New Greenpoint gallery/event space Succulent Studios goes two-for-two with another fresh and fun exhibition, a collection of seven installations by seven different artists.
Dancin’ in the Street: The Dance Parade Waltzed into Town
Saturday afternoon, the eighth annual Dance Parade shimmied, shuffled, and — in the case of the guy spinning a basketball on an American flag —…
67-Year-Old LES Woman Stabbed; 87-Year-Old Dies in Fire
A 67-year-old Eldridge Street woman, Meilin Liu, was found dead in her bathtub early Saturday evening with multiple stab wounds. Police questioned her brother, who was…
Here’s Bedford Avenue’s New Destination For Fro-Yo and Waffles On a Stick
Von Dolhens, the throwback fro-yo parlor we told you about last week, just opened on Bedford Avenue. Have a look at the interior shots we…
This Portraitist to the Literary Stars Just Inked a Book Deal of Her Own
If you’ve caught readings at Word or the Strand, or if you attended the Downtown Literary Festival last month, you may have seen the young…
Remembering Café Le Metro: ‘We Were the Resistance to John Q Average American’
In 1963 Newsday reported on artists who had abandoned Greenwich Village for the Lower East Side, “New York’s newest bargain-basement bohemia”: “Poets aren’t lacking on…
Moby Just Added a Little Bit of WTF to the Corner of Prince and Elizabeth
Is Moby just monkeying around, or is he aping Diane Arbus or what? Comedian Greg Barris — who, incidentally, is doing another set with Dave…
Life of a Late-Night Mobile Vintage Vendor: ‘We Get a Lot of Drunkums, We Love That’
After being displaced from her SoHo shop in late 2010 by a landlord who wanted more in rent (Stella McCartney is housed there now) Tiffany Nicole…
Watch Smart Crew Destroy a Hotel Lobby With Sharpies and Sledgehammers
By any measure, sceney boutique hotel SIXTY Soho (formerly 60 Thompson) is a fancy place. Which, of course, only added to the fun the other…
Gay Bar Coming to Williamsburg; Eight Guys You Meet in Brooklyn
Yesterday former reBar owner Jason Stevens, who closed the Dumbo restaurant/event space on Friday, was charged with grand larceny and tax fraud. [The Wall Street…