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Domino Developer Agrees to Some 700 Units of Permanently Affordable Housing
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Mayor De Blasio has struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site, averting a potential impasse over affordable housing. Under the agreement, Two Trees will...
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Art Thief Swipes Snoop Lion Portrait; Mini Mini Market Closing After 14 Years
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Pols have redoubled their calls for traffic safety in the wake of a Williamsburg traffic death. [Brooklyn Paper] A variety of projects are vying for grants from a $19.5 million...
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The Directors of Fort Tilden Traveled From Williamsburg to Rockaway to SXSW
(Clare McNulty and Bridey Elliott in Fort Tilden. It’s hard to get accepted by the South by Southwest film festival — especially if you’re not from New York. This year’s festival features eight films,...
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Just How Sweet Is the Domino Deal?
The DOMINO DEAL | Create Infographics Yesterday we reported that the city had struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site that would bring some 700 units of affordable housing to...
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Advisory Group Recommends NYU Build Big During First Phase of Expansion
A rendering for the so-called Sexton Plan. An advisory group made up of NYU faculty and students released a long-awaited report about NYU’s controversial expansion plan today, recommending the school...
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Williamsburg Gets a New Shop For Natty Menswear and Beard Pomade
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Over 150 People Are Lined Up For Free Pancakes Right Now
(Photo: Jenna Marotta) These people are flippin’ insane. It’s National Pancake Day at IHOP and here’s what the line looks like on East 14th Street. Over 150 people strong — most of them dorm kids. At...
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Bowery Getting an Ace Hotel; Oral History of Pyramid Club
(Photo: Scott Lynch) 223-225 Bowery has sold for $30 million and will become a 180-room Ace Hotel with a small number of residential condominiums. [Curbed] Unions want all workers at the Domino site to...
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Win Tix to Teenage’s Opening Night or TEEN’s Album Release Party
It’s a teenage riot! We’re giving away tickets to the opening night of Teenage, a film adaptation of Jon Savage’s history of adolescence featuring music by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, and we’re giving...
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Boys and Girls, Here’s the New Video From The Men, Playing Bowery Tonight
If that new movie about Fort Tilden didn’t have you longing for summer, this new video from The Men surely will: it involves a trip down to Robert Moses State Park and some True Detective-style...
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Buyer of Chinatown Fish, Beware!
(Photo: vpickering’s Flickr) No, it doesn’t all come from the East River. But there’s been an outbreak of a rare bacterial skin infection caused by handling live or raw fish sold in the city’s...
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Ian Vanek of Japanther: ‘If You Want to Say Fuck Williamsburg, You Better Not...
(Photo: Jesus Rivera) Japanther, an art and rock n’ roll project established in 2001 by Pratt students Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly, might just be obsessed with phone booths. In the “Phone Booth” project,...
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An ‘Arabian French Bistro’ Opens On Avenue A Tonight
Photo: Frank Linkoff If the East Village didn’t already have enough restaurants which marry two seemingly disparate cultures, tonight it can add “Arabian French Bistro” Au Za’atar to the list. Located...
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Domino Development Gets CPC Approval; the Girls Bus Tour You Knew Was Coming
(Photo: Scott Lynch) As expected, the new plan for the Domino Sugar factory site won the approval of the City Planning Commission and will now be voted on by the City Council. [NY Daily News] The deal...
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We Went Uptown For the First Time in Two Years, to Preview the Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public this Friday, attempts for the 77th time to offer a snapshot of contemporary art in America while simultaneously acknowledging that this is just not...
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Lawrence Levine On Making Wild Canaries With His Wife, Sophia Takal
Lawrence Levine and Sophia Takal have gotten a lot of great attention for previous works like Green, directed by Takal, and Gabi On The Roof In July, directed by Levine. The married couple’s latest...
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This Year’s Red Bull Music Academy Festival: David Byrne, a Laser Show, a...
After dropping an oral history of the East Village’s Pyramid Club earlier this week, the Red Bull Music Academy has now announced the line up for this year’s month-long RBMA festival, coming in May....
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Like Billy Madison, Mr. Throwback Will Not Make Out With You in the Middle of...
When Mr. Throwback suggested a Billy Madison quote as his throwback pick of the week, our first reaction was an apathetic eye roll, but we should have known the lord of retro would take it one step...
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Do Your Apartment Ace Hotel-Style at Rough Luxe, a New Home Design Shop
Rough Luxe. (Photos: Jenna Marotta) Metal console, $1,299. Polish steel table with leather top and rivet trim, $799. Bronze spotlight with chain, $799 Reclaimed wood dining table ($3,299) and bench...
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Trade Your Baubles For Fine Art at Cynthia Daignault’s Barter Shelf
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Do you have any small and valuable objects? A beloved rubber ducky? The first love letter you ever received? A condom that’s been in your wallet since the late ’90s? If you...
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