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Video Premiere: Phony Ppl's Elbee Thrie - "Nice To Meet Me"

Elbee Thrie--the 20-year-old songwriter/producer/leader/everything-er behind the sprawling Bed-Stuy hip-hop collective Phony Ppl--just dropped the video for "Nice To Meet Me," and we've got the premiere after the jump. See also: Exclusive Premiere: Stream and Download SZA's New EP S

Thursday's Good News: Homicide/Shooting Rates Have Dipped In First Quarter Of The Year

Given that it's Thursday, which means it's one day closer to Friday, we figured that it's time to shine some light on the good news out there in the world. According to NYPD data released yesterday, the overall shootings and murder rates are down in New York City, with comparison to this time last ... More >>

Eight More Alleged Drug Dealers Nabbed in Undercover Brooklyn Sting

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the arrest of eight alleged drug dealers from Bedford Stuyvesant yesterday stemming from a long-term drugs-selling investigation. "Once again, undercover police officers put their lives at risk to make these arrests possible and improve life for t ... More >>

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Championship boxing at Barclays Center

Skyzoo On Bed-Stuy's Breakfast Options And Supermarkets, Spike Lee, And Not Getting Signed By Jay-Z

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar will ask local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Skyzoo is a Bed-Stuy-raised rapper whose new album, A Dream Deferred, will be released at the start of October via the Brooklyn institution Duck Down. He ha ... More >>

To The Parents Of 3-Year-Old Robbed For $400 Chain: Yes, It Is Your Fault

A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy is apparently terrified to leave his house after a group of thugs robbed a $400 chain he was wearing while in the lobby of his apartment on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed-Stuy late Tuesday night.If the New York Post won't just come out and say it, we will: his parents, Pedro He ... More >>

Speedy Romeo Dishes Up Some Yummy Baked Bivalves

Speedy Romeo (376 Classon Avenue, 718-230-0061) opened up recently on the border of Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill, offering a menu of wood-fired pizzas, steaks, and grilled seafood in a cozy setting. The spot, which is named after one of the chef's family's racehorses, offers a selection of inventive p ... More >>

Bed-Stuy Gets Its Own Dollar-Slice Joint

​New gastronomic asset at the corner of Nostrand and Fulton The phenomenon of the dollar-slice joint continues to spread across the city like a spilled bottle of ink.

Do or Dine's Justin Warner On Why Brunch Sucks: Interview Part 2

Photo: Maggie Hoffman at Serious Eats Yesterday we talked with Justin Warner, chef and part-owner of Bed-Stuy's Do or Dine, about the controversy over his foie gras doughnuts, becoming a chef with no traditional culinary training, and why all food can be categorized as either a sandwich or nachos. ... More >>

Do or Dine's Justin Warner Explains the Nacho/Sandwich Theory

Photo: Maggie Hoffman at Serious Eats Do or Dine isn't your typical restaurant. For one, chefs Justin Warner and George McNeese, both 27 years old, never worked in a restaurant kitchen before setting up shop in Bed-Stuy. More impressively, the restaurant's unorthodox menu, including gyoza smothere ... More >>

Do or Dine to Host BDGA Kitchen, a Bodega-Inspired Pop-Up

Paul Lowry/FlickrFine-dining inspiration​Our own Lauren Shockey was recently charmed by the offbeat food and über-casual vibe at Do or Dine. On September 20, the whimsical Bed-Stuy restaurant will play host to BDGA Kitchen, a bodega-themed dining experience designed by a new pop-up company ca ... More >>

Do or Dine Will Keep Right on Serving Its Foie Gras Doughnuts

Eat up, Brooklyn.​Surprise! Do or Dine is going to keep on serving the foie gras doughnuts that have enraged animal rights activists and xenophobes alike.

Little Italy Replaces Greeters with Suave 'Maitre Ds'; Menu Calorie Counts Can't Be Trusted

​It appears that Little Italy is trading in its pushy greeters in favor of "outside maitre d's": suave young gentlemen who attract lady tourists with their eyes. [NY Post] The Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie's new Bed-Stuy bar NoBar welcomed stars like Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rockwell at it ... More >>

Foie Gras Protestors Find a New Target, Miss the Greater Issue

How to draw a headline​Having presumably tired of Manhattan's fine-dining scene, foie gras opponents have taken their rhetoric over the East River to Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... More >>

OMG! Dough Donuts

​These donuts belong in an art museum. Last Friday, when Rebecca Marx put up her Fat Pants Friday, the subject was the dulce de leche donut at Dough. The new donut factory is situated in an obscure corner of Clinton Hill or Bed-Stuy, depending on who you talk to. The donut looked great, and ... More >>

Matthew Tilden Relaunches D.O.U.G.H. Campaign with Help from Food Curated

There's A Lot of Strength in a Loaf of Bread: SCRATCHbread's DOUGH Campaign from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Matthew Tilden announced his D.O.U.G.H. campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for his Bed-Stuy bakery this past summer. At the time, he was hoping to raise $25,000 by September 2 for essentials l ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Ciano; Goodbye to Donald Sacks

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Bossa Nova Brazil in Hell's Kitchen has closed to make room for Flavor, which looks like it could be a martini bar. [Life with Food and Drink]​ Donald Sacks in Battery Park is closing do ... More >>

Murders Up 17 Percent, NYPD Crime Stats Show

​Periodically, we here at Runnin Scared take a look at the city's crime statistics. Well, almost three quarters of the way through the year, crime citywide is at about the same level as it was this time last year. But murders are up 17 percent. And, in all, six of the seven major crime categor ... More >>

Week in Review: Female Guitar Players Are the New Black

The beach is in Bed-Stuy, suckers. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we asked a Georgia-certified divorce attorney whether The-Dream had left his wife while she was eight and a half months pregnant because he would have had to pay more child support had he waited the full nine (or was it ju ... More >>

Amateur Bed-Stuy Scientist Embodies 'Do or Die' Ethos with Amateur Nuclear Reactor

​"Cute nerd alert!" notes Daily Intel's assessment of Bed-Stuy resident Mark Suppes, a guy who, the BBC explains, works on web-development for Gucci by day and his homemade nuclear reactor by night. Which is great, because what we really need to do is encourage him.

NYPD Tapes Part 3: The Real World Effect of Downgrading Crime Complaints

​Part 3 of the Village Voice series the NYPD Tapes examines the real world effect of downgrading crime complaints by looking at how a series of sexual assault-robberies in Washington Heights were downgraded to misdemeanors, allowing a sexual predator to remain at large for two months. Part 1 ... More >>

NYPD Quote of the Day: "I'm Out There. King of My Domain"

​Graham Rayman's "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" chronicles hundreds of recorded hours of cops talking about their jobs between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009. Here's today's outtake:

Open & Closed: Say Hello to South Brooklyn Pizza in the East Village, Goodbye to Victoria's Tea Room

Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Victoria's Tea Room in Bed-Stuy has apparently shuttered. The gate has been down, the website has vanished, and the phone number disconnected. [Bed-Stuy Blog] Gourmet deli Torino on 56th Street between ... More >>

Possible Murder-Suicide in Bed-Stuy

​ Date: Wednesday March 17, 2010, 8:10 p.m. Location: 745 Lafayette Ave., Fourth Floor, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The police arrived in a fourth-floor apartment at the above address and found two people dead. A 31-year-old woman was lying on the floor of a bedroom, and a 40-year-old man ... More >>

An Organic Market for Bed-Stuy?

ClatieK/flickrMmm, organic.​ Some entrepreneurs are scouting a location for an organic market in Bed-Stuy: the Bed Stuy Blog reports that the folks at Organic Bed-Stuy, Inc. are conducting a survey -- which can be found on the blog -- to figure out where neighborhood residents would most like ... More >>

Have You Seen... Brooklyn Home Invaders

​Police say these guys go to Bed-Stuy and Fort Greene dress up like maintenance men, come to apartments at night, and tell residents (female, alone) they've come to fix something; despite their almost comically sinister appearance, they are admitted, whereupon they draw a gun, ransack the plac ... More >>

The Early Word: B & B Restaurant, West African in Lower Midtown

​ Clockwise starting at midnight: Two classic leaf-based Guinean sauces, Ivory Coast athieke, Senegalese dibi (lamb), and Caribbean-style curry chicken. Beware the red scotch bonnet pepper! (click to consume) I watched sadly as many of the West African restaurants in Bed-Stuy along Fulton wen ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Yerba Buena Perry; Goodbye to PetalBelle

SarahJames promises to bring classic cocktails to Bed-Stuy. The self-proclaimed speakeasy has a "no sneakers, baseball caps, droopy jeans or hoodies" dress code. [Eater] Pastry chef-turned-sandwich peddler Will Goldfarb has launched a barbecue truck on Wall Street called Picnick, Smoked, serving up ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Watch/Download Poison Pen's "BK's Fat Boy"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Poison Pen is the type of rapper that other rappers love--an indie hustler with a major-ready, street-hewn wit. The esteemed Bed Stuy rapper has been dropping 12"s and guest spots non-stop for over a de ... More >>

Malcolm X Farmers Market Headed for Imminent Closure?

Seamus Murray/flickr​Brownstoner brings sad news, via the Bed-Stuy Blog, that Bed-Stuy's Malcolm X farmers market is in danger of closing. The market's main vendor, Migliorelli Farm, recently announced it will be pulling out of the market because it hasn't been earning enough there to pay for its ... More >>

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I'm sitting here in my solarium thinking there is something seriously screwed up about the weather. You can attribute it to something other than global climate change if you want, but this business of it raining every day is aggressively strange. And not steady rains, either, but instantaneous downp ... More >>

Fifth Annual Afro-Punk Festival at BAM

Weekend Special--Random Items From the Culinary Picture Press

Our Fork in the Road photographers stumbled on this retired hot-dog cart at the corner of Throop (pronounced "Troop") and Kosciusko in Bedford-Stuyvesant, repurposed as a pigeon coop. make the jump to see a detail, and for more amusing photos

Cops Nab Dad Who Stabbed Son, 2, In Head with Knife

The Bed-Stuy man who stabbed his 2-year-old in the head this weekend -- accidentally, the Post assures us; he was trying to stab the boy's mother -- has been apprehended. Cops found Jamarr Brown, 24, and are mulling charges. The boy, Jaden Brown, was in mother Nicole Brown's arms when his dad went ... More >>

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Doubles Troubles

A few months ago, I received a call on my Voice voicemail, informing me that A & A Bake and Doubles was relocating from Bed-Stuy to Richmond Hill, Queens. Now, A & A was one of my favorite eateries in Brooklyn, serving the doubles, bakes, and other Indian-leaning snacks that constitute the ... More >>

Loftstel Reaches Out to the Young and Broke

The Other Gentrification: New Indian, Japanese in Bed-Stuy

Our Man Sietsema: 'Does Hummus Really Come Out of the Bovine Teat?

Bed-Stuy's Best Roti

It's a Good One: Bed-Stuy's Summer Sandwich

It's a Good One: Week-Old Curry

Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant

Brooklyn Space Cadets and Hasidic Jews Get Cozy in Bed-Stuy

Double Dutch in a War Zone

On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again

Doubles or Nothing

Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue

Close-Up On: Bedford-Stuyvesant

Will Help Come in Time?

Bed-Stuy Ambulance Corps Needs First Aid

Clinic Depression