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Delicious Development: Farm On Domino Site Opens With Outdoor Dinner Parties
Just nine months after North Brooklyn Farms dismantled its plot at Havemeyer Park, it’s returning at a new location and hosting some al fresco, farm-to-table dinners. Next month, it’ll open the Farm...
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Shows: Cold Wave in Lieu of AC, Plus a Sugar OD at the Arcade
So, we dunno about you, but we certainly slept on the Death Grips shows, both of which sold out faster than you can say, “What the hell? I thought they broke up?” One’s happening at Webster Hall on...
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Owner of Les Enfants Terribles Is Back, Baby! Check Out LES Enfants de Bohème
Outside the cafe/bar. (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) Orphans of Les Enfants Terribles, the Afro-Brazilian restaurant that was on the Lower East Side for almost 10 years, can now make themselves at home...
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Uber and TLC Clash Over Bill That Would Limit Growth of For-Hire Car Services
A bill put forward to the City Council Committee on Transportation today would cap the number of cars that services like Uber can add. Under the bill, backed by the Taxi & Limousine Commission,...
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City Adds Small Business Advocates; Critics Say It’s Business as Usual
A bill signed into law today creates small business advocates to serve local entrepreneurs within the Department of Business Services. Sounds like something that might help stem the disappearance of...
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Court Blesses NYU Expansion; Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry
(Photo: Scott Lynch) The State Court of Appeals unanimously approved NYU’s $6 billion expansion plan yesterday. [NY Daily News] Sunday morning around 4 a.m., three men punched a drunk man and stole his...
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Watch the Melvins Cover ‘Rebel Girl’ With Teri Gender Bender
We’re big fans of Kathleen Hanna. We’re big fans of King Buzzo. So imagine our delight last night at Santos Party House when Buzzo and the Melvins brought out Teri Gender Bender, the firebrand...
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Inside Performance Space 122′s $50M Renovation
(Photo: Jaime Cone) Representatives for PS122, the big 19th century building on the corner of 9th Street and First Avenue, opened its doors for a hardhat tour of its progressing renovations Tuesday...
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From the Factory to Clublandia, Two Exhibitions Will Bring You Back to the...
The Last Party exhibition at WhiteBox (Photo: Nicole Disser) While wandering from gallery to gallery yesterday in the Lower East Side, soaking up a pair of museum-like nostalgia exhibitions focusing on...
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Read the 1995 Cover Story That Helped Make Kids a Sensation
Last week, when creators and cast members of Kids got together at BAM for a 20th anniversary reunion, producer Carry Woods recalled showing the film to a reporter friend before its premiere at Sundance...
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The Plot Thickens: A Visit to the Farm Sprouting Up On the Domino Site
The farm’s first flower (Photo: Nicole Disser) It was more than a little depressing to see the first North Brooklyn Farms get clobbered by bulldozers last fall, even if everybody knew it was coming....
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‘Unnecessary Row’ and 7 Other Signs That Your Neighborhood Is Gentrifying
Author D.W. Gibson’s shocking account of the shady practices of a Brooklyn landlord gained a lot of attention when the excerpt, taken from his new book The Edge Becomes the Center, was published by...
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Late Firefighter Celebrated in Ceremony; Meet the Lobster Corndog
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Lieutenant Mat Ambelas of the FDNY, who died last summer while fighting a Williamsburg blaze, was honored with a plaque at the Hooper Street station. [Yeshiva World] Parishioners...
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Shakespeare As You Like It: In a Park or in a Parking Lot
Last year’s production of “Othello” in the parking lot. (Photo: Claire Taddei) After construction of Essex Crossing bumped it from its home last year, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot will relaunch just...
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Greenpoint’s Barge Bar Is Ready For Swashbuckling
Thar she blows (Photo: Nicole Disser) If you’ve been awake for the past 48 hours or so, you’re probably well aware that it is, in fact, the month of July which means some of you, dearest readers, may...
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Week in Film: Mutant-Led Revolution and Spaceship-Driven Satire
Hi, are you feeling patriotic yet? Usually I’m not either, but that whole Obama singing “Amazing Grace” thing still hasn’t quite worn off. I’d call you a liar if you said you didn’t cry at least a...
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Watch: Girls Is Filming in Williamsburg Right Now
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)A week after filming at William Sheridan Playground in Williamsburg, Girls was right across the street today, shooting at Aurora. We didn’t spot Adam or Jessa, but hey, those are...
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Ex-Workers Picket Grand Sichuan as Wage Dispute Rages On
Picketers outside Grand Sichuan Restaurant. (photo: Rob Scher) “Take a stand against sweatshop restaurants! DON’T PATRONIZE GRAND SICHUAN!” read the flier handed out on St. Marks Place by several...
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Biking From Greenpoint to Queens Just Got a Lot Less Hairy
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Good news for Greenpointers who plan to cycle into Long Island City for PS1′s Warm-Up and outdoor flicks at Socrates Sculpture Park: the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge just got...
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Fatal Hit-and-Run in Bushwick; Pommes Frites Seeks Funds
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Last night in Bushwick, a 46-year-old woman using a walker was killed by a garbage truck in a hit-and-run. [NY Daily News] Newly published paperwork reveals that Sheldon Silver,...
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