Trash and Vaudeville is going, St. Marks Sounds is gone, and a Caffe Bene is on the way. But, as noted in a new history, St. Marks Place “will…
Secret Project Robot Team Opens A Bar-Cafe-Gallery With ‘Zine Vending Machines’
Erik Zajaceskowski and Rachel Nelson, the husband and wife behind art/music space Secret Project Robot and hoppin’ Bushwick bar Happyfun Hideaway, are putting the finishing touches on their latest…
Landlord Tells Ella Cafe and Sujo to Pay Up and Clear Out
Turns out El Beit isn’t the only Bedford Avenue spot that recently bit the dust. After replacing Ella Cafe with Korean gastropub Sujo and then briefly…
GQ’s ‘Best New Menswear Designer’ Opens a Williamsburg Flagship
With shops like Kai D., Feltraiger, and Robert James, Williamsburg is increasingly becoming a destination for discerning dudes seeking dashing duds. The latest local designer to…
CityFox Explains Superfund Rave While Assembly Member Demands Investigation of Pop-Up Parties
The official blowback in response to the Halloween-Superfund-rave-that-almost-was has begun. As promised, Assembly Member Joseph R. Lentol wrote a letter to the State Attorney General…
A Coffee Shop With Free Wifi Became a Co-Working Space With Free Coffee
Makeshift Society, the San Francisco co-working space that came to Williamsburg a year and a half ago, has closed its Hope Street outpost. According to…
Stray Bullet Kills Bushwick Man; De Blasio Criticizes Williamsburg Hotels
Former Mars Bar owner Hank Penza has died. He was 82 years old. [EV Grieve] Just after 1 a.m. yesterday, a 33-year-old Bushwick man received…
Week in Film: Kathleen Hanna on 16mm and Bomb Shelter Children of Botulism Turn Out Totally Normal
This week, cash in your change jar because you’re gonna need it for the screening of this lost Riot Grrrl film starring Kathleen Hanna. Also,…
Club Etiquette Zine Calls Out Dweebs and Creeps on the Scene
Whether it’s because of excessive boozing and very often drugging, lowered inhibitions or cover of night, maybe even social expectations or bro-on-bro insanity, the list goes…
El Beit Has Closed On Bedford Ave., Is Auctioning Everything Off
El Beit, once named one of America’s “Top 10 Coolest” indie coffee shops, has closed after nearly eight years of service on Bedford Avenue. A…