The city’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens today at 212 E. 14th Street. [NY Daily News] A tenement at 223 1/2 Bowery was demolished in…
My Quick and Painless(???) Visit to the New ID NYC Pop-Up in the East Village
That is not a Mucinex hallucination: I just used the words “quick and painless” about government bureaucracy. Thanks, Obama! Or: thanks, Rosie Mendez. The council…
Boba Guys Will Start Slinging ‘Grade A Balls’ on Saturday
We’re not sure what took so long, but New York is finally getting a premium bubble tea joint. Say goodbye to day-old hardened tapioca balls…
2016: A Bedford Stop Odyssey
Williamsburg seems to get some shiny new thing pretty much every day, whether it’s a Whole Foods, yet another glass condo, solar-powered trash compactors, or Pat…
St. Mark’s Bookshop Now Facing Eviction By the City
After a hopeful move to a new location, the beleaguered St. Mark’s Bookshop is once again in danger of closing due to a dispute with its landlord. This time,…
Woman Loses $600 to Bushwick Robbers; Mongolian Hot Pot Eatery is Bowery Bound
Early Sunday evening, a 45-year-old lost hundreds of dollars when two men stole her purse on Bushwick’s Bleecker Street. [News 12 Brooklyn] On Knickerbocker Avenue…
With This $100 Gilded Donut, Has Brooklyn Jumped All the Sharks?
Consider the doughnut: a simple, workaday way to fight your case of the Mondays. Or so you thought. Behold: the gold-smothered donut out of Manila Social Club. Its dough is filled with…
The Music’s Over at Garage, The Latest Village Jazz Club to Turn Out the Lights
Last week, as part of our A Lot About a Plot series, we looked back on the history of some bygone jazz joints, including the…
Week in Shows: Best Live Acts This Side of the Hudson and the Borough’s Bleakest Show
T-Rextasy, Band Practice, Doubles Friday January 8, 8 pm at Aviv: $7 Picture a femme Parquet Courts fronted by Ellen Page all hopped up on…
Talks + Readings: Social Movements of the 21st Century and ‘Coming Out’ for Porn
Book Launch: When We Fight, We Win! Tuesday, January 5 at 7:00 p.m. at The Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St, Brooklyn. (DUMBO) The past year was filled with…