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April 1, 2013These are the 10 best jazz shows in New York this month. (Here for more on Jazz Appreciation Month.)
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March 12, 2013On Thursday, March 14, the New York City Council will hold a public hearing to discuss future plans for South Street Seaport, the city's oldest communal meeting place. Organizers of the New Amsterdam Market -- an outdoor marketplace held in the area -- are seeking to "preserve and rehabilitate" the ... More >>
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November 6, 2012Following the news of the unfortunate sizable damage to Norton Records, another label based in Red Hook, New Amsterdam Records, has had its headquarters devastated in the storm, including 70% of the label's CD inventory, which the artists themselves actually owned (the label held them as storage but ... More >>
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May 23, 2012Blogs
May 4, 2012Alphabet City loses another dive bar with The Lakeside Lounge gone. [EV Grieve]
Niko on Mercer Street has closed due to a plumbing problem. "We had a flood; whether or not we reopen depends on what happens with the insurance,'' owner Cobi Levy told Grub Street. However, sources close to the restaur ... More >>
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April 11, 2012Pick up works of art for cheap
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February 13, 2012Revolutionary GamesThe flyer for tomorrow's "Bed-In."Valentine's Day, it is now well-established by crushingly overwhelming consensus, is more or less the worst, a vastly successful conspiracy by the Things-That-Are-Pink-Or-Made-Of-Chocolate Industrial complex to boost sales.
Whether you a ... More >>
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January 25, 2012ISSUE Project Room has a new home
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December 21, 2011Blogs
June 16, 2011Earlier in the week we told you about Jasmijn Rijcken, the Dutch tourist in town for the New Amsterdam Bike Show who was stopped by a New York City police officer and told that her skirt, which she was wearing while cycling in Soho, was dangerous and distracting. Now one of her friends, Joann ... More >>
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April 25, 2011Eat, drink, and don't trample the daisies.The New Amsterdam Market's new season doesn't begin until June 4, but this Sunday, it will give us a taste of things to come when it returns with Floralia, a special one-day market.
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April 20, 2011A bad-ass bike show (for environmentalists)
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March 9, 2011Spring into action for downtown arts
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February 2, 2011Manu_HDear New York,
On this date in 1653, you (then named New Amsterdam -- you never really looked like a New Amsterdam) were incorporated. You've had your ups, your downs and even that weird phase in the '80s when you got heavy into drugs and synth music.
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December 14, 2010Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.netAt least, they were detained in and then deported from that country yesterday, due to "some sticklerism on the part of UK Customs regarding paperwork." Or was it because of their radical political views and brown skin?! The trio has been out in first ... More >>
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September 15, 2010A false start still meant great things for these Danes
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September 14, 2010A Delta Airlines pilot about to fly from Amsterdam to Newark today was removed from the plane after getting a .023 percent on his blood alcohol level test, which is just over the legal limit in the Netherlands. In the U.S., where the pilot is from (Woodbury, New Jersey, to be exact), drunk dr ... More >>
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September 8, 2010Exploring New York City and the Spanish-speaking world
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July 13, 2010Blogs
June 21, 2010Amsterdam is now going to be using "Decoy Jews" to help ferret out anti-Semitic violence. They already use "Decoy Gays" and "Decoy Rich People," so this isn't really anything new. But still:
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June 18, 2010William Coupon/New Amsterdam MarketNew Amsterdam, new vendors.When the New Amsterdam Market returns to the South Street Seaport next Sunday, it will have a few more local vendors on its roster.
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December 26, 2009Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab was arraigned this afternoon in his Ann Arbor hospital bed and charged with willfully attempting to destroy an aircraft and willfully placing and causing to be placed a destructive device on an aircraft. U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman signed the complaint, which allege ... More >>
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December 16, 2009A scene from September's New Amsterdam Market
Though it seems it was just yesterday, rather than three months ago, that the New Amsterdam Market returned to the South Street Seaport, the last market of the year will take place this Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Though it's been a whirlwind o ... More >>
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October 28, 2009Mooganic/flickrAs Diner's Journal reported yesterday, Beer Table will no longer be opening a retail store in the Chelsea Market. But that doesn't mean that it won't be opening elsewhere. Chris Munsey, a business partner of the Table's Justin Phillips, writes in to say "we are planning on open ... More >>
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September 15, 2009And oh yeah, the House voted to censure Joe Wilson, 240-179, for shooting his mouth off at the President's address last week. We share the attitude of Barney Frank, who said, "I think it's bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding whether people act like jerks. I don't have time to monito ... More >>
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September 14, 2009Yesterday marked the triumphant return of the New Amsterdam Market to the South Street Seaport. The market, which was last held in June 2008, brought together some 80 regional food and wine producers underneath the FDR Drive. Robert LaValva, New Amsterdam's founder and director, is planning t ... More >>
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September 12, 2009
A fake windmall with vanes that really rotate has sprung up a mere hundred yards from where the original stood 400 years ago.
In an event that was part trade show, part Epcot Center exhibit, a Dutch village sprang up for a ten-day run right in front of the Old Customs House at Bowling Green ... More >>
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September 8, 2009As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here!
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September 2, 2009From Friday through September 14, celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American relations at the New Amsterdam Village in Bowling Green Park. And, in case you're wondering what to eat as you explore the canal houses, life-size windmill, and state-of-the-art demonstration greenhouse, the van Hoeck bro ... More >>
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August 12, 2009artichokeheart.wordpress.comThe New Amsterdam Market will return to South Street Seaport on Sunday, September 13, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The open-air market, which was last held in June 2008 (its first appearance was in October 2005), will be open one Sunday a month through the end of the yea ... More >>
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June 24, 2009Usually we're all, "blar, we've been living here 100 years and we don't need an audio tour," even in museums where we don't know shit about shit, but here's something we might actually do: cell-phone audio commentary on city landmarks, performed by local celebrities. For example, "Yoko Ono introduce ... More >>
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May 12, 2009 Although New Amsterdam gin is produced in Modesto, CA, its name is meant to evoke classic New York cocktail culture, and also name-check the Dutch origins of gin. Eh.
But what's actually interesting about this relatively new spirit is that it costs about $13 a bottle--a price that will get you exa ... More >>
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March 23, 2009
Our man Robert Sietsema was in the East Village this past weekend filling up on chowder at Jimmy #43's "Chowder Slam," an event to benefit the New Amsterdam Market. The organization, which is working toward establishing an indoor public market in Manhattan made up of butchers, grocers and mongers o ... More >>
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March 23, 2009 We went up to Union Square today to try newcomer Num Pang's Cambodian sandwiches, but found a note on the door saying that the restaurant was closed today and would re-open tomorrow. So we stopped into nearby Wok to Walk instead, a sleek, Amsterdam-based noodle franchise with other branches in Lond ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Photo via the Amsterdam News.
Wilbert "Bill" Tatum, the feisty former publisher of the Amsterdam News who took on everyone from Ed Koch to the New York Post, died today in -- of all places -- a hospital in Croatia. Tatum, 76, was a world-traveler despite the diabetes that kept him confined to a w ... More >>
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February 18, 2009Tickets are still available for this Saturday's Founded on Oyster Shells event benefiting New Amsterdam Market. A $50 ticket gets you 7 oysters, $100 gets you unlimited. Oysters in attendance include Chincoteagues from Toby Island Bay Oysters and Blue Points from Blue Island Oyster Company. Restaura ... More >>
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December 18, 2008Voice Choices
December 10, 2008When porn goes on-the-fringe
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June 16, 2008Theater
September 25, 2007Europe's Muslim women—and the men who murder them. Two Islam-themed plays at St. Ann's Warehouse.
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January 3, 2006It's m'hammer time at small and cozy Red Hook Moroccan
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August 21, 2001Modern Lovers Troll Columbia’s Bars for Fun and Profit
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