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30+ Bushwick Galleries Will Burn the Midnight Oil Next Saturday
“Dana and Fortune” by Oliver Wasow, currently on display at THEODORE:Art. When Bushwick Open Studios hits the neighborhood May 30, the hood’s artists will once again show off their workspaces well into...
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$1,000 American Apparel Heist; Kent Ave Gets a Bike Greenway
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A 23-year-old man stole $1,000 worth of “Easy Jeans” and “Disco Pants” from American Apparel in Williamsburg last week, according to police. No arrest has been made. [DNA Info]...
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Tori Amos Fans Experienced ‘Bliss’ at Rough Trade Last Night
Tori Amos lifers lined up in front of Rough Trade in Williamsburg yesterday morning starting at 6 a.m. to be certain they’d have a chance of seeing the iconic songstress perform a rare in-store that...
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The Pieman at Roberta’s Scored a Car That Costs a Lot of Dough
Though he was a semifinalist, Carlo Mirarchi won’t be in the final running for a Beard Foundation Award when they’re doled out on Monday (Maison Premiere and Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery ended...
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Shakespeare & Co.: ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere Until Something Happens’
(Photo: Jenna Marotta)Last we checked in with Shakespeare & Co., it wasn’t ready to comment about rumors of a “possible closure.” Now manager Margot Liddell confirms that the bookstore can’t afford...
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Brooklyn Flea Returns to Williamsburg (With New Vendors!) This Sunday
White Star Vintage’s booth. (Facebook) When Brooklyn Flea’s various markets returned for the outdoor season earlier this year, it wasn’t clear where and when its Williamsburg flea would reopen. Now the...
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A Guy Named Frank Ape Is Taking Over an Abandoned Alphabet City Bodega
Last time we caught up with Brandon Sines, he was selling his witty work at the B + B Bazaar. Now the artist, whose studio is in Bushwick, is taking over a former bodega near his East Village...
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Rockaway Beach Surf Club Is Back, and Will Now Rock Southern Barbecue
Rockaway Taco is set to open tomorrow, and that isn’t the only great news coming out of the peninsula. Rockaway Beach Surf Club, the indoor-outdoor spot that hosted Tiki Disco’s last bash of the...
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Mars Bar’s Owner: ‘We’re Going to Reopen’ (Jupiter 21 Developers Will Be...
(Photo: Joshua Davis) First Max Fish makes a return and now this. Mars Bar is coming back – in some form – to its former digs on Second Avenue. “We are going to reopen,” owner Frank Penza told us....
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Arrest in Menachem Stark Killing; Pretzel Vendor’s Cart Stolen
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A construction worker employed by a contractor who did work for Menachem Stark has been charged in the Williamsburg landlord’s murder. [NY Daily News] This week a 33-year-old man...
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Josh Stewart Got A Lot of Static About the Premiere of His Latest Skate Film
In production since 2008 and teased as coming soon last fall, the latest installment of Josh Stewart’s Static skateboarding video series was still met with a resounding really? when tonight’s premiere...
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Look For Chris Rock in the East Village Tonight
Local fixture Michael Che has a part in the film. (Photo: Mindy Tucker) Chris Rock’s new film is shooting in the East Village tonight. According to signs posted around the neighborhood, the “untitled...
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East Villagers Will Have to Wait For OddFellows Ice Cream, But Have a Look
(Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) (Photos: Jenna Marotta) OddFellows, the Williamsburg ice creamery, will not open...
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Forget Papal Canonizations, Here Are the Heroes and Heroines of the LES
(Photo: Jenna Marotta) Sure, there’ll be some downtowners in the running at Monday’s James Beard Foundation Awards (Hearth, Christina Tosi, wd-50, David Chang). But they aren’t the only locals getting...
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You’ve Read These Writers on B+B, Now Hear Them Read IRL
Jesse Sposato. We’re proud + pleased to note that a couple of B+B contributors have readings coming up – right in our backyard! Aren’t we friggin’ literary? Jesse Sposato, whose Urban Campers series...
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This ‘Fine-Art Video Game’ Will Go Medieval-Futuristic On You
Medieval Future isn’t one of the video games that you’ll be able to play at Kickstarter’s Greenpoint block party this Saturday (it hasn’t yet been finished) but boy do we hope its online fundraiser...
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Is May Day Past Its Heyday? Sparse Crowds in Union Square Today [UPDATE:...
Brenda Stolcely of IWWD It’s May Day again, but — so far — there hasn’t been the sort of drama we’ve seen in recent years, when over 30 people were arrested in 2012 and still more were apprehended in...
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Bushwick Block Party Lineup; Eatery in Union Square Park
Menachem Stark’s alleged killer didn’t enter a plea when he was arraigned in court. He remains in jail. [NY Daily News] After a long winter hibernating inside Greenpoint’s Lutheran Church of the...
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The Tompkins Riot Was Reenacted For a Movie and We Captured It All
Ater liveblogging yesterday’s May Day march we figured we’d unwind by watching the Tompkins Square Park Riot. Wait, didn’t that happen in 1988, and didn’t Clayton Patterson already screen his footage...
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Everybody Loves a Parade to Protest Gentrification
If watching the reenactment of the Tompkins Square Park Riot got you in the mood for real-life East Village activism — or if you missed the May Day festivities and are feeling left out — well then...
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