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We told ourselves we were going to take a break from posting horror stories about the McCarren Park Pool after it’s first week of long lines, fights, theft, increased police presence, and feces. But the pool made news again hours ago when the NYPD had to use pepper spray against bathers before shutting down the site.

The Daily News has video of the incident, but not a whole lot of details. Apparently around 6:15 p.m. unruly teens began forcing their way into the pool, which was at capacity. Both lifeguards and police tried to stop them, to no avail. That’s when things got ugly. A police officer may have tried to forcibly remove a teen, causing his cohorts to “come rushing in.” The cop responded with pepper spray.

Three arrests were made and the incident gets added to the list of reasons why no one is happy about this pool.

Camp Bisco comes but once a year … BUT fret not, the founders of the festival The Disco Biscuits seemingly play 26 times over the course of the three day festival.

This year we were graced with three days of perfect weather and a beautiful late night torrential downpour which served as the only shower most of the festival goers cleansed themselves with. (more…)

J. Crew Coming.... What's Next? Outback Steakhouse?

Now Open: Blue Collar, a West Coast-Style Burger Stand From the Miller’s Tavern Team
Eater

The Well, Long Awaited Beer Garden Opens on Saturday in Bushwick
Bushwick Daily

The Making of those Cool Pre-Movie Reels at The Nitehawk
Brooklyn Based

Bushwick yoga studio serves cocktails and hot dogs after classes
Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Rejoices at G Train Extension Made Permanent
DNA

McCarren Park Pool: A 12 Step Guide
Greenpointers

Wythe Hotel Turns On the Lights
Curbed

The First Building Ever To Be Air-Conditioned Was In… Drum Roll… Williamsburg
City Room

Williamsburg May Get J Crew, Right Across From New Whole Foods
Gothamist

Lake Trout (via Eater)

Via Eater

Lake Trout promises to be more low-brow than the pair’s other spots Fette Sau and St. Anselm.

Hoping to make the place, “like any old crappy restaurant in middle America,” Lang says it will serve crab cakes, chicken wings, corn on the cob, and shrimp, all fried. The lake trout sandwich, the restaurant’s namesake that hails from his hometown of Baltimore, is a fried whiting fish fillet with Velveeta cheese sauce, lettuce, tomato, and tartar sauce. The 14-seat restaurant will not have bottled craft beers, but rather cans of Genesee Cream Ale, Ballantine, and original Coors. “I’m not much into all the fancy shit,” Lang said. Lake Trout will be open daily for dine-in and take out.

Lake Trout
160 Havemeyer St., Williamsburg

Lower Dens

Baltimore’s Lower Dens have packed up their guitars, and this time around, their synthesizers, for their first headlining tour this summer, to support their excellent sophomore LP, Nootropics.  Nootropics injects the atmospheric shoegaze of 2010’s superb Twin Hand Movement with a dose of late 70s post-punk and krautrock from the likes of Idiot-­era Iggy Pop and Kraftwerk (namely, Radioactivity), resulting in one of the strongest releases of 2012.  The LP is the second album in a conceptual four-album cycle, and the tour includes a stop across the bridge at Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night (tickets still available here.)  My Social List caught up with front-woman Jana Hunter beforehand for quick chat regarding the thematic content of her albums, yoga and the challenges of playing multiple instruments in a live setting.

Peter Rittweger: I’ve read that you’ve become quite a yoga enthusiast, at times, pulling over at highway rest stops to do your routine when there isn’t a studio in the area. “Nootropics” are, by definition, drugs that enhance some cognitive function, similar to the impact yoga or other meditative rituals can have on the psyche.  Do you feel that this interest influenced the content of the album or at least the album title?

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Despite getting ‘slightly’ interrupted by a fire on Pier 17, last Saturday’s 4Knots Festival ran more or less smoothly. The show was stopped for about 40 minutes, causing set list cuts and delays for the remaining 3 bands on the main stage. At least it wasn’t cancelled altogether as the pier at one point was partially evacuated and the PA system taken down. Be that as it may, the delays in combination with prior obligations made us miss Archers of Loaf’s headlining set. However, we caught Crocodiles and The Drums. Both of which played to a large and very enthusiastic crowd. Videos are below.

Come Out & Play is a FREE annual festival of street games that turns New York City into a giant playground. In 2012 Come Out & Play returns to Lower Manhattan in partnership with the River to River Festival with the games starting tonight at @Seaport Gallery and continuing on to Saturday on Governors Island.  Go to their website for a detailed schedule of events and locations.