Skateboarding in NYC isn’t exactly as glamorous as it is in skate videos once the streets are covered in a mix of rock salt, snow…
It’s A-1 Music’s Last Day, and Its Closing Is… Bittersweet?
If readin’ bout Pete Seeger has inspired you to buy a banjo or a 12-string, you better move fast: East Village instrument purveyor A-1 Music is closing for…
Pete Seeger, the East Village, and the ‘Frat House For Musical Revolutionaries’
Before Pete Seeger, “father of American folk music,” died Monday at the age of 94, he had lived in Beacon, N.Y. since 1949. But before…
NYPD Seeks NYU Student’s Shroom Dealer; Carmellini Takes Former Peels Space
The NYPD are looking for the drug dealer who, they say, provided shrooms to Titan Lee-Hai before he plunged from an NYU dorm. [DNA Info]…
These Purple Projections Are the Trippiest Thing You’ll See This Week
If you missed the installation that artist/illustrator Noémi Schipfer and architect/musician Takami Nakamoto (aka Nonotak) brought to Fowler Project Space in Greenpoint earlier this month,…
In the Projects, Citi Bike Hasn’t Exactly Kicked Into High Gear
A trail of self-praise has followed Citi Bike over the last week. Over 6,000 Citi Bikers pedaled through the city against the Polar Vortex and…
Just What the Puck Is Going On at Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club?
After dropping into the soft-opening of Gowanus’s new shuffleboard bar this past weekend, we’ve stopped oo-ing and ah-ing long enough to talk to Jonathan Schnapp, who…
Meet Wes Anderson, John Waters, Chuck Palahniuk and More at the Library
Last time we headed uptown for something at the library, it was for that . Looks like a return visit is in order: the lineup…
‘We’d Found This Cave Out of Time’: A Look Back at Glam Rock’s Club 82
When Judy Garland, Kirk Douglas, Liz Taylor and the glitterati of the ‘50s wanted to walk on the wild side, they headed to the East…
This Mustachioed Man Robbed a Woman in Her Apartment, Police Say
Have you seen this dude with long black hair and a mustache? Details are, uh, sketchy but police say that on Jan. 10 he followed…