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Lil’ Nugs: 51-Year-Old Killed By G Train, $65 Brooklyn Brunch Tour
Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. Michael Pearce A 51-year-old man was struck and killed by the G train around 8 p.m. last night as it pulled into...
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Bye Bye, Blarney Cove: An Irish Holdover Packs Up the Shillelagh
Bartender Lisa Ramsay (Photo: JP Grace) Blarney Cove (Photos: Scott Lynch) Blarney Cove (Photos: Scott Lynch) Blarney Cove (Photos: Scott Lynch) Blarney Cove (Photos: Scott Lynch) Blarney Cove...
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B+B Q+A: Stefan Marolachakis of Caveman’s Prom Was Cooler Than Yours
Stefan Marolachakis at East Village Books. (Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz) I first met Stefan Marolachakis in 2010 when he was tending bar at Heathers, just a few blocks away from his apartment overlooking...
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Dagmara Dominczyk: Greenpoint Still Smells Like Sausage and Ciggies
“It still smells the same, oh my God — like sausage and cigarettes,” said Dagmara Dominczyk. After two years away from her neighborhood of nearly a decade, the actress had returned to Greenpoint to...
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Bushwick Artists: Maybe We Should All Just Buy a Building Together?
The crowd at 108 Starr Street. (Photo: Alexandra Glorioso) Six years ago, Josefina Blanc, a former photography editor at Art & Commerce, found herself priced out of Bushwick when the rent on the...
View ArticleBe the 8th Person to Watch This Still Life Still Video and Get Tix to Their Show
The folks who rep Canadian band Still Life Still — which has toured with our own The Hold Steady — use the B+B tipline to point us to a new video for “Revolving Doors,” off the band’s forthcoming...
View ArticleWatch a Row of Citi Bikes Become a SoulCycle Studio For the Homeless
Earlier today, an East Village resident sent a video to The Crosby Press, of comedian and Twitter legend The Fat Jew teaching an impromptu SoulCycle class to homeless people on a row of parked Citi...
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Driver Charged in Yesterday’s Car Wreck, Victim Gets a Fundraiser
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Some answers are arriving in the aftermath of yesterday’s ugly car crash in the East Village. Police say that three employees at East Village Farm & Grocery, the bodega plowed...
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Lil’ Nugs | Massive Meat Smoker Coming to Union Square, Real-Estate News For...
Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. (Photo: Courtesy of History Channel.) Via the B +B tip line: next Tuesday, the History Channel’s Cross Country...
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Here’s the Giant Apt. Complex On Tap For Former Home of Rheingold Brewery
An expansive new development project may be on its way to Bushwick. Read Property Group, a Borough Park-based developer, is looking to build nearly 1,000 new apartments at the former home of Rheingold...
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Jimmy McMillan Couldn’t Stop the Rent From Going Even Damn Higher
(Photo: Anna Silman)Whelp, it’s official: the city’s Rent Guidelines Board, as expected, just approved rent hikes of 4 percent for one-year leases and 7.75 percent for two-year leases for...
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Grocery Sells Cheese, Pickles, and Hot Sauce Made By Prisoners
Alana and Erin Campbell. (Photo: Ryan Robbins) There’s a shipment of hot sauce on its way to Williamsburg from Angola Prison in Louisiana. Alana Campbell discovered the fiery tobacco-style sauce made...
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B+B Q+A: Suicide’s Martin Rev Doesn’t Mind Being Hated
Martin Rev (Photo: Divine Enfant) “To hear 15,000 people booing at one time, it’s an incredible sound and it’s an incredible energy to play into.” Martin Rev – of the proto-punk, 1970s duo Suicide – is...
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Welcome to Berry Hill, Where Williamsburg Looks More Like Murray Hill
BerryHill_map_3 1 Whiskey Brooklyn (Photos: Konstantin Sergeyev) Brooklyn Brewery Spritzenhaus Whiskey Brooklyn Whiskey Brooklyn Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn Brewery Spritzenhaus Berry...
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We Hit Up Starred’s Last Practice/Party Before Their Tour With Courtney Love
Liza Thorn (Photo: Ray Lemoine) It’s almost 6 a.m. and Matt Koshak is playing slow melodies on a two-tiered keyboard, in the small studio where he and his girlfriend practice, record, and sometimes...
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Lil’ Nugs | Motorino Back in the ‘burg, New Bus to Rockaway
Every day around 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump. (Photo: Pierce Pics) Lower East Side resident and author Royal Young releases an excerpt from his debut...
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At Northside Festival, Wondering ‘What’s Next’ For Brooklyn
A golden light on Solange and her fans (Photos: Joshua Kristal) EDIT_NorthEndFestival_BLOG_020Nice skirt! (Photo: Joshua Kristal) Dancing to Petit Noir, opener for Solange. Fashion students Franki...
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Here’s Where You’ll Find Fun in the Sun This Weekend
Make Music New York. (Photo: Erica Smith) It’s the first day of summer, in case ya hadn’t heard. Make Music New York (above) is winding down over on Astor Place, but don’t get your Brooklyn Surf Shorts...
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Drunk Folks, Don’t Get Into This Car Unless You Want Be Robbed at Gunpoint
61 East Third Street (Photo: Erica Martin) Pro tip: if you’re walking home from the bar and a white, four-door sedan offers you a ride, do not get in. The driver may be brandishing a gun. A group of...
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A Rider Got Mugged But Other Than That, Citi Bike Hasn’t Been Hell On Wheels
NYPD officers pulled over a Citi Biker for salmoning on Second Avenue. (Photo: Scott Lynch) Thought Citi Bike would result in “total carnage”? WRONG. Unless you count some punny vandalism, the...
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