As expected, Broad City got all up on St. Marks Place last night. When we passed through around 11:30 p.m., Ilana Glazer was rehearsing a scene…
Model Goes Missing; Seth Rogen and Shephard Fairey On LES
Police say 22-year-old model Ataui Deng of the Lower East Side—who has walked runways for Zac Posen and Proenza Schouler— went missing from a 48th…
Would You Sign Up For an Art CSA?
Broke art collectors don’t exist, and broke artists can only exist for so long. Enter: Brooklyn Community Supported Art + Design (CSA+D). Putting a twist…
Listen to ‘Williamsburg Love Song,’ an East Village Restaurateur’s Ode to Hipsters
When we posted about the “Brooklyn Girls” remixes this morning, we weren’t expecting a local entrepreneur to come forward with his own hipster anthem, but…
Ed Sanders Had a Fuggin Amazing 75th Birthday
Last night at Bowery Poetry Club, friends of counterculture icon Ed Sanders marked his 75th birthday by lauding him variously as a journalist, an investigative poet, a utopian anarchist,…
The Rice Burger Shack Has Opened, and It’s Serving Small-Batch Pickles On a Stick
That Broad City shoot isn’t the only super exciting thing happening on East Ninth Street, between Second and Third Avenues: Yonekichi, the rice-burger stand that…
Echo and the Bunnymen Covered The Doors, Bowie, and Lou Reed Last Night
Echo and the Bunnymen — the ’80s band that was covered by ’90s stalwarts like Pavement to the Flaming Lips — unleashed some covers of…
Broad City Is Shooting in the East Village This Week [Updated]
Broad City filmed on the Lower East Side last week and now it’s the East Village’s turn: film shoot signs indicate that “BCB Productions” (or,…
‘Brooklyn Girls’: The Remixes!
“Brooklyn Girls,” the infamous “anthem nobody wanted,” has already gotten a parody cover, but this is truly next-level. Catey Shaw recently put out a call…
Fire in East Village; Brooklyn Leads in Rat Complaints
Yesterday morning there was a “multiple dwelling” fire at 92 St. Mark’s Place near First Avenue. [EV Grieve] In Williamsburg Friday afternoon, a 36-year-old woman…