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Ben Wallers Says ‘Goodbye’ to Death By Audio, More Surprises in Store
The Rebel (Ben Wallers) at Death By Audio on Monday night. (Photo: Matthew Hodges) On Monday night, Death By Audio hosted the legendary Ben Wallers (aka The Rebel), or the bloke behind twangy punk...
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A Designer Boutique and Espresso Bar Brings a Little Bit of Barney’s to Bed-Stuy
Inside Sincerely, Tommy (Photo: Nicole Disser) A brand new, shiny anomaly has opened its doors on Tompkins Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Sincerely, Tommy. And yes, the designer clothing and furniture boutique,...
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A ‘Handsome and Ornate’ Bushwicker Gets Landmarked
Yesterday was a day of major kudos for Bushwick: not only did Blanca earn a couple of Michelin stars but the Doering-Bohack House, at 1090 Greene Avenue, was designated a landmark. According to the...
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D’ja See Jason Schwartzman On East 9th Today?
(Photo: Ilyse Liffreing) A day after Jared Leto graced Bushwick with his presence yesterday, another actor/rocker, Jason Schwartzman, was in the East Village today. A source spotted the indie moppet on...
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Domino Developers Tell Naysaying Neighbors to Expect a Pool and Park
(Rendering courtesy of Shop Architects/Two Trees Management) It’s safe to assume that the relationship between Williamsburg residents and Two Trees, the developers responsible for the Domino Sugar...
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Barcade Opens in EV Next Week; Free Outdoor Movie in Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police announced yesterday that 14-year-old Jamancy Vadon, the Alphabet City resident who went missing on September 19, has been found in good health. [Town & Village Blog]...
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Lee Ranaldo Has an Art Show; Kim and Thurston Have Some Show Shows
A sketch by Lee Ranaldo If you were looking for an excuse to sport your $100 designer Sonic Youth t-shirt, here are a few of them. You may have missed Lee Ranaldo’s show at Union Pool last week, but if...
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Siempre Garden Issues a Cry For Help as Developer Moves In
Siempre Verde garden on the Lower East Side. (Photo: Siempre Verde) In 2012, a blighted sliver of land between two buildings at 181 Stanton Street was transformed into a blooming green space by the...
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Brooklyn Artists Take Over the Brooklyn Museum
(Photo: Nicole Disser) There’s stuff to blow your mind for days on end at Crossing Brooklyn: Art From Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, which opens to the public at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, October...
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Lena Dunham Thinks Catcalls Are a Reason to Love New York
(Photo: Anna Silman) Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is written with just the sort of unabashed honesty and self-depricating wit you’d expect from the voice of her generation — or at...
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Here’s Why Yaffa Cafe Had to Close, and One Last Look Inside
(Photo: Nicole Disser) First the backyard went, then the restaurant was ordered to close by the health department, and finally, as if struck by a hellish lightning bolt straight from the hand of Ayn...
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Bushwick Coffee Shop Owner Denies Anti-Semitism; Inside a $6.5M Firehouse
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Michael Avila—owner of The Coffee Shop in Bushwick—is being accused of anti-Semitism because of a rant against Jewish landlords who “function via greed and dominance.” He says he...
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Send in the Sad, Bad, Singing, Stripping Clowns
Alas, the New York Clown Theatre Festival just passed, but there are still plenty of opportunities to see life through the eyes of a clown. Or at least, catch a “clown peep show.” Pig & Khao...
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These Food Fests Are Turning the LES Into One Big Buffet
The Grub Street Food Festival. It’s late in the season and you’ve run through all the vendors at Smorgasburg, so where to graze next? Fill up and get down at these upcoming Lower East Side food fests....
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Glamorama! A Bowie Ball and a Roxy Music Tribute
(Photo: Amy Lombard) With Halloween coming up, it’s time to respect the musical visionaries for whom — to paraphrase Ministry — every day was Halloween. Wig out at these upcoming tributes to some...
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I Survived ‘Nightmare: New York,’ the NYC-Themed Haunted House
(Photo: Michael Blase) I am terrified of haunted houses because they usually include the things that I find to be most terrifying: People leaping out from around corners, people screaming something in...
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Susan Sarandon at Rocky Horror, Revenge of Walrus Man, and Nazi Zombies Return
Hey! There’s tons of stuff happening this week in the moving-picture world. New York Super Week IFC is screening a smorgasbord of stuff this upcoming week in anticipation of NYC Comicon including...
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Someone Finally Psychoanalyzed NYC’s Wackiest Street Performer
You may not know his name(s) but you definitely know Matthew Silver, aka the Great Performer, aka the Village Idot, aka the Man in the White Dress, aka this year’s Mr. Lower East Side. He’s the...
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Manhattan Is Getting a Matcha Cafe, Too
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) When MatchaBar opened in Williamsburg last month, it touted itself as the only matcha cafe in the city. But it won’t be for long. B+B contributor Jenna Marotta tipped us off to...
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Petition Asks Domino Developers to Chill With the Weekend Construction
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A meeting on Tuesday regarding the impending Domino development on Williamsburg’s waterfront was a reminder to residents just how close construction looms. There was the usual...
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