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Antiques and Book Fair Will Bring Vintage Prostie Prints to Greenpoint
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Broad City Returned to St. Marks, This Time With a Trippy Silt Walker
(Photos: Daniel Maurer)
After taking over St. Marks earlier this week, Broad City was back at it last night, this time bringing a green-festooned stilt walker into the mix.
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Missing Model Found; Fall’s Most Anticipated Restaurants
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An employee at an unidentified hospital tipped off police that Lower East Side model Ataui Deng has been admitted as a patient. She’d been missing for 12 days. [NY Daily News]
Police say a 29-year-old man was robbed of his camera, laptop and wallet by a woman who’d accompanied him to his Allen Street hotel room on the Lower East Side. [DNA Info]
A Bushwick woman whose iPhone was stolen at gunpoint from her front stoop Monday night had her property returned to her by police after she used the “Find My iPhone” app. The phone was found in a car along with marijuana and a gun sans serial number. The car’s three male passengers were arrested. [NY Daily News] More →
This New Bushwick Bar Is The Most Literal Boobie Trap We’ve Ever Seen
Welcome to Boobie Trap (Photo: Nicole Disser)
Much like beloved Pumps, the vast majority of boobs at Bushwick’s newest bar are synthetic– but that’s about the only quality these establishments share. Boobie Trap is actually a respectable joint that very likely won’t make you feel creepy and exploitative after spending five minutes inside. In fact, with its cheap beer and reasonably priced food, you might end up staying for a while.
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Ricky’s Is Dressing Up For Halloween On Houston Street
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
It’s been 25 years since Ricky’s opened its first store (called Ricky Love) in Greenwich Village, and the quirky/kinky/funky/punky cosmetics and accessories chain is still going strong: we recently noticed COMING SOON signage in the window at 250 East Houston Street, between Avenues A and B. No, this isn’t a new permanent location: we’re told by the folks at corporate headquarters that it’s a Halloween pop-up that’ll likely open sometime next month.
Sigh, summer’s really ending, isn’t it? It’s enough to make a man buy some “Raven Black” Manic Panic and go full Goth.
Hear Screech Roar in the Saved by the Bell Movie, Then See Him in the SBTB Musical
It’s a good time to be a Dustin Diamond fan (anyone?). First off, Lifetime just unleashed a teaser for its forthcoming “unauthorized” Saved By the Bell movie, which depicts behind-the-scenes antics such as Diamond (aka Screech) clocking Mark Paul Gosselaar (aka Zach Morris) and yelling, “I AM NOT. SCREECH!”
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Did 3rd Ward Stiff You? This Person Wants to Know
When Bushwick’s DIY studio space and artist residence 3rd Ward abruptly shuttered its doors last October, members, teachers and students were left out in the cold. They were given a day’s notice to vacate and gather their belongings, and were notified via email that they wouldn’t receive any refunds for unused memberships or classes. Nearly a year later, former 3rd Ward teacher Robin Grearson is collecting data from members in order to find out just how much money they’re owed.
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Cthulhu Calls! Celebrate H.P.’s B-Day at This Lovecraftian Bar and Festival
A bar named Lovecraft opened on Avenue B two weekends ago, just in time for its namesake’s birthday: H.P. Lovecraft, the horror writer who’s influenced the likes of Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro, would have turned 124 this Wednesday.
Which Girls Character Will You Get On Your Nails at Greenpoint’s Primp & Polish?
(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
After opening three locations in Williamsburg it was only a matter of time before luxe nail salon Primp and Polish honed in on Greenpoint. And now it’s happened.
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A Mobster Flick Is Setting Williamsburg Back Four Decades
The guy who played Furio Giunta in The Sopranos is taking Williamsburg back to 1973.
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