktails, And Grub In Williamsburg

Bank robberies are up in the city (the number of armed bank robberies went up 69 percent to 44 last year!), a fact apparently furthered by the recent release of a career criminal whom the FBI thinks is already back at it . Jack Mannino, dubbed the “Seven Second Bandit” when he was busted in 1999 for his lightning fast heists , was released from prison in July and is now wanted in relation to a bank robbery in Bensonhurst last week. [ more › ]

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FBI: Recently Released Bank Robber Is Robbing Banks Again

Dolly Parton , who is turning a young 66-years-old this month, is suddenly everywhere—she’s coming to the big screen on January 13th in A Joyful Noise with Queen Latifah, and after that she’s going to bring her musical, which she’s writing herself, to Broadway! But it’s not her Broadway debut, as Parton also helped write songs for the 9 to 5 musical back in 2009. [ more › ]

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Dolly Parton And Her Life Story Are Coming To Broadway, People!