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Ajay Naidu On His New Web Series, the ‘Office Space’ Reunion, and ‘Bad Santa 2′
Boy, are we psyched to have way more of our friend Ajay Naidu in our life: the actor most loved as Samir in “Office Space” has teamed up with Ashok Kondabolu (aka Dapwell of Das Racist) for a web...
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In Case You Were Wondering About That New Mural Off Bedford Ave
Visual artist Lunar New Year spent this very humid day on a raised platform, painting a mural on the wall next to Brooklyn Fox, on the corner of North 6th and Bedford. It features a man looking down...
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Woman Goes Topless at Verso, Greenpoint Man Arrested in Flag Burning
(Photo: Phillip Kalantzis Cope) A woman was stabbed late on Monday outside the Jacob Riis house repeatedly with a razor blade. The victim’s estranged husband was arrested late last night. [The Lo-Down]...
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Check Out King Noodle, a ‘Roller Rink on Acid’ Serving Asian Grub and Tiki...
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Charles Bellafiore Usually Finds Someone to Talk to at Enid’s
(Photo: Ebru Yildiz) Last week, the unthinkable happened: Enid’s went dry. The Greenpoint bar’s liquor license expired and it went a week without being able to serve (yesterday it announced on...
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‘People Loved It Loud’: Rockers Recall Academy of Music and Palladium
(Photo: the private collections of Jason Knox and Harold C. Black) Built as a movie palace in 1927, the Academy of Music on East 14th Street, at Third Avenue, was a place where Lower East Siders would...
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8 Injured By Possible Explosion and Partial Building Collapse in Chinatown
Eight people are in the hospital after an apparent explosion and building collapse in Chinatown this afternoon. Shi Zu Lie, a tenant of 17 Pike Street, was in his first-floor apartment when he heard...
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San Fran Transplant Opens Taqueria Diana, Now Serving Monster Burritos
Matt La Rue, the proprietor of the newly opened Taqueria Diana, had always dreamed of opening a taqueria in New York. The Stockton, California native spent a decade cooking in “more upscale” Bay Area...
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Chelsea Gallerists Are Partying in Their New LES Space Tonight, Sans the Art
Chelsea gallery Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. is celebrating its move to the Lower East Side tonight, two months before it actually goes down. The gallery’s first show at 33 Orchard Street...
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Williamsburg Property Sells For $29 Million, Couple Brings Crib to Brunch
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A Williamsburg property at 65 North Sixth Street has sold for nearly $29 million. The developers plan 28 luxury apartments, 4,000 square feet of retail space and 14 off-street...
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Dimes Cafe Will Bring a Little Bit of LA to Chinatown-LES
Come early August, health-food junkies living on the border of the Lower East Side and Chinatown will finally have a dumpling-free dining option to call their own. Amidst the plethora of greasy noodle...
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Ask and They Shall Elucidate, Bushwick-Style
Yep, it’s about time B + B got an advice column. To that end, we bring you Bushwick Elucidations, a web series from actresses Vanessa Nicole Oritz and Danielle Muehlen. They’re in their 20s, but these...
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Protesters Gather Outside of ‘Penis Mayor’ Anthony Weiner’s Apartment
(Photo: Susan Keyloun) An uninvited guest popped by Anthony Weiner’s Gramercy apartment building this morning, in the form of a giant inflatable rat. Union members have gathered in front of the mayoral...
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Kool Thing: Kim Gordon Is Crashing in Greenpoint These Days
(Photo: Patrick McMullan) North Brooklyn has seen a lot of Kim Gordon in the past month: she introduced a screening of “A Woman Under the Influence” at Nighthawk and performed with Body/Head, her...
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Yee Haw! The Levee Is Fixin’ to Reopen This Weekend [Update: Tonight!]
(Photo: Natalie Rinn) “Don’t worry, we aren’t changing much,” Susan Surdacki says as she takes a break from remodeling. “Just some things that needed to be fixed, painted…we want to keep the essence of...
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This Weekend, Shane Shane Keeps the Party Popping (With Actual Poppers)
Shane Shane. (Photo: Joshua Kristal) At BGSQD (Photo: Joshua Kristal) Shane Shane at Pride party. (Photo: Joshua Kristal) Performer. (Photo: Joshua Kristal) Shane Shane performing. (Photo: Joshua...
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Magic Flying Carpets and Late Night Openings: Art This Weekend
Artwork by Sara Schneckloth. Between the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival taking over galleries and venues across the borough and Williamsburg Every 2:ND going down tonight, it’s a big...
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A Play About the Hipster-Hasid Bike Wars, Chinatown Fire Caused by Roach Bombs
Mural at 5 Pointz, Queens. (Photo: Timothy Krause). A Greenpoint townhouse sold for $3.75 million after less than a month on the market. [Curbed] Havemeyer Park — a temporary green space on the Domino...
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Shirts & Destroy Leaves the City, But You Can Still Rock Its Tees
(Photo: Natalie Rinn) Shirts & Destroy – a company that releases tee shirts designed by local artists, tattooers and bands – has closed its Greenpoint store and is leaving the city. Ryan Begley...
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Upcoming Shows: Wire, Some Bedroom Pop, and Lots of Noise
THERE’S SOMETHING GOING ON THAT’S ACTUALLY QUITE RIGHT U.K. band Wire came of age in the first wave of punk, but they’re perhaps more responsible than any other band for pushing punk beyond its...
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