Canarsie

Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

Battle Intensifies Between Fired Workers, CWA and Cablevision

The group of Brooklyn technicians fired by Cablevision two weeks ago have been rallying around the city with high-profile politicians to give their account of how Cablevision has mistreated its unionized workers. Cablevision maintains that Communications Workers of America, the union which 282 Bro ... More >>

Video Footage of Cablevision Management Firing 23 Unionized Brooklyn Workers

Last week we reported on the 23 Brooklyn technicians who were fired by Cablevision for allegedly refusing to work Wednesday morning. The fired technicians were a part of a group of about 70 workers who say that they were attempting to utilize an open-door policy at the company that allows workers t ... More >>

Conflicting Stories Emerge Following the Firing of 23 Cablevision Workers

This morning a group of protestors, led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, demanded that management at Cablevision's garage in Canarsie come out and have a little chat about yesterday's firing of 23 workers. Cablevision says that the fired technicians were i ... More >>

Hey DOE! It's Kind of Your Fault Boys and Girls High School is Under-Performing, Community Says

Those advocating to preserve the current structure of Boys and Girls High School say the New York City Department of Education has failed to calculate the role it has played in contributing to the school's drop in performance in recent years. The historic Bedford-Stuyvesant high school is facing th ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Suspect in Serial Subway Robberies Busted

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Class Action Listings

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 >>

Designer Requests Wife's Hand, Detached

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.

Rock and ROFL: The Princes of Comedy

Alt-comedians celebrate the joy of the up-and-coming (or down-and-out) comedian

Living the Political Life Fantastic

Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest

Of Mice and Councilmen

Strangeness on a Train

Annoyance over L train shutdowns, anxiety over what they're for

Unjust Desserts

Pink slips on the menu for school food supplier

Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn

Escape From Zoo York

The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie

Close-Up on Starrett City, Brooklyn

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