While the rest of the world anticipates next week’s unveiling of the iPhone 7 or iPhone 6s or whatever and prepares to line up all…
Abdul Abdullah Spent Two Hours With Airport Security to Bring You This Show
Looking at Abdul Abdullah‘s work alone might not give you every hint necessary to guess immediately where the 29-year-old artist is from. And seeing him in the…
Film-Music Editor Nic Ratner Won’t Stand For Nickelback at His Bars
Nic Ratner hates televisions in bars. So much so, in fact, he’s banned them from the three he runs along Second Avenue. “If there was…
Take A Day Off With A-Trak and the Fool’s Gold Gang
Traditionally, “fool’s gold” was associated, as its name suggests, with a yellow-tinged mineral, typically mistaken for its more valuable doppelgänger. But there’s no confusion about Fool’s…
NYU Medical Center at Essex Crossing; Citi Bike Ride to Cali
Essex Crossing developers leased 40K square feet to NYU‘s Langone Medical Center. [Bowery Boogie] On First Avenue, the six-story mixed-use building home to No Relation Vintage…
Three Food Fests That Are a Really Big Dill
Vegan Shop-Up You don’t have to be a vegan to enjoy the ethical delicacies offered at the Vegan Shop-Up; with more than a dozen food…
Dagger, The Queer Lesbian Party Where Straight Dudes Pay to Play
Even the most jaded of after-hours ravers probably haven’t seen this pricing scheme before: for women, entry to Dagger is $5 at the door before…
Williamsburg’s Sleek New Hotel Gets Glassed Up (Plus: The Rooms!)
If you were anywhere in the general proximity of the William Vale these last few days you may have noticed the futuristic giant is getting…
Owner of Bossa Nova Civic Club Opening ‘Elevated Diner’ in Bushwick
If all goes as planned this fall, John Barclay, owner of Bushwick dance destination Bossa Nova Civic Club, will be serving up over-easy eggs and bloody marys…
Williamsburg’s $6.5M Pad; East Village Birdman Flies the Coop
Late Monday afternoon, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in the arm by a safety-scissors-weilding stranger on the Lower East Side. [DNA Info] A 5K-square-foot Williamsburg…