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Brooklyn Pour Is Two Weeks Away--More Breweries and Food Announced

We're less than two weeks out from the Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival, which descends on Skylight One Hanson (1 Hanson Place, 718-783-5437) in Fort Greene October 12. Our VIP tickets are sold out--but there are a few more general admission slots available, and today brings more info that should t ... More >>

After Complaints from Red Hook, Contaminated Sludge From Gowanus Canal Will Not Become Glorious Sludge Island

In ten years or so, the fragrant banks of the Gowanus Canal may smell less like supercharged sewage, while the waters might lose their pus-addled-Ninja-Turtle hue. The Environmental Protection Agency announced their final plans yesterday to clean up the canal, a process that's expected to take aroun ... More >>

Frank Galarza Brings Another Title to East New York's Starrett City Boxing Club

When Starrett City Boxing Club in East New York opened in 1978, it was surrounded by dirt roads and blight. And in the marshes just out back, "people would dump things," says longtime trainer Ewart Chance. "This place used to be a dump." These days, the smooth, slate-colored, asphalt streets bear a ... More >>

The Weekend Ahead: Dumpling Festival, Taste of France, Discover Shio-Koji Workshop, and Atlantic Antic

Now that the last weekend of September has arrived, the stress of finding a super original Halloween costume is on. Between your desperate search through vintage clothing shops and scouring Abracadabra for something in your size, why not take a break at some of these fun--and mostly free--events:

The Gowanus Canal Is Terrifying, Filled With Shipwrecks and Will Cost Millions to Clean Up

Sometime very soon, the Environmental Protection Agency will release its final plan on how to clean up the incredibly polluted Gowanus Canal, a process that's expected to take years and cost $550 million. In the meantime, stop fishing there. No, seriously, that's something that people are still doin ... More >>

Brooklyn Brew Shop to Join the Brewery Ranks

Brooklyn Brew Shop is one of the only places in New York City that provides easy-to-use brew kits for homebrewers. "Making beer is not difficult. It requires little space. It will save you money, and taste better than what you find in most stores," the shop's website boasts, encouraging others to ge ... More >>

Tasting the Mexican Specials at Fritzl's Lunch Box

Fritzl's Lunch Box is a cheery American luncheonette smack in the middle of Bushwick that opened early this year. Chef Dan Ross-Leutwyler is an alum of Roberta's and Fatty 'Cue, and he has a knack for making de rigeur American food--roasted beets, grilled cheese sandwiches, and caesar salad, for ins ... More >>

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More Reasons to Go to Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival

Have you purchased your ticket for our Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival, going down on October 12 at Skylight One Hanson in Fort Greene? Get on it: VIP tickets--which get you early access to brews plus admission to a private lounge--are nearly sold out, and general admission tickets are going quick ... More >>

Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster to DJ Village Voice's Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival

Well this is sure shaping up nicely: Our annual Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival, wherein 100 (!) breweries offer beer thirsty patrons an unlimited taste of their product, has just added some megawatt DJ talent. Marissa Paternoster of the bands Noun and Screaming Females (who we gushed about in our ... More >>

Cronut Hole Concretes, Harvest in the Square, Swedish Chef Talk, Fast Times at Ridgemont High Beer Dinner: The Week Ahead

If football kept you on the couch this past weekend, you missed out on some ridiculously tasty events. Not to worry, this is New York, and there's something going on at all times if you know where to look. Here's what's happening this week.

Omnivore Brings a Pig Roast to Brooklyn (PHOTOS)

On Sunday, a piggy (and food industry-heavy) crowd gathered at the Crown Victoria in Williamsburg for Omnivore's Carnivorous Party, a good old-fashioned swine roast featuring an international lineup of chefs including Marc Cohen (Bucherie Lawrence, Montreal), Gregory Marchand (Frenchie, Paris), and ... More >>

Red Hook's El Olomega Wins Top Vendy

This weekend the 2013 Vendy Awards, known as "the Oscars of street food," corralled 28 trucks and tables into Sunset Park's Industry City for a marathon of gormandizing before naming New York City's best mobile cuisine purveyor.

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/6/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

A Brooklyn Couple Was Arrested for Scamming Immigrants with Bogus English Language Instruction

A Brooklyn couple was arrested in Syracuse on August 30 for a plot to scam nearly 100 Asian immigrant families out of tuition paid for English-language instruction. Patrick Panettieri, 63, and Joanne Panettieri, 59, extracted tuition fees ranging from $100 to $2000 before shuttering the three storef ... More >>

The 10 Best Jukebox Bars in New York City

In a perfect world, jukeboxes aren't Top 40-spewing robots, those glowing ATM-like contraptions hooked up to an infinite Internet playlist that charges $2 a song and inundates you with too many choices to the point where you're just playing The Outfield's "Your Love" on repeat for the billionth time ... More >>

Antiq Hennis Shooting: the Numbers Behind a Tragedy

At around 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, 16-month-old Antiq Hennis was shot and killed while sitting in his stroller in Brownsville. Police have said the gunman was targeting his father, who was not hit. By the Daily News' counting, Hennis' death marked the 16th time in the last three months that a child un ... More >>

Music's Best/Worst Puns with Punderdome 3000's Jo Firestone

Puns: You love them or hate them. Not much middle ground there. But the folks who love the art of the pun love it quite a bit, so much so that there are actually pun competitions all over the world. In fact, Brooklyn's home to Punderdome 3000, whose September installment happens tonight at Littlefie ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 9/2/13

For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Campaign Underway to Rename a Brooklyn Street After Notorious B.I.G.

LeRoy McCarthy wants to see credit where credit is due. Last week, McCarthy started a Change.org petition to rename Fulton Street between St James and Cambridge Place in Brooklyn--the site of Biggie Smalls' childhood home--after Big Poppa.

More Brewers Named for Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival

Have you picked up your tickets for our upcoming Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival? If you're still waiting to pull the trigger, this might entice you: We've got whole new batch of breweries to reveal that will be pouring beer alongside the sneak peek line-up we told you about last week.

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Fool’s Gold Brings Its Annual Day Off NY Fest to Brooklyn

LAST DAY OF SUMMER

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Katy Perry in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a Drone in Williamsburg, and Other Key Differences Between Regular VMAs and Brooklyn VMAs

It's over. The vision of the charming, artisan awards show MTV execs imagined when they decided to hold this year's Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is gone, replaced by images of Miley Cyrus grinding up on a foam finger, and the sad, sad sound of N Sync's faltering voi ... More >>

This Weekend's Events: Afropunk Fest, Chelsea Bazaar, Soup Competition

Another of the dwindling weekends of summer is upon us. Here's a look at what's in store:

April Bloomfield and Daniel Stedman Weigh in on Forthcoming Inaugural Taste Talks

On September 14 and 15, chefs and food experts from all over the world will descend on a trio of Williamsburg venues--the Wythe Hotel, Kinfolk Studios, and Brooklyn Bowl--where they'll serve pancakes, chat gastronomy, team up for a cookout, and participate in a rendition of Cook it Raw, the internat ... More >>

Sneak Peek at Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival Line-Up; Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

Attention craft beer fiends: Here's your friendly reminder that tickets for our annual Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival go on sale tomorrow at noon, and you'll want to scoop yours up so you can join us at Skylight One Hanson in Fort Greene on October 12 for more than 100 craft brews plus food and o ... More >>

Cheap Laughs: The Best in Indie and Alt Comedy This Week

How hard can Brooklyn laugh at itself? We'll find out this week, when the first ever Brooklyn Comedy Festival takes over the borough's most unintentionally ridiculous neighborhood: Williamsburg! It's where everyone dresses like a trendy clown, so it's fertile ground for comedy. Here are our picks fo ... More >>

A Bomb Just Went Off in Bushwick, Reports Rapper Kitty Pryde

Update: Tuesday, August 13, 2:40pm: Actually, it was multiple manhole fires, according to FDNY. The fires broke out this afternoon near 176 Maujer Street in Brooklyn. Four to five manholes were involved, but all of the fires were contained by 2:20pm. The cause remains unknown. "There's a number ... More >>

Announcement: Third Annual Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival Coming October 12

Good news, beer lovers: We've firmed up the date of the third annual Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival, an event that will bring together more than 100 craft brewers from our fair state and beyond. The party hits Skylight One Hanson in Fort Greene on October 12, and while tickets go on sale to the g ... More >>

This Week's Events: Free Gelato, Rooftop Dinner, Cricket Talk

If the sight of your beach towel and bathing suit is driving you crazy, remember there's a time and a place for everything. After all, without appreciating Monday so little, we wouldn't love Friday so much! Here's a round-up of what's happening this week in the world of food and drink, which should ... More >>

The 10 Best Conerts in New York This Weekend, 8/9/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

Sixpoint Craft Beer & Food Crawl, Farm Party, Marlow Summer Fair: Your Weekend Agenda

Can't wait to start the weekend? Hit Summer Streets and break a sweat in Manhattan, then head to one of this weekend's outer borough events to cool down.

Brooklyn Cupcake & More Now Open in the Green Desk Space in Williamsburg

While Green Desk's new kitchen incubator could use a catchy name (The Shops on Kent Avenue? The Mall of Williamsburg? House of Hipsters?), tenants in the space continue to make their debut, and Brooklyn Cupcake and Vapor Lounge New York are the latest to open for business, joining Essbar Juicing in ... More >>

A Glitch in Google Maps Lets You Watch Williamsburg Gentrify in an Instant

A lot of ink has been spilled over Williamsburg's transformation from a seedy warehouse habitat for the city's creative underclass into the world capital of the hipster overground. Bemoaning gentrification in Williamsburg is the most tired conversation you can have about how this city is changing. B ... More >>

Rippers Sets Sail Again After Sandy

The Nostrand Avenue Shop Bicycle Roots Is by Crown Heights Residents, for Crown Heights Residents

Crown Heights is changing. There is no mistaking the churn of gentrification in this central Brooklyn neighborhood as it moves eastward on Eastern Parkway. But it's too easy to write off all the new brunch places and sleek bars as yet more signs that something in Crown Heights has been irrevocably l ... More >>

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Goldenrod Opens and Revives a Bit of Brooklyn's Beer History

When South Brooklyn Pizza and Buschenschank proprietor James McGown bought P.J. Hanley's back in 2005, he took on decades of history: The Irish bar, often dubbed the oldest bar in Brooklyn, existed under that name for more than 50 years, and its legacy as a Carroll Garden watering hole dates back t ... More >>

Film Festival, Brooklyn Whiskey, Hotel Chantelle Brunch & Lobster Bake: Your Weekend Agenda

August has arrived, which means you should be attempting fill up on as much fun as you can take before Labor Day deals a crippling blow to summer. Here are a few things to nibble on this weekend.

Did a Bushwick Community Board Illegally Approve a Rezoning for a Lucrative Development Site?

On Monday Community Board 4 in Bushwick convened to approve zoning changes that would speed up the development of the Rheingold Brewery site. The site would bring high-rise apartments and new retail locations to the center of Bushwick, a move which many neighborhood residents vehemently oppose as ge ... More >>

AG the Coroner: Inspired by Biggie, Cosigned by Action Bronson, Signed by Roc Marciano

"I had a friend who just so happened to be working in the freezer when I got here and he was able to cut some corners for me," says AG the Coroner, the Brooklyn-based rapper, about what until recently was his day job in the dead body storage department of a hospital. These days, AG has been moved to ... More >>

Rooftop Farming at Brooklyn Grange (PHOTOS)

A couple weeks ago, Brooklyn Grange managing partner Anastasia Cole-Plakias showed me around Brooklyn Grange's Navy Yard rooftop farm. Though it was the very height of the July heat wave, there was magic inherent to being on a rooftop, and that magic becomes transcendent when you're surrounded by ne ... More >>

Brooklyn Activists Map Out All the Different Types of Street Harassment On a Depressing, Useful Chart

There's almost nothing that'll ruin your morning faster than a disgusting kissy noise, emanating from the face of some idiot trailing you down the block. Or a "flattering" remark about a body part you possess, which quickly turns into the outraged yelling of "BITCH! LESBIAN!" when you don't respond ... More >>

Brooklyn Grange's Urban Oasis in Today's Village Voice

Hannah Palmer Egan contemplates the complexity of baby mustard leaves as she stands in one of the rooftop farms sown by Brooklyn Grange. "The leaf has a green, vegetal flavor, with a strong wasabi note, a warm sensation on the tongue," she writes. "Moments later, my mouth explodes in a fiery burst o ... More >>

Totally Buzzing! Today Is Honey Day on the High Line

Between the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, the varroa mites, and various pesticides, fungicides, viruses, and other problems plaguing honeybee populations around the world, keeping an apiary strong and healthy these days is no easy task.

Dear R Train Riders: There's a Ferry Coming to the Rescue

From now until the fall of 2014, MTA is severing the R train connection between Brooklyn and Manhattan for post-Sandy repairs. Despair not! There's a ferry service planned to reconnect commuters between the two boroughs, starting at 58th Street Pier by the Brooklyn Army Terminal and docking at Wall ... More >>