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Even More Great Ghost Signs of the East Village and LES
Detail of S. Oppenheimer & Co., 170 Eldridge Street. (Photos: Frank Mastropolo). When we first brought you our top 10 favorite ghost signs in January, there were still many more examples of the...
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Here’s What the Former Home of Motor City Bar Looks Like Now
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) “This place is about to BLOW,” Ke$ha sang. And I have to admit, that’s exactly what I was thinking as I walked into the bar that recently replaced Motor City at 127 Ludlow...
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‘Apocalypse Chow’: Zodiac Dinners and Solar-Power Synths in a Bed-Stuy Garden
Steel drum performers Jahlani Roberts, Khuent Rose, and Matthew Best at Bed-Stuy Community Garden (Photo: Nightlight) Last Tuesday night, the Bed-Stuy Community Garden was a bit livelier than usual....
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Video: Witches Swoop into the Village For a Pagan Street Faire
Who says all the witches are in Bushwick? This past Saturday, we visited Witchsfest USA, the annual “pagan street faire” on Astor Place. Play the video to experience the Wiccan wonderland.
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New Skate Shop Caters to ‘Men Riding On Useless Wooden Toys’
(Photo: Rolling Gate’s Instagram) Walking into a skate shop for the first time can be intimidating. Habitat pro Al Davis once likened the experience to walking into a neighborhood barbershop, where...
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Shows: Trip Metal Metastasizing and Sweaty Dance Party in a Bathtub
Here’s to hoping you took this past weekend to cram your butt, beach umbrellas, and coolers full of malt liquor onto the A train, also known as the Express Train to Beach Salvation. Lord knows nearly...
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Experimental Filmmaker Gets Year in Prison For Bank Heist
A shot from Gibbons’ film ‘Confessions of a Sociopath.’ Experimental filmmaker Joseph Gibbons was the focus of multiple camera lenses this afternoon — not as part of one his projects, but because he...
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Roberta’s Faces Lawsuit; Charleston Bar Brawl Ruled a Homicide
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Michael Sapp—the 33-year-old who died three days after receiving a head injury outside Williamsburg’s Charleston bar—was a homicide victim, according to police. [Brooklyn Paper]...
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Rockaway’s Palm-Tree Paradise Will Have Mud Baths, Films Picked by Greta Gerwig
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) If you missed the boat on Amy Poehler’s sold-out rooftop film festival at the McKittrick Hotel, buck up: we just got word that Greta Gerwig is bringing outdoor movies to...
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Talks and Readings: Dissecting Warhol, a LES Eat Pray Love, and More
TONIGHT Overcoming the past is a key theme in young authors’ Edan Lepucki and Mira Jacobs debut novels, both published last year to great acclaim, so it seems natural that they would celebrate their...
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Line Up to Get Your Slab Poked at Meattt, Bushwick’s Freshest Tattoo Shop
Marina Heintze at her Bushwick tattoo shop, MEATTT, Inc. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Another tattoo shop. In Bushwick. Next to an esoteric record shop. OK… you might be thinking. But your attention please,...
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Wanna Fake Stab Someone in Dumbo On Friday? Come Out and Play!
Come Out and Play 2014 (Photo: Lia Bulaong) Stick with me here for a sec. OK, so you’re blindfolded and holding a “knife” (retractable) in a “graveyard” (technically, Manhattan Bridge Archway Plaza),...
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Meximania: La Lucha Closes, Blockheads Opening Next Week
Site of new Blockheads located 60 3rd Av If you’re among those who feel like the East Village is looking more and more like Murray Hill, you’ll get a kick out of this one. Blockheads, the Cal-Mex chain...
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Beauty & Essex Team Wins Support For Bowery Booze Bid
Chris Santos addresses community members at a meeting of CB3′s SLA Committee. (Photo: Jaime Cone) The Tao Group clinched the provisional support of Community Board 3′s liquor license committee last...
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Anti-Muslim Attack in Chinatown; Kayak Theft in Greenpoint
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Eleven-year-old Angelica Chamoro has been missing since 5 a.m. yesterday, when police say she was last seen in her Stanhope Street apartment in Bushwick. [PIX 11] Saturday night on...
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ASVP Isn’t Just Horsing Around With New Mural: ‘We’re Celebrating Our Freedom’
The mural depicts “unbridled energy.” (Photo Credit: Sam Gillette) Walk down Morgan Avenue, past Owen Dippie’s recent mural of Renaissance artists sporting Mutant Ninja Turtle masks, and you’ll get to...
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Kavasutra Opens, Putting the ‘Chill’ in Chilled Drinks
(Photo: Jaime Cone) After months of renovation, the East Village’s first kava bar is officially open and offering its kava teas, cold brew coffee and other novel drinks you may have never encountered...
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Board a Boat or a Beach Bus For These Waterfront Parties
(JunXion’s Facebook) Sure, we tipped you off to some boat parties earlier this summer, but you can never have too much fun by the water — especially when you have Instagram followers to impress. Don’t...
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Do Rooftop Yoga or Ride a Mechanical Bull at These Al-Fresco Foodie Frolics
It’s getting to that point in the summer where doing much of anything besides moving that lawn chair to the kiddie pool and cracking open your daily 40 seems interminably arduous. For hell’s sake,...
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Alphabet City Gets a Lovely Latin Spot, Secara
(Photos courtesy of Secara) On the heels of Marcha Cocina’s opening, the East Village just got another chic Latin fusion spot. Visitors to Secara can expect “wholesome homestyle meals, prepared...
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