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Here’s Your Chance to Help Out Colin Devlin’s Family

August 14, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

Union Pool has announced that it’s hosting a “celebration of the neighborhood’s most enduring and endearing restaurant” this Friday, and proceeds will go to a scholarship fund for the two young children of Colin Devlin, the Williamsburg restaurateur who ended his life last month.

Ten dollars at the door, which opens at 6 p.m., gets you into the 9 p.m. show featuring Dead Stars, Eastern Hollows, and American Darlings. And you’ll have the chance to win prizes from over two dozen shops and restaurants, including Campbell Cheese and Grocery, The Levee, and Beacon’s Closet.
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Where to Chill Like a Williamsburg Internet Mogul, Per the Google Killers at Karta

August 13, 2013 By Kelly McClure

A sneak peek at Karta.

It’s hard to keep track of everything this city has to offer and it’s hard to effectively brag about all the cool places you go if no one (not even you) knows where those places are. That’s why two Williamsburg residents – Samia Saleem and Dana Steffe – invented Karta, a shareable mapping system that allows users to make and trade maps of all their favorite spots.
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LES's Cheeky Sandwiches Is Bringing a 'Breakfast Club' to Greenpoint

August 13, 2013 By Chris Tonucci

(Photo: Chris Tonucci)

Greenpoint has seen so many new bars and restaurants open in the past few months (not to mention coffee shops), those living on the Northside can be forgiven for feeling an onset of “up-and-coming neighborhood” fatigue. Still, there’s plenty to be excited about in the arrival of Bread for the Eater, a new café/bar from the team that brought Cheeky Sandwiches to the Lower East Side. The excellence of Cheeky is already well established, and a location in the mostly (for now) bar-free McGolrick Park area means a potential break from the foodies and beer nerds littering Manhattan Avenue.
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LES’s Cheeky Sandwiches Is Bringing a ‘Breakfast Club’ to Greenpoint

August 13, 2013 By Chris Tonucci

(Photo: Chris Tonucci)

Greenpoint has seen so many new bars and restaurants open in the past few months (not to mention coffee shops), those living on the Northside can be forgiven for feeling an onset of “up-and-coming neighborhood” fatigue. Still, there’s plenty to be excited about in the arrival of Bread for the Eater, a new café/bar from the team that brought Cheeky Sandwiches to the Lower East Side. The excellence of Cheeky is already well established, and a location in the mostly (for now) bar-free McGolrick Park area means a potential break from the foodies and beer nerds littering Manhattan Avenue.
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Tags: Bars + Restaurants, bread for the eater, cheeky sandwiches, Greenpoint, Lower East Side

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Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Opened, and There's Still Somewhat of a Line Out the Door

August 12, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken opened in the East Village today and though the food isn’t gratis anymore, the dining room was pretty packed. The line was only about eight people strong so there’s no real reason it should’ve been out the door but it sure makes for a better headline.

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Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Opened, and There’s Still Somewhat of a Line Out the Door

August 12, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken opened in the East Village today and though the food isn’t gratis anymore, the dining room was pretty packed. The line was only about eight people strong so there’s no real reason it should’ve been out the door but it sure makes for a better headline.

Tags: Bars + Restaurants, blue ribbon fried chicken, East Village

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This Little Long Island Luncheonette Is Now ‘Open For Biz’ in the East Village

August 12, 2013 By Natalie Rinn

Archie’s & Sons on Third Avenue (Photo: Natalie Rinn)

Get excited, Astor Place lunch-hour zombies (we’re looking in the mirror here) — there’s a new chow spot in town. Archie & Sons, the throwback luncheonette-style diner we told you about last month, opened its doors in the East Village today.
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Holy Molé! The East Village Is Getting Yet Another Taqueria

August 12, 2013 By Phillip Pantuso

This summer El Diablito, Taqueria Diana, Sembrado en Nueva York, and Tacos Morelos have opened in the East Village. If all goes according to plan, Otto’s Tacos will enter that suddenly burgeoning taco landscape by mid-September.
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‘No 7-Eleven’ Is Still Raging Against the Slurpee Machine

August 12, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

A while back we wondered whether the folks behind No 7-Eleven would embrace the chain now that it’s offering to hold on to their spare keys. Nyope. In June they showed up at a meeting to protest a 7-Eleven going into 403 Grand Street (it opened anyway) and yesterday afternoon, as you can see above, they were back in front of the store bound for 170 Avenue A.
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Tags: 7-eleven, Bars + Restaurants, Crime + Community, East Village, no 7-eleven, protests

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Do We Even Have to Tell You Today’s Ramen Burger Line Was Absurd?

August 10, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

(Courtesy: Ramen Burger’s Instagram)

There’s an old saying: when a dog bites a man, that is not news. But when a man bites a ramen burger, that is news.

Not that this is surprising at all: lots-o-people lined up for Ramen Burger’s second week at Smorgasburg. In fact, Eater spotted folks hunkered down in an empty lot around 8 a.m., three hours before the batch of 360 burgers even went up for sale. People, please – it’s not like this is free fried chicken.
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