Michael Arenella’s 12th Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party finished off its summer’s first weekend on Governors Island with a healthy heat that was free of humidity. The comfortable…
Two Controversial Second Avenue Lots Sold; Lenin Statue Resurfaces on LES
Two empty Second Avenue lots where the buildings were razed by the Spring 2015 gas line explosion were sold by their owner (who faces manslaughter…
Industry City Beefs Up With Another Restaurant, This One With Shuffleboard
Vincent Chirico, the chef and serial restaurateur behind Coarse in the West Village and Vai on the Upper West Side, opened a new restaurant today…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt East Village Towers Rise High in New MoMA Exhibit
In October of 1929, a New York Times headline announced: “Odd-Type Buildings to Overlook Church.” Those odd-type buildings would’ve been New York’s first glass skyscrapers,…
Tonight, Superchief Gallery Celebrates Five Years of ‘Gettin’ Away With It’
Tonight, Supechief Gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary at its new space in Ridgewood. What started out as a live-in loft space has now expanded…
Indigo Hotel Might Be on the Market; Naked Reality TV Star
An recently unsealed indictment revealed that 12 members of the Bushwick’s True Bosses Only Crew face a combined 59 charges for shootings that have occurred…
‘Catholic Anarchist’ Dorothy Day Returns to the East Village Via an Art Show
“We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists [of conspiring to do],…
Other Music Returns in Landline, Jenny Slate’s Obvious Child Follow-Up
This month, it’ll be a year since Other Music closed after two decades in business, and yet its storefront still sits sadly empty near the corner of…
‘Trump’ Gets an Icy Reception in Union Square
Trump. That’s all that was spelled out this afternoon when artist David Datuna laid down some cool art in Union Square. The all-caps letters were…
Should The City Decide Which Businesses Open in the East Village?
Drunk NYU students are ruining the East Village. At least, that’s what a lot of residents and business owners said last night while discussing a…