Oddly enough, this iconic ODB mural is not on the map. via Flickr user Hobo Matt

Brooklyn has a long and proud hip-hop tradition, everyone knows that. But aside from downloading buying Notorious B.I.G. albums and blasting them loudly, how can you pay the proper respects to the people who dominated the game so hard for so long? Well, you could always go by where they hung out and grew up and leave a little incense shrine. And now thanks to Fuse’s hip hop map of Brooklyn, that idea can be a reality. A ridiculous and strange reality. (more…)

The Rockaways are getting a hell of a lot of dunes [Daily News]
This kid dresses better than we do [Fucked in Park Slope]
The G train killed somebody [DNA Info]
Our Lady of Refuge gets its groove pipe organ back [Ditmas Park Corner]
If you missed it, how Matt Harvey lost his no-hitter [NY Mag]
Coney Island gets long-awaited shoe chain [Amusing the Zillion]
Subsidized apartments for the almost-rich [New York Observer]
This is just a great bloody mary recipe [Romenesko]

Bike and bite, y’all. (via flickr user marsavic)

Few things represent our modern city culture like brunch, bicycles, Brooklyn and the ability to siphon money from tourists who want to experience “Real New York,” so it makes sense that this sort of thing exists:  a Brooklyn-based bike tour company is now offering a “Brunch in Brooklyn” tour, so you can experience all the wonders of midday breakfast dining for just $65 a person. What a deal! (more…)

For whatever reason, he’s not invited

“The rent is rather extravagant!” goes the rallying cry of one of the city’s mayoral candidates. Or, something like that. And while most sane humans agree with that sentiment, the question is always, “What’s there to be done?” Everyone running for mayor has a plan for the problem, or we hope to God that they do, and a few of them will be sharing their ideas at yet another mayoral forum next week. This one at least, is focused solely on affordable housing though. (more…)

Get your summer fridge humping in, thanks to Canal Bar

If you’ve seen the many lists of outdoor summer movies we’ve been sharing in the past few weeks, you’d have noticed something: a dangerous lack of Wet Hot American Summer. Fortunately, with the list they’ve just released for their own backyard movie series, Gowanus’ own Canal Bar (270 3rd Avenue) has remedied that situation, and plans to show many, many more movies. (more…)

Nice view. via New York Observer

We’ve all presumably been there: you’re supposed to meet friends somewhere that doesn’t have outlets, and your phone battery is making its final stand. Then it dies and you and your friend spend the next 40 minutes trying to find each other. There’s got to be a better way! AT&T is trying to make sure there is now, with a series of free solar-powered phone charging stations in few New York parks, including four Brooklyn parks, according to the Observer. (more…)

Jacques Torres will be there to talk chocolate

Brooklyn’s food industry is red hot. Like, Guatemalan insanity pepper hot. So what better time than now to feature the thriving restauranteurs and food scene-makers in a trade show devoted entirely to food? Lucky for us, we get just that next Wednesday with Brooklyn Eats, going down at the Pfizer Building on Flushing Avenue. (more…)

Why the L train broke [WNYC]
Bougie hotel coming to the Rockways [Gothamist]
Wall Street Journal won’t drop this “bike lobby” thing [ANIMAL]
Bid on The ultimate hipster prop: Hemingway’s typewriter [BOOKTRYST]
Greenpoint may get bike share earlier than planned [Daily News]
Looters gonna loot [DNA Info]
BK metalhead tweens give no fucks about being bullied [Gawker]
Maybe let’s stop buying diamonds [Business Insider]
Ray Kelly is fine with the government listening to every phone call [NYP]

Get on the bus. via nycbeachbus Instagram

Fort Tilden might be out of commission for the rest of the summer, but that doesn’t mean the Rockaways are totally off-limits this season. Jacob Riis and Rockaway Beach will be open for business, and the Rockabus is already shuttling people back and forth from Williamsburg, Grand Army Plaza and the Lower East Side. But it looks like the hipster highway shuttle’s gonna have more competition than the A train this summer, because there’s another Rockaway bus in town, and it’s cheaper. (more…)

It’s time to drum!

Like we’ve said before, we’re huge fans of Andrew WK, even if our coverage of him has usually been skeptical. But, he loves to party, we love to party, our interests pretty much fall in line. And his newest stunt, sitting outside in Times Square and drumming for a full 24 hours starting tomorrow, is something we can definitely get behind. (more…)