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Uzbek, You Bet, at Nargis Cafe

Grab your post-Soviet bib in Brooklyn

Nargis Cafe: 5 Must-Try Dishes

How 'bout a little suzma on your salad? Today Counter Culture skates in to Nargis Cafe, a jewel in Coney Island Avenue's culinary crown, and just about the only Uzbek restaurant in town where you can sashay in and be seated at peak hours--without being a banquet, that is. The fare hits all the Sil ... More >>

Unconscious Disturbance+Mindmaze+Hack+Escape Time

OY VEY!

Chefs spice up the old latke

SPACE ODDITY

Tracy K. Smith reads with Tina Chang

Grass Roots

Antibalas+Red Baraat

San Franciscans Will Pay Plenty for a 'NY Bagel'

Reach deep into your pocket for a taste of NY in SF. The City by the Bay is as pop-up crazy as New York. San Francisco FiTR correspondent Tracy Van Dyk reports that a current Mission pop-up near the corner of Guerrero and 18th serves one thing, and one thing only: New York style bagels. But there ... More >>

November's Openings and Closings

The shark-infested waters of New York City's restaurant industry are not for the faint of heart. In case you're into keeping tabs, here is a list of those who took the leap and opened new establishments and those who were forced to bow out this month.

Greenpoint's Lobster Joint Plants Flag On Houston Street

Greenpoint's Lobster Joint has officially commandeered 201 Houston St., the former home of semi-outdoor Lina Frey. Bob Levitt, one of the owners, said they should be up and running in the middle of December.

How to Make an Old Fashioned from The Bedford

Thanksgiving is all but a memory and Christmas looms large. The weather is cold and the days are short. It is time for a stiff drink. Fortunately, The Bedford, the homey American restaurant and speakeasy in Williamsburg, offers a cocktail menu designed to raise spirits and warm souls. And in these ... More >>

Welcome Crispy Mr. Chicken!

A drumstick ($1.25), a thigh ($1.25)...and what part of the chicken is that third piece? The part of commercial Brooklyn once defined by Williamsburg Savings Bank but now by Barclays Center can use some more cheap-food emporia, especially in the face of what will doubtlessly be an upscaling of the ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

SWEET TREATS

Two holiday markets have everyone on your list covered

Watch a Post-Sandy Video Tour of Red Hook's Fairway Market

Fairway Market gives a video tour of its store in Red Hook that was hit with 15-foot waves and flooded during Hurricane Sandy. It is in the process of rebuilding. The only thing left in the store is an old coffee roaster, which will be replaced. Andy Zuleta, the general manager, says, "We'll be ba ... More >>

Simeonette Mapes Murder: Husband Busted in Slaying of Staten Island Teacher

Over the summer, we reported that a Staten Island woman survived a shootout near the Brooklyn school where she and her husband taught, only to get fatally stabbed the following week."The Cypress Hill[s] projects are no joke," 29-year-old Simeonette Mapes posted on her Facebook page following the sho ... More >>

Conditions Still Bad in Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach, Most Restaurants Closed

The Gorilla Cheese truck dispenses free toasted cheese sandwiches to the storm-beleaguered of Brighton Beach. Bad as things are in Coney Island, they're worse in Sheepshead Bay, as my bike ride Friday demonstrated. The concrete-lined bay and quarter-mile-distant town center have a restaurant econo ... More >>

Live: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival Quakes Over Williamsburg

Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival Various Venues Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10 Better Than:The EDM debate It's hard to believe the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival started five years ago in what used to be BKLYN Yard, now known as Gowanus Grove, and to those in the know (a/k/a e ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Owney's Rum Tasting and Inuman at Pulutan

Monday, November 12 Elizabeth Falkner and Melissa Clark at Strand: Elizabeth Falkner just opened Krescendo -- Brooklyn's new pizza destination -- and on Monday, the Iron Chef finalist will chat with Melissa Clark, New York Times food journalist. Check out the dynamic duo at Strand Book Store at 7 p. ... 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 >>

Red Hook Restaurants and Bars Struggle to Reopen After the Storm

On Sunday afternoon, musicians played Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan songs as they walked down Van Brunt Street, stomping their feet and singing. Usually these guys come with their banjos and harmonicas to Sunny's, the beloved, family-owned bar on Red Hook's waterfront, but it's one of the many places ... More >>

Where to Eat, Donate, and Volunteer for Sandy Relief This Week [Updated]

Originally published 11/04/12 Your city needs you, reader! The simplest thing you can do to be helpful now, and in the weeks ahead, is to head to places hit by Sandy and eat (and drink!) at the small, independently owned restaurants and bars that have opened again. Your business will help them boun ... More >>

How to Make The Reverend from Seersucker

Chalk it up to the week's latest Nor'easter, but something about these recent events might have left some New Yorkers seeking a higher power. Fortunately, we can find solace exactly where we left it -- behind the bar. Today's cocktail recipe, The Reverend, was created by the team at Seersucker Brook ... 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 >>

MTA: L Train Back in Action, 14th Street Tube Dry

Good news on the public transportation front: As of 3 p.m., the L train is running between Brooklyn and Manhattan. "L trains resumed through the 14th Street tube at 3 p.m. with 10-minute headways returning service to stations from Eighth Avenue to Broadway Junction," the MTA announced moments ago.Th ... More >>

Coney: Sideshow by the Hudson

The New Ohio hosts the old Coney Island

PLUGGED IN

BEMF gets Williamsburg dancing

Where to Watch Election Results in NYC

Today's politically charged special at Vinnie's Pizzeria in Brooklyn Whether you vote red, blue, black, tea, green or some rainbow unicorn color, the best part of election day is watching the results. The excitement and anxiety is best felt with fellow voters in a crowded space, with pun-ny named ... More >>

Enduring in Red Hook

Sadek Abiah pulled up the gate of his Kennedy Fried Chicken at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, determined to serve food to the thousands remaining in a storm-battered Red Hook. But his delivery truck was stuck in traffic, along with every other car today, and wouldn't get here for hours. Never mind. He put on ... More >>

Subway Commuters Should Expect a Repeat of Thursday's Long Lines on Friday and Possible Delays for "Next Several Years"

"This is bullshit," a Hispanic twenty-something said. Fidgeting, he looked at the subway entrance, then to his phone, then down the block to the ever-growing line of tired commuters, then back to his phone. "It's my girl's birthday. I'm supposed to go see her." He took one last glance toward the ent ... More >>

Brooklyn's Fresh Daily Skipped CMJ This Year, Doesn't Drink Before Shows

If you found this year's CMJ didn't seem quite as fresh as recent offerings, that might be due to the absence of Brooklyn hip-hop favorite Fresh Daily. Fortunately, New York's going to be getting their post-hurricane Freshness preserved with Fresh Daily shows on three consecutive nights. November 1- ... More >>

In Red Hook Houses, No Power, No Water, and Growing Frustration

Three days after Hurricane Sandy, residents of the Red Hook Houses are still without electricity and water, and are increasingly angry at the lack of response from city, state, and federal officials. About 100 residents gathered at the flagpole near the center of the projects yesterday to voice the ... More >>

Food Distribution Begins in Red Hook

In Red Hook, most businesses are closed as they clean up damage from severe flooding. But Defonte's, Kennedy Fried Chicken, and Baked, are serving food today, and the bodegas that got their deliveries opened yesterday. And for the thousands of residents without power and water struggling to stay war ... More >>

Enduring in Red Hook

Stairs, barbecues, and disaster tourists

BAND BEYOND

Head into the urban wilderness with Woods

Hurricane Sandy: Red Hook Update

Hurricane Sandy is only beginning to pummel New York, but in low-lying Red Hook, the storm's effects are already evident. As you can see in the picture above, the bottom of Van Brunt Street is submerged, with the water lapping at the sandbagged doors of the Fairway storage warehouse. Around back, t ... More >>

Sandy Intensifies; Situations Worsens; Police, Fire Straining to Respond to Rescue Calls

As the storm intensifies tonight, reports of calamity are flowing in, particularly in the Rockaways, sections of Queens and Brooklyn. A city ambulance on Beach Channel Drive in southeastern Queens was reported surrounded with water, and the crew was sitting on the roof asking for a rescue. A fire i ... More >>

Eight More Alleged Drug Dealers Nabbed in Undercover Brooklyn Sting

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the arrest of eight alleged drug dealers from Bedford Stuyvesant yesterday stemming from a long-term drugs-selling investigation. "Once again, undercover police officers put their lives at risk to make these arrests possible and improve life for t ... More >>

Robbing the Same Bank Over and Over Whenever You Need Cash Is a Thing, Apparently

On Monday, we wrote an article about a Brooklyn bandit who has robbed the same Crown Heights Apple Bank three times in the past year and a half. We, for the record, were flabbergasted by the amount of chutzpah the guy had for returning to the scene of the crime where he ostensibly could have (should ... More >>

Holy Crap, the Islanders Are Moving to Brooklyn! (liveblog)

As the Twitterverse is already aware, the New York Islanders are holding a press conference at Brooklyn's Barclays Center at 1 pm, with the word being that they're set to announce a move to the land of Marty Markowitz once their Nassau Coliseum lease expires in 2015. There are all sorts of questions ... More >>

Alberta Cross

'Caribbean Fever Music Festival'

This Guy Has Robbed a Brooklyn Bank Three Times Since Last Year

Police are looking for a man suspected of robbing two Brooklyn Apple Banks a combined four times since early last year. Officers say the suspect is a six-foot-tall black male with a graying beard who is probably between 40 and 60 years old and between 150 and 200 pounds (and based on that descripti ... More >>

Brooklyn Brewery Finishes Expansion, Expects 100,000 Barrels of Beer

A bright yellow crane stuck out against the Williamsburg waterfront on Tuesday morning as it installed three 25-foot-long fermenters in the Brooklyn Brewery on North 12th Street. This week marks the third and final phase in the Brooklyn beer company's expansion plan that was announced in February 2 ... More >>

Pad Thai Redeemed

Finally, a pad thai that kicks your ass Pad Thai is one of those dishes to be instinctively avoided. Even at great Thai restaurants, the cooks switch into gringo mode and turn out an indifferent heap of pale rice noodles that's invariably bland and way too sweet. But then last Friday evening a gro ... More >>

An Illustrated Snack at Red Lantern Bicycles

Red Lantern is the perfect place to hang out and meet other bikers,

Carroll Gardens Residents Upset Over Plans For Homeless Shelter. Ugh.

Like most gentrified neighborhoods in New Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens looked completely different only a decade ago. There were no coffee shops or strollers on Smith Street and the brownstones were not obsessively recognized for their aesthetic charm just yet. It was a lower-income neighborh ... More >>

Shoplifter Ripped Off Brooklyn 7-Eleven. So Employees Ripped Off His Pants *VIDEO*

When you work at a convenience store in Brooklyn, you have to learn to pick your battles. For example, candy bars are going to get stolen every once in a while. When this happens, you can do one of two things: ignore it and take the loss, or drag the shoplifter back into the building kicking and scr ... More >>

Brooklyn Blast: A Surprise Hoppy Explosion

A candlelit brew Brooklyn Blast! from Brooklyn Brewery Style: Double IPA Serving style: Draft Location: Beloved Cost: $6 ABV: 9.0 percent [See More: Getting Drunk in the Rain in the Catskills | Great Lakes Burning River]

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