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May 3, 2012
Redistricting Round Two: City Council Pushes Forward With New Commission Picks
The City Council today announced the key figures who will be charged with dividing up the city into new districts based on Census data. It's the next redistricting frontier! The announcement of the Council's appointments comes on the same day that important news broke in the statewide redistrict ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
City Schools Blow It; Send Error-Riddled Stats To Federal Oversight Agency
From the land of the seriously hard to believe, a major statistical report by the New York city Department of Education, which oversees our public schools, to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is so riddled with obvious errors as to be laughable. The exhaustive report covers ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Park Problems: Another Audit Warns of Dangers to Kids (UPDATE)
About a month after the Voice reported that the Parks Department was slow to fix dodgy conditions in some playgrounds, yet another Comptroller John Liu report puts to question the handling of money and health regulations. The specific site is Brooklyn's Paerdegat Athletic Club, now run by Fitmar Ma ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
PU! Jamaica Bay Is Soon to Be Stink-Free
Howard Beach stinks. But soon it won't smell so bad, because New York's Department of Environmental protection has just finished building a new, odor-curbing station in Jamaica Bay's Shellbank Basin. The area, known to reek of rotting fish during the summer, gets an olfactory reprieve because two n ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
81-Year-Old Brooklyn Florist Mourns Loss of His Pen Pal, Muammar Gaddafi
The joys of pen pals. (Not a letter from Gaddafi.)Following the death of "one of the world's longest-serving dictators," former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on October 20, the New York Post has found one person, his 81-year-old pen pal Louis Schlamowitz, a retired Brooklyn florist, who is a ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Coney Island Bialy & Bagel, the Oldest Bialy Shop in Brooklyn, to Close
It has not been a good year where Jewish breads and Coney Island are concerned.
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July 15, 2011
Rudy Giuliani: Don't Rush to Judge Rupert Murdoch; Cops Seek Upper East Side Groper; Pet Store Praised for Ban on Drunk Buying
• Rudy Giuliani, longtime friend of Rupert Murdoch, says we shouldn't so easily judge Murdoch with regard to that little hacking scandal but should instead, "Give people the presumption of innocence," and not jump to conclusions. (Full disclosure: a law and lobbying firm in which Giuliani i ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where To Find Them in NYC
Some of the country's finest New England clam chowder is found at the Grand Central Oyster Bar. America can be justifiably proud of its national menu, reflecting contributions that began with the Native Americans, expanding and intertwining with the favorite foods of successive waves of immi ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
This Weekend In New York: Theophilus London, Kurt Vile, And A Bit Of Possible Self-Parody
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend involved lots of semi-aimless wandering around the city for Debbie and me, for which we were rewarded with one strange new friend after another. It was ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
The Quintessential Village Voice Piece
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 28, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 26 The quintessential Voice piece by Miss Lonely Hearts With heart-breaking regularity letters arrive at my desk pleading, "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts: What has happened to those beautiful bon mots, that dev ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Suspect in Serial Subway Robberies Busted
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 28, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 26 The quintessential Voice piece by Miss Lonely Hearts With heart-breaking regularity letters arrive at my desk pleading, "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts: What has happened to those beautiful bon mots, that dev ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Nixon Wins, But Nat Hentoff Has a Beef with Ed Koch
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 16, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 46 Next year in Fear City by Nat Hentoff This was going to be the first of a non-consecutive series of probes into the reasons for and the consequences of the Nixon victory, with particular emphasis on ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Park Slope Is 'Not Really Brooklyn' Says Man Who Runs Large International Chain
Taking the concept of gentrification to a rather weird place, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been caught dissing Park Slope by calling it "not really Brooklyn." What is Brooklyn? According to Schultz, who grew up in Canarsie, Bensonhurst counts. But if the CEO of Starbucks, the least Brookl ... More >>
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March 6, 2011
The Haitian Specialty Djon Djon Rice at Ambiance in Canarsie
This delicious heap of sculpted rice is #27 in our 100 Days/100 Dishes Small, spindly, and hard to spot, mushrooms of the species Psathyrella hymenocephala are native to the northern part of Haiti, but also found on the island of Martinique. These 'shrooms form the basis of djon djon rice, ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
In Defense of Brooklyn — As If It Needed Defending
Brooklyn has - and has always had - a treasure trove of undeniable culinary delights, ever since the first Canarsie Indian sat cracking oyster shells on the lip of Jamaica Bay. It's where Italian-American cuisine was invented, with its glorious meatballs, Sunday gravy, and hero sandwiches, an ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
NYC Health Department Worse Than a Nagging Mother About Your Little Drinking "Problem"
The New York City Health Department simply insists on being a downer this holiday season. Hence, their new ad campaign, "Stop drinking while you're still thinking," which you'll start averting your eyes from on subways soon, if not already -- they go up this week. (Ads at right; enlarged afte ... More >>
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April 12, 2010
Subway Bathrooms Are Grosser Than Gross
Just like at Mom's house.If you've ever had to go -- like, really go -- while confined to the innards of the New York City subway system, you've gotten your own little private taste of hell. And if you haven't, the fearless hand-sanitizer-toting journalists at amNewYork have done the dirty wo ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Teen Stars Break Up Over Eating Habits; Food Trucks Bring the South to Brooklyn
Torrisi Italian Specialties opens today in Little Italy selling Italian foods made in America. Owners Richard Torrisi and Mario Carbone, both chefs, cure their own anchovies and olives, and will start offering prix-fixe dinners in February. [NY Times] Teen stars Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautn ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Few Surprises in Times Unemployment Map (Though Coney Beats Carroll Gardens)
We are grateful for the Times unemployment map, which shows what New York neighborhoods are doing best and worst in these parlous economic times, though most of its findings come as no shock. The big loser is unsurprisingly East New York (also murder rate increase leader) with 3rd-quarter un ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Pix from Ambiance, a Haitian Restaurant in Canarsie, Brooklyn
Djon djon rice is a Haitian homestyle specialty, rice boiled with spindly black mushrooms native to the island along with baby lima beans. While Hatian restaurants in town were originally concentrated in Flatbush and East Flatbush, a fanning out of the Haitian population in Brooklyn has resu ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Have You Seen... Sexual Assailants in Greenpoint, Canarsie
On Monday around 44:40 in the afternoon, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly approached at the corner of Avenue N and East 108 Street in Canarsie by the man on the left, who showed her a knife and also pretended to have a gun, and tried to sexually assault her. She screamed and he took off. He's desc ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
Clip Job: Bobby in the Village
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 8, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 51Bobby in the Village: 'Mommy, He Touched Me'By Jack NewfieldRobert F. Kennedy evoked Beatlemania, laughter, and tears during a tour of Greenwich Village Friday night. The Democratic-Liberal Senate candidate ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
4 and 5 Trains Out from Nevins to Brooklyn Bridge Due to Sparking Cables (UPDATE: Service Restored)
4 and 5 train service between Nevins Street and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall is out in both directions due to "hanging cables at the Wall Street Station." They threw off "sparks and heavy smoke" and started a small electrical fire. You're advised to use the J, M, Z, M, R, and W instead, if p ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Inventory: Cleopatra Candy "Toys & Joys" Assortment
Available next to the check-out register at Western Beef on West 16th Street are candies packaged by Cleopatra Candy of Brooklyn, New York, whose logo features a scary cobra, which is about as close as Cleopatra's art department could get to an asp, I guess. The web lists an address on 95th Str ... More >>
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May 22, 2009
Shelly Silver Saves a Bus Route
Let's end this week -- and begin a long weekend of radio near-silence -- with a story about the thing that makes New York great: cronyism! Eight Manhattan bus lines were slated for service changes this weekend, due to changes in traffic patterns from the planned Broadway traffic re-route. One of the ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
Bloomberg Works with Union for Freelancers' Benefits
Having recently tried to screw cops out of their fat pensions and truckled to the rich, Mayor Bloomberg may be thinking it's time to balance things out a little. In addition to some more truckling to the rich ("You can't drive the biggest taxpayers out of the city"), the Mayor announced in a speech ... More >>
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February 23, 2009
Barrett: Court's Slow Work Helped Lippman
Following up on our report of Shelly Silver gaming Governor Paterson to put his old LES friend, Jonathan Lippman, in the highest courts job in the state:The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct released a final determination today removing a Westchester judge who was elected in a 2005 cross ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2009
Home Team Roundup: Psychic Ills, Clap Your Hands Say Nope Thank You
Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Psychic Ills will not rouse a large enough massive to encourage a large scale war of words, but there's a small, pitched battle drawn between those who are underwhelmed by their slow-boiling new collection on ... More >>
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January 21, 2009
Class Action Listings
Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Psychic Ills will not rouse a large enough massive to encourage a large scale war of words, but there's a small, pitched battle drawn between those who are underwhelmed by their slow-boiling new collection on ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2009
4 Stabbed at Notorious Party
"DONT FORGET THIS FRIDAY JAN 16TH ITS GOIN DOWN @ D'JUMBALA NIGHTCLUB!!!!" said the flyer at the Canarsie club's MySpace page. What went down included four stabbed patrons, one of whom is in critical condition. The event was advertised as an "official afterparty for the movie Notorious," so there's ... More >>
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August 22, 2008
Designer Requests Wife's Hand, Detached
"DONT FORGET THIS FRIDAY JAN 16TH ITS GOIN DOWN @ D'JUMBALA NIGHTCLUB!!!!" said the flyer at the Canarsie club's MySpace page. What went down included four stabbed patrons, one of whom is in critical condition. The event was advertised as an "official afterparty for the movie Notorious," so there's ... More >>
News
May 6, 2008
NYPD Inaction Over a Missing Black Woman Found Dead Sparks a Historic Racial-Bias Lawsuit
Police blew off the story of a young black woman who vanished. She was tortured and murdered. Now, a court ruling has reopened the case on bias grounds.
Music
April 8, 2008
Rock and ROFL: The Princes of Comedy
Alt-comedians celebrate the joy of the up-and-coming (or down-and-out) comedian
News
April 8, 2008
Living the Political Life Fantastic
Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest
Blogs
February 5, 2007
Of Mice and Councilmen
Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest
NYC Life
November 14, 2006
The Body Beautiful
The girls of Automotive High don't just fix cars—they fix themselves
News
January 31, 2006
Strangeness on a Train
Annoyance over L train shutdowns, anxiety over what they're for
News
January 10, 2006
Unjust Desserts
Pink slips on the menu for school food supplier
NYC Life
December 6, 2005
Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn
Pink slips on the menu for school food supplier
Film
May 17, 2005
Escape From Zoo York
The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie
NYC Life
April 5, 2005
Close-Up on Starrett City, Brooklyn
The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie
Specials
August 26, 2003
Letters
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News
February 4, 2003
Untitled
The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie
NYC Life
September 10, 2002
Studio in Pre-War Building
The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie
NYC Life
July 16, 2002
Listings
The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie
Dining
April 24, 2001
Cheap Chow Now
The Top 100 Inexpensive Restaurants in New York City
NYC Life
November 21, 2000
Three-Bedroom Apartment in Two-Family Brick House
The Top 100 Inexpensive Restaurants in New York City
News
December 1, 1998
The New American Majority
Women and minorities swung the election to the Democrats. Can the Republicans now claim them?
News
October 13, 1998
Quiz Show
Fans drop beer and pick up pencils to find out who's best
News
September 8, 1998
Political Conversion
Noach Dear Turns Liberal in Race for Schumer's Seat
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