Greenwich Village pad with odd see-through bathroom is up for grabs again

It’s back with the same weird glass bathroom, and the same asking price

Remember that apartment in the Silk Building on East 4th Street with the glass-encased bathroom, leaving no room for privacy to, um, do what nature compels us to? Well it’s back, still sporting that exposed bathroom and still looking for someone to rent it, quirky WC and all, for $8,000 a month.

The 1,200-square-foot one-bedroom loft is indeed an "extremely rare space," as its listing claims. Aside from that one-of-a-kind bathroom, the duplex apartment has nice (but far less shocking) amenities, including 11-foot high ceilings, seven huge windows with nearly panoramic views, and a working fireplace. The open kitchen is kitted out with appliances that are standard to fancy apartments these days—Miele, and the like. And just in case you can’t get past that bare-all bathroom, there’s another john with normal walls on the upper level.

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South Street Seaport will lose one of its historic ships

The ship will head to Germany, where it will receive a full restoration and a new home

Say goodbye to a South Street Seaport staple: After docking downtown for more than 40 years, the old sailing ship Peking will return to its home in Germany. This weekend, New Yorkers can visit the historical ship before it sails out of NYC for good.

The cash-strapped Seaport Museum negotiated a $30 million deal with the German government to return the Peking to Europe, where she will be restored and given a new home at the Stiftung Hamburg Maritim (Maritime Museum of Hamburg), reports the New York Post. In its place, New York City will get a different historic ship: Wavertree, which will receive a $13 million city-funded restoration before being returned to South Street Seaport, where it has ties dating back to around 1966.

The Peking was built in 1911 and served as a merchant ship between South America and Europe. It was used as a training ship during World War I and was briefly renamed the Arethusa. The Peking escaped a permanent trip to the scrapyard when a well-to-do navy lieutenant acquired her and brought the ship to the Seaport, where it’s resided ever since. Its last tour is slated for this Sunday at 4:15 p.m.

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The Ashland: Luxury Fort Greene Rentals

New Studio to 3 BR Homes Available Now*
Full Service, Robust Amenities, and Spectacular Views*
250 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217*

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West Village apartment with two rooftop pools asks $10,000/month

JDS's Lower East Side tower will be reviewed by City Planning

City Planning has now decided to review the application after another application for a nearby development was withdrawn

The Department of City Planning has decided to move forward with JDS Development Group’s application for its Lower East Side residential tower. DCP initially refused to review the application, citing lawsuits over the site, but apparently the department had a change of heart. The news, reported by Crain’s, comes on the heels of DCP rejecting a request from Lower East Siders to put the tower through the city’s land use review process.

Developers Gary Spindler and Roy Schoenberg recently withdrew an application for a nearby development, which is what impelled City Planning to review the application.

Spindler and Schoenberg are currently suing nonprofit groups Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Settlement Housing Fund over an alleged agreement they had with the nonprofits to purchase the site at 235 Cherry Street. In the suit, the developers claim that the nonprofits reneged on the deal so they could capitalize on a more profitable one with JDS. Spindler and Schoenberg are also suing JDS over the same parcel of land.

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Flatiron's Landmarked Serbian church may actually be saved

Church officials and city agencies are planning next steps to restore the landmark

The fate of the fire-ravaged Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in the Flatiron District has been up in the air for the past three months, but it finally seems like some good news has emerged for the 160-year-old church. Officials from the church have been meeting with city agencies over the past three months and are nearing an action plan to rebuild the landmark, Metro reports.

In the interim, the church is being fitted with some metal beams and having part of the overall structure reinforced, so that renovation work on the interiors can get underway later on with all the requisite approvals. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission will have the final say on what a redesigned church could like, and Metro reports that that process could take anywhere between six months to a year.

"The shoring of the 25th Street wall has been required as well as waterproofing,'' Lidija Nikolic, a church executive board member told Metro. "Shoring and bracing was broadened to the entire building as opposed to previous specification to only do the east and west walls. This should be completed by the first week of September.''

The building was largely gutted by a four-alarm fire that broke out on May 1 this year. It was later determined that the fire was accidentally caused by Easter candles. One of the major artifacts that did survive the fire however was a painting of St. Sava that was in the church office. While everything else in that room was mostly lost, the painting remained, and several congregants continue to pray under the painting today.

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Downtown Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse delays its opening

The theater has announced that it won’t be opening in August after all

The signs are plastered all over the subway announcing its August opening, but now the Alamo Drafthouse has divulged that they will not, in fact, be opening this month (h/t Reddit). Well, at least it’s not the first piece of false advertising New York City’s ever seen.

Citing unforeseen complications, the theater chain has indefinitely delayed the opening of its first New York City outpost in Downtown Brooklyn’s City Point development. "Getting a business open in New York is...complicated," a letter on the theater chain’s website reads. It looks like a more thorough explanation of why the grand opening is being pushed back, and to when, will have to wait.

Any explanation provided why the theater isn’t opening on time is speculation at this point. The theater received a conditional approval letter for its liquor license in late 2015, but the antiquated website for New York state’s Liquor Authority doesn’t appear to show that the venue, known for its food and beverage options, has been granted its full liquor license. It’s unclear whether this is the hold up. A representative for Alamo Drafthouse was not immediately available for comment.

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