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How Bandit’s Roost Blossomed Into Chinatown’s Columbus Park
“Mulberry Bend” shows Mulberry Street looking north to Bayard Street. (From Jacob A. Riis’s “How the Other Half Lives.”) Watching people enjoy mah-jongg in Chinatown’s Columbus Park, it’s hard to...
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The Trash Bar’s Network Television Debut Is the Funniest Thing in ‘Forever’
Someone had to immortalize the Trash Bar before its impending move to Bushwick and the ABC crime show Forever has gone and done it in the most ridiculous possible way. The episode ingeniously named...
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Williamsburg’s (D)evolution Captured in #MyChangingNeighborhood
(Photo by Stéphanie de Rougé/Instagram) When photographer Stéphanie de Rougé moved to New York in 2006 she settled on the south side of Williamsburg. “From the first day, I knew I was at home here,”...
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Here’s a Film Fest You Can Actually Snag Tickets For
If you’re still bummed about sleeping on that Tribeca Film Fest screening (tickets are now going for $98 to $324 on StubHub), take solace in this weekend’s Take Two Film Festival, boasting an...
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Week in Live Music: Last Punk Bits Before the Big Fest and Thank Heavens For...
Welcome to another end of the work week. You’re probably busy eyes-locked on the clock counting down the seconds until you can sprint out the door, straight into the nearest bodega, and pop the cap off...
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Two Big Chances to Tell Local Pols How to Spend Your Tax Ducats
Sure, your first priority this weekend probably involves lying in the grass with a margarita blender, but don’t let the lurvley weather keep you from doing your civic duty. Between an epic town hall on...
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Pound a Pint, Help Print This Informative Guide to the Bushwick Housing Crisis
map of vacant lots (Photo: Parsons) You’d have to be living under a rock to be surprised to hear Bushwick is undergoing some explosive changes. It feels like streetscapes here are transforming faster...
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‘Brewmuda Triangle’ Bars Are Pouring Again After East Village Explosion Closure
(Photo: Jaime Cone) The three points of the East Village’s “Brewmuda Triangle,” Standings, Burp Castle and Jimmy’s No. 43, have all announced they are open tonight after a 15-day closure due to the...
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Williamsburg Loses Subway Service and Subway Sandwich Service
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) From April 17 to May 18, there’ll be no late-night or weekend L train service between Lorimer Street and Eighth Avenue, which is very, very bad news. And if you’re the type to...
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A Studio Visit With Tara McPherson, ‘Queen of Cotton Candy Wet Dreams’
One recent morning in Tara McPherson’s Bed-Stuy studio, the artist’s easel was loaded with sketches of two nearly identical girls connected by a sparkling rainbow springing from inside their heads....
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Video: Cash Crawl Boosts Business in East Village Blast Zone
The corner of St. Marks and Second Avenue was once again abuzz this afternoon, as a Small Biz Crawl brought much needed cash and customers to businesses adjacent the March 26 gas explosion. “This is a...
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81-Year-Old Accused of Stabbing; 16-Year-Old Said to Fire Shots
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Just after 2 a.m. yesterday, 81-year-old Nicholas Diaz allegedly stabbed his granddaughter’s boyfriend in a Bushwick apartment on Broadway. The 21-year-old victim died at Woodhull...
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More Great Ghost Signs of the East Village and LES
All photos: Frank Mastropolo. With the rapid pace of development in the Lower East Side and East Village, it’s remarkable that so many ghost signs – ads that have long outlived their businesses – have...
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Patti Smith Announces New Memoir, Did ‘People Have the Power’ For East Village
Last time we saw Patti Smith do “People Have the Power,” she was on stage with Miley Cyrus, Laurie Anderson, Debbie Harry and pretty much every other New York City music legend — and before that she...
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Former Squatter Remembers the ’90s Squat Scene in New Book
(Photo: Akashic Books) Stacy Wakefield’s new book The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory, being published by Akashic in May, weaves together her experiences as a squatter in New York City back in the late...
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L Train and Citi Bike Stations Will Be Down Thursday Night in Williamsburg
If you thought the loss of subway service and Subway sandwich service was the extent of the nightmare in Williamsburg, think again: not only will the Bedford and Lorimer stops be without late-night and...
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Over $600K Raised For East Village Explosion Victims
(Photo: JustSklute’s Instagram) Dozens of fundraising campaigns have netted well over $600,000 for victims of the March 26 gas explosion in the East Village. In addition to the online fundraisers we...
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The Lower East Side’s Newest High-Rise Hotel Opens Next Week
(Photo: Jaime Cone) The long in-the-works Orchard Street Hotel is slated to open next week, according to general manager Angela Fiore. The hotel, at 163 Orchard Street between Rivington and Stanton...
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Lower LES Gets Sri Lankan, Salvadoran, and Double the Dimes, But May Lose Bar...
(Photo: Dimes on < href="https://instagram.com/dimestimes/">Instagram The streets around Seward Park are changing faster than you can say “LoLoEaSi.” Hot on the heels of the opening of Kiki’s and...
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Not-Shivering Me Timbers! The Frying Pan Has Reopened For the Season
(Photo: The Frying Pan) All aboard the S.S. Boozy Brunch. After a winter-long hiatus, the bar-on-a-barge known to most as the Frying Pan welcomed back its devotees yesterday with beer, sangria, and a...
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