(Photo: Daniel Maurer)
Pour one out for a slider joint that served “one of the best burger bargains out there,” according to burger connoisseur Nick Solares.
Mark Burger Leaves St. Marks, Promises to Ketchup With Us Later
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Carlina Rivera Is a ‘Shero,’ and Now She Wants to Be East Village and LES Council Rep
(Photo: Carlina Rivera on Instagram)
Lifelong Lower East Side resident Carlina Rivera is a frontrunner to be a City Council member representing District 2, where her current boss Rosie Mendez is on the way out. She’s racked up at least $176,000 in fundraising and she received praise and promises of votes when she attended an anti-Starbucks rally in the East Village last month. If Rivera wins the primary election on September 12, she’ll continue her campaign to represent the East Village, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, Lower East Side, Murray Hill and Rose Hill. We met with her at Alphabet City’s Ninth Street Espresso to talk about her campaign, local issues, and her sheroes.
LES Residents Call For City to Intervene On ‘Nightmarish’ Mega Towers
(Two Bridges resident Trever Holland speaking at the rally in front of the Department of City Planning)
In another installment of “the rent is too damn high,” Two Bridges residents are demanding that the city increase its oversight of the mega-towers coming to the Lower East Side waterfront, which are set to add thousands of luxury units to the lower-income and working-class community.
35,000 Drawings Turn a Vampire Classic Into a Story of Immigrant New York
For three years, Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito and a dozen assistants have slaved away on NYsferatu: a Symphonie of a Century, a remake of the 1922 vampire classic Nosferatu, but made out of 35,000 hand-drawn pictures. “This movie is my second wife right now,” Mastrovito told us. “We are always together, me and NYsferatu. And even if I love it, I love and hate it. NYsferatu has sucked my blood.”
At last, this Monday, the film will premiere at Pier 63.
Artists and Latex Lovers Whip Out Their Pens at Kink ‘n’ Draw
Instagram: LatexBaroness.
Those in attendance at the most recent “Kink ‘n’ Draw” event got to feast their “lustful and perverted eyes” on latex-clad live models as they posed in erotic tableaux carefully designed by one of our favorite New York characters, fetishwear entrepreneur and kink advocate the Baroness.
New LES Beer Store Promises to Cure What Ales You
Credit: Beer Fridge.
A new craft beer store is coming to the Lower East Side: Beer Fridge, at 41 Essex St., is currently in soft launch, with the official opening “hopefully sometime in the next few weeks,” according to owner Cat DiPaci.
“We’re working out the kinks,” she added. DiPaci, 26, is a first-time entrepreneur. In terms of industry qualifications, “I’m a very avid beer drinker,” she said.
Tags: Ale, beer, Beer Fridge, craft beer, Essex St., LES, Lower East Side, manhattan, microbreweries, new york city, nyc
Slipper Room Owner Faces Criticism After Dropping N Bomb On Stage
Credit: Liz Clayman for New York Magazine.
Lower East Side vaudeville venue the Slipper Room is at the center of a controversy over offensive speech which began Wednesday, July 5, when host and owner James Habacker, while performing as his character Mel Frye, used a racial slur onstage as well as referred to mentally disabled people with language often considered offensive.
According to a Facebook post (quoted in a recent addition to the Slipper Room’s Wikipedia page) by someone who attended the show in question, Habacker made a joke using the term “retarded,” which he justified by arguing he was changing the word’s context to be more positive, and then, adding further fuel to the fire, claimed it was akin to black Americans’ reclamation of the “N-word,” which he used several times to the discomfort of the sole black audience member.
Diner Death Notice: Cup & Saucer Goes Dark
Credit: Shanna Ravindra, New York Magazine.
Last week we reported that LES/Chinatown stalwart Cup & Saucer — one of the last of the New York luncheonette old guard — is closing after more than three quarters of a century, thanks to a rent hike on its Canal Street location.
Although Bowery Boogie reported that today would be Cup & Saucer’s last day of operation, it already, as of this morning, appears to be closed forever. Phone calls to Cup & Saucer are going unanswered, and sources tell us the diner is dark.
People paid their respects on Instagram.
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Credit: OrchardStreetRunners (Instagram).
Credit: PraiseShadows (Instagram).
The owners told the New York Times that their rent was set to nearly double and that they may look for another space.
‘Trump’ Gets an Icy Reception in Union Square
Trump. That’s all that was spelled out this afternoon when artist David Datuna laid down some cool art in Union Square. The all-caps letters were made of large blocks of dry ice that emitted fog that drifted away in the wind. On top of the blocks, some of which were cracked, were notes that said #thistooshallpass.
Two New Docs Take Chinatown as Their Muse
Photo credit: 26 Aries.
Chinatown – “one of the lone neighborhoods in Manhattan to preserve its heritage and verve,” we noted earlier this year – takes center stage in two new documentaries.
Tags: Abacus, chinatown, chinatown fair, documentary film, manhattan, new york, nyc, Retro, the lost arcade, video games