The East Village’s commanding officer gave a gut-wrenching account last night of how a 39-year-old man was fatally hit by a tire swing in Tompkins…
Tomorrow: Snag Some Free Cookies and Celebrate 120 Years of Veniero’s
With all the mourning over the loss of De Robertis, it’s easy to forget that another old-school Italian bakery is still going strong right around…
Williamsburg Lumberyard Heist; ‘Saddest Building in Brooklyn’
Almost $10K in cash was looted from a lumberyard on Williamsburg’s Stewart Avenue. [The Brooklyn Paper] If all goes well for developers, the warehouse at 105…
Three More Holiday Shopping Hoo-Has (Two of ‘Em With Free Booze)
Been too busy drinking to get any holiday shopping done? You know you can combine those two things, right? And maybe you better, because you’re…
Rudy’s Barbershop, a Sibling of Ace Hotel, Has Opened in Williamsburg
Rudy’s — the rock-n-roll barbershop that Alex Calderwood and Wade Weigel launched in Seattle in 1993 before going on to create the Ace Hotel —…
Sweatshop, an Aussie-Style Coffee Spot Where You Can Buy the Barista’s Socks
Feel guilty every time you turn a coffee shop into your personal workspace? No need to at this new Williamsburg spot — the owners of Sweatshop use the…
They’re Putting the ‘Art’ in Cartography and Taking Subway Maps to New Places
There are few useful maps that blur the lines between reality and fantasy as completely as a subway map. Curves are smoothed, the space between…
‘Starrs’ of Bushwick Collide For Some Literary-Musical Performance
For those of us who use “right off of the Jefferson L” to describe where we live, and Roarke Menzies are familiar faces at the…
Office Building Rises on Kent, Uruguayan Food Comes to LES
Thanks to a $70 million construction loan, an eight-story luxe office building will rise in Williamsburg at 25 Kent Avenue. [] Box Kite’s former chefs…
Williamsburg Dance Destination TBA Tries to Bounce Back From Shutdown
TBA Brooklyn, a stripped-down South Williamsburg bunker for house and techno music that operated away from the flash of the Northside’s clubbing district, has been closed by the…