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March 9, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
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.
Blogs
September 29, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Do or Dine to Host BDGA Kitchen, a Bodega-Inspired Pop-Up
Paul Lowry/FlickrFine-dining inspirationOur 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 >>
Dining
September 7, 2011
Do or Dine: A Nod to Odd in Bed-Stuy
Your foie gras doughnut awaits you
Blogs
July 21, 2011
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.
Blogs
July 20, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Foie Gras Protestors Find a New Target, Miss the Greater Issue
How to draw a headlineHaving presumably tired of Manhattan's fine-dining scene, foie gras opponents have taken their rhetoric over the East River to Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Blogs
July 14, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
November 22, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
November 5, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
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 >>
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June 23, 2010
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.
Blogs
June 10, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
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:
Blogs
April 23, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
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 >>
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February 19, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
November 20, 2009
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 >>
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August 31, 2009
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 >>
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August 21, 2009
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 >>
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August 11, 2009
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 >>
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July 28, 2009
Malcolm X Farmers Market Headed for Imminent Closure?
Seamus Murray/flickrBrownstoner 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 >>
Blogs
July 2, 2009
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 >>
Film
July 1, 2009
Fifth Annual Afro-Punk Festival at BAM
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 >>
Blogs
June 13, 2009
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
Blogs
May 4, 2009
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 >>
Voice Choices
April 1, 2009
Baaz
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 >>
Blogs
January 12, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
December 15, 2008
Loftstel Reaches Out to the Young and Broke
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 >>
Blogs
October 17, 2007
The Other Gentrification: New Indian, Japanese in Bed-Stuy
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 >>
Blogs
August 23, 2007
Our Man Sietsema: 'Does Hummus Really Come Out of the Bovine Teat?
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 >>
Blogs
August 14, 2007
Bed-Stuy's Best Roti
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 >>
Blogs
August 6, 2007
It's a Good One: Bed-Stuy's Summer Sandwich
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 >>
Blogs
June 5, 2007
It's a Good One: Week-Old Curry
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 >>
NYC Life
May 17, 2005
Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant
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 >>
NYC Life
October 19, 2004
Brooklyn Space Cadets and Hasidic Jews Get Cozy in Bed-Stuy
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 >>
NYC Life
June 15, 2004
Tropical Brownstone
A parrot, an orange dining room, golden light—and a school of fish
News
November 25, 2003
Double Dutch in a War Zone
On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again
Dining
May 27, 2003
Doubles or Nothing
Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue
Dining
September 17, 2002
Drugstore Dining
Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue
News
May 21, 2002
No Masses, No Movement
Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood
NYC Life
May 7, 2002
Close-Up On: Bedford-Stuyvesant
Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood
NYC Life
August 21, 2001
Two-Story Former Girdle Factory
Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood
News
August 7, 2001
Will Help Come in Time?
Bed-Stuy Ambulance Corps Needs First Aid
NYC Life
October 31, 2000
Studio Apartment in Late-1960s Building
Bed-Stuy Ambulance Corps Needs First Aid
News
January 26, 1999
Clinic Depression
Bed-Stuy Ambulance Corps Needs First Aid
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