This weekend Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers is hosting a sale at its Williamsburg warehouse, soon to be replaced by a new facility on Montrose Avenue.…
Who Said St. Marks Is Dead? It Just Got a Brand Spankin’ New Sex Shop
Trash and Vaudeville is going, St. Marks Sounds is gone, and a Caffe Bene is on the way. But, as noted in a new history, St. Marks Place “will…
Lions Beerstore, a Gastropub and Carry-Out Shop, Aims to Unite All the World’s Beer Snobs
Lions Beerstore—an all-in-one gastropub, retail store, and self-described beer consultancy—will open Monday in Spice’s former home at Second Avenue and East Sixth Street.
Three Years After Sandy, City Is Cutting Checks and Making Repairs
Three years ago, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New York with high winds, heavy rain, and a 13-foot storm surge that plunged downtown Manhattan into darkness. Today,…
Two Home-Design Shops Add a Touch of Chic to Greenpoint’s Shopping Strip
Greenpoint’s Manhattan Avenue strip has always been a destination for affordable homewares, but in recent weeks a couple of young women have opened home design shops that stand…
Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Stage Funeral in Hopes of Killing Tower Deal
Halloween came early for a developer seeking to take over a controversial plot on the Williamsburg waterfront; this afternoon activists hauling coffins and headstones tried to…
Cheesesteak Donut Burgers, Anyone? Philly’s PYT Burger Lands in NYC
Everybody knows that to be from Philadelphia is to have a glint of madness in the eyes, a smile relishing the shock and horror of…
Peggy Guggenheim’s Great Grandson Opens Gallery in Former Williamsburg Bank
The Rumney Guggenheim gallery may be the best thing to happen to Brooklyn’s art scene in a long time. The gallery celebrated the opening of…
One Dead, Two Wounded in Bushwick Shooting
Three people were shot, one fatally, shortly before 8 a.m. today in Bushwick. A 53-year-old man was found dead near the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue…
This New Malaysian Coffeehouse Has the Crab Balls You Crave
Kyo Pang, co-owner of the newly opened Kopitiam on Canal Street in Chinatown, is pulling off the rare and improbable. With remarkable concentration, she pours…