The Down-Low: Bill Murray Tends Bar, Red Hook Subway Dreams, And More

The Down-Low is our new weekly round-up of stories in our neck of the woods as well as other curiosities all over Brooklyn.

–Good luck getting on the guest list when Bill Murray pours drinks at his son’s bar in Greenpoint. [Eater]

–Mayor de Blasio tells homeless shelter protestors to camp out at Gracie Mansion instead of Commission Steven Banks’ Windsor Terrace home.  [DNAinfo]

–25-year-old Jack Leahy is paying for $400 for monthly rent in Williamsburg. But when you see how large his living space is, you’ll wonder if he’s overpaying. [New York Times]

–A former Port Authority boss calls for the construction of a subway line between Manhattan and Red Hook. [Daily News]

–Think city streets are unsafe? The design of cul-de-sacs could be making suburbia more dangerous. [CityLab]

–Green-Wood Cemetery’s DeWitt Clinton award winner Geoffrey Ward described his ancestor, swindler Ferdinand Ward, as “the Bernie Madoff of his day — a man without a single redeeming characteristic whatever.” [Brooklyn Eagle]

–Two Downtown Brooklyn groups have announced an initiative that will help the new development-heavy neighborhood maintain its culture. [Curbed]