Chelsea Piers

Mezcal, Ribs, and Fourth of July Festivities: What's Happening This Week

This week, we ring in a new month and celebrate the birth of our nation (and hopefully, many of you are getting a long weekend). Here's a look at some of our favorite events coming up in the next few days.

Top 5 Food Events This Weekend

Friday, May 10 Prohibition Era Cocktail Cruise Channel your inner Gatsby and set sail on the Hudson River tonight. Local distillers will divulge secret cocktail recipes and all guests will enjoy old-time classics like a whiskey-based Swizzle and a classic Manhattan. 1920's dress is encouraged. Purch ... More >>

What's Happening: Chocolate Week and Cochon 555

Monday, February 4 Chocolate Week Start the week off right with a healthy dose of chocolate. Keep the sweets coming all the week at restaurants participating in Chocolate Week. Bakeries, restaurants, and stores around the city will offer special Tea Gourmand, Coffee Gourmand, or Bubbly Gourmand menu ... More >>

The Good Fork Will Reopen in Red Hook, Plus Free Tours of Chelsea Brewing Co.

Thursday, December 27 Beer Dinner for Holiday Hurricane Relief at Alewife: Long Island City brewery Alewife will host a holiday meal fit for a beer fanatic. For $50, try brews from Smuttynose, Lagunitas, Oskar Blues, Dogfish Head, Greenport Harbor, and Bronx Brewery, all paired with a six-course men ... More >>

What You Missed at Hammer and Claws

[See More Photo Essays: Roberta's Desserts from Pastry Chef Katy Peetz | Lonestar's Locavore Tacos] Crab lovers headed to the Chelsea Piers this past weekend, strapped on their bibs and got their hammers ready for Hammer and Claws, an all-you-can-eat crab fest. Truckloads of blue crabs were broug ... More >>

CHILL OUT

Ice-skating in the summer? Yes!

Say Hello to Baconery, The Guthrie Inn

Bacon bakery Baconery has opened their very first shop inside Books of Wonder on 18th Street. According to their Twitter feed: "May 1st begins world domination with #bacon treats in #NYC .. Let the #bacon party begin.."[Eater NY] Chelsea's Table, from the founders of Stonyfield Farm, opened at Che ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Gingerbread Decoration at Eleni's New York

Wine Tasting on a Boat As part of an ongoing series about world wines, Classic Harbor Line will host a sampling tonight, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Meet at Chelsea Piers' slot no. 62. Sign up for the $85 event here. Gingerbread Decoration at Eleni's New York Want to build the house of your dreams ... More >>

New York Times Discovers 'Poor People' Who Golf

​Corey Kilgannon is outdoing himself over at the New York Times City Room blog! Yesterday, he wrote of a real-life hobo he discovered roaming about Central Park, a cowboy-faced "ramblin' man" named Larry, lookin' "to hop a train outta here." Today we get the tale of two creative cousins from W ... More >>

POWER OF WORDS

Celebrating why PEN is mightier than the sword

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Buvette; Goodbye to Vutera

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Williamsburg's Vutera and its upstairs venue Rose Live Music are celebrating the venue's fifth and last year this week, as both are set to close at the end of February. [Wall Street Journal] R ... More >>

Brandy Library's Ethan Kelley Talks Peat Week, Rare Booze & How Mixologists Can Take the "Joy Out of Drinking"

drinkingtheworld.comLet Brandy Library's Ethan Kelley school you.​Thousands of brown liquor-loving booze hounds will congregate at Pier 60 in Chelsea Piers today for Whisky Live, a trade show featuring dozens of exhibitors and a heckuva lot of stiff drinks. Brandy Library is celebrating the ev ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, #2: Geeks Spittin' Like Gangstas

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. We're behind schedule, so here are four for the price of one. Previous reasons: social media ruined the internet, artists joined the farm league, New York turned into America, guilty pleasures witho ... More >>

Fashion Week to Leave Bryant Park

amNY and NY1 are reporting that Fashion Week is expected to leave Bryant Park for Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in 2010. Except for one season at the Chelsea Piers, Fashion Week has been headquartered at the park behind the Fifth Avenue Library since 1993. Earlier this week Vera Wang and Betsey Jo ... More >>

International Booze Tastings

In the event that you're one of the few people in the city who still have the cash to blow on booze tastings, there are two big ones coming up on Monday, January 26th.The Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux is in town to promote the 2006 vintage. During the day, they'll have a trade tasting, and in the ... More >>

The Official Guide to Twee Outdoor Summer Dance Parties

Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide

What I Learned at Beige Last Night... Simon Cowell Has a Small Pecker?

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Make a change in your life.

New Year's Eve 2008 Pursuits

Greenpoint's New Bowling Alley: Time-Warp Look and Prices to Match

Old Milwaukee chandeliers, but Sixpoint in the pitchers

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New Year's Eve Event Guide

Pricing the Pols: How Much for a Beep?

Music

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The Kitchen Cooks Up a Hearty Art Fair in West Chelsea

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Cabin Fever

The heat is on—and for a limited time only—so get out of the house and soak it up before it's gone

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Gay & Lesbian Services

Same-Sex Ed

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Bi-Polar and Loving It

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

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Pride Guide

1972 Sailboat

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Contortions and Conundrums

Moving Targets

Choreographers Stride to Hit the Mark

Target Practice

The Low (Cost) Road to Fashion

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They Don’t Skate Straight

Thriving Gay Hockey Community Cools Its Heels on the Ice

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Sports

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Monitor Madness!

Flashing, Pulsing Screens Invade New York

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''Most high-minded of all was Madonna, a spiritual lady who wears her heart on her jewel-encrusted sari sleeve.''

The River Wild

Exploring Manhattan's Hudson Coast before a park plan paves it over