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Crisp and Chewy Pizza at Juliana's; Spectacular Japanese Food at Chez Sardine

Tejal Rao visited pizza legend Patsy Grimaldi's new outpost, Juliana's, where the pies are made with an old-fashioned touch -- cheese first, sauce last. The method allows the "tomato sauce [to] protect the cheese like sunblock," Rao writes in her review of Juliana's." The benefits of such care are c ... More >>

December's Openings and Closings

In New York City, only the strong restaurants survive. Or the ones with amazing food, cult followings, lots of great press, and a whole slew of other factors. For those keeping tabs, here's a list of restaurants that opened and closed in December.

Barack Obama Opened Three New Campaign Offices In New York. But Why?

In the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama mopped the floor with Senator John McCain in New York, beating the GOP challenger by more than two million votes.In fact, a Republican presidential candidate hasn't won the Empire State in nearly 30 years, when President Ronald Reagan absolut ... More >>

Cop Killer George Villanueva's Heading to The Hoosegow; Offers Worthless Apology To Officer's Family

A Brooklyn thug who fatally pushed a police officer last year was in court today, where was hit with a 28 1/2-year prison sentence.In addition to learning his fate, George Villanueva, 52 -- who has a lengthy criminal history -- used his sentencing hearing to offer a worthless apology to the victim's ... More >>

Top 10 Vintage Clothing Stores in New York City

Vintage wear tends to trump most fashion trends -- or, in other words, old is the new new. Lucky for the trend conscious among us, New York's wealth of vintage stores make it simple to look chic and seasoned to perfection. Check out our favorite vintage shops around the city...

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This Week's Specials: Holy Eats, Greeks, and Pizza

And now, a look back at what was on the menu here at Fork in the Road this week. Lauren ShockeySausage fest!​ Just in time for the holidays, FitR gets Sunday-schooled in this week's roundup: Our Top 10 Food Moments in the Bible. Robert Sietsema goes Greek in his review of Gregory's 26 Corn ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Kibo; Goodbye to Hinsch's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Hinsch's, the beloved Bay Ridge luncheonette, has closed after more than 50 years in business. [Brooklyn Paper] The embattled space th ... More >>

Fall Arts: Zana Bayne Harnesses Her Talents

The young designer takes us shopping for fall

Open and Closed: Say Hello to The Dutch, Goodbye to Don Hill's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Edgar's Café on the Upper West Side has closed after some 20 years in business. A younger sister establishment nearby remains open. [Zagat Buzz] Moe's, the Fort Greene mainstay is having its ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Melt Shop, Goodbye to Il Matto

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Eccentric Italian restaurant Il Matto has shuttered just before its one-year anniversary, but the owner is holding on to the space. [Eater] The Union Square dive bar Bar 119 has served its las ... More >>

LEGO Brooklyn Creator Really, Really Loves New York, LEGOs

​Jonathan Lopes, a Boerum Hill artist, is building Broolyn in his living room out of blocks. Using only plastic LEGOs, Lopes doesn't even alter the pieces at all, he just makes do with what the boxes offer. "It's challenging to achieve certain aesthetics with the limitations of the brick," he ... More >>

Murdered Cop's Father: 'Shoot the Son of a Bitch'

Schaberger (left) ​Two days after Paul Schaberger laid his son, NYPD officer Alain Schaberger, to rest, he wrote an essay for the New York Post, which the ever callous tabloid editors entitled "''Shoot the SOB!'" as the "slain cop father's advice to officers," despite that not being the main p ... More >>

Career Crook George Villanueva Held on First-Degree Murder in Boerum Hill Death of Cop Alain Schaberger

Villanueva (right) pushed cop Schaberger (left) off a stoop and to his death, the NYPD says.​Small-time crook George Villanueva is in the hoosegow without bail on charges of first-degree murder in the death early Sunday in Boerum Hill of cop Alain Schaberger. A convicted robber with 28 prior arre ... More >>

Noah Bernamoff Talks About Schmaltz, Bagels, and Keeping Jewish Food Alive

MetromixNoah Bernamoff and his wife, Rae Cohen.​Yesterday, Noah Bernamoff spoke with us about his plans for Mile End, the phenomenally successful smoked-meat mecca he opened a little more than a year ago in Boerum Hill. Today, he talks with us about his grandmother's recipes, keeping tradition ... More >>

Noah Bernamoff Talks About Mile End, and What's Next for Mile End

MetromixNoah Bernamoff and his wife, Rae Cohen.​A little more than a year after opening Mile End in Boerum Hill, Noah Bernamoff is a busy, busy guy. In addition to the day-to-day duties of filling the mouths of smoked meat fanatics, Bernamoff fills his hours working on new products and recipes ... More >>

Nicky's Is Now Serving Pho to the East Village

Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches​Last spring, the folks at Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches kept busy quashing rumors that they'd be closing or moving. Fortunately, they've not only stayed put on East 2nd Street, they've also opened Nicky's Pho a couple of blocks away.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Buvette; Goodbye to Vutera

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Williamsburg's Vutera and its upstairs venue Rose Live Music are celebrating the venue's fifth and last year this week, as both are set to close at the end of February. [Wall Street Journal] R ... More >>

Exploring the Montreal-New York Food Connection

A trip up over the border to the great French north

The Inspiration for Mile End's Ruth Wilensky Sandwich

​Mile End's Ruth Wilensky is made with very good artisanal salami -- but the bologna has been omitted. Named after a Montreal neighborhood northeast of Mont Royale, Mile End is a Brooklyn deli that seeks to deliver -- at lunch at least -- a reasonable facsimile of several vernacular culinary ... More >>

Beyond the 'Rock Star' Image to the Heart of Basquiat

Tamra Davis's tribute focuses on the specifics

New Orleans-Style Stan's Place Becomes Rothschild's

​Boerum Hill New Orleans-style restaurant Stan's Place has been closed for renovations for several months. Next Wednesday, it will re-open under the same ownership but in a slightly different incarnation. The new restaurant is called Rothschild's, not because it has any connection to the famou ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

Mile End Brings Montreal to Brooklyn

Boerum Hill gets a smoky, meaty taste of Quebec

Nate Silver Rates Park Slope Top New York Neighborhood

​Nate Silver, the baseball statistician whose analysis of political polls has made his fivethirtyeight.com one of the top independent political websites in the country, has turned his eye on New York and picked Park Slope as our top neighborhood.

Carl Kruger Supports Gay Rights After Death

​It turns out Carl Kruger, one of the few Democrats in the State Senate to vote against same-sex marriage (and the only one from Brooklyn) is willing to have the state extend the legal rights married couples enjoy to same-sex partnerships after all. Unfortunately, one of the partners has to di ... More >>

Nicky's May Be Leaving the East Village

Robert K. Chin/www.nychinatown.orgNicky's on East Second Street​Nicky's began serving banh mi on East 2nd Street in 2004, about five years before it became fashionable to add pickled daikon, carrots, and cilantro to anything on bread. But they may not be doing so for much longer.

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Cultured, Lazy? Brooklyn Art Hops will Drive You to Out-Of-The-Way Galleries

​Every so often someone tells us about an incredibly cool thing in some distant neighborhood, and when we weigh the benefits of seeing the cool thing against getting a good night's sleep or even going to work, the cool thing usually suffers. But here's a loophole: Brooklyn's smART Brooklyn Gal ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem Reintroduces L.J. Davis and His Walls of Mucus in Park Slope

Stuff White People Like #124: Hand-Wringing Gentrification Tales. Case in point: A rapt crowd, 99.9% Caucasian, packed into Park Slope's Community Bookstore for L.J. Davis's March 31 reading from A Meaningful Life, his scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his b ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem and L.J. Davis Bring Back A Meaningful Life

Brooklyn Book Festival: Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Price Triumphant

Rainer Maria Alums Plot a Brooklyn Takeover

Inventive, idealistic rockers stick it out in BoCoCa

Atlantic Yards Subsidies Might Total $2 Billion

TABLOIDED: The Death of Heath Ledger

On the Outs in Brooklyn

The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate

Get Your Cool On

From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes

A Few Good Users

Louie Jones wants to unionize chronic drug users in Brooklyn needing help—including himself

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This Is Not My Beautiful House

Dreams and disappointment at BKLYN Designs

Homes for the Holidays

Bars to hibernate in when the weather dips

Mushroom Bite

Big doors, big boys, big synagogue, big satmars, big job, big faucet

Close-Up on the Columbia Street Waterfront District

Close-Up on Cobble Hill

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Floor-Through Apartment Over Store

Night Crawler

Worming Your Way Through the Underground

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