Mind if we take a rare Summer Friday and knock off a bit early? See y'all Monday.
· Claim: Roosevelt Island's Main Street is city's most depressing street [HuffPo]
· Tonight, Roosevelt Island gets a new restaurant!!!! [Roosevelt Islander]
· Car crashes into new Joseph Leonard restaurant in Village [RS via Eater]
· Keith McNally taps SF phenom chef for upcoming Bowery pizzeria [Grub Street]
· StuyTown gripewire: are more major capital improvement fees coming? [LL]
· Extremes, a block apart on The Bowery [Restless]
· Flushing Meadows' Unisphere now sporting grass [NYDN via Gothamist]
· Beat It: city wants Michael Jackson party out of Fort Greene Park [The Local]
· Craziest illegal conversion ever... of a swimming pool [Curbed LA]