This is the story of how St. Mark’s Church evolved from a locus of respectable Episcopalian worship to a venue for expletive-ridden poetry recitals by…
Art This Week: Discarded Toys, Water, and Fermentation
stain begins to absorb the material spilled onOpening Thursday, January 16 at Doosan Gallery New York, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through February…
Pet Portraitist Ben Lenovitz Is a Master of Pup Art
Today is National Dress Up Your Pet Day— but then, you already knew that. Now that you’ve got Crackers done up as a tennis dandy,…
How ‘Love at First Sight’ Saved a 170-Year-Old Synagogue
Kaleidoscopic colors illuminate the interior of Anshe Slonim Synagogue at 172 Norfolk St. on the Lower East Side. Sapphire, scarlet, magenta, and emerald take turns…
The Country’s First Arabic Newspaper Took Root in Gilded-Age New York
In the final weeks of the 1892 presidential race between Republican President Benjamin Harrison and Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland, the writers and editors of the…
9 Doyers Street and the Gangs of New York Scorsese Didn’t Tell Us About
Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film Gangs of New York is a glimpse into the power struggles that plagued the neighborhoods of lower Manhattan in the late…
A Haven for Homestyle Pastries Comes to the Nexus of the Universe
The new Red Gate Bakery, which recently opened in the East Village, is guaranteed to bring you straight back to childhood. With an open kitchen and…
Performance Picks: Winter Theater Fests and Queer Comedy
Under the Radar FestivalNow through January 19 at The Public Theater, various times, $25+. What do Laurie Anderson, prize-winning playwright Aleshea Harris, and multiple stories…
A Home For Little Wanderers, and the Occasional Arsonist
The Saturday before Christmas, 1921, near Third Avenue and 12th Street, a truck struck and killed little Amelia Laredo, who was on her way to…
The Sip-In That ‘Legalized Gay Bars’ Before Stonewall
On the quiet corner of West 10th Street and Waverly Place, one of New York’s oldest watering holes has been operating since around 1864. It…