Brighton Beach (Brooklyn)

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Budweiser Tastes Watery, But It's Not Watered Down!

Anheuser-Busch was accused of watering down its beers and misrepresenting the alcohol content in Budweiser, Bud Ice, Bud Light Lime, Natural Ice and other lines. But after class-action lawsuits were filed in federal court, NPR commissioned a lab to test several samples. The lab found that while the ... More >>

My 13 Favorite Brooklyn Restaurants

You're never without a fresh hot flatbread at Yemen Cafe. By my estimate, there are at least 15,000 restaurants in Brooklyn, and I love about 200 of them at any given time. So this list reflects ephemeral choices, what I want to eat now as I sit at my desk, breakfast-less, and dream about climbing ... More >>

Two Weeks After Sandy, Can Red Hook Winery Be Saved?

A few weeks ago, I wrote about celebrating the new Brooklyn wine trail. Both Brooklyn Oenology and Brooklyn Winery, featured in the story, were relatively unscathed by Hurricane Sandy. But Red Hook Winery is located right over the water, nearly at the end of Pier 41, and the facility was completely ... More >>

Nathan's Famous, Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Still Shuttered After Storm

Nathan's Famous has been dark for nearly two weeks -- perhaps for the first time in its 96-year history. Today I took a bicycle tour of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay. Those areas of Brooklyn along the Atlantic Coast are more devastated than has been reported. One stumbles on par ... More >>

Coney: Sideshow by the Hudson

The New Ohio hosts the old Coney Island

A Breakdown of the NYC Bike Share Map

The bicycles are comin'! The bicycles are comin'!Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation released the initial 420 bike share station locations for the program that will unleash (eventually) 10,000 bikes onto the already crammed streets of New York by 2013. Influenced by NYU's ... More >>

Elza Fancy Foods: Big Mash-Up in Brighton Beach

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

MTV's Bridge & Tunnel: Behold The Tremendously Entertaining Trailer for the Original Jersey Shore

Chad GriffithBridge & Tunnel's star sisters: Brianna and Gabriella DeBartoli In this week's Village Voice cover story, we introduce you to Gabriella and Brianna DeBartoli, the would-be Staten Island stars of Bridge & Tunnel, a 12-episode reality show that MTV spent millions shooting, but inexplicab ... More >>

R.I.P. Armando Orsini; NYC Gay Resort Hotel Planned

​Armando Orsini, the New York restaurateur who made Orsini's a hot spot in the '60s, died on July 13 in Asheville, N.C., at age 88. [NY Times] A new gay resort hotel is planned for Midtown West, which will include a nightclub, lounge and cabaret, and café and restaurant called Kitchen. [Hote ... More >>

Anthony Weiner's Constituents Don't Want Him to Resign; Charla Nash Gets a Face Transplant

​• According to an NY1-Marist poll, the majority of voters in Rep. Anthony Weiner's district (parts of Brooklyn and Queens) don't want him to resign, even if they don't necessarily want to re-elect him. One-third of them do want him to step down. Meanwhile, of course, he's still facing a Hou ... More >>

Pat Singer's Sad Chapter to Her Brighton Beach Memoir: Activist's Office Flooded Out, Her Tchotchkes Washed Away

Brighton Beach memoir: Pat Singer with Ed KochThe Brighton Neighborhood Association's administrative office used to be known as a colorful Brooklyn spot awash with all sorts of memorabilia and historic photos collected by founder Pat Singer. Now the office, at 1121 Brighton Beach Avenue, is just awa ... More >>

The House of Blue Leaves Visits Unsunnyside, Queens

David Cromer helms a subdued version of John Guare

Shelsky's Smoked Fish Will Make Smith Street a Little More Lower East Side-ish

​Now that Mile End has successfully spread the gospel of Jewish delicatessen across Boerum Hill and its leafy environs, a new establishment is planning to pay homage its more aquatic counterpart.

No. 21: Chicken Tabaka at KeBeer

​Who flattened my chicken and why? Chicken tabaka is one of the stunning achievements of Georgian cooking. Not that Georgia! Georgia in the Caucusus Mountains, where Caucasians were invented.

Aleksandr Kuznetsov, 54, Stabbed Dead in Sheepshead Bay; Cops Hunt Lexus-Driving Suspect Maksim Gelman

Homicide suspect Maksim Gelman​A 54-year-old Sheepshead Boy man was found stabbed to death shortly after 5 a.m. today in his home at 2830 East 27th Street. Aleksandr Kuznetsov was discovered with multiple stab wounds and was DOA at the scene. Brooklyn cops already have a suspect: Maksim Gelman, 23 ... More >>

Coney Island in Winter: Our Own Antarctica

​Things may be looking grim for Coney Island's future. Old haunts like Ruby's have poured their last beer, and although Central Amusements International and Sodexo plan to make the neighborhood into a 'year-round' destination, it's worth mentioning it's a pretty magical one right now. Take a ... More >>

Robert Trotta, 58, Missing from Brighton Beach

Anyone seen Robert Trotta?​Cops are looking a Brooklyn man in the Brighton Beach area who's been missing for more than a week. Robert Trotta, 58, was last seen at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday, January 11, leaving his home at 2780 West Fifth Street. He's described as 6-1, 220 pounds, with gray hair and ... More >>

Your Exercise Routine Pales in Comparison to This Guy's

Our hero. (via City Room)We will soon hit mid-January. The gyms are still packed with resolutioners! Grim-faced joggers pound away at treadmills, only to see their resolve peter out by March. Meanwhile, there's Gary Atlas of Brighton Beach, who has been running on the beach and then swimming in the ... More >>

Pix from Coney Island Taste Peruvian Restaurant in Brooklyn

​A Study in Yellow: Papas ala Huancaina, a mountain dish that resulted when Indians and Consquistadors put their culinary might together. Sing a song of Coney Island Avenue, that arrow-straight thoroughfare that connects Brooklyn's Parade Grounds with Brighton Beach on Coney Island, sojournin ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World: Natakhtari Tarragon Soda

Green, but not particularly jolly.​While flora like cherries, grapes, and limes were long ago co-opted by the soda industry, tarragon remains something of a domestic rarity. Not so in Georgian restaurants, where tarragon soda is as common as khatchapuri and floor shows. Looking like mouthwash ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Skovorodka; Sarah DiGregorio at Colicchio & Sons

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema rides the Q to Brighton Beach for "regional fare from former Soviet republics" at Skovorodka. Sarah DiGregorio finds that the food at Colicchio & Sons "lacks focus and, somehow, verve." Meanwhile, Sam Sifton was impressed enough to award Colicchio & Sons thre ... More >>

This Week, in the Voice: The 10 Worst Landlords in NYC

​Still trying to wrangle your landlord to get your door to stop squeaking? You ain't seen shit. As long as they didn't make Elizabeth Dwoskin's beautifully terrifying work on this year's list of New York's Worst Landlords, you might end up wanting to hug your own building's capo. And if they a ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Starts a Food Revolution; Michelle Obama Gets Pepsi & Coke Support

​Dozens of seniors in Brighton Beach have been complaining about the poor quality of their daily Meals on Wheels lunches. The problem, they say, started last year when the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged abandoned its own kitchen in favor of catering services. [NY Post] Pepsi and ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​East Meets West Holiday Parade Little Italy and Chinatown Merchants Associations are sponsoring a parade from Mulberry to Mott Street, featuring marching bands, martial artists and acrobats, Italian American singers and Lion and Dragon Dance troupes.

This Week's Voice: Gucci Mane, Def Jam's 25th, Say Anything, Bill Simmons, Roger Corman at Anthology, and More

He's got more check than a Czechoslavian. Photo by Zacke Wolfe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes abroad with Gucci Mane's Cold War mixtape trilogy: "Funny voices aside, The Cold War isn't a particularly conceptual affair, instead favoring a breathtakingly monochromatic wash of b ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​James Lieber's January "What Cooked the World's Economy?" which explained the financial meltdown we still suffer from, is one of our most-read and -emailed stories. Now the awesome follow-up: "We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?" Lieber fi ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's Friday afternoon, meaning it's time for a look back at the best posts of the week: We ranked our Top 10 Greek restaurants. The Vanderbilt opens next week. Here's a sneak preview of its cocktails. Sustainable-meat maven Bev Eggleston talked about his plans to bring his business to New York. ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema at KeBeer Bar & Grill; DiGregorio on 'Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal'

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema discovers "a full Uzbek menu" at KeBeer Bar & Grill in Brighton Beach, while Sarah DiGregorio reviews the book Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, which "lays bare the ways in which the developed world blithely goes about tossing food away." Sam Sifto ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​What may we expect of a third Mike Bloomberg term? Few people pay closer attention to city politics than Wayne Barrett, so he's your man for "A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses." He still thinks "the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Ah, sweet Friday afternoon. Here's a recap of the week's best posts to send you into Saturday. Our Man Sietsema rounded up the city's 10 Best Wine Bars. Battle of the Dishes pitted veggie dogs from Bark Hot Dogs and Crif Dogs against each other in a fight to the death. Vegetarian Delights reveled ... More >>

Locals Protest Protest Brighton Beach Theater at Tonight's Oldies Concert

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz wants to replace the bandshell at Asser Levy/Seaside Park in Brighton Beach/Coney Island with a large, $64 million, roofed amphitheater that can accommodate 8,000 people (Grimshaw Architects rendering pictured). But it seems a lot of the locals don't want i ... More >>

Breaking the Ice at Coney Island

Polar Bears tighten plunges after death last New Year's Day

Follow the Yellow Silk Road

Savory Uyghur cuisine comes of age in Rego Park

'The Tollbooth'

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Early-Early Spring at Zara, H&M, and Joyce Leslie

Forward Backlash

Rumors, promises, and tears as a Russian-Jewish newspaper is sold, and veteran staffers exit

Moscow on the West Side: Going from Cold War to hot jazz

Swimming

Wet Dreams

Soviet Re-Union

Russian Fast Food Comes to Gravesend

Hot Heroes

The Murder of a Russian Boxer

Sergei Kobozev Lost His Last Fight—To Mobsters

Up Against the Wall

Handball, the City’s Most Popular Game

Tashkent Beach

Crashing the Party

Interminable Revenue Service

Dairy State

Jewish Soul, American Beat

Marco and Me