It’s always been hard to snag a seat at the chef’s counter at Robataya NY, one of Timeout‘s best restaurants of 2011, but now you…
The East Village’s New Halal Butcher Makes an ‘Honest-to-God’ Guarantee
Move over, Verameat — an actual meat store has quietly opened on an East Village block known more for boutiques than for butchering.
Could This Rat-Riddled Lot Become Your New Picnic Spot?
Could your next kale salad come from what’s currently a trash-strewn, rat-infested lot in Williamsburg? The Gardeners of Hooper Street Park believe so. The group…
Sign Up For These Nifty Sewage Alerts and You’ll Never Be Up Shit’s Creek
Want to know when to avoid Newtown Creek like the plague? Just text 646-576-SHIT. (No, this is not a belated April Fools’ Day joke.)
The Lower East Side’s Newest Gallery Isn’t Into the Whole ‘White Cube’ Thing
When it opens in a long vacant storefront at 64 Delancey on Friday, Red Royalty Gallery promises to offer an alternative to what it calls…
Sound Pieces, Scrabble and an ‘Interactive Ritual Cleansing’ at a 150-Year-Old Church
This weekend, a London-based theater troupe will tap into Williamsburg’s history. ONE OF US, formed in March 2013, puts on site-specific, immersive performances related to…
‘Don’t Put Your Butts in the Creek,’ Other Green Projects Score Oil-Spill Funds
Greenpoint is about to get a whole lot greener: more than a dozen community organizations will be awarded a total of $600,000 in funds to make…
Buyer of Chinatown Fish, Beware!
No, it doesn’t all come from the East River. But there’s been an outbreak of a rare bacterial skin infection caused by handling live or…
Tonight: What to Do About This Landlord Harassment You’ve Heard So Much About
If construction noise, dust, and the occasional backhoe accident are getting out of control in your apartment building, you might want to head to a…
Controversial Stonewall Plaque Moves Forward, Sans Mention of Obama
A long and emotionally charged saga concerning what a plaque will say about the 1969 Stonewall riots outside of Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn may be…