The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved plans to build that nine-story hotel next to the Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village. [NY Observer] Former New York Times culture reporter Milton Esterow, editor…
Max Fish Wins Support For Reopening On Orchard Street
Last month we reported that Max Fish was planning to take over the Gallery Bar space at 120 Orchard Street. Ulli Rimkus, the bar’s owner,…
This Is Not a ‘This Is Not an April Fools Joke’ Mural
Centre-Fuge, the art project that has brought portraits of the Beastie Boys and Philip Seymour Hoffman (among other art) to the side of a trailer…
Would You Pay $75 For a Kale Salad Workshop?
Kale salads kind of jumped the shark when the Times said they were “hot in Manhattan social circles” a year ago, and we definitely aren’t…
Stanley Cohen Says He’ll Appeal ‘Crap’ Conviction of Bin Laden’s Son-in-Law
Stanley Cohen has defended a slew of unpopular clients, including a political leader of Hamas and an assortment of drug dealers, anti-war activists, squatters and…
Jason Wishnow Did a Secret Sci-Fi Film With Ai Weiwei and Ended Up Near Bald
Jason Wishnow has told the story of Oedipus with vegetables and documented zombie yoga in Williamsburg. Now, fresh off a stint as TED’s director of film and video, the Lower…
Bushwick’s Massive New Beer Garden, The Well, Aims to Open Next Month
One of the highlights of last weeks’s Newmerica show (besides the bodega in an art gallery) came when the party spilled into the adjoining beer…
Summerscreen Lineup Announced; Bushwick Building Goes For $58M
A five-story rental building at 1209 DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick sold for $58 million and will start leasing soon. [The Real Deal] A rendering for…
Another Vape Store Blows into Williamsburg
San Loco isn’t the only new tenant coming to the once controversial Karl Fischer building at the corner of Grand and Driggs. On the southern…
San Loco Is Closing Its Williamsburg Outpost, Plans to Relocate
Just weeks after San Loco closed its Avenue A store of 15 years, there’s been another shakeup in the empire: the Williamsburg store will close…