If you’ve opened up the Sunday comics section within the last 20 years then you’ve seen Hy Eisman’s slightly gentler, more reflective Popeye comic, staying…
Dimes Opens Up a Crunchy Deli, and a Market Is On the Way
Dimes is basically taking over the Division/Ludlow/Orchard-and-Canal intersection in the LES, but we doubt the neighbors much mind. After all, the cafe with health-concious fare…
Talks + Readings: Elvis Costello, Humans of New York, and The Game Guy
TUESDAY Elvis Costello Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street (Union Square). Hear the story of little Declan Patrick MacManus…
Arepas Factory Is Now Turning Out Venezuelan Grub in the East Village
Looks like Caracas has some competition. Over the weekend, a new Venezuelan restaurant took over half of the old Café Pick Me Up space on Avenue A and 9th Street. Monica Muzzo,…
Like the Sound of This? Your Personal Music Curator Sends a Song a Day
Tired of hearing the same artists over and over again on your Pandora or Spotify channels? Fort Greene resident Shannon Byrne, 27, has come up…
Inside Black Seed Bagels, Opening in the De Robertis Space Monday
Black Seed has already earned a following for its unique bagels that borrow traits from both traditional New York and Montreal methods; still, it’s got…
Greenpointers, Hold Your Nose Up High and Learn About Your Hood’s Polluted Past
Just a few days after CUNY social journalism fellow Aaron Smith launched his blog “The Brooklyn Memory Project” with an unsettling video of a retired…
Greenpoint Gets a Cookbook Shop and Cafe, Archestratus Books + Foods
Last Friday, as Hurricane Joaquin blew through Greenpoint, more than 50 local foodies sought shelter in the cozy new cookbook store Archestratus Books + Foods…
Talks + Readings: Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and Miranda July, For Starters
TUESDAY Nitehawk’s “Booze & Books” series is partnering with Abrams Books for a signing of Tom Shone’s Woody Allen: A Retrospective and screening of the director’s 1980…
Would You Pay $1.5M to ‘Rise Above the Rest’ in South Williamsburg?
Well, Brooklyn’s newest luxury high rise isn’t mincing words – its motto, “the first to rise above the rest,” pretty much sums up the attitude…