*Everyday Chatter

At Partners & Spade, where they sell "conceptual products" like a Harlem beach bag and exclusive $500 axes to Manhattanites, the window display asks East Village burglars to "please return our laptops and iPods to the 9th precinct." Thank you very much:


A brawl erupts on Avenue A. [NMNL]

Guss' Pickles leaves Orchard Street. [BB]

Meet Brooklyn's new poet laureate. [NYT]

More fratastic hijinks for the EV. [EVG]

Discovering an old theater in Washington Heights. [GLF]

The high crime of putting your feet on an empty subway seat. [NYT]

See Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in conversation. [Pen]

The old doorways of South Street Seaport. [GVDP]

Another Saturday night of thumbing noses at CB3 stipulations. [Blah]