On Saturday evening, about 40 neighborhood activists and elected officials braved the ominously dark clouds in the sky and gathered on the concrete slab adjacent…
Sultan, Your Lift Has Arrived: Scenes From Williamsburg’s 129th Giglio Feast
The annual Giglio Feast, a Williamsburg tradition since 1903, is going on right now on the blocks around Our Lady of Mount Carmel church. And…
St. Mark’s Ale House Is Closing; Bowery Gets an Outdoor Market
In the wake of numerous acts of police brutality nationwide, 1,000 NYDP officers will soon don body cameras to patrol as part of a test…
Get Consumed By A Death Womb at This Bushwick Art Show
Tonight, loft apartment turned art gallery Club 157 will be transformed into a tribute to the life of Mary of Cain. Who’s that lady?, you…
Secret Project Robot Says Goodbye Cruel World With ‘Rainbow Hugs and Kisses’
The name says it all– at Rainbow Hugs and Kisses: a Doomsday Celebration, Secret Project Robot will start saying their goodbyes to the neighborhood they’ve called…
Toto, We’re Not in the Theater Anymore: Metrograph Launches Outdoor Films With Wizard of Oz
The Lower East Side’s new cinephile paradise is joining the city’s summer tradition of (mostly free) outdoor film screenings. Next Tuesday, Metrograph will be showing The…
Protesters Occupy Streets in Response to Police Killings of Black Men
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of New York City last night, halting traffic and chanting throughout midtown Manhattan to protest the police shootings…
Boxcutter Attack at M Station; Verboten Can Be Yours
Police say Janina Glasov, 25, died Tuesday of a heroin overdose in her Bushwick Avenue apartment. [NY Post] Early Sunday evening, a 45-year-old man had…
Blue-Sky Thinking Guides a Push to Turn LES Park Building Into a Community Center
On the northern side of Sara D. Roosevelt Park sits a large brick structure. Once a youth center, the Stanton Building was shut down during…
During Eid, Brooklynites Break the Fast By Flocking to the People’s Playground
There are many traditions (feasting with family, open-air prayer in congregation, and, these days, having a boutique butcher sacrifice your lamb) surrounding Eid al-Fitr, the…