If the East Village didn’t already have enough restaurants which marry two seemingly disparate cultures, tonight it can add “Arabian French Bistro” Au Za’atar to…
Bowery Getting an Ace Hotel; Oral History of Pyramid Club
223-225 Bowery has sold for $30 million and will become a 180-room Ace Hotel with a small number of residential condominiums. [Curbed] Unions want all…
Art Thief Swipes Snoop Lion Portrait; Mini Mini Market Closing After 14 Years
Pols have redoubled their calls for traffic safety in the wake of a Williamsburg traffic death. [Brooklyn Paper] A variety of projects are vying for…
Richard Hell Will Chat With Robert Christgau Tomorrow Night
If you missed your chance to dine with Richard Hell, you’ll have a chance to see him for free tomorrow night when the punk-rock royal…
The East Village’s Newest Coffee Shop Slides Open Its Back Bar This Week
The Roost is the OG hip-as-hell coffee shop of our wildest hopes and dreams: Brooklyn Roasting Company single origin beans, Balthazar pastries, fresh flowers and…
Steve Buscemi Chilled With Anthony Weiner, Is King of Mardi Gras
Former Lower East Sider Steve Buscemi has been bouncing around town lately — and we’re not even talking about Big Lebowski burlesque. Last week he…
As Landlord Gives It the Boot, Gathering of Tribes Asks For a Leg Up
Steve Cannon, the owner of A Gathering of the Tribes, seems to have finally lost his years-long fight to keep his East Village gallery space.…
Hyper-Gentrification vs. Super Gentrification; How to Squat in NYC
Congrats to Lower East Sider Spike Jonze, who took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay last night. [B+B Twitter] On hyper-gentrification, super gentrification and…
Watch the Oscars at One of These 13 Spots and You’ll Be Golden
At last year’s Oscars, Seth MacFarlane hosted, Jennifer Lawrence tripped, and Ben Affleck called his marriage to Jennifer Garner “work.” Movie musicals and James Bond…
A New Nook For Sushi and Chicken Hearts
East Villagers, if you’re searching for a new sushi standby following the closing of Sapporo East and Shima and the relocation of Sushi Lounge, newly…