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City Council Passes Bill to Make Public Transit a Less Taxing Experience
(Photo: Ilyse Liffreing) The City Council passed a bill yesterday that would allow New Yorkers to set aside pre-tax pay for public transportation, potentially saving the average commuter hundreds of...
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Some Sorry Parks and Playgrounds Just Netted Millions in Fix-Up Funds
(Photo courtesy of NYC Parks) The De Blasio administration pulled off a regular slam dunk with this one — yesterday the Mayor’s office announced the allocation of $130 million to improving some of the...
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Crummy News: DCKT Contemporary Will Close This Month
Yesterday, when Robert Crumb’s impending visit prompted us to mention Sophie Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s current show at DCKT Contemporary, we had no idea the exhibit would be the gallery’s last....
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The Lucas Brothers and ‘Pete and Pete’ Will Literally Bro Down This Friday
Two very different pairs of brothers are making an appearance at the next installment of Late Night Basement, Chris Rose’s monthly live talk show. The Lucas Bros., as you know from reading this site,...
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Domino Rents Will Start at $553; Serial Bank Robber in the East Village
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Police are searching for the suspect in this 12-second video, who allegedly shot and killed 22-year-old Bobby Roberts outside the Bushwick Houses project on September 25. [DNA...
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Nevermind Ghostbusters 3, the Film Industry Is Still Spooked About Women
Sure, everyone’s psyched for the all-female Ghostbusters, but last Sunday, as part of the Bushwick Film Festival, a panel of women in the industry came together and agreed on something scary: there...
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Pig Faithful Congregate at Their New Church of Pork, Arrogant Swine
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Last night Arrogant Swine, Tyson Ho’s hotly anticipated beer garden and “Eastern Carolina-style barbecue” joint, opened for business in Bushwick. And the bloody thirsty came out...
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Lena Dunham’s Lowline-Print Dress Fetched $3K at Last Night’s ‘Anti-Gala’
Spike Jonze and Lena Dunham. The Charlie Chaplin hat was also auctioned off. (Photos courtesy of Andrew Einhorn and Jammi York) Last time the Lowline threw an “anti-gala” (i.e., a gala but cooler)...
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Mario Correa On Tail! Spin!, His Raunchy Political Play Starring Rachel Dratch
Mario Correa (via Twitter) DC native Mario Correa had never even written a play before Tail! Spin!, but the sexually charged political production starring former SNL funny woman Rachel Dratch is...
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King Bee Is Serving Acadian Fare and a ‘Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar’...
(Photo: Daniel Krieger) Ok, we admit we had to resort to googling to figure out what Acadian cooking is– turns out that, like the people it was created by, it’s proto-Cajun. The menu at King Bee, which...
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Barcade Has Powered Up On St. Marks Place
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Barcade officially opened just a few hours ago on St. Marks, and by 5 p.m. the place was already bumping and bleeping. The new location is nothing short of brilliant – Barcade is...
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Developer Pays $53M For Bushwick Properties; Ludlow Street’s Facelift
(Photo: Scott Lynch) According to paperwork filed yesterday, developer Simon Dushinsky spent $53 million for 12 residential properties along Bushwick Avenue between Montieth and Forrest Streets. [The...
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Scahill, Greenwald, and Poitras On Obama, ISIS and New Snowden Doc CITIZENFOUR
Scahill, Poitras and Greenwald. (Photos: Sam Blum) We don’t often see Pulitzer-winning cavaliers of press freedom infiltrate the depths of Bushwick, but last night the infamous trio behind The...
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On 14th Street, Total Strangers Get a Chance to Slow Dance
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I Wet My Pants at Blackout, Before Even Going In
The author. In casual conversation I usually start off describing Blackout as being “a haunted house type situation that includes a lot of naked wieners,” but I understand how that doesn’t paint the...
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Bank Robber’s Tell-All, Copycat Horror, And A Terrifying Take on Genesis
Another week, another film list. Check out our picks for screenings happening this weekend and beyond. Evolution of a Criminal Darius Clark, a filmmaker who’s all grown up, embarks on an exploration...
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‘It’s Not Just Asses’: Untame, a Men’s Mag Created By Women, Launches Tomorrow
art by Will Sheldon Untame is a new erotica mag for the thinking man (or woman) from the perspective of the female gaze, but it’s not just a ton of butt-centric photographs of nice looking ladies....
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Tonight at the Hall of Science, Lasers and Libations Pay Tribute to the...
After reading a 1,000+ word description of tonight’s bash at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, we’re still not sure how exactly it will relate to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, except that...
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Greenpoint Gets a Jazz Club; Buy Zosia Mamet’s Bushwick Building
(Photo: Scott Lynch) On East 14th Street, the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office—which shuttered in February—will be demolished along with the neighboring single-story building that once housed Stuyvesant...
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A ‘Farm to Fork Eatery’ Brings Ratatouille Tabouli to East Williamsburg
(Photos: Kaitlyn Mitchell) Yes, A.W.O.L. is a “Farm to Fork Eatery,” but the East Williamsburg newcomer isn’t just for those pretentious foodies from Portlandia. True to its name, which stands for All...
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