After deriding “Brooklyn’s Overhyped, Undercooked Restaurant Scene,” the New York Observer has now gone ahead and declared that “Brooklyn is over. Done. Finished. Brooklyn as…
This Year’s Red Bull Music Academy Festival: David Byrne, a Laser Show, a Street Party and More
After dropping an oral history of the East Village’s Pyramid Club earlier this week, the Red Bull Music Academy has now announced the line up…
Domino Development Gets CPC Approval; the Girls Bus Tour You Knew Was Coming
As expected, the new plan for the Domino Sugar factory site won the approval of the City Planning Commission and will now be voted on…
Boys and Girls, Here’s the New Video From The Men, Playing Bowery Tonight
If that new movie about Fort Tilden didn’t have you longing for summer, this new video from The Men surely will: it involves a trip…
Win Tix to Teenage’s Opening Night or TEEN’s Album Release Party
It’s a teenage riot! We’re giving away tickets to the opening night of Teenage, a film adaptation of Jon Savage’s history of adolescence featuring music…
Bowery Getting an Ace Hotel; Oral History of Pyramid Club
223-225 Bowery has sold for $30 million and will become a 180-room Ace Hotel with a small number of residential condominiums. [Curbed] Unions want all…
Just How Sweet Is the Domino Deal?
The DOMINO DEAL | Create Infographics Yesterday we reported that the city had struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site…
Art Thief Swipes Snoop Lion Portrait; Mini Mini Market Closing After 14 Years
Pols have redoubled their calls for traffic safety in the wake of a Williamsburg traffic death. [Brooklyn Paper] A variety of projects are vying for…
Domino Developer Agrees to Some 700 Units of Permanently Affordable Housing
Mayor De Blasio has struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site, averting a potential impasse over affordable housing.
Steve Buscemi Chilled With Anthony Weiner, Is King of Mardi Gras
Former Lower East Sider Steve Buscemi has been bouncing around town lately — and we’re not even talking about Big Lebowski burlesque. Last week he…