Mayor de Blasio’s proposed 16-mile Brooklyn-Queens Connector was endorsed by urban planners who studied the specifics of the project. [Politico NY] Veterans of LA eatery…
Woman Attacked in Her LES Apartment Building
Have you seen the man in the above video? Police believe he accosted a woman in her apartment building near Stanton and Pitt Street. The…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Marky Ramone and Others Covered Prince, Bowie, Lou, and Iggy
If you’re kicking yourself for having missed Bruce doing “Purple Rain” at Barclays Center, let this further fuel your regret for having stayed in this weekend: Friday’s afterparty for…
NYC Porn Fest is Back! Time to Grind Out Your Submissions
Coming your way faster than you can say “wayward seed deluge,” it’s the second iteration of what’s indisputably the artiest smut fest the world over.…
This Passover, There’s Lots O’ Matzo at Museum at Eldridge’s Synagogue Tours
This is the first Passover in 90 years without Streit’s Matzo in operation on Rivington Street. So what do you do if you get hungry after seeing the new…
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…
There Was Purple Rain (and Every Other Shade of Rain) at Holi NYC’s Color Festival
This past weekend, hitting the powder didn’t mean catching the Snow Bus to Whiteface Mountain. It’s finally spring, see, and what better way to celebrate…
Prince Tribute Mural On Ludlow; Nuyorican Poets Cafe Director Dies
Roland Legiardi-Laura, the director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village, died of cancer last week. [EV Grieve] A 24-year-old woman who was being…
An Awkward Encounter With Prince at Lucky Cheng’s, When He Was a ‘Crazy Symbol’
Unless you’re one of the lucky few who rememeber “random encounters with Prince” while nightclubbing in the East Village in the early ’80s, then you’d…
Unibrow Brilliant: A ‘Movement Installation’ Goes Beyond the Frida Kitsch
What do you think of when you hear the name “Frida Kahlo?” Her lush, Tehuantepec-inspired dresses? Her flowered headdresses? Her unmistakeable unibrow? These days, one of the…