Amsterdam

Drag Doc Docks at MacDougal Street

Say Adios to 'Passing Strange'

Blogger Says Upstate NY Should Secede from City; RS Approves

Oysters For A Good Cause This Saturday

Tickets 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 >>

Wilbert Tatum, 1933-2009

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 >>

Chowderheads and Other Do-Gooders

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 >>

Wok to Walk Surprisingly Good

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 >>

Spinoza debates God in David Ives's The New Jerusalem

Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film

Soul Remains

Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film

Tie Him Up, Tie Him Down

Also: The 39 Steps joshes theater and film

High Art in a Low Land

The 2000 Holland Festival

Morningside Nights

Modern Lovers Troll Columbia’s Bars for Fun and Profit

Close Up On: Morningside Heights

Modern Lovers Troll Columbia’s Bars for Fun and Profit

Vice City

Modern Lovers Troll Columbia’s Bars for Fun and Profit

Grand Teuton

Elegance and Desolation in MOMA's Beckmann Retrospective

Crawling toward Wall Street: Dehumanization in several guises

Elegance and Desolation in MOMA's Beckmann Retrospective

Sea of Peas

It's m'hammer time at small and cozy Red Hook Moroccan

Death to the Unchaste

Europe's Muslim women—and the men who murder them. Two Islam-themed plays at St. Ann's Warehouse.

FESTISH FIX

When porn goes on-the-fringe

Drink This--New Amsterdam Gin (It's Cheap!)

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 >>

Summer Guide: Dan Graham Gets a Whitney Retro

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 >>

New York Celebs Do Cell-Phone Audio Tours of Central Park

Usually 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 >>

The New Amsterdam Market Is Back

artichokeheart.wordpress.com​The 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 >>

What to Eat at Bowling Green Park's Dutch Village

​From 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 >>

What's Happening This Week: Craft Beer Week & New Amsterdam Market

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Queens County Farm Dinner Queens County Farm Museum September 10, 6-10:30 p.m. Join Top Chef alum Camille Becerra and former owner of San Francisco's SPQR Danie ... More >>

Weekend Special: Report from the New New Amsterdam

​ 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 >>

Report From the New Amsterdam Market

​Yesterday 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 >>

Joe Wilson Censured

​And 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 >>

Plans for a Beer Table Store Are Still on the Table

Mooganic/flickr​As 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 >>

New Amsterdam's Robert LaValva Looks Forward to Next Year's Market, Which Is Set to Return in the Spring

A 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 >>

Alleged Detroit airplane bomber charged

Umar 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 >>

Luke's Lobster, Mast Bros. Join New Amsterdam's Roster of Vendors

William 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.

Amsterdam to Employ "Decoy Jews," One-Liners Regarding Them Write Themselves

​Amsterdam 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:

'Ampd Presents Lauhaus & Eric Cloutier'

​Amsterdam 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:

Mosque Near Ground Zero Passes Another Hurdle

Community Board One voted last night 24-to-11 (with two abstentions) not to push for landmark status of 45-47 Park Place. That location is set to be the home of the formerly named Cordoba House, the $100 million mosque and interfaith cultural center just a couple blocks from where the World Trade Ce ... More >>

'The Bunker'

Community Board One voted last night 24-to-11 (with two abstentions) not to push for landmark status of 45-47 Park Place. That location is set to be the home of the formerly named Cordoba House, the $100 million mosque and interfaith cultural center just a couple blocks from where the World Trade Ce ... More >>

Warm Up Presents Gavin Russom, Alden Tyrell & the Crystal Ark

Community Board One voted last night 24-to-11 (with two abstentions) not to push for landmark status of 45-47 Park Place. That location is set to be the home of the formerly named Cordoba House, the $100 million mosque and interfaith cultural center just a couple blocks from where the World Trade Ce ... More >>

OPEN BORDER

Exploring New York City and the Spanish-speaking world

Drunk Pilot Yanked from Delta Flight; His Passengers Could Probably Use a Drink

​A 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 >>

BEST IN (SECOND) SHOW

A false start still meant great things for these Danes

This Week's Voice: Nine 11 Thesaurus, Sisters, Salem, Negative Plane, and More

Nine 11 Thesaurus. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Andy Beta profiles Bushwick teen rap ensemble Nine 11 Thesaurus and the after-school program that produced them, Ray Cummings talks with Brooklyn noise pop band Sisters, Eavvon O'Neal on Salem and witch house, and Adam ... More >>

Das Racist Are Now Officially Banned In the U.K.

Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.net​At 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 >>

Happy Birthday, New York!

Manu_H​Dear 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.

LIKE NOWHERE ELSE

Spring into action for downtown arts

CRANK IT UP

A bad-ass bike show (for environmentalists)

The New Amsterdam Market Will Invoke Pagan Revelry When It Returns This Sunday

Eat, 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.

Skirts on Bikes Ride Planned to Celebrate 'Freedom and Fashion'

​Earlier 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 >>

'The Bunker' w/ Newworldaquarium

​Earlier 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 >>

Bill Telepan on Home Cooking and Restaurant Letter Grades: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Bill TelepanBill Telepan proves even a great chef loves Chinese take-out​Yesterday we spoke with Telepan chef Bill Telepan about Chefs Make Change, a new coalition to help reform school lunches. Today we return to restaurant Bill as he tells us what it's like helming the kitche ... More >>

HOUSEWARMING

ISSUE Project Room has a new home