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Three Kings Travel to City Hall to Protest Dorming of P.S. 64 Building
District Leader Anthony Anthony Feliciano addresses the crowd. (Photo: Jaime Cone) Mayor de Blasio received an unusual gift on Three King’s Day when picketers gathered outside City Hall to protest the...
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Lower East Side’s Black Tree Is Bringing a Chef’s Counter to Williamsburg
Black Tree’s Thanksgiving sandwich. After a one-night stand in Bushwick, one of our favorite Lower East Side spots, Black Tree, is settling down in Williamsburg. The sandwich shop turned proper...
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We Bugged a Bunch of New Yorkers to See If They’d Eat Insects
After attending a bug banquet in the East Village, we were determined to preach the gospel of insect eating. So we stopped by Toloache in the South Village to get some grasshoppers, put them on...
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Make No Mistake, Little Accidents Is a Gripping Small-Town Drama
A couple of NYU Tisch grads — both of whom happen to be women — screened their first features last night, and you’ll have a chance to see them both in theaters next Friday. We’ve already told you...
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Condo-mania: Three New Buildings Coming to East 13th
Looking West on East 13th Street between Avenue A and 1st Avenue. (Photo: Jaime Cone) A trio of residential buildings is set to change the look of East 13th Street, between Avenue A and First Avenue....
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Cops Shoot Man in Bushwick; Schlitz Brewery Goes For $33.7M
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 26-year-old man sustained a non-lifethreatening gunshot wound to the stomach from police officers who say he lunged at them with a foot-long kitchen knife last night inside a...
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Hundreds Gathered in Union Square For Charlie Hebdo Victims
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Hundreds gathered in Union Square last...
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Bushwick Photographer Captures Williamsburg’s ‘Major Transformation’
Brooklyn, 2001-2. (All photos: Luis Mallo) Luis Mallo was searching for an apartment in Williamsburg with his then-girlfriend, Ana, in 1994, when a woman in her 70s sitting outside a building caught...
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Pies ‘n’ Thighs Drops Some Doughnutty Details About Canal Street Opening
The Williamsburg location. (Photo: M.P. Foss for NY Mag) Williamsburg comfort-food institution Pies ‘n’ Thighs has sent over some details about the Canal Street location it now says it’ll open in the...
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‘Operotica’: It’s When Burlesque and Opera Come Together
If you tend to doze off at the opera, rest assured this one’ll rouse (and arouse?) you: Sarah Screams’ forthcoming show at Drom will combine opera and burlesque to create what can only be called...
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Williamsburg Hotel Wins Early Support For Rooftop Water-Tower Lounge
The view from the hotel’s water-tour lounge will be similar to the one atop the Wythe. (Photo: Peyri Herrera’s Flickr) A forthcoming Williamsburg hotel’s bid to pour liquor won the tentative support of...
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Apartment Burglaries Up in North BK; Alleged Police Impersonator Nabbed
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The girlfriend of Michael Silver, the Bushwick man shot in the stomach by police officers while wielding a large knife Wednesday night, says her boyfriend was threatening to kill...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a ‘Shithead’
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) As in, this portrait of Mark Zuckerberg — painted by Katsu using human feces — is part of the artist’s “Shithead” series. So is this dog. The poo portraits were going for $3,500...
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Week In Film: Burroughs Bugs, Rogue Abortions, and Debauchery in ’70s Brazil
Man this week has been brutal. What with the snow and the slow-as-hell trains and the wind and the ice, how will we ever get through the magnified pain of daily existence from here until, like, May?...
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The Cardinal Ribs the Competition: ‘Our Fried Chicken IS the Best’
(Courtesy of The Cardinal) The East Village may well be the fried chicken capital of New York: Unidentified Flying Chickens, Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, Bobwhite, Empire Biscuit, Somtum Der, Root &...
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Greenpointers Are Dogged About Plans For Newtown Barge Park
An artist’s rendering of the expanded Newtown Barge Park waterfront. (Photo courtesy of Stantec) Greenpoint residents raised concerns last night about the expansion of Newtown Barge Park, with some...
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SRO, a ‘Pizza Speakeasy,’ Brings Fried Pies (and Tight Quarters) Back to Bowery
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Last month Giulio Adriani converted the Bowery location of Forcella into a Spanish joint, Espoleta Tapas & Wine Bar — but rest assured the pizzaiolo hasn’t left pie-making...
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Cold Nights Will Put a Bite On This LES Food Pantry
(Photos: John Chow) The Chinese woman, bundled up and wearing a Hoboken hat in line at the food pantry, may not stand out at first glance. But many here know her by a surprising nickname: Ninja. They...
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Permits Filed For Apartment Building Replacing Williamsburg Preschool
The Bushwick United Learning Center in Williamsburg closed last month. (Photo: Jaime Cone) The community tried to stop it, but the wheels are officially in motion for a new five-story building that...
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East Village Gets a Madonna Mural; LES Eatery Flooded
(Photo: Joel Raskin) Lower East Side eatery Birds & Bubbles sustained thousands of dollars in flood damage Friday morning after a water pipe burst, but was able to fully reopen yesterday. [Bowery...
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