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DUMBO (Brooklyn)

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Huazontle: DUMBO's Gran Electrica Gives It a Green Whirl

    It's the season for huazontle, a spindly plant from Mexico with bright green branches with thousands of tiny buds, somewhat similar to the beads on broccoli florets. Eaten around the Holy Week of Lent, the buds have a mild spinachy flavor. Though beautiful specimens have been popping up in Mexican m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Dawn Casale and David Crofton of One Girl Cookies on Dessert Nostalgia: Interview Part 2

    Photo courtesy Dawn Casale and David CroftonDawn and Dave are bringing a little piece of Cobble Hill to Dumbo​Yesterday we spoke with Dawn Casale and David Crofton, the owners of One Girl Cookies (68 Dean Street, 212-675-4996), about their new cookbook. Today they discuss nostalgic desserts an ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 5, 2011

    SONIC BOOM

    Artists and musicians take over DUMBO

  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

    Karen O and company take on opera

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Hecho en Dumbo to Spawn Salon Hecho, Next Door

    Hecho to spawn a Salon.​Some stirrings over at Hecho en Dumbo, on the Bowery: construction on Salon Hecho, next door, has begun. The annex will be modeled after hip Mexico City cantinas, specializing in infused mezcals called abocados and featuring live bands, both from here and south of the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    There Will Soon Be Two One Girl Cookies

    One Girl CookiesVoid, filled.​Five-and-a-half years after opening its wee storefront in Cobble Hill, One Girl Cookies is expanding to a second location in DUMBO.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Dumbo Gets Free Wi-Fi; Manhattan's Paid Version to Follow

    ​As of today, Dumbo, Brooklyn, is the first -- and only -- location in the city to offer a free wireless network for the neighborhood. It's called Dumbo Wi-Fi, and it will be available outside, in streets, parks, and plazas, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges -- including in the newly ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2011

    ZOOM IN

    Photographers swarm DUMBO

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2011

    HIGH STAKES

    Funnymen play serious poker for charity

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    The Luckyrice Festival Returns; Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

    tucker_zoe/Flickr​Just in time for Chinese New Year (which begins tomorrow), the Luckyrice Festival has announced it will return for a second year, from May 2-8.

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Taking the Sting Out of Summer Dining at Vinegar Hill House

    ​Can I offer you some Deep-Woods Off? I'm one of those guys that gets real excited we he steps into a new restaurant, looks to the rear of the premises, and sees a sunny backyard full of chairs and tables, and maybe a tree or two. I refuse to sit at a sidewalk table as the trash blows by in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    The Next Brooklyn Takedown Will Be Grits

    theeathenpath.comKiss these grits.​Matt Timms has announced the next installment in his series of amateur cooking Takedowns -- and its Grits. The event will take place June 27 at the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO as part of the NYC Food Film Festival. A little pricier than former Takedowns, ticke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Breaking: Manhole Explodes in Dumbo, Funny Headline Inevitable

    ​Ah, Spring, the season where things in New York City just can't seem to want to stop blowing up (however unsuccessfully), or can't actually stop blowing up.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Hecho en Dumbo's Corn Smut Quesadillas

    ​It's probably nicer to say huitlacoche, but doesn't corn smut sound more exciting?

  • Voice Choices

    May 18, 2010

    ART RIDER

    Pop the kickstand on your weekly art fix

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2010

    FREEZE FRAME

    Lou Reed steps up to co-curate the NY Photo Festival

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Golden Pan Bringing Organic Crepes to Dumbo

    Crepes creep into Dumbo.​With its effete European pedigree and promises of wholesome purity is there a food more emblematic of Dumbo than the organic crepe? The proprietors of Golden Pan apparently think not. They're bringing their wares to the neighborhood at some point in the near future, if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Curvy and Tasty: DUMBO's Baco Cafe

    Elizabeth DwoskinDUMBO's Baco Cafe​ It's hard to describe the Baco Cafe, which opened in DUMBO in August, without sounding over the top. The place could just as easily be a furniture store, a design shop, an artist's loft, or a small whimsical mirage--only it happens to be an Israeli restauran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2009

    Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

    ​Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local foliage tours are here.

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    SkyWatch Anti-Crime Tower Goes Up on Canal Street

    We've seen SkyWatch -- those E-Z-assembly conning towers NYPD erects to get an overview of troubled neighborhoods -- in many parts of Brooklyn, including Dumbo, Prospect Heights, and Gerritsen Beach. They usually go up when and where crime is perceived to be a bigger problem than usual. Today NYC th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2009

    GUN AND MALLOW

    1, 2, 3, 4 . . . I declare a Marshmallow Civil War?

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2009

    ART WITH A VIEW

    Artists take over DUMBO

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Hecho en Dumbo Moving to the Bowery

    Yesterday, Marion's. Tomorrow, Mexican.​What happens when Hecho en Dumbo moves to the Bowery? It's still Hecho en Dumbo, new borough be damned.  Ethan Smith, one of the owners of the Mexican restaurant that for the past two and a half years has been doing evening-only service at Dumbo's G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Back at Dumbo General Store...

    Once Hecho en Dumbo moves to the Bowery, the Dumbo General Store will expand its service to fill the void left by the Hecho crew's amicable departure. According to Thom Pitts, the Store's manager, "we're presently working on a dinner-type menu" with some help from a friend of Pitts who's an executiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    TransAlt Celebrates New DUMBO Bike Path Where Member Cracked Up

    ​In 2005 Transportation Alternatives' Noah Budnick hit a pothole on Sands Street in DUMBO and cracked up badly. So he and the rest of TransAlt are especially happy to see the Sands Street bike path completed, affording bikers coming on and off the Manhattan Bridge, or just tooling around the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Brooklyn ATM Charging $3.99 for a Withdrawal

    Amazing. An ATM in DUMBO is charging an exorbitant $3.99 to withdraw money. Mike McLaughlin of the Brooklyn Paper pegs the ATM machine as at the foot of Old Fulton Street in DUMBO -- with its delightful panoramic view of the Brooklyn Bridge -- as one of the city's more egregious tourist traps. Is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Dear Boredoms: Quit With the Fucking Gimmicks, OK?

    via bumpershine's photostreamOK, fine, this kid rules Last year, when the Boredoms announced 88BoaDrum--the lame, limp sequel to 2007's 77 minutes, 77 drummers, on 07/07/07 blowout, 77BoaDrum--we unapologetically prayed for rain. The erstwhile noise punk veterans had better things to do, basically- ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    New York Photo Festival

    via bumpershine's photostreamOK, fine, this kid rules Last year, when the Boredoms announced 88BoaDrum--the lame, limp sequel to 2007's 77 minutes, 77 drummers, on 07/07/07 blowout, 77BoaDrum--we unapologetically prayed for rain. The erstwhile noise punk veterans had better things to do, basically- ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    HOT REELS

    Kink makes a stink

  • Specials

    September 18, 2007

    Letters

    Kink makes a stink

  • NYC Life

    July 18, 2006

    Sunday 7/30

    Kink makes a stink

  • NYC Life

    January 17, 2006

    Behind the Bar

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    November 30, 2004

    Close-Up on Vinegar Hill

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    October 5, 2004

    Throngs of New York: Underneath the Bridges in Brooklyn

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    August 3, 2004

    No real presidents were harmed in the making of this play

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    April 20, 2004

    DUMBO Bar Bucks Trends; Baudrillard, Aristophanes Approve

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • Music

    January 20, 2004

    Music

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    April 22, 2003

    Close-Up on DUMBO, Brooklyn

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • NYC Life

    November 5, 2002

    Listings

    Talking with Keith Moss, Superfine bartender

  • Art

    June 25, 2002

    Space Jam

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Listings

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    January 1, 2002

    Listings

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    December 4, 2001

    Listings

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    October 9, 2001

    Loft in Former Burlap Factory

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • Specials

    February 13, 2001

    Letters

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    February 15, 2000

    Two-Story Early-1950s House

    The Art World's New Alternatives

  • NYC Life

    February 8, 2000

    Brooklyn Collage

    photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

  • NYC Life

    December 28, 1999

    One Hundred Years of Pulchritude

    Photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

  • NYC Life

    November 16, 1999

    Loft in former spice warehouse

    Photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

  • Theater

    December 15, 1998

    Bridge Work

    Brooklyn's New Alternative Theater

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