Binghamton

Spiedie Notes: A Sandwich Tour of Binghamton and Endicott

When I tasted my first spiedie in Bed Stuy, the little sandwich was a long way from home. Fork readers were quick to point out that Brooklyn Bird was doing it wrong by applying cheese and serving it on the incorrect type of bread. The spiedie is a regional delicacy, a deconstructed fast-food sandw ... More >>

Following the Spiedie Trail to Binghamton and Endicott, New York

When dishes travel, they often change. It's why the spiedie, a simple sandwich of grilled marinated meat, popularized by Italian immigrants farther upstate, is now being served in Brooklyn with the addition of American cheese. "WTF?!," our commenters responded. Though many natives were delighted to ... More >>

Binghamton's Famous Spiedie Sandwich Appears in Brooklyn

North of New York City, close to the Pennsylvania border, old-school Binghamton restaurants like Sharkey's, Lupo's, and the Spiedie and Rib Pit have championed the humble spiedie for decades. Popularized by Binghamton's working class Italian immigrants in the 1930's, the grilled meat was tradition ... More >>

Bath Salt Apocalypse: AG Eric Schneiderman Hits New York Head Shops With Lawsuits

There's a new hero in the ongoing Bath Salt Apocalypse: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.Apparently recognizing that synthetic drugs like bath salts bring out a person's inner-cannibal, Schneiderman has filed 12 lawsuits against head shop retailers across New York for violating the state' ... More >>

10 Things You Should Know About Summer Reading

Summer reading is as beloved a seasonal tradition as splashing in broken fire hydrants, playing on sidewalk slip-and-slides, barbecuing on fire escapes, and watching Fourth of July fireworks from a tenement rooftop. Teachers and librarians say the practice is integral in preventing what's called "su ... More >>

Q&A: HotChaCha's Jovana Batkovic On Breaking The "Indie Pop Fourth Wall," The Cleveland Scene, And New York Being Exhausting

Cleveland's HotChaCha fall (often quite inebriatedly) into the fine northeast Ohio tradition of music history-obsessed oddballs whose sound is hard to easily categorize. They stumble out of the Pere Ubu avant garage, then go slithering down alleys of mucked-up punk debris, art school dropout poverty ... More >>

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Nicholas Ray's magnum opus gets a revival

This Is, Apparently, Who We Have To Blow

​ ...or rather, blow away, in the next election. Ladies and gentlemen, the 'No' votes...

Clip Job: Brownmiller Hangs with Junkies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 22, 1965, Vol. X, No. 40 Washington Sq.: 'Man, That's My Living Room!' By Susan Brownmiller Friday night. The New York University people meet with Park Commissioner Newbold Morris and representatives of the Police Department's Fi ... More >>

Banged-Up Mets Having Trouble Fielding a Team

​The frickin' Mets are so banged up with 13 players on the DL, the Jersey Star-Ledger says they hardly have enough minor leaguers to keep the team stocked with players. "The team looks more like the Buffalo Bisons than the New York Mets," says the paper, "with Nick Evans, Cory Sullivan, Wilson ... More >>

Mets Fire Tony Bernazard, Minaya Blames Daily News Writer

It was one thing when Tony Bernazard went to Binghamton and challenged a number of minor-league Mets, including "pussy" Jose Coronado, to a fistfight. You have to expect that from a vice president for player development, right? Motivation is part of the job. But this bizarre incident -- and the ne ... More >>

Mets Exec Removes Shirt, Challenges Double-A Team to Fistfight

Last night, as the New York Yankees took sole possession of first place in the AL East with a win over the Orioles, the New York Mets (44-49) were trying to laugh off the unusually violent motivational tactics of one of their staff in Binghamton, New York. The Daily News reports that a few weeks ba ... More >>

"Serb Thug"'s Beating Victim Speaks, Doesn't Recall Incident

Bryan Steinhauer, the kid beaten into a coma by "Serb thug" Miladin Kovacevic in Binghamton, New York, is apparently conscious now and gave a news conference this morning. He spoke "haltingly," said he didn't remember the attack, and described himself as "a normal guy stuck in a bad situation who ke ... More >>

Hostage Situation in Binghamton; 4 or 5 Reported Shot -- UPDATE: 13 Reported Dead

Someone has shot up the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, hitting four, possibly five people, and has reportedly taken as many as 41 hostages. Mayor Matthew Ryan says the shooter has a high-powered rifle and the SWAT team in on the scene at 131 Front Street. The Association help ... More >>

Binghamton Update: Three Suspects Reported, 2 in Custody, 1 at Large UPDATE 2: Shooter Dead

(Earlier coverage here.) What was reported as a single-shooter incident at the American Civic Association in Binghamton is now portrayed as a situation with three suspects -- two of whom have been apprehended. Witnesses tell MSNBC the two arrested men appear to be Asian and around 5-foot-9, as the s ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Obama told Chrysler and GM to get their shit straight or go bankrupt. The new head of GM said that was okay with him. (Aren't they supposed to whine and resign in the Times?) This of course made Obama a fascist. Rightbloggers were also mad when Obama went to Europe and wasn't nice enough to the Qu ... More >>

Binghamton Update: 14 Dead, Shooter Presumed Among Them

Binghamton authorities held a press conference with the Governor. (Previous coverage here and here.) The number of dead has been confirmed at 14. Four wounded are in critical condition. The police led out 37 people unharmed. Police found a man with "a satchel" whom they presume is the gunman. They c ... More >>

U.S. Said to Take $1M to Drop Extradition Claim on "Serb Thug"

The New York Post has a Hillary Clinton headline that looks like a scandal: "BLOOD MONEY: Hill Behind $1M Serb Thug Deal." But followers of the "Serb Thug Miladin Kovacevic" story -- about the Serbian national who beat a Brooklyn kid into a coma in Binghampton, then fled to his native Serbia, where ... More >>

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Thug Life: Finding Miladin Kovacevic

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Yael Naim and Ingrid Michaelson--Buy Any Jeans Necessary

Collective Memory

Nostalgia fever continues as the experimental-film community looks back at its 'lost generation.' But what's next?

In the Mood for Love

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A teenage cineaste falls in love with the Voice's film pages

The 50th Anniversary Special: Essays

War on Trial in Binghamton

The Hayseed vs. Hillary

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Timothy's Cause

A Dad's Crusade for Better Mental-Health Care

Theater

Escape Claus

Letters

Pataki's Post-Election Payday

Governor Cashes in Himself, and Hands Us Big Overdue Bill

Loft Living

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Bad Policy, Big Bucks

How Pataki's Disastrous Energy Plan Fattened His Friends and Campaign Coffers

SUNY, Inc.

The Decline of Higher Ed Under Pataki

Minor Stars

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Clone Ranger

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Letters

Our Bodies, Ourselves

The Mainstream Embraces the Athletic Amazon

Food Fight

Students Boycott Campus Dining Halls to Protest Prisons

Catchy as Catchy Can

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Eminent Domain

Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

Dead Reckoning

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