Bedford-Stuyvesant

A Quick Look at Jamie Bissonnette & Ken Oringer's Boston Restaurant Coppa

Coppa's beef heart, bone marrow, lovage, and grated horseradish pizza -- and you can't get anything quite like it here. [See More On the Road: Robert in Kansas City | Weirdest Food Truck in San Francisco News on Eater that the celebrated Boston chefs Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer had their he ... More >>

A Youth Stabbing and Deadly Fire Last Night in Bushwick

The past few weekends have been a little rough for Brooklyn residents. Last Saturday, we reported on a deadly accident that happened in Sheepshead Bay and a police officer who might have been over the legal limit to drive in Brooklyn Heights. This week, our attention shifts to th ... More >>

Bed-Stuy Store Named After Mahogany

Tracy Chambers was Diana Ross's name in Mahogany, the 1975 anti-feminist camp classic about a lady designer who throws away the knitting needle to stand in the shadow of her man. The film is notable for the great theme song, the incredible outfits, and Diana's bulging eyes when photographer Anthony ... More >>

David's Brisket Returns After Hiatus

The epic roast brisket on a club roll, gravy on the side, $12 After scaring many by being closed for three months, David's Brisket House in downtown Bedford-Stuyvesant has reopened, and the reason for closing is instantly apparent.

Q&A: Maino On Growing Up In Bed-Stuy, Hearing Rumors About Himself, And His Song That Isn't About Lil Kim

​Last month, Maino bounded into a recording studio in Midtown Manhattan during a playback session for his new album. Dressed in a flappy hat, goggle glasses, and with pants sagging precariously low, he slid the volume on the mixing console up to an ear-quavering level and bopped around the roo ... More >>

CAN'T DENY IT

Fab takes the funeral service 
to Long Island's NYCB Theatre

Pucker Up For a Pickleback

​Bed-Stuy restaurant Do or Dine has more in common with Spain's El Bulli than you may think. It's fairly difficult to get to. Both restaurant's figureheads (Justin Warner and Ferran Adrià, respectively) are keen on whimsically named dishes. And each restaurant is fond of spherification. Wh ... More >>

Do or Dine: A Nod to Odd in Bed-Stuy

Your foie gras doughnut awaits you

Pix From Cholulita Bella Deli in Brooklyn

​The well-stuffed carne enchilada cemita -- reeking of papalo leaves -- at Cholulita Deli. This week, Counter Culture slides into Cholulita Bella Deli, under the J and M tracks on the border of Bushwick and Bed-Stuy. The food is fabulous, and cheap, too, mostly representing an unreconstructe ... More >>

Doubles at A & A Doubles Man in Flatbush

​Your $1.25 vegan treat lies waiting to be unwrapped. Doubles is a difficult word - it's singular for a pair of miniature Indian pooris sluiced with chick pea curry and folded over into a loose sort of sandwich. So what if you order two doubles? "Doubles" is plural for doubles, too.

McDonald's to Launch All-Day Oatmeal; Japanese Get into Urban Farming

​ McDonald's has announced that it will roll out oatmeal on its all-day menu in January. Fruit & Maple Oatmeal will be available with or without brown sugar for $1.99. [Nation's Restaurant News] A couple of the city's top caterers, including Bryan Calvert and Marc Murphy, offer recipes for ho ... More >>

Astronomical Kid Will Perform "Stop Looking at My Moms" at the Village Voice Web Awards Tuesday

via Astronomical Kid's Facebook Tomorrow night, the Village Voice's first annual Web Awards will take place at Santos Party House from 7 to 10pm. Comedian Todd Barry will deliver the funny, our resident hokey pokey expert Christopher R. Weingarten will spit out the condensed version of his 140 Char ... More >>

AOL Dubs Bedford Avenue "Safest NYC Neighborhood"

​AOL's WalletPop site has revealed the safest neighborhoods in America's major cities based on neighborhood and FBI crime data. Guess what!? Bedford Avenue has ranked as one of those cozy locales, where your chance of becoming the victim to a crime is but 1 in 500 each year.

THERE SHE IS . . .

A beauty pageant all its own

Bed-Stuy Community Forum Tonight on the NYPD Tapes

​In the wake of the Voice' s "NYPD Tapes" series, and the reassignment of a precinct commander in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a community forum will be held this evening at a neighborhood church, City Councilman Al Vann's office tells us. Local elected officials, clergy, and residents are expected at ... More >>

Seersucker and Peaches HotHouse Bring a Little More Dixie to Brooklyn

Some South for your mouth at two new restaurants

Posts of the Week

There are but a few precious short hours left until the weekend, and thus it is time to cast a fond eye back to the best posts of the week. We ranked Our 10 Best Things to Eat at Locavorish Food Markets. The battle of Smarties vs. M&M's: an England-U.S. Rematch. Asked the Critics weighed in on th ... More >>

NYPD Quote of the Day: "You're a Writer, Best Cop in the World"

Chad Griffith​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.

NYPD Quote of the Day: "No One's Here"

Chad Griffith​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:

NYPD Quote of the Day: "They Blame Everything on the Precinct"

Chad Griffith​​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.

NYPD Quote of the Day: "You Don't Need to Take That Report"

Chad Griffith​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:

NYPD Quote of the Day: "If You're a Troublemaker, They Don't Need You"

Chad Griffith​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:

NYPD Quote of the Day: "Just Keep the Hounds Off"

Chad Griffith​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:

NYPD Quote of the Day: "If They Don't Belong ... You Lock Them Up"

Chad Griffith​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:

The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct

Catching Up with the Antenna Man

​"Hello, people of Earth! I have come to your world..." Wait a minute, we thought -- is that Antenna Man? Turns out it was. We hadn't seen him on the L train for years. He was slightly less eccentrically costumed -- the shades were less ornate, and he had lost the deely boppers that signaled ... More >>

Posts of the Week

As we sweat into the weekend, here's a look back at the best posts of the past week:Our Ten Best Indian Restaurants A gravestone merchant on Graham Avenue also sells excellent bread from Il Fornaretto Bakery.Frank Bruni talked about his new book, Born Round.  We re-capped the premiere episode o ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema At Saraghina in Bed-Stuy

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema makes a meal of apps at new Bed-Stuy pizzeria Saraghina... and the pizza's not bad, either. Bruni shocks us all by making his final review a one-star for The Redhead in the East Village, where "the fried chicken is never greasy... and a roasted pork chop is ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats--The Whiting Sandwich at Blue Ice Fish & Chips

Please excuse the bluriness of the photo--the camera was slipping out of our greasy mitts. Whiting has had a long history as fish of choice among African-Americans in New York, finding its most exalted expression in the whiting sandwich. In the excellent example shown above--found recently at ... More >>

Parents Can Run for School Councils Online

Don't like the way your kid's school is run? Then go run yourself -- for your local Community and Citywide Education Council. The CECs replaced Community School Boards in 2004. We're not sure how powerful they really are, and the DOE page about them is no help, but there are nine parents elected to ... More >>

A Man, A Plan, A Van -- Barbecue!

Rumors had been filtering in for nearly two months of a red van parked inside a roofless garage just off Quincy and Bedford in Bed-Stuy, a van that made and vended barbecued meats. I ignored the rumors for a long time, because frankly how could it be that good -- I mean Hill Country or Fet ... More >>

Bed-Stuy Man Kidnapped, Put in Trunk; 2 Arrested

NYC Voters Want Less Expensive Economy, Debt Holiday, World Domination

Fried Green Tomatoes, Shrimp, and Grits at BedStuy's Peaches Market

A Southern-style café that fits in like it's been there for years

Shouts from the City, Avoiding the iPhone Line, and Bed-Stuy's Development

Our Man Sietsema: 'Oddly Vaginal

Letters

Chappelle's Show

Comedian's Bed-Stuy bash serves up local flavor and a homestyle, utopian vibe

Movin' On Down: Two New Comedies Offer Black and White Views of Underclass Life

Married to the Hook

The corporations murdered hiphop and all I got was this lousy G-Unit throwback jersey

Dreamcatcher: Honoring the King of Peace and Equality

Tropical Brownstone

A parrot, an orange dining room, golden light—and a school of fish

Spontaneous Combustion

A Protest in the Stansbury Case Lights a Fire Under the Police Brass

Foreclosing on Bed-Stuy

Predatory Loans Have Residents Seeing Red

Drugstore Dining

No Masses, No Movement

Black Boomers Shout Reparations in the Court—But Go Silent in the 'Hood

Voices From the 'Hood

A Cancer Grows in Brooklyn

High Prostate Cancer Rates in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights

Two-Story Former Girdle Factory

Studio Apartment in Late-1960s Building