Photoplay, one of the city’s last great video stores in this age of Netflix, will close on Wednesday night at 11 p.m. after 12 years…
This Film Has It All: Rooftop Teepees, Reclaimed Water-Tower-Wood Surfboards
Just, wow. Any given frame of this short film created by Patagonia Surf Bowery along with Indoek (makers of everything from custom teepees to a Bro in the City app) is a diorama-like snapshot…
Sam Grittner and Abbi Crutchfield On Girls: ‘Relapsing Looks Like Fun!’
Welcome to Girls Talk, in which two of our favorite New Yorkers share the text messages they sent during this week’s episode of Girls. The…
Artists Want to Stay Put By Buying a Building Together. This Is Their Blueprint
William Powhida, a New York-based artist best known for his 2011 stunt of putting on a “VIP Douchebag”-inspired performance art show at the gallery Marlborough…
Jimmy McMillan Wants to Eat Your Cookie
Mayoral also-ran Jimmy McMillan has always been concerned about world hunger (“not only is the rent too damn high, the food is too damn high,” he recently…
Bushwick Is Becoming A Foodie Haven; Inside a Dilapidated Synagogue
A woman was shot in the chest in a Bushwick building Sunday. [NY Daily News] Police have released video of a man who allegedly assaulted…
Allen Ginsberg’s Old Business Card, On the Occasion of His Post Office’s Closing
With the Peter Stuyvesant Station post office closing today and moving over to a retail-only location next week, it seems like a good time to…
Bacon Toothpaste Is Half Off As This Novelty Store Leaves Its Home of 30 Years
When a reader wrote in to tell us Alphabets was closing its original location on Avenue A we wondered where we’d get our mustache-shaped cookie…
Celebrate the Release of Outdoor Gallery at This Indoor Gallery Done Up By Street Artists
Tomorrow night there’ll be a party in Williamsburg to celebrate the release of Outdoor Gallery, a book of photographs that author Yoav Litvin hopes will…
This Dance Studio’s Move Means Free Massages, Smoothies and Reiki Sessions
Yet another Williamsburg business has moved to Greenpoint in search of lower rent, and at their “Re-Grand Opening” Sunday, you can score a free massage,…