If you’re debating whether to head to the office or work from home today, this might make up your mind: the awning of the Duane…
Alleged East Village Rapist Pleads Not Guilty; Cabin in a Bushwick Loft
The hunt for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s drug dealers led cops to a Mott Street apartment where they busted four people after finding a “mother lode”…
Steel Drums, an Underground Dance Destination, Has Been Shut Down
With the hubbub over 285 Kent’s closure still bubbling, another beloved venue, East Williamsburg’s Steel Drums, has been shut down until further notice. Aurora Halal,…
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Final Hours; Rents Down in Bushwick and Greenpoint
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final hours included a stop into his usual coffee shop, dinner at Automatic Slims, and a phone call to his longtime girlfriend…
Here They Come Now: More Tributes to Lou Reed
It’s been a few months since we lost Lou Reed, and not even Morrissey’s cover of “Satellite of Love” has filled the void. But this…
Another Warhol Superstar Has Died; Would-Be Cop Killer Gets Convicted
First Taylor Mead and now this: Rene Ricard, the East Village “poet, painter, art critic, scene-maker, ex-Andy Warhol super-star, subject of one of Allen’s most…
12 Things You Might Not Have Known About William S. Burroughs, Per His Biographer
A week before a 100th birthday concert for William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, author of the new biography Call Me Burroughs, dropped by The Strand to talk about…
50 Filmmakers Created This Delightfully Glitchy Reboot of RoboCop
Adam Green’s remake of Aladdin and the Bushwick remake of Wizard of Oz may or may not happen, but this is very real: the group…
Crown Heights Is the ‘New Williamsburg,’ East New York Is the ‘Next Bushwick’
Is East New York the “next Bushwick”? [Untapped Cities] And is Crown Heights the “new Williamsburg”? [Curbed] The owners of the Jarmulowsky Bank building have decided to restore its…
Beastie Boys Square Gets Final Slapdown; Bushwick Church Headed For Conversion
The blood of slain Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark was found in a van that police recovered in Brownsville earlier this month. [NY Post] Community Board…