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Neighbors Want to See Fat Baby to Lose Its Booze
(Photo by Gavin Thomas, NYMag.com) LES lounge Fat Baby is in danger of losing its liquor license after Community Board 3’s SLA Committee recommended against its renewal last night. Fat Baby, currently...
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Talks + Readings: The Dogist, Sarah Vowell, and Chip Kidd Meets Charlie Brown
TUESDAY The Dogist Tuesday, October 20 at 7 p.m. Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway (NoLIta). The Dogist himself, Elias Weiss Friedman, will be talking with Stacie Grissom of the BarkPost newsletter about...
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Spice Is Vice: Mayor Passes New Laws Aimed at Ending ‘Plague of K2′
(Screenshot via YouTube) The Mayor signed a series of laws today criminalizing K2, part of the City’s continuing effort to crack down on the use and sale of synthetic marijuana. The drug, which Mayor...
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Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Stage Funeral in Hopes of Killing Tower Deal
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park march to Midtown Equities’ offices. (Credit: Joshua Alvarez) Halloween came early for a developer seeking to take over a controversial plot on the Williamsburg...
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Gang Assault in Williamsburg; 12-Story Condo Coming to Great Jones
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Four men assaulted a man around 2 a.m. Sunday morning on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. [Brooklyn Paper] The FDNY reported no injuries in the Greenpoint fire that consumed...
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East Villagers Not So Bubbly About Late-Night Crust Cravers
East Village residents sounded off to cops last night about noisy drunks, particularly those devouring artichoke slices into the pre-dawn hours. At a meeting of the Ninth Precinct’s Community Council,...
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Into the Belly of the Bird: Last Look (For Now) at Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight...
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) It’s not often that a trip to JFK constitutes a pilgrimage, but that’s what it felt like as we headed toward the TWA Flight Center on Sunday. Open House New York had invited the...
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Shows: BB Swan Ventures from the Flock, Commando Punk Delves into Noise
(Flyer via Aviv) You know how leftovers are sometimes better than the meal was in its original form? That’s also true for CMJ apparently. It seems like some seriously great bands and musicians are...
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Roam a Church After Dark During ‘Surrealist Immersive’ Show, Houseworld
(photo: Emily Kendall) Get off at the Bedford L. Walk ten or so minutes into Greenpoint. Pass the house with the eerily-lit windows, but don’t forget it. You’ll be getting to know it quite well later....
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David Simon’s The Deuce Is Loose in the East Village
Last week’s shoot. (Photo: Daniel Maurer) Franco alert! After time-warping West 30th Street last week, David Simon’s HBO pilot, The Deuce, is filming in the East Village tomorrow, per signs spotted on...
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Looks Like the End of the Road For Williamsburg’s Passenger Bar
(Copyright: Photos by Jenn) Well, it’s been a sad week of goodbyes for two unique Brooklyn bars. First Tandem announced that it’s calling it quits on November 1, and now Passenger Bar, the site of so...
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Is There a Toxic Plume Under Your Building? This Map of North Brooklyn Will...
(Screenshot via ToxiCity map, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth and Pratt) The Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning transformed the East River waterfront area (and other pockets, including along parts of...
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Another Sugar Factory Conversion in W’burg; Pizza Rat Tattoo
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A developer paid $47 million for 138-142 Bowery, a site that last yielded $45 million when it was on the market in December 2014. [Bowery Boogie] Paperwork was submitted last...
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Performance Picks: Site-Specific Stuff, Queering the Feminine, Synth Comedy...
Several free festivals and absurd doses of comedy await you this week. Read on to get the scoop. THURSDAY The Terrible Them at The Experiment Comedy Gallery, 20 Broadway, Williamsburg. 8pm. More info...
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‘The Wolfpack Show’ Will Shame Your Silly Store-Bought Halloween Costume
Anyone who saw The Wolfpack at Tribeca or in theaters earlier this year was completely blown away by Crystal Moselle’s documentary about a band of shut-in brothers whose parents had all but imprisoned...
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Silent Barn Show Space Reopens, But Fire Recovery Only Halfway There
Stephanie Griffin, collective member and spokesperson for the Silent Barn (Photo: Nicole Disser) The Silent Barn wasn’t about to wait for CMJ to do its thing before reopening. On October 14, while the...
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Still Not Sold On Sanders? Maybe This Bernie O’ Lantern Will Do the Trick
Despite the cold that had descended on Washington Square Park Monday evening, a half dozen activists were clearly feeling The Bern. Their task: get Democrats registered to vote in New York’s April...
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A Dose of The Deuce On East 2nd Street
(Photo: Jaime Cone) If you walked down East 2nd Street today you may have noticed retro cops wandering around for the filming of the HBO show Deuce, but unfortunately no sign of James Franco and his...
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Snag Free Grimes Tickets; Ringo Starr Pops Into Strand
The three-story building at 337-341 Lafayette Street was purchased by developer Aby Rosen in early October for $20.75 million. [Bowery Boogie] Charlie Parker’s former townhouse on Avenue B can be yours...
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Have You Admired Have & Meyer, an Italian Cocktail Bar Coming to Williamsburg?
(Photos: Ashley Mason) Williamsburg’s new Have & Meyer is not what you’d expect from a typical Tuscan restaurant. The bar boasts an impressive selection of single malts—a favorite for its...
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