WEDNESDAY GAPE: Gift Activating Public Experience Wednesday, December 5 at The Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center, 7:30 pm: FREE While government organizations like USPS…
New Exhibitions: One Artist In Two Galleries, Beautiful Soup, Native Transformers
First, Play / Second Date Opening Wednesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 9 at Disclaimer Gallery and Field Projects, 6 pm to 9 pm and…
Legendary Gogo Dive Pussycat Lounge Returns After a Six-Year Catnap
Nine lives, indeed! The legendary Pussycat Lounge has quietly reopened after six years of uncertainty. I haven’t yet read Meet Me in the Bathroom, the…
How a Mosque Ended Up Next to a Pig-Roasting, Shot-Pounding Metal Bar
This week and next, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. At dusk, bearded men dressed in suits take…
Iron Chef Jose Garces Opens First NYC Tapas Bar Downtown
It comes a little too late for the Tribeca Film Festival, but if you’re planning to head down to Battery Park City to peep those…
Hanukkah Haps: Take a Tipsy Tour of a Synagogue or Warp Back to Yiddish Theater
The Festival of Lights is as good a time as any to get in touch with your Jewish heritage — or at the very least your…
Yo Carvel, Where Do You Think You’re Going?
We just got word via a press release that Carvel is celebrating the opening of its “newest Lower East Side shoppe” with free ice cream.…
SugarCube, South Street Seaport’s Sweet Attempt At DIY
“I like to think of it as rising from the ashes of Kent Avenue,” Drew Briggie of 100m records explained, twice actually, once when I…
Downtown Manhattan Is Getting Another Beach – With Shuffleboard!
If you’re planning to head to any of the Seaport Music Fesival shows, here’s extra incentive to make the short trip from the Lower East…
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Village Voice Has Left the Village
Believe it or not, The Standard’s new lobby isn’t the biggest news out of Cooper Square. Across the street, the venerable Village Voice has quietly…