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Citi Bike Is Finally Rolling Into Greenpoint and North Williamsburg
There’s good news and bad news for North Brooklynites who’ve been wondering when the hell Citi Bike would come above North 3rd Street. Today the bike-share service, which just got a new parent company...
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NYU Buys Noho Building; 150-Year-Old Synagogue Landmarked
(Photo: Michael Tapp) Tadelech Yohanis, a 30-year-old nun visiting from Ethiopia, was last seen six days ago leaving Jackson Street’s Sacred Heart Convent on the Lower East Side. [DNA Info] Matthew...
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Galli Had the Gall to Open in the Former Inoteca Space
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Inoteca broke some hearts when it closed this past February, but as of last night you can once again put away pasta on the corner of Ludlow and Rivington. The Lower East Side...
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Inside the New Happy Ending, a Swank Spot For French Food and Arty Parties
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Happy Ending got a new beginning last night, as Oliver Stumm of Cafe Select and Rintintin threw a preview party for his new place in the onetime Asian massage parlor on Broome...
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Two Years After Sandy, The Future of Sunny’s Bar Is Cloudy
Sunny and sculpture. (Photo: Christina Cipriano) As Hurricane Sandy slammed into Red Hook, Tone Balzano Johansen was in the basement of Sunny’s, moving booze and supplies to potentially dryer places....
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You Need to Go to Therapy With Lena Dunham
(Photo: Anna Silman) So, Happy Ending is set to reopen under new ownership. But for literary types, the place just won’t be the same without the Happy Ending Reading Series that Amanda Stern hosted...
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How Red Hook Winery Turned Flood Water Into Wine
Twenty One: Twenty Four. The name stands out in neat, clean type on the wine bottle’s black label. It refers to the military time (9:24 p.m.) when Superstorm Sandy surged, wiping out Red Hook Winery....
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We Visited Michael Stipe’s Studio, and So Can You
(Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon) (Photos: Claire Voon)...
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Andrew WK Has a Surprisingly Posi Take On the Chaining of the East Village
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Last night Stoli vodka brought Andrew WK to a shindig at the Pyramid Club – part of a marketing campaign celebrating/commodifying Avenue A that also includes a Tumblr...
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Drunk Driving Arrests Up in Bushwick; Beep Pushes Affordable Housing
(Photo: Scott Lynch) An uptick in traffic checkpoints more than doubled the NYPD’s number of drunk driving arrests in Bushwick last month. [DNA Info] Starting Saturday, Cloak & Dagger clothing...
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Fillmore East Plaque Unveiled at Site of ‘Church of Rock ‘n’ Roll’
Andrew Berman and Phil Hartman of Two Boots unveil the plaque. (Photos: Frank Mastropolo) More than four decades after its closing, a commemorative plaque was unveiled last night at the site of the...
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St. Marks Place: Still Got It
Spotted on the front door of I Am Coffee, which switched to a weekends-only schedule last month.
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Mysteries: Mike Tyson Statue at NYU, Turkey’s Nest in Hell’s Kitchen
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The Fillmore East’s new plaque wasn’t the only historical marker unveiled in recent days — last week, while we were trying to score tickets for Television and Joshua Light Show...
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Mediocrity Is the New Black: Penny Arcade On Making It in ‘The Big Cupcake’
The performance artist Penny Arcade called us back after getting out of a show that ran late. So, even in the midst of her own show Longing Lasts Longer (Nov. 2, 3, 9, 10 at Joe’s Pub), she’s making...
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Inside Good Room, a New Dance Destination Replacing Greenpoint’s Europa
(Photo: Jeremy Boxer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel...
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Our Handy Guide to Halloween Parties That Don’t Suck
(Lindsay Attaway/Flickr) We’ve already told you where to catch Nirvana, Buddy Holly and the Beach Boys on Halloween. But if you’re creeped out by the thought of zombie Kurt, there are plenty of other...
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Possible Hate Crime in Williamsburg; Send-Off For Wd~50
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Five attackers who struck a Jewish woman in the head with a milk crate Saturday afternoon at a Williamsburg playground may have committed a hate crime, police say. [DNA Info] The...
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Taylor Gets a Swift Kick in the Ass From La Petite Mort
(Photo: La Petite Mort’s Facebook) Taylor Swift’s new role as the Big Cupcake’s “Global Welcome Ambassador” made every New Yorker want to step in and say “Imma let you finish…” But rather than merely...
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‘We Have Lost Our Mind’: Clayton Patterson’s Response to Taylor Swift
Just in case Chico’s cheeky memorial doesn’t get the message across to Taylor Swift and the New York trolling tourism board, another LES legend, Clayton Patterson, has come up with a video response to...
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As Boot Camps Replace Bohemia, New Yorkers Are Thinking Inside the Box
Not long ago, wild-child ex-con and party boy of yore Michael Alig took a tumble off a Planet Fitness treadmill. Where East Village chic was once all about falling off the wagon, it’s now de rigeur to...
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