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Hate Music? Check Out These Noise Parties Happening This Weekend
Perhaps traditional “muzik” isn’t your thing really, or maybe your tastes are simply too advanced to be bothered with such frivolities like the predictable strumming of guitars or the inane drivel of...
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Pink’s 242 Combines Hot Roddin’ and Truffle Popcorn, Because Why Not?
(Photo: Nicole Disser) During construction, there were music arrangements pasted in the windows of Company bar’s former home on East 10th Street. But tonight there’ll be real live music to celebrate...
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Madewell Better Well Have Free Drinks At Its Williamsburg Opening
(Photo: Madewell) Just a few blocks away from the new J. Crew store in Williamsburg (and steps from the Urban Outfitters’ Space Ninety 8), the brand’s sister store Madewell will open its doors next...
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Photos + Video: Wild Wheels and Trippy Trikes at Black Label’s Cycle-delic...
There were some concerns last week that Bike Kill, the Black Label Bike Club’s annual block party/festival of debauchery, might not happen this year. Officials had rejected their permit request for...
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An Eclair Shop Is Coming to the Land of Doughnut Plant
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Takeout joints within the Lower East Side’s Cologne Zone have traditionally pandered to the drunk and hungry, but amidst the taco shacks and recently opened 99-cent slice joints,...
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Looks Like the ‘Looking For a Girlfriend’ Backlash Has Begun
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) When we announced that Dan “Looking For a Girlfriend” Perino would be speed dating at our Bedford + Bowery Bazaar, a “Concerned EVer” commented, “This person has made such an ass...
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J.Crew Wants To Be Your Williamsburg Tour Guide
With signage (and yarn art!) now up at the Starbucks that’s set to open near North 7th and Bedford, who will rise like Atlas to hold the indie cafes on their shoulders? A local cafe’s petition...
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Workers Sue Odessa, Alleging Minimum Wage Violations
(Photo: Shanna Ravindra for NY Mag) A former employee is suing Odessa for allegedly failing to pay overtime and minimum wage – the second such lawsuit to be smacked on the East Village institution in...
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Photos: The Masquerading Mutts of Williamsburg’s Doggie Halloween Parade
Tiny dogs in costume and human-wielded iPhones taking pictures of said tiny dogs were present in equal proportion yesterday at the Dog-E-Dog Howl-O-Ween parade at the McCarren Park Dog Run in...
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Here’s What the East Village Is Getting Instead of the ‘Best Chef in New York’
What’s coming to the former home of San Loco now that Community Board 3 has shooed off the Best Chef in New York (per this year’s James Beard Awards)? A rotisserie chicken joint. How… exciting. Over...
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Rosie’s Mexican (No Relation to Rosa Mexicano) Coming in December
Man are the husband-and-wife team behind Chelsea’s Cookshop keeping busy. Last week Vicki Freeman and Marc Meyer debuted Vic’s in the space that previously held their Noho brunch spot Five Points. And...
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Spotted: Michael Alig Recalling the Trashy East Village, Going to IHOP
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Back in May, Michael Alig, fresh off of 17 years in prison, told us, “I honestly had no idea that there’d be people waiting at the gate when I got out, and that TMZ would be...
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Veselka Parties With Free Food; $20M Duplexes On Bond Street
(Photo: Michael Tapp) Yesterday morning, the FDNY surveyed loose scaffolding at the landmarked Jarmulowsky Bank Building on the Lower East Side. [Bowery Boogie] Right of Way and Families for Safe...
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Brooklyn Flea’s Malaysian Mainstay Is Opening in the East Village
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Earlier this year Pasar Malam came to Williamsburg (maybe you saw their flower-festooned tent at our Bazaar this past weekend) and now the East Village is getting a Malaysian...
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Danny Bowien Is Literally a Lower East Side Poster Boy
Everyone’s in a twitter about Matthew McConaughey’s Lincoln ad, but dude — check out Danny Bowien looking sharper than an al pastor knife in a new ad campaign for menswear etailer Frank & Oak. We...
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Oaxaca Is Now Hawking Burritos in Williamsburg
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) As promised in August, Oaxaca — the taqueria that started off on Smith Street and now has half a dozen locations in the East Village and elsewhere — has expanded into...
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Call Him Jabby Hoffman: This Man Is Spinning the Yippie Building Into a...
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) When a messy foreclosure cleared out the Yippie building and a boxing gym took over 9 Bleecker Street, it was easy to see the development as the ultimate symbol of downtown...
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A Traveling Artist Wants You to Meet Her Pet Rocks
(Courtesy of Denny Gallery) Despite the name of the exhibit now up at Denny Gallery, Rock Shop III is less shop and more laboratory: large images of rocks surround receptacles in which salt chemically...
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‘Out to See’ Brings Makers, Artists, Bands and Ice Skating to the Seaport
“It’s not that heavy” by Rachel Higgins. Thought the outdoor market season was over just because Williamsburg Flea and Hester Street Fair have folded their tents? Not a chance. Slip into that Cosby...
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Harry Shearer, aka Mr. Burns, Is Bringing Richard Nixon to Hell Square
Harry Shearer, who made his name on Saturday Night Live and as a writer and star of This Is Spinal Tap, plays the ultimate villain – Mr. Burns — on The Simpsons (he’s also the voice of Ned Flanders,...
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