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Russ & Daughters Cafe Opens; ‘Sober’ Dance Party in Williamsburg
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Leonardo DiCaprio bought a $10 million condo in a green building on 11th Street. [NY Post] In Greenpoint, one driver threatened another with an ax during a parking dispute. [The...
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Here’s Your Chance to Dine With Charlie From Girls (and Support His Next Movie)
If you’ve been dying to ask Christopher Abbott why he left Girls, this is probably your one and only opportunity. Borderline Films, the Williamsburg-based production company best known for its...
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Stromboli’s Web
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Between anarchists running amok and cars slamming into hardware stores, there’s a lot of cracked glass around the East Village – and a sticker artist has taken note. We spotted...
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An Old-Tyme Frozen Yogurt Parlor Is Coming to Bedford Avenue Next Week
(Photo by: Jenna Marotta) Despite appearances, Von Dohlens — opening next week on Bedford Avenue, one block from The Bean — is not a new Williamsburg biergarten. It’s an organic, self-serve...
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Seaport Music Festival’s Free Outdoor Shows: Big Ups, Black Bananas and More
The Seaport Music Festival has announced this summer’s lineup of free shows and while the roster doesn’t boast the big-ticket indie acts (Animal Collective, Hot Chip, The National) or throwback legends...
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A Wine Bar and a San Loco Are Opening in Williamsburg’s Marbleworks Lofts
The finishing touches are being put on Sort Of wine bar. (Photo: Elizabeth Flock) A former marble factory on the corner of Metropolitan and Driggs is about to get a biodynamic wine bar, a new location...
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Ian Schrager Is the First to Take Retail Space at 51 Astor
Ian Schrager is the latest to move into the East Village’s “Death Star” building, Bedford + Bowery has learned. The vacant retail space on the Third Avenue side of 51 Astor has been papered over in...
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Angel’s Share Opens New Place; $3.6M Penthouse on Avenue C
(Photo: Scott Lynch) A seven-story building in Williamsburg developed by murdered landlord Menachem Stark and his partner (which faced foreclosure and landed them in bankruptcy court) will be purchased...
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DayLife Returns June 1 With Mission Cantina, Bocce, Yoga and More
Last year’s DayLife. The LES has been feeling festive lately. First Lower East Side History month brought 80 things to do (the latest: the Feed Me a Story project, which has been collecting memories...
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Kids Do the Coolest Things: Indie Rock Shows and Hip-Hop Classes for Tots
(Photo: Maryanne Ventrice) One does not simply walk a stroller into Union Pool. So, aside from shopping at Wovenplay, what’s a parent to do if they want their kids to be little Lou Reeds? Here’s a...
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Spend the Next Three Minutes Blissing Out With Roberta’s
To celebrate its sixth anniversary, the one and only Roberta’s just dropped a new promo video. Unlike the absurdist mindfucks the Bushwick pizzeria has unleashed in the past, this one is rather...
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Split an Entire Suckling Pig While Springtime Carnivore Plays
(Courtesy of Babys All Right) Babys All Right is really pulling out all the stops in its quest to distinguish itself from concert halls where your only food option is the gyro cart on the corner. For...
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The L and G Trains Got Mocked in a Video and Immortalized in a Mural
(Photo: Courtesy of Groundswell) With service set to be suspended over the course of 12 weekends this summer, we’ve kind of blocked the G train out of our minds. But a new mural and a satirical video...
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Penn Badgley Will DJ at iO Tillett Wright’s Portrait Party
Funny we were just talking about iO Tillett Wright and the East Village memoir she just sold: Sunday afternoon at the Wythe Hotel, she’ll be at a party for “Self-Evident Truths,” her quest to...
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And Now, Some Gut-Wrenching Photos From Ludlow Street
Welcome to Mourn Porn, where we present bygone institutions in states of disheartening disarray, just to ruin your day. Above we bring you the former Motor City Bar, completely gutted. (Those poles...
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Take a ‘Sewage Bike Tour’ and Then Drink Free Beer at Bikestock’s Launch
The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant isn’t on the bike tour, but we do recommend the nature walk there. Saturday is going to be the shit for bikers: in the morning, there’ll be a 19-mile “very...
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Sweet Chick Delayed in Ex-Fish Digs; GalleryBar Closing in Future Fish Digs
GoodBye, GalleryBar (Photo:The gutting of Motor City and ‘inoteca aren’t the only recent developments on Ludlow: Sweet Chick, which was expected to open in the former Max Fish space yesterday, has...
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Blind Barber Opens in Bushwick; Titus Andronicus Plays Strawberry Fest
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Brooklyn federal court has ordered a former broker at the Williamsburg real estate firm Nooklyn to pay $15K in damages after she uploaded nude photos of herself onto the company...
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Hunter S. Thompson Carved From a Phone Book, David Bowie Made With a Typewriter
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) For Raoul Duke fans, the highlight of Select Fair, which opens on West 18th Street today at noon, has to be this Hunter S. Thompson bust, carved by Alex Queral from three...
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Two New Juice Bars For the Village, Including Another Liquiteria
The plywood came off of the former Blimpie on the corner of Fourth Avenue and 13th Street to reveal – you guessed it – another Liquiteria! The juice bar’s latest forthcoming location – after the one...
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