Bensonhurst

Could Blood Be the Next Big Thing?

The blood sausage called gyuma at Tibetan restaurant Phayul We may be on the culinary frontier here, but you don't have to be a vampire (or a mosquito) to appreciate blood as an ingredient. What can it do? It thickens stews and helps puddings set. Rich in protein, it can be coagulated into shapes ... More >>

There's an App for Reporting Crime in Brooklyn

Welcome to the age of smartphone civilian authority.At the City Council Hall on 250 Broadway this afternoon, State Senator Eric Adams, a Democrat from Brooklyn, will announce a little app that he helped create called "Brooklyn Way of Life." It's a downloadable "crime fighting mobile app," in his own ... More >>

It's Hard As Hell To Party Like Its the 1940s (Census)

Ancestry.com and its little green leaves can take a hike. Yesterday, the National Archives flicked on the switch for the 1940 census, marking the end of 72 years of confidentiality that held the records back from the public. In less than four hours, the site was paralyzed after being hit with 22 mil ... More >>

U.S. Census: New York City is Not as Big as Bloomberg Says it is

Sorry, Mike! The city is just not as big as you think it is. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau, anyway, which, in very unsurprising news, has announced that it is not revising its official population count for 2010, despite the city's official challenge of the final number. Every ten yea ... More >>

The 50 Best Blocks In Brooklyn

Yes, Brooklyn counts as part of NYC, even if I came from its bowels. And if you bother to explore the place, it has even more neighborhoods, crannies, grannies, weirdies, and diversity than Manhattan. Well, The L Magazine did so in naming the 50 best blocks in that very borough. Blocks in Red Hoo ... More >>

Elza Fancy Foods: Big Mash-Up in Brighton Beach

Uzbek-Korean-Russian food, you say? Head on out.

7 Best Things To Eat at Elza Fancy Foods

Kuksu is a noodle soup whose name means "noodle soup" in Korean. This week Counter Culture rolls into one of the city's most unique restaurants, Elza Fancy Foods. The menu represents the Uzbek-Korean-Russian cooking of Uzbekistan's Korean population. Much of the food is cheap, fascinating, and del ... More >>

Brooklyn Junior High Has the Most Sexting Suspensions in the City

​The unfortunately named (given what we're about to say next) "Edward B. Shallow" Junior High in Bensonhurst has the dubious honor of being the New York City school with the most suspensions issued for sexting in 2010. This is more suspensions for sexting than any other city school in the last ... More >>

Seven Sets You Should See During CMJ Week: Main Attrakionz, EMA, Dierks Bentley, And More

Main Attrakionz. ​ Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. Here, Nick Murray offers his seven picks—well, six festival-affiliated artists and one dude who just happens to have a couple of NY-area shows this ... More >>

Old Vs. New: An Early Report on Food at the San Gennaro Festival, 2011

​April Bloomfield of The Breslin is one of the new food saints at the Feast of San Gennaro, and this delicious pork tonnato sandwich is her benediction. For over 100 years, the street scarf at New York City's Italian religious festivals remained the same: hot or sweet pork sausages, grilled ... More >>

The Five Weirdest Things I've Eaten Lately

​Number one is a pickle-studded bowl of goo. One of the questions I'm most frequently asked is, "What's the best thing you've eaten recently?" And then I have to rummage around in my recollections of the many, many good meals I've eaten in the last few weeks. Usually, I'm left tongue-tied. B ... More >>

Five Curious Culinary Christmas Customs

​How about some eels for Christmas dinner? Get 'em on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. You think fruitcake and eggnog are strange? You think houses made of gingerbread are weird? Read on about some even more off-the-wall Christmas dining habits.

Steve Cuozzo Bestows Year-End Rant Upon the General Public, Williamsburg

​The relentless barrage of year-end lists means that their contents tend to get lost in a shiny, amorphous tangle, so we're grateful for Steve Cuozzo's annual dining-related invective, deposited amongst the tinsel like a fat lump of coal. The Post critic's take on 2010 is more or less as withe ... More >>

Fiji Water to Pull Out of Fiji; Bees in Red Hook Caught Red-Bodied

​Fiji Water is shutting down its operations on the island due to a tax hike imposed by Fiji's government. The company is owned by billionaire investors Lynda Resnick and Stewart Resnick, who also own POM Wonderful. [Wall Street Journal] Burger King's monthlong "King of the Road" bus tour has ... More >>

Spring Guide: A Tongue-Torching Tour of Town

Another Tuesday, Another Election No One Will Vote In

​It's Tuesday, and these days in New York City, that means another special election. With runoff elections, resignations, and the occasional expulsion from a legal body, there have been quite a few in the past election season. Today's race is in the 44th City Council District, where Republica ... More >>

Landlord in Bensonhurst Arson That Killed 5 Tenants Cited for Illegally Subdividing Apartments

​Vasilios (Bill) Gerazounis, 66, the owner of the Bensonhurst building where 5 tenants were killed and an infant severely injured in a fire allegedly set by another tenant on January 30, has been issued violations by the Department of Buildings for illegal walls and blocked exits on his proper ... More >>

Election 2009: Down-Ticket, What Has Become of Our Beautiful Losers?

In city races the favorites are getting treated as such, with very few deviations. Some of the city council races are downright ridiculous. Bronx incumbent Joel Rivera has defeated his Conservative Party challenger Steven Stern 97 to 3 percent. What an election night party Stern must be having. ... More >>

Local Papers Prepare for Series with Insults

​After a black kid was killed by young Italian-Americans in Bensonhurst in 1989, and recalling the similar Howard Beach incident of 1986, Pete Hamill put an article in the New York Post called "The Lesson of Howard Beach Was Lost on the Punks of Guidoville," filled with Hamill's ripe evocatio ... More >>

Gino Cammarata, Gelato King

No more tanning salons for Bay Ridge's foremost dessert provider

Michael Musto Continues Conquest of Internet

OK, let's see if Gothamist picked up the Homeland Security TV story -- hey, what's this? Michael Musto? That fella gets around. Highlights! On doing a "gay Match Game show at Bowery Poetry Club": "'Wanna do a free, local version of the Match Game?' Sure! That's how I run my career...into the ground. ... More >>

Things We Hate--People Who Won't Leave Manhattan

You know the type. The person who refers to the outer boroughs by using phrases like "the wilds of Brooklyn." Your friend who has lived here for a decade but has never crossed the East River. The one who insists you meet for dinner in "the city" rather than, god forbid, get on the L, F or N train ... More >>

This Week in Openings

If you're looking for a lively, expensive meal, it can be had at the new Inakaya (231 West 40th Street) in the Times building. At the Japanese robatayaka, staffers scream out orders to cooks who grill the food while kneeling and serve it up using large paddles. The pricey menu includes a $65 Kinki f ... More >>

Turkish Restaurant Opens In Fort Greene

For many months, a banner with pictures of kebabs promised a new Turkish restaurant on the corner of Fulton Street and South Elliot in Fort Greene. Finally, Deniz (662 Fulton Street, Brooklyn), has opened. Co-owner Yucel Yuksel lives in Bensonhurst, where he also co-owns the Turkish fast food resta ... More >>

The Early Word -- Cataldo's

The margherita pie at Cataldo's (click to enlarge) Cataldo's--a new Italian restaurant at Vanderbilt and Dean on the fringes of Prospect Heights--is hard to figure out. It's so brightly lit, that it shines like a beacon to cars zooming by on Atalntic Avenue one block away. While this may be go ... More >>

The Hidden History of the City's Greatest Era

Days of whine and poses

I Know Something You Don't Know: Monday's Exclusives Roundup

Blood Brothers

Mob mistress Linda Schiro told one murder tale the same way to everyone. Despite the holes in her story.

Hot Dog With Relish

Cyclones put Markowitz on a bobblehead doll. Now he'll pop up even more.

Spirited Diners

Serpentine

New attempt to launch an upscale Sicilian on Hudson Street

1989

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Close-Up on Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

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Making 'Victor Vargas'

Neighborhood Watch

Close-Up On: Coney Island

Big Brother in Coney Island

Crime Fighting vs. Civil Liberties in Housing Projects

Rome, Romance, Romano

The Taste of Fear

Subway Surfers Risk Their Lives Atop the City’s Trains. Only Mad Fools Take the Dare. Only the Lucky Survive.

Palermo Spleen

Loft in Former Factory

Death Valley

The Great Depression

NY Mirror

Lisa Kudrow supposedly got jewelry worth $5000 to host the MTV Movie Awards, and Adam Sandler was gifted with a $15,000 flat-screen TV.

The Spaghetti Incident?

Shake Your Bodega