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Blonde Redhead Defends Their Decadence at St. Mazie
(Photos: Phil Provencio) Since 19-freakin’-93, Blonde Redhead has been conjuring killer music in New York freakin’ City. The trio – Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace and Japanese chanteuse...
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A New Exhibit Has Turned This Avenue C Bodega into a Beau-dega
BEAU’s mural on the bodega exterior (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) Oh hey, street art lovers and bodega loiterers: here’s an opportunity to double down on your favorite pastimes. Specials on C—that corner...
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Own a Piece of Rat Castle; Photos of 1940s LES
(Photo: Scott Lynch) For $1.65 million, you can own a condo inside 179 Ludlow Street—nicknamed “rat castle” by locals during its years-long construction. Units are set to hit the market in...
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Seoul Chicken Hatches A Menu
Seoul Chicken, the Korean wing joint captained by former Top Chef competitor Chaz Brown, opens on Clinton Street this Thursday. Last week we gave you a preview of what the menu has to offer, but today...
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100 Montaditos Unleashes Its Spanish Mini Sandos On Ludlow Street
(Photos: Daniel Maurer) Despite construction at the sites of the old Dark Room, El Sombrero, and Motor City, Ludlow Street is looking a little livelier these days: Sweet Chick filled the old Max Fish...
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Look Out, MakerBot: There’s a New 3D Printing Salon in Town
“3D printing is all about bespoke,” iMakr founder and director Sylvain Preumont tells me as we peruse gadgets in his recently opened Lower East Side store. iMakr’s second physical location (the first...
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De Robertis Has Combined a Donut and Cannoli into… The Dannoli!
De Robertis isn’t exactly known for being on the cutting edge (it’s one of the few places that pretty much hasn’t changed a lick since New York surveyed the East Village shopping 30 years ago) but it...
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Diesel Has Opened a Store On Bedford Ave — But Don’t Worry, It’s Going Away Soon
On the heels of the Urban Outffiters concept store, Diesel has opened a similarly stealth operation on the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 12th Street, in the same luxury building that birthed The...
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Two Pioneering Vintage Shops Have Closed in Williamsburg
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Williamsburg just became a slightly less fun place to shop for home goods, as two browsers’ paradises have packed up their steamer trunks. Moon River Chattel, a early proponent...
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Can Catey Shaw’s New Video Make You Forget ‘Brooklyn Girls’?
So you’re probably thinking, wait, Catey Shaw just released another video? It’s only been a month since her first one changed life as we know it, and The Brooklyn EP isn’t even out till September. But...
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Greenpoint Factory Will Be Demolished; New York More Affordable Than Austin?
(Photo: Scott Lynch) In Williamsburg crime news: 74 laptops—valued at $111K total—were stolen from a Hooper Street school between August 15 and 19, and an engagement ring and two Macbooks were taken...
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This New Garden Bar Is The Place to Get Fresh With Euros
(Photo courtesy of NY Loft Hostel) Brooklyn girls: when they walk in, they rule the world. But where does one go to meet a nice Serbian girl? Enter the garden bar that New York Loft Hostel just opened...
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An East Village Photographer Rewinds To 1984, When Madonna Walked St. Marks
162 Avenue B Bakery in 1984 (Photo: Daniel Root) As a 30-year resident of the East Village, Daniel Root has seen his fair share of neighborhood transformation. “But you know, when you’re living in a...
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Find Out What in the World Would Make VICE Leave the Williamsburg Bubble
If you’ve seen Page One, the doc about the New York Times, you’ll remember the tonguelashing media reporter David Carr gave Shane Smith when the VICE founder implied that the Grey Lady’s coverage of...
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Get Some Fine Art With Your Morning Egg-and-Cheese
A Number of Names art gallery on Avenue C and East 7th (Photo: Kirsten O’Regan) If a defunct bodega seems an unusual space for a curated art show, how about the wall outside a still-functioning deli?...
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Which of These New Delis Is Williamsburg’s Kale-Chip Champ?
Organic delis sprout up in Williamsburg faster than you can say “natural-organic-vegan-gluten-free” but which of them offers the sweetest variety of kale chips? That’s really the mark of a great...
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Get Familiar With Robert Crumb’s Wife and Kid at This Upcoming Exhibit
Left: Teeth by Sophie Crumb, 2014, watercolor & ink on paper. Right: Temporarily Blonde by Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 2012, colored pencil, pen, glitter glue on paper. Ed Sanders isn’t the only...
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We’ll Drink (and Eat) to This: Firehouse Becoming a Cultural Center
(Photos courtesy of NTHCCC)In the 1970s, the City of New York flirted with bankruptcy and the storefronts on Bedford Avenue stood empty. Now, those same storefronts are buzzing and a long-running...
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Kilo Bravo Kicks Back In Williamsburg Next Week
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) Kate Buenaflor, owner of The Soft Spot, is opening a new spot in Williamsburg next Thursday: Kilo Bravo, which we’re guessing draws its name from military slang meaning to kick...
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Sandwiches Air-Dropped into Greenpoint; Central Perk (From Friends) Coming to EV
(Photo: Scott Lynch) Madewell, the J.Crew-owned jean purveyor, will join its parents company in Williamsburg this fall, setting up shop at 126 N.6th Street on October 28. [New York mag] In a move that...
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