After a horrific horrific collision between a car and motorcyclist on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint Sunday that left the motorcyclist dead, Councilman Stephen Levin is calling…
Dalaga Closes, Home of the Brave Opens on Franklin Avenue
While the Franklin Avenue retail strip keeps growing (a home design shop, Home of the Brave, popped up last week) one of its pioneers said…
This Massive Athletic Club Is Coming to the Williamsburg-Greenpoint Border
Williamsburg-Greenpoint is getting a 17,000-square-foot training facility where locals can work off the beers they downed next-door at Spritzenhaus. While their kids are looked after.…
Guardian Angels On the Case After Sunday’s ‘Knockout’ Attack
The Guardian Angels want to “stop the knock out game” with flyers posted near Bowery and Prince, where a 23-year-old Long Island resident was sucker-punched…
Don’t Worry, Those ‘Dad Glasses’ Might Not Be Matt Berninger’s New Look
Yes, Lena Dunham was naked on SNL. But Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, also set off a twitstorm during Saturday’s episode when he…
Baby Seal in Greenpoint; ‘How Hipsters Ruined the Bowery’
Here’s more on Saturday night’s cab crash at Eldridge and Broome. [NY Daily News] A motorcyclist died after hitting a car on Manhattan Avenue in…
This Crash Sent Two Cabbies to the Hospital
A pair of cabs collided at the intersection of Eldridge and Broome Streets tonight. It happened shortly before 9 p.m. and two people were taken…
A Tiny Gift Shop Has Opened and Now Manhattan Is Officially Over, Too
Earlier this week, Brooklyn was declared over, and now Manhattan is over, too. Done. Finished. On St. Marks Place, a small gift shop has opened,…
Williamsburg’s Croxley Abbey Has More TV Sets Than You Have Teeth
Despite 38 television sets, 10-cent wing nights*, 48 tap beers plus nearly 80 bottles, the owners of Croxley Abbey in Williamsburg — the sixth location in…
‘Don’t Put Your Butts in the Creek,’ Other Green Projects Score Oil-Spill Funds
Greenpoint is about to get a whole lot greener: more than a dozen community organizations will be awarded a total of $600,000 in funds to make…