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Hear Gary Shteyngart Talk ‘Immigrants, Tenements, Failure, All That Good Stuff’
If you paid $85 to listen to New York Times bestselling author Gary Shteyngart read from his memoir at Calliope, you might want to stop reading here. Tonight at The Tenement Museum, admission is free...
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What’s On the Racks at the Newly Reopened Beacon’s Closet
Beacon’s Closet opened in Greenpoint on Saturday (Photos: Jenna Marotta) Despite weekend flood warnings, plenty of secondhand shoppers waded to an idle stretch of Greenpoint for the grand re-opening of...
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Rockaway Is Getting a Slew of Street Art… and Maybe a New Roberta’s Project
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) As of this post, there are 30 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes and 19 seconds until the reopening of Rockaway Taco, per the countdown clock. But that isn’t even the most exciting thing...
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Richard Gere Is On the Streets: 6 Things Homeless NYers Want His Film to Show
Richard Gere today. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock) We found Richard Gere this morning huddled between two trash containers on East 10th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, where the actor is filming...
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And Now, All of Downtown’s Cool Kids in a Neat Little Video
We’re not sure how we managed to miss “Heroes” when the group show came to The Lodge Gallery last fall: it showcased what was basically a who’s who of downtown cool kids (if you can call late Ramones...
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Watch Richard Hell Read From His Memoir and Then Chat About It
Richard Hell’s talk at The Strand has finally hit the store’s YouTube channel. You can watch it in its entirety above. The punk legend starts off by reading chapter two of his memoir, I Was a Very...
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New Footage of Missing Bushwick Designer; Lindsay Lohan Visits BK Bazaar
(Photo: Scott Lynch) New footage shows missing Bushwick designer Jay Ott walking over the Williamsburg Bridge around 5 a.m. Sunday. [Brooklyn Eagle] And now another Bushwicker, 15-year old male Casey...
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Begin Again Is the Gazillionth Movie to Slum It at 7B
Here’s the newly released trailer for Begin Again, about an ex-record exec (Mark Ruffalo) who takes up with a singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) who’s just been dumped by her rocker boyfriend (Adam...
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Watch AgesandAges Play ‘Divisionary’ at Moscot Before Tonight’s Show
Ten years ago, on a rainy day, Harvey Moscot began strumming his guitar in an empty store. Soon enough, people looking for shelter and some live music were coming in. Harvey decided to hire Helena Ngo...
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Remembering Bushwick Musician, Artist, and Bartender Christo Buffam
(Buffam’s FB profile photo) Last night, friends and family members of Christo Buffam gathered at Cheap Storage to commemorate the life of the musician and artist who, last Wednesday, died in his...
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Max, Onetime East Village Fixture, Has Finally Reopened in Williamsburg
(Photo: Daphne Wester, courtesy of Max in Williamsburg) You’ve probably never heard of Basilicata. “It’s the sort of place nobody knows about outside of Italy,” says Luigi Iasilli, the owner of Max....
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It’s Settled: ‘Marge vs. the Monorail’ Is the Best Simpsons Episode of All-Time
Last month, while Simpsons Club counted down the show’s top 17 episodes at Nitehawk, we asked a Simpsons superfan to pick his own favorites, so we could compare the two lists and name the best episode...
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Domino Debate Rages On; More Weekend Train Shutdowns A Comin’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) At a contentious City Council hearing, there was some lively debate about the number of market-rate apartments that the Domino development could bring to Williamsburg. [Crain's]...
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Watch Jim Jarmusch Play Music From His New Vampire Flick
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) When we spotted Jim Jarmusch on Delancey Street the other day with a guitar strapped to his back and a gig bag in tow (a Lower East Side tableau if ever there was one), we knew...
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Is Adam Parker Smith Going to Bring It to the Brooklyn Artists Ball? Butt Of...
As in previous years, the Brooklyn Museum has handpicked a stellar group of Brooklyn-based artists to create site-specific installations for the Brooklyn Artists Ball, which takes place at the museum...
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The Lower East Side’s Newest Gallery Isn’t Into the Whole ‘White Cube’ Thing
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) When it opens in a long vacant storefront at 64 Delancey on Friday, Red Royalty Gallery promises to offer an alternative to what it calls the “white cube model.” Its first show,...
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It’s Official: Vice Is Taking Over the Beacon’s Closet Space
There’ll soon be twice the Vice on North 11th Street. A source at Vice Media now confirms that it will expand its Williamsburg headquarters into the adjacent space that Beacon’s Closet vacated last...
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You’ll Be Sipping Homemade Vermouth at This New Pintxos Bar By Month’s End
(Photo: Elizabeth Flock) A new Basque restaurant is set to bring house-made vermouth and cider on tap to the former L’asso EV space by the end of the month. Seating 75, Huertas will feature a pintxos...
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Sign Up For These Nifty Sewage Alerts and You’ll Never Be Up Shit’s Creek
Sewer overflow near the the Boat Club. (Photo courtesy Newtown Creek Alliance) Want to know when to avoid Newtown Creek like the plague? Just text 646-576-SHIT. (No, this is not a belated April Fools’...
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East Village Loses a Sichuan Spot, Gains a Ramen Restaurant
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) While downtown denizens continue to await the opening of Ivan Ramen on Clinton Street (“Oh so soon,” Ivan Orkin tweeted on Friday, “Waiting for mr co[n] ed and then it’s a go!”)...
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