A Repeat Performance could certainly use a little extra space. The beloved East Village antique shop is practically bursting at the seams, overflowing with decades-worth…
Academy Annex Will Leave Williamsburg and Turn Greenpoint into a Vinyl Mecca
Academy Annex is moving on up – from Williamsburg to Greenpoint. Owner Mike Davis says the record store has to leave its current building on N.…
Bushwick Elucidations Teaches You How to Dougie
Time for the latest episode of “Bushwick Elucidations,” the BK-based advice column we’ve shamelessly appropriated as our own. This week, Tigre and Cricket teach us how…
Apparently, Padma Lakshmi Wants NYU to Pack Its Knives and Go
Whelp, this land-use matter just got a whole lot sexier! Opponents of NYU’s plan to expand in Greenwich Village have gotten a few more bold-face…
Update on Pike St. Fire, Bushwick Bohemia in the Hamptons
Last week’s fire on Pike Street rendered 34 adults and 7 children homeless. [The Lo Down] Hamptons Bohemia, this summer’s annual ArtHamptons fair, will feature…
Wafels & Dinges Café Is OPEN and Serving Milkshakes, Coffee, and…Lox Waffles?
Wafels & Dinges opened a cafe and it’s serving lox waffles
Scenes From Today’s Trayvon Martin Rally in Union Square
Hundreds gathered for a rally in Union Square this afternoon, to protest the not guilty verdict in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. On the scene was…
San Fran Transplant Opens Taqueria Diana, Now Serving Monster Burritos
Matt La Rue, the proprietor of the newly opened Taqueria Diana, had always dreamed of opening a taqueria in New York. The Stockton, California native…
‘People Loved It Loud’: Rockers Recall Academy of Music and Palladium
Built as a movie palace in 1927, the Academy of Music on East 14th Street, at Third Avenue, was a place where Lower East Siders…
A Rider Got Mugged But Other Than That, Citi Bike Hasn’t Been Hell On Wheels
Thought Citi Bike would result in “total carnage”? WRONG. Unless you count some punny vandalism, the apocalypse on two wheels has yet to materialize. In…