The space that used to house Coup, on Cooper Square, still feels like a cocktail lounge, but the young people at the bar during a recent visit…
City Reliquary Unveils a Sculpture Garden That’s Pure Garbage
Many art shows can be classified as “trash” but a new sculpture garden takes it a step further. Part of the ongoing “NYC Trash!: Past, Present, &…
More Great Ghost Signs of the East Village and LES
We’re back with the fifth in our series of ghost signs. Click the photos to see artifacts of businesses that have long disappeared. Photos by…
City Seeks to Streamline Landmarking Process, But Public Doesn’t Want to Be Shut Out
The Landmarks Preservation Commission wants to speed up its approval of certain building modifications by eliminating public hearings, but preservationists argued yesterday that the move would silence…
Williamsburg’s Dime Savings Bank Is a Newly Minted Landmark
Williamsburg’s Dime Savings Bank has been declared a New York City landmark. The unanimous vote at a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing today was cast two weeks after…
Photos: New Yorkers Demand Gun Control at Massive ‘March For Our Lives’
Some 150,000 people took to the streets in New York City on Saturday—joining millions of others in more than 800 cities around the world–demanding a…
Lawsuit Temporarily Halts Controversial Development at Pfizer Site in Williamsburg
The developer of a controversial project in South Williamsburg was hit with a restraining order yesterday that temporarily bars the construction of eight buildings on the former…
One of the City’s Great Ghost Signs Has Been Defaced
This doesn’t double our pleasure. Not one bit. What was once an ad for Wrigley’s Spearmint gum has been tagged, depriving the East Village of one…
Images From Today’s National School Walkout to End Gun Violence
Thousands of students in downtown Manhattan, North Brooklyn, and elsewhere in the city and around the country walked out of school this morning to demand…
Activists Say ‘Frack No’ to Proposed Pipeline as Cuomo Makes Renewable Energy Investment
Environmental and community groups gathered outside New York University’s Kimmel Center this morning, rallying against a natural gas pipeline proposed by the Williams energy company.…