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The Latest ‘Looking For a Girlfriend’ Parody Is Truly Goatesque
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the infamous “Looking For a Girlfriend” flyer warped into an ad, but who cares: this wacky version by the peeps at Fair Folks & a Goat totally succeeded in...
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Have a Look Around Westside Market, Now Open and Dishing Out Free Food
Westside Market (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Bevies Turkey meatballs, chicken meatballs, chicken breast with teriyaki sauce Baked sesame salmon, steamed stuffed tilapia, grilled salmon, etc. Soups and...
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Brooklyn Subway Stations Won’t Get WiFi For Another Year
(Photo: Natalie Rinn) Governor Cuomo — fresh off of plugging his new book — announced today that 40 more NYC subway stations have been equipped with wifi, bringing the grand total to 76. Unfortunately...
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Greenpoint’s First Apothecary and Juice Bar Serves ‘Brain Cocktails’
(Photos courtesy of Botica & Co.) The East Village still has plenty of hippie-dippy destinations for herbal healing (Flower Power celebrated 20 years in April) but what about the fine people of...
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Bushwickers March Against Gentrification; Lower East Sider Against the Lowline
(Photo: Scott Lynch) This week, 100-plus Bushwickers participated in an anti-gentrification march led by the group Make the Road New York [MRNY]. [The Brooklyn Paper] A cyclist who suffered a broken...
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Tonight: A ‘Scandalous Dance Party’ For a New Book of Sex Club Photos With...
Yesterday the Times assured us that — somehow — live peep shows still exist, calling them “a glimpse of Times Square’s sordid past.” Well, if you want to glimpse the sordid past without being seen...
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McGolrick Park’s Gritty Playground Is Getting a Million-Dollar Makeover
(Photo: McGolrick Park Neighborhood Alliance Facebook) As the Mayor’s office allocates $130 million to improving neglected parks, one Greenpoint mother on a mission is celebrating the $1.3 million that...
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WNYC’s Anna Sale Talks Death, Sex, Money and Tacos at Santos Anne
(Photos: Phil Provencio) If a French-Mexican fusion restaurant sounds weird, that’s only because it is. The thing is, the eclectic, dark but innocuous Santos Anne is weirdly charming. What really makes...
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Tonight, An Evening of Scumball Art at Scumbags & Superstars
Everyday is Halloween at this shop (Photo: Scumbags & Superstars) Scumbags & Superstars is a newish Bushwick storefront that opened up this summer and stocks the brand’s own horror, skate...
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Can Starbucks Win the Hearts and Minds of Williamsburgers With Yarn Art?
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Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Compared Obama to Lincoln, and Not in a...
During a talk with a group of journalism students last night, New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. revealed many an interesting thing about The Gray Lady — or the “Good Gray Lady,” as he...
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Bushwick Resident Arrested in Infant Death; Susan Sarandon Fetes High Times
(Photo: Scott Lynch) After he attempted suicide, 20-year-old Kelsey Smith was arrested for allegedly beating his three-year-old stepdaughter to death Saturday afternoon in their Bushwick apartment....
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The Downtown Den Where Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians Met
Walt Whitman at Pfaff’s. 156 years ago this week, Henry Clapp, Jr. founded the newspaper that brought the idea of bohemianism into American culture and popularized some of Walt Whitman’s most beloved...
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Saturday: Free Beer, Amazing Eats, Rad Shopping + DJs From LCD Soundsystem
Strap on the party hat: it’s time again for the Bedford + Bowery Bazaar, our outdoor extravaganza of food, shopping and muzak. This Saturday, Oct. 25, we’re once again bringing our fave-most North...
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Market Watch: Brooklyn Xchange Drops Promo Vid, Artists & Fleas Expands
Okay fine, the Bedford + Bowery Bazaar isn’t the only market in town. As we noted last week, a new one called the Brooklyn Xchange is aiming to bring Brooklyn vendors to Soho starting Black Friday....
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From the People Behind ‘NYC’s First Bar For Pregnant Women,’ Something Even...
(Photo: William Rosenzweig on Twitter) Get it? Because a “black box” is that thing that they’re still trying to recover from the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared with hundreds of people on...
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Rosario Dawson’s Cousin Arrested For Attempted Rape; Stupak Opens Al Pastor
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Juan Scott, 26 and apparently a cousin of actress Rosario Dawson, was arrested Friday for allegedly attempting to rape a 20-year-old woman last week in her Stuyvesant Town...
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Papaya King Is About to Put Midtown Hot Dog Vendors in a World of Squirt
(Courtesy Papaya King) After expanding to St. Marks Place and then launching a food truck, Upper East Side institution Papaya King has decided to go for the jugular and is putting down roots in Herald...
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The L.I.S.A. Project Turned a Little Italy Parking Lot Into a Tagger’s Delight
The week didn’t start out great for Wayne Rada and the L.I.S.A. Project, his non-profit outfit that has brought a ton of world-class street art to Little Italy (of all places) and beyond over the past...
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Watch Museum of Love’s Crazy (Clazy?) New Video, Then Sip Free Beer With Them...
Above you’ll find the first video off of Museum of Love’s self-titled album, just out on James Murphy’s DFA Records. It’s kind of amazing: the song, “The Who’s Who of Who Cares,” and the video remind...
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