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El Sombrero Lives Again; Bootleg Bar Opens in Bushwick
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Five more cases of measles have been diagnosed and attributed to that outbreak that started in February, bringing the total number of patients to 25. Three of the newest people to...
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Bushwick’s Latest Pop-Up? An Oklahoma Megachurch With Live Rock Music
If you get off at the L train at Wilson Avenue this Easter Sunday and walk just a few blocks north, you’re likely to hear the strains of an evangelical megachurch pastor’s sermon — all the way from...
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Bitch About Gentrification and Get a Free Dinner
Usually when you’re complaining about gentrification it’s at some dive bar that’s going to be replaced by a molecular mixology lab, but Henry Street Settlement is inviting you to kvetch in more civil,...
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Boardwalk Empire’s Buggies Are Back On East 12th Street
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) (Photos: Daniel Maurer) Funny we were just talking about Steve Buscemi. The former Lower East Sider’s...
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My Body Came Out of Shock and I Was Like, ‘Oh, I Got Hit By a Train!’
Liza Dye at Bellevue Hospital Center on Sunday night (Photo by: Jenna Marotta) Tonight, hours after Liza Dye has her eighth surgery since being struck by a B train on February 13, Abbi Crutchfield will...
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Is This Wes Anderson Tribute the Best Sandwich Board of All-Time?
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Spotted at Luke’s Lobster today: “The Grand Budapescatarian Hotel,” featuring Stingray Fiennes and a veritable plateau de fruits de mer of co-stars. Sure, Marc Spitz — who, in...
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Jim Jarmusch Isn’t Nostalgic; Ridgewood Is the ‘Next Big Thing’
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Sitting at B Bar, Jim Jarmusch tells The Times, “I’m not nostalgic, because New York’s only about change and conning everybody out of whatever they have. That’s just what New York...
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Some Artists Built a Bodega Inside of a Bushwick Gallery
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Tour the Urban Outfitters Store, Space Ninety 8, Now Open in Williamsburg
A thousand people lined up to get carded last night outside of Space Ninety 8, the five-story Urban Outfitters concept store officially opening today in Williamsburg. “Make It Rain” thudded through...
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My Bushwick Ride-Along Ended With a Shooting
(Photo: Kristy Ann Muniz) My ride-along with Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct landed on a sunny afternoon. I was told the sunny days are the busiest ones for the NYPD — something that rang true when, an hour...
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Handsome Dan’s Has Quietly, Colorfully Opened an East Village Candy Shop
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Ilan Hall On Gorbals BK, Season 2 of Knife Fight, and Wrangling Action Bronson
The chef last night at his future restaurant, The Gorbals, inside Space Ninety 8 (Photo by: Jenna Marotta) Today we spoke by phone with Ilan Hall, who will soon open an East Coast outpost of his LA...
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Dumont’s Landlord Has Given It 5 Days to Leave Its Home of 12 Years
When Dumont closed in January following the suicide of owner Colin Devlin, his widow Kristina Greene said she was merely completing some upgrades and would reopen the Williamsburg fixture before the...
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Clayton Patterson Leaves the LES; Gagosian Crosses Delancey
(Photo: Scott Lynch) After 35 years, iconic LES documentarian Clayton Patterson is leaving the Lower East Side for Austria. He echos what he told us at the B+B Newsroom: “I didn’t really leave the...
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There Was Cosplay, Cat Comics, and a Gigantic Charlie Brown at MoCCA Fest
This past weekend, MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) teamed up with the Society of Illustrators at the 69th Regiment Armory for the 12th annual MoCCA Fest — a convention with artist booths and...
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A Bushwick Man Was Shot Dead Near Maria Hernandez Park
A makeshift memorial outside of 320 Suydam. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock)A Bushwick man was shot and killed Sunday night outside an apartment building just off of Maria Hernandez Park, a public park named...
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Have a Look at Swallow Cafe’s New Williamsburg Spot
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) The Bean isn’t the only cafe expanding into a recently constructed Williamsburg building: Morgan-stop favorite Swallow Cafe opened an outpost at 493 Driggs Avenue last month....
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St. Marks Gains an Outdoor Sipping Spot, Loses a Free Sample Haven
St. Marks Place lost a prime peoplewatching spot when Japadog closed recently, but now it’s gained another place for freakspotting: Kung Fu Tea, the Taiwanese bubble tea chain, has opened another East...
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A Legendary Guerilla Exhibit, ‘The Real Estate Show,’ Is Revived in a Proper...
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Friends Mourn Ivan Martinez at the Scene Of Last Night’s Shooting
Shawn Talavera (Photo: Elizabeth Flock) A candlelight vigil was held today for the 29-year-old Bushwick resident who was shot and killed last night off of Maria Hernandez Park. Longtime friends of Ivan...
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