This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. Bartenders with beards and tattoos serve $15 cocktails to a…
Brooklyn Bridge Trespasser Arrested; Elvis Guesthouse and The Stone to Depart EV
A 23-year-old Virginia man was arrested Monday afternoon after taking a walk along the beams above the Brooklyn Bridge to secure selfies. [NY Post] Ten…
Week in Shows: Fresh Newgaze, Disco Misnomers, and Phish Swims Up Livestream
Guilty Giraffe, Disco Cream, Sooner, Yairms Wednesday December 28, 8 pm at Sunnyvale: $10 Welcome back friends, orphans, Santa assassins, and gainfully employed. This is…
Soap Library’s Outer-Space Tape Set to Launch into the New Year
Last week, we told you about Soap Library, the “holistic” tape label specializing in cassettes that are not just objects to behold with your with your…
How the Synagogue Where George Burns Worshipped Became an Artist’s Studio
Hale Gurland was among the aspiring artists, bohemians, and hippies who crowded Soho in the 1970s. From the small room he rented on Wooster Street, the…
How One Fraudulent Banking Temple in Brooklyn Found Faith in Orthodoxy
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. Buildings repurposed as churches always attracted the legendary writer Joseph…
Double Stabbing in the East Village; Cake Shop’s Run Comes to an End
An Alphabet City couple was taken to Bellevue Hospital yesterday morning in critical condition after they were allegedly stabbed by their upstairs neighbor, police and…
A Chinatown Church Marks 80 Years in a Place Where ‘No Decent Person Walked’
On May 29, 1949, a group of people marched through Chinatown to celebrate the construction of a brand new building at 195 Worth Street, just…
Join a Community Arts Dialogue, See Queer Latinx Art, and More Before the Clock Strikes 2017
Art Start Up! Tuesday, December 27, 7 pm to 10 pm at Theater for the New City, RSVP by Email info@theaterforthenewcity.net to RSVP This Tuesday,…
The Greenwich Village Church That Helped Women Get Illegal Abortions
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. On the 16th of November in 1964, four women and…