Andra Ursuta’s new solo exhibit is, well, a lot to swallow. “Alps,” which opened at New Museum last night, is rimmed by artificial rock-climbing walls with…
Rockaway Concessions Return With a New Breakfast Spot, Grilled Cheeses and More
We’ve already gotten wind that Rockaway is getting a beer garden, surf museum and bakery, and new food vendors at Riis Park Beach Bazaar, but what about the…
Bushwick Gets a New Tiki Bar, Dromedary, For All Your Hump Day Needs
Inspired by trips to Hawaii, Michael Lombardozzi has opened Dromedary, a 16-seat bar that aims to be tiki without being tacky. Inside, Bushwick’s newest watering hole looks…
Rockaway Brewing Co. Brings a Beach to Bushwick and More Beer to the Beach
For several summers now, Rockaway Brewing Co. has been a fixture at the beach. Now the budding brewery is fixing to build a beach of its own, with…
Burn, Baby, Burn in Bushwick: Pop-Up Nods to Saturday Night Fever Discotheque
A disco inferno is about to break out in Bushwick. Tonight, Rinsed is launching a three-week pop-up nightclub named 3001: Odyssey – an homage to the…
Browse This ‘Nude Thrift Shop’ For Some Naked, Oozing Painted Weirdness
Its awning says Second Time Around is a thrift shop, but it doesn’t have all that much clothing on its shelves, and this weekend there won’t be any on…
‘Bushwick Stomp’ Has Nothing to Do With Roaches, Everything to Do With Gypsy Jazz
Move over, Harlem Shake, there’s a new neighborhood anthem in town. It’s called the Bushwick Stomp, a pseudo-homegrown gypsy-jazz track inspired by Friday and Saturday…
Rockaway Is Getting a Swell New Surf Museum and Bakery
Get ready to wax nostalgic. David Selig, owner of the late, great Rockaway Taco, is working with surf instructor Fernando Pires to open a museum dedicated to the…
BYO Jams to the Sunday Party at Halcyon’s New Williamsburg Location
Resilient underground-electronic record store Halcyon opened its fourth incarnation earlier this month, inside of Williamsburg club Output. The hybrid cafe/record shop, which launched in Carroll Gardens in 1999,…
We Played the Adults-Only Bushwick Board Game– Now an App!
In 2011, Bushwick-based prop master Jan-Luc Van Damme began crafting the Bushwick Board Game, a Game of Life-meets-Cards Against Humanity “silly underground legend” that was…