THURSDAY Stigma Unbound: Pride Thursday, June 21 at Secret Location, 8 pm: $15-30 You probably haven’t forgotten, but it’s Pride month. To sex-worker-centric event series…
Starbucks Faces Off Against Five Leaves in Greenpoint
It’s a story as old as time– or as old as worries over hyper-gentrification, anyway: a Starbucks moves in across the street from a mom-and-pop coffee…
Frying Pan’s Sunset Park Bar Ups Its Game With Shuffleboard and More
The endlessly evolving work-play complex that is Industry City has gotten some serious upgrades this summer. In addition to a new outdoor concert and comedy…
Throwback Subway Trains Are Back For Some Fun in the Sun
This past weekend, the New York Transit Museum offered up several vintage subway trains at the Brighton Beach B/Q platforms for nostalgic New Yorkers. The…
Photos + Video: The Coney Island Mermaid Parade Was the Place to Sea and Be Seen
Throngs of New Yorkers festooned in sparkly neon fishnets, purple glitter and dolphin-shaped crowns descended on Coney Island this past Saturday for the 36th Annual Coney Island Mermaid…
Art This Week: Disasters, Morir Soñando, a Different Dia:Beacon
Edge of Eden Opening Wednesday, June 20 at Fridman Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through July 20. Maybe all your friends have…
A Trailblazing Tailor Offers the Wrongfully Convicted a Stitch in Time
Mark Denny went to prison when he was 16, for the robbery and gang rape of an 18-year old inside a Burger King in Brooklyn.…
Will Your Lamb Gyro Survive NYC’s New Styrofoam Ban?
Along with pillowy heaps of steaming rice, hot sauce and shredded meat, Styrofoam containers are practically ubiquitous among the city’s halal food carts. The foam…
Cynthia Nixon Joins Rally Against Cuomo’s Housing Policies as Guv Gets ‘Master Builder’ Award
Hundreds of tenants and activists for renters and the homeless marched from the New York Public Library to Park Avenue and 63rd Street last night,…
‘He’s One of the Good Guys’: Lower East Siders Recall Filming With Anthony Bourdain
Back in April, Anthony Bourdain visited some of his old stomping grounds (and new ones) in the East Village and Lower East Side for an episode of…