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Skrillex, The Jillionaire of Major Lazer, and Others On the Evolution of...
Last week, Skrillex sold out five consecutive shows at Brooklyn Bowl, Music Hall, SRB, Output, and a warehouse in East Williamsburg. The producer who soundtracked Spring Breakers draws massive crowds,...
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Greenpoint Ferry Update; Rosie Perez Remembers Her Bushwick Days
(Photo: Dima James/Flickr) Operators say busted anchor posts were responsible for the Greenpoint ferry ramp collapse, and there’s no telling when service will return. [NY Daily News] Williamsburg’s...
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The Mac and Cheese Bagel Is a Thing That Exists
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Sometimes you wake up in desperate need of coffee, turn to Seamless to see if Tompkins Square Bagels will deliver a cappuccino, and then you discover: the mac and cheese bagel....
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Starving Artist? NewPatron Will Find You a Medici
Michael Ellis working on a photorealistic painting. It takes 3-6 months for Ellis to complete a piece. (Photo: Courtesy of NewPatron) Unless you can survive without sleep or food or your parents have...
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Will Fussell Of Mood Rings Settled For This Tattoo Instead Of an Iggy Pop One
Welcome to Why That Tat?, in which we bring you the origin stories of the best/strangest/most hilarious/bizarre tattoos we encounter. Will Fussell’s mantra. (Photo: Allyson Shiffman) When we last...
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This Dance Studio’s Move Means Free Massages, Smoothies and Reiki Sessions
(Courtesy of Breakin Boundries) Yet another Williamsburg business has moved to Greenpoint in search of lower rent, and at their “Re-Grand Opening” Sunday, you can score a free massage, a free...
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Celebrate the Release of Outdoor Gallery at This Indoor Gallery Done Up By...
Mural by El Sol 25 outside of 17 Frost (All photos: Yoav Litvin) Tomorrow night there’ll be a party in Williamsburg to celebrate the release of Outdoor Gallery, a book of photographs that author Yoav...
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Bacon Toothpaste Is Half Off As This Novelty Store Leaves Its Home of 30 Years
When a reader wrote in to tell us Alphabets was closing its original location on Avenue A we wondered where we’d get our mustache-shaped cookie cutters. But Linda Heidinger, who’s had the store for...
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Allen Ginsberg’s Old Business Card, On the Occasion of His Post Office’s Closing
With the Peter Stuyvesant Station post office closing today and moving over to a retail-only location next week, it seems like a good time to post this photo we took at San Francisco’s Beat Museum —...
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Bushwick Is Becoming A Foodie Haven; Inside a Dilapidated Synagogue
(Photo: Roey Ahram on Flickr) A woman was shot in the chest in a Bushwick building Sunday. [NY Daily News] Police have released video of a man who allegedly assaulted a man in Williamsburg and robbed...
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Jimmy McMillan Wants to Eat Your Cookie
Mayoral also-ran Jimmy McMillan has always been concerned about world hunger (“not only is the rent too damn high, the food is too damn high,” he recently rapped) but the latest of the East Villager’s...
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Artists Want to Stay Put By Buying a Building Together. This Is Their Blueprint
William Powhida, a New York-based artist best known for his 2011 stunt of putting on a “VIP Douchebag”-inspired performance art show at the gallery Marlborough Chelsea, now seems to have something...
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Sam Grittner and Abbi Crutchfield On Girls: ‘Relapsing Looks Like Fun!’
Welcome to Girls Talk, in which two of our favorite New Yorkers share the text messages they sent during this week’s episode of Girls. The text in gray belongs to Sam Grittner, a stand-up comedian and...
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This Film Has It All: Rooftop Teepees, Reclaimed Water-Tower-Wood Surfboards
Just, wow. Any given frame of this short film created by Patagonia Surf Bowery along with Williamsburg lifestyle brand Indoek (makers of everything from custom teepees to a Bro in the City app) is a...
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One of the City’s Best Video Stores Is Closing After 12 Years in Greenpoint
Emily Raw’s Flickr Photoplay, one of the city’s last great video stores in this age of Netflix, will close on Wednesday night at 11 p.m. after 12 years in Greenpoint. A store clerk, Evan, said owner...
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A Cab Burst Into Flames On Its Way to Brooklyn
A cab caught fire on the Williamsburg Bridge today. The fire department told us they got the call around 2 p.m. and there were no injuries. It happens sometimes. Here’s a view of the wreckage, via...
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Sochi Is Over and All We Got Was These Not-So-Lousy T-Shirts
Shelter Serra’s “Dripping Rings” and Ray Geary’s “Happy Putin” (Photo: Courtesy of Currentee) If the Sochi Olympics have taught us anything, it’s that Russia is a strange, strange place. On the...
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Another Manhattanite, The Bean, Hits Bedford Avenue
(Photo: Elizabeth Flock) Because Bedford Avenue isn’t caffeinated enough, The Bean, a chain of East Village coffee shops popular with NYU students, is planning to open a location along Williamsburg’s...
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Bedford Avenue Gets Crunchier With a Juice Bar and Organic Grocery Store
The bodega’s yellow awning has been painted green and white. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock) Bedford Ave. is getting the Manhattan treatment — and attracting some pretty crunchy tenants in the process....
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Landlord Sabotage On the Rise; Kevin Corrigan’s Live Talk Show
(Photo: Scott Lynch). Landlord sabotage is on the rise in gentrifying North Brooklyn. One woman who didn’t take a buyout had to deal with a sagging bathroom. [Gothamist] Which isn’t as bad as the...
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