After hosting some epic events over the summer (Tiki Disco, Kim Gordon) the onetime factory that goes by the name Knockdown Center is remodeling so…
Wednesday: See Billy Leroy On the Big Screen and in Person
We were devastated — really just devastated — when Billy Leroy, star of Travel Channel’s Baggage Battles, told us he had ditched plans to return to…
The East Village Has Lost Its Only Umbrellas and Candy Store
This bittersweet news really put a damper on our day. Ame Ame, the store on East Ninth Street that sells rain gear and candy, won’t live…
Dead Stars Is Going As Nirvana For Halloween
Turns out those two Nirvana cover albums aren’t your only chance to hear Kurt brought back from the grave. Wednesday at 285 Kent, Gigawatts is putting on…
Forget Banksy, The Katz’s Pop-Up Has Hanksy… and Kenzo Minami
A while back, we clued you into the pop-up that Katz’s Delicatessen was opening next to its longtime digs. The Space, at 203 East Houston,…
Listen to Not One But Two Full-Album Covers of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’
Forget the $150 box set and the fax from Steve Albini — the most amazing thing to emerge from the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s In…
Yep, McCarren Pool Is Getting a Skating Rink With Gifts and Grub
You won’t have to hoof it over to Central Park, Flushing Meadows or (shudder) Rock Center to go ice skating anymore. The folks at Open Space Alliance…
Cha-An’s Former Chef Is Opening a Dessert Bar Off of McCarren Park
Tomoko Kato, who helped open the Cha-An tea room in the East Village in 2003, is opening an eponymous dessert bar on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border.
These North Brooklyn Writers Agree: Stop Talking Shit About Williamsburg
After spieling with a pair of downtown memoirists about changes in the East Village and Lower East Side over the years, we brought together to…
‘Rent Is Too Damn High’ Guy Has Released a Funky Little Housing Court Jam
Now that Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High party, has achieved even more fame as a music video star, why wouldn’t…