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Manitoba’s Will Stay Open; Silkys Holds Fundraiser For Injured Pug
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Warehouse-turned-apartment complex 184 Kent Avenue is under contract from Jared Kushner and partners for $275 million. [NY Post] Alphabet City bar Manitoba’s crowdsourced $31K...
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Con Artist Collective Asks “What Happened To Fashion?”
Lädy Millard and a faux-fur coat. Photo: Angelica Frey New York Fashion Week might be wrapping up, but Fashion Month, showcasing the Fall 2015 collections, has barely started: London, Milan, and Paris...
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This Week In Film: Drone Travelers, Cameraless Docs, Jarmusch & Friends Score...
It’s a great week for experimental weirdness. I’ve been on a kick since I saw Hard To Be A God a couple weeks back at Anthology, which definitely isn’t a movie for everyone. Like seriously, if you...
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See Jon Glaser Fulfill a Promise, Live on Stage this Sunday
Jon Glaser, a.k.a. Councilman Jeremy Jamm on Parks and Recreation and Laird on Girls, is taking his talents to the stage this Sunday with The Macaulay Culkin Show. Founded in December 2013 by comedians...
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Video: On Chinese New Year, This Dim Sum Palace’s Carts Will Be Ready to Roll
The exterior suggests little, but looks can be deceiving. Pass through the glass doors of this giant, anonymous building at 20 Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, take the long escalator upstairs, and...
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New Task Force Aims to Crack Down On Harassment From Landlords
Photo: Angelica Frey “Unscrupulous landlords” beware. This morning Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the creation of the Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force at a...
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Man Convicted In Williamsburg Hit And Run; Orchard Street Hotel Bought For...
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Yesterday Julio Acevedo, 46, was convicted of killing an expectant Williamsburg couple in a March 2013 hit-and-run. He will be sentenced on March 18. [NY Daily News] Brooklyn-born...
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Long Week? Walk A “Crooked Line” to the Camlin, Williamsburg’s Newest Respite
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Near the banks of the East River, The Camlin’s out of the way location evokes the restaurant’s namesake, a river that flows through Ballinalee, Ireland. The old warehouses and...
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Lit Is Throwing Itself a Sweet 16 Party
Lit, the onetime “place where the Strokes hang out” and the only place that was Lit before a hundred places were “the new Lit,” is turning 16. In New York City nightlife years, that’s about 95, so who...
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Amid Spike In Crime, Police On The Lookout For Armed Robber In East Village
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Bitter blasts from Old Man Winter failed to put a freeze on crime in the NYPD’s 9th precinct. The East Village experienced spikes in felony assaults, grand larcenies and robberies...
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Get Your Zappie Fix At Early
(Photo: Jas Chana) About a year ago, Radek Kucharski, owner of a Brooklyn-based electrical contracting company, noticed something about Greenpoint’s Manhattan Avenue. The street’s northern-most portion...
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Video: A Look Inside Industry City
Sunset Park has been a contender for next “it” neighborhood since 2013, when the team behind Chelsea Market took over Industry City. The six-million-square-foot warehouse complex, dating back to 1895,...
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Crazier and More Chaotic: A Q + A With Sally Burtnick
Sally Burtnick and Brett Davis, co-creators of “The Macaulay Culkin* Show.” (Photo: The Macaulay Culkin* Show) The fact that The Macaulay Culkin* Show has never had its namesake on stage doesn’t bother...
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This Week In Shows: Extra Bratty Punk, Sludge Metal, And Seriousl Heady Art...
(Photo: Chargaux) Hi guys, it’s been a minute since we’ve done a Good Shows listing featuring our picks for live music happenings of the week, but here we go again. As before, we’ll try our darndest to...
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Bushwick Has the Most Burglaries; Williamsburg’s Oldest Bar Gets New Owner
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Last month, the number of burglaries reported in Bushwick (38) exceeded every other NYC neighborhood. [DNA Info] The eight-story, mixed-use building at 99 Suffolk Street is on the...
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Glenn Branca Premiered ‘Orgasm,’ His New Symphony For 100 Guitars
(Photo: Philharmonie Paris/Twitter) Kim Gordon’s forthcoming memoir (being plugged at BAM tonight and Strand tomorrow) has brought new attention to the No Wave scene she emerged from during her...
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Helmet Played Saint Vitus, Marking 26 Years of Heaping the Heavy On Brooklyn
Just a couple days after Glenn Branca premiered his latest in Paris, one of his former ensemble members and a guitar legend in his own right, Page Hamilton, performed with Helmet back home at Saint...
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Mr. Lower East Side Moves to Brooklyn to Escape the ‘Bro Douchebags’
(Photo: Annual Mr. Lower East Side Pageant Facebook) This year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen might well be remembered as the year Mr. Lower East Side left the Lower East Side. The annual pageant...
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The LES Gets A Comfy New Diner Serving Sazeracs and ‘Jewbano’ Sandwiches
The Comfort on Grand Street (Photo: Nicole Disser) Maybe it had something to do with the fact that we could feel exactly zero of our extremities by the time we rolled up to the Comfort, a new diner on...
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Fatal Shooting in Alphabet City
(Photo: Carmen Cuesta Roca) A man was shot and killed at the Lillian Wald Houses in the East Village this afternoon, the police say. The shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. and the victim was pronounced...
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