Six years ago, Mike McNelis became a regular at Three Kings tattoo parlor by playing softball just as much as by getting inked. Originally from Detroit,…
Big Bob Grady Has Found Camaraderie at Peter Pan Donut For 40 Years
The old timers sit in the back at Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop. That’s where regulars like Bob Grady (“a good Irish name”) drink…
You’ve Either Seen Tinuade Oyelowo On Girls, or Dancing at Bembe
Tinuade Oyelowo spends her days slinging soy lattes at Café Grumpy in Greenpoint and her late Saturday nights sweating on the dance floor at Bembe…
‘Style Junkie’ Sarah Lim Scores Her Local Cologne at In God We Trust
When In God We Trust’s first location opened on Wythe Avenue in 2005, it was a modest shop with a little studio in the back.…
Charles Bellafiore Usually Finds Someone to Talk to at Enid’s
Last week, the unthinkable happened: Enid’s went dry. The Greenpoint bar’s liquor license expired and it went a week without being able to serve (yesterday…
Mari de Monte Loves Black Rabbit Bar, and She’s Got the Tattoo to Prove It
There are customers and then there are Regulars. The kitchen of the Greenpoint apartment that 28-year-old Mari de Monte shares with her cat, Nina Simone,…