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Surprise, Surprise: Half Off All Housewares at Two East Village Goners
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) If you’re looking for cheap housewares, today’s your day: everything is 50 percent off at Surprise! Surprise!, which will close at the end of this month after two decades in...
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Three Bookselling Institutions Get Ready For Their Next Chapters
(Photo: Jenna Marotta)There’s real estate news from three of the city’s book-selling institutions. The rumors about Shakespeare & Co.‘s possible closure are getting harder to ignore. The space that...
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Near Joey Ramone Way, De Blasio Touts First 100 Days As ‘Rockaway Beach’ Plays
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Today while the rest of us were celebrating Stephen Colbert’s succession of David Letterman, Mayor Bill de Blasio was celebrating himself. Specifically, his first 100 days in...
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Williamsburg Apartment Fire; Bushwick Hit-and-Run Driver Caught on Video
(Photo: Scott Lynch) More than 100 firefighters fought a blaze at a Williamsburg apartment building. Two police officers were hospitalized with smoke inhalation before being released. [The Brooklyn...
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Watch Nirvana Reunite — With Kim Gordon, St. Vincent and Lorde As Kurt
It’s not every show that Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Hall and Oates and freaking Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are merely the warm-up acts, but then last night’s concert at Barclays Center...
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Jad Abumrad of Radiolab Gets His Black Sabbath Fix at Splitty
(Photo: Nina Westervelt) Jad Abumrad is a genius. Really. In 2011, he received the ridiculously prestigious MacArthur Genius Award for creating “engaging audio explorations of scientific and...
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Merchant’s House Desperately Needs You to Nominate Its Plaster For an Award
The Merchant’s House Museum suffered a blow on Tuesday when the Landmarks Preservation Commission finally signed off on the design of a controversial nine-story building that’s due to be erected next...
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Absolutely Nuts: The Smallest Penis Contest Is Back
Get ready for some not-so-stiff competition. The Smallest Penis in Brooklyn contest that went, er, viral last year is BACK and bigger than ever. Okay, not bigger at all. “It’s time to celebrate...
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Could This New Web Series Be The Next Broad City?
Natalia Leite and Alexandra Roxo at the Jane Hotel. (Photo: Cameron Cuchulainn) Alexandra Roxo and Natalia Leite, a Greenpointer and a Williamsburger who together are Purple Milk, know a thing or two...
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Warm Up For Sunday’s Downtown Literary Festival Kicks With Some Free Booze
(Illustration: Kate Gavino)To get people psyched for Sunday’s Downtown Literary Festival, tonight Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a happy hour from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., where the first 100 drinks...
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Stanley Cohen to Plead Guilty in Tax Case; Jimmy Fallon Parties at Niagara
(Photo: Scott Lynch) East Village lawyer Stanley Cohen, who recently vowed to appeal the conviction of Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, has announced on Twitter that he’ll finally end the “witch hunt and...
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Mike Doughty On Downtown Nostalgia: ‘This Disease Is Omnipresent’
Last week, Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing launched a crowd-funding campaign for his next two solo albums. Yesterday, as part of “Closing Time: Stories of Shuttered New York City Venues” at the Downtown...
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Fourth of July Fireworks Are Coming Back to the East Side
(Photo: Several seconds/Flickr) We’ve got an explosive story on our hands: fireworks are coming back to the East River. What had seemed like an ongoing political pipe dream has become a reality: State...
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Hester Street Fair Returns April 26
(Courtesy Hester Street Fair) A couple weeks after the Brooklyn Flea announced its plans for spring/summer, its Manhattan counterpart, the Hester Street Fair, has revealed its lineup for its fifth...
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Bob Holman Fetes Steve Cannon, Announces a Hiccup in HOWL! Festival
Bob Holman at Howl! Festival in 2012. (Photo: Chris O. Cook) This was already going to be a wistful week for Bob Holman, owner of the Bowery Poetry Club. Tonight and tomorrow, he’s hosting a farewell...
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Is It Called Street Art When It’s On a Rooftop?
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More On HOWL! Fest’s Postponement: ‘It’s Been Very Frustrating’
(Photo: Chris O. Cook) We’ve now heard more from Bob Holman about his announcement that HOWL! Festival, an East Village rite of spring, has been postponed indefinitely. In a phone interview this...
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The Henry Millers Are Playing Near Henry Miller’s
After dropping the delightfully surreal video for “Hop” in January and following up with another trippy one, “Children,” in February, Brooklyn synth-pop act The Henry Millers released a single,...
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Greenpoint Is Getting the Convention Center It Didn’t Know It Needed
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) A massive center for expositions will open in Greenpoint this October as part of the Greenpoint Terminal Market, an industrial complex that is still reinventing itself after a...
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Vinyl Vendor Goes Brick-and-Mortar; Bookstore Pops Up in Wythe Hotel
Palm Sunday crosses at St. Mark’s Church, marking Americans killed by guns each year.(Photo: Scott Lynch) Longtime Brooklyn Flea vendor Wreckords by Monkey — which makes jewelry, iPhone cases and...
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