Downtown Brooklyn

Free Wi-Fi Coming to Brownsville, Harlem, the Bronx, and Housing Projects in Brooklyn

On the heels of a report that New York's tech sector grew faster than almost any other city's--becoming the city's second-largest industry this year--comes more good tech news. Mayor Bloomberg announced Monday the city will be rolling out free and public wireless corridors to 10 neighborhoods in D ... More >>

New York City's Bus Drivers Are Extremely Tired of Being Punched and Stabbed

It's really not that hard to pay your fare, sit in your seat, and let the bus operator take you where you want to go. Yet in recent weeks, a number of New Yorkers have made different, more dickish choices, like stabbing the driver of a Bx41 in the hand with a pocket knife. Or punching the driver of ... More >>

5 Ramens to Love, Plus Tribeca's Secret Ramen

It's been over a year since Fork ranked the best bowls of ramen in New York, and plenty of new ramenyas have opened up in the city since then. In fact, we can hardly keep up with the ramen news, what with Yuji Haraguchi graduating from Smorgasburg, and Ivan Orkin working on opening a place on the Lo ... More >>

Sticking Pot Stickers Together at Ganso and Lotus Blue

Gyoza served lattice-style at Ganso Recently, FiTR has been spotting a new form of dumpling presentation. We don't know if it yet constitutes a trend, but it certainly results in a more-attractive app, a superior consistency of cooking from dumpling to dumpling, and a bit more of the crunchy crust ... More >>

Just Because It's My Brooklyn Doesn't Mean It Can't Be Yours

On Saturday afternoon, Rerun Theater at Rebar was full. It seemed only fitting that even the name of the place is a do-over, its chairs the back seats from old minivans--and not just because Rerun is a venue for post-film festival movies that don't yet have distributors. Today the theater was screen ... More >>

LOST AND FOUND

On the hunt for a missing child

There's No "App" To Cure Meningitis, New York City Gay Guys

The New York City Health Department yesterday renewed a recommendation to gay men who've had sex with a man they met via-a digital "app": get a meningitis vaccine.In the last 12 months, there have been a total of 11 cases of meningitis within the City's gay community, two of which were diagnosed wit ... More >>

Boycott at Brooklyn Wendy's Apparently Causes Owner to Rehire Worker Fired For Striking

Management at a Downtown Brooklyn Wendy's probably thought it was sending a stern message to its staff after one of its employees was fired this morning for participating in yesterday's city-wide walkout. Well, just hours after laying down the law, it appears that the owner stepped in and hired th ... More >>

Russian Tea Room Reopens; Southern Hospitality Closes for Good

Southern Hospitality, the Memphis barbecue restaurant cum preppy hangout, has thrown in the towel. The restaurant, owned by Trace Ayala, Etyan Sugerman, and Justin Timberlake, will no longer operate on the Upper East Side. The Denver location is still in business. [Eater]

Say Hello to Dudley's, Siggy's Good Food

[See More Open! Open! Open!: Say Hello to Landbrot, Seattle's Best Coffee in Downtown Brooklyn | Sno-Balls Spot Imperial Woodpecker Pops Up Again | Say Hello to Rosemary's, Nicoletta] Dudley's is an Australian-American gastropub that recently opened on the Lower East Side with a walk-up coffee wind ... More >>

Say Hello to Landbrot, Seattle's Best Coffee in Downtown Brooklyn

Seattle's Best Coffee opened a new location at 253 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn on Thursday. To celebrate the launch, they're giving away free small 12 oz hot brewed coffee at the new location from 5:30 am - 11 pm on Wednesday, June 27. Landbrot's Lower East Side location recently opened ... More >>

OMG! Beef on Weck at Mile End Sandwich

The picture-perfect beef on weck sandwich at Mile End Sandwich. It's something of a black eye that New Yorker City dwellers have never quite figured out how to make a beef on weck sandwich until now. Mainly because it's a particular specialty of our sister metropolis of Buffalo, New York -- both c ... More >>

New York University Scores Partnership With City for New Applied Sciences Center -- In Brooklyn!

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, surrounded by around 30 officials -- electeds, reps from his administration, university partners, and more -- announced yesterday that New York City would be partnering with New York University to create an applied sciences center in downtown Brooklyn. It was such an importan ... More >>

Live: The MATA Festival Brings Brooklyn's Drones And Whirs To Roulette

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend: Smorgasburg, Dekalb Market

Smorgasburg, the outdoor food fair in Williamsburg, will open for the season this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The usual suspects, like Asia Dog, McClure's, Porchetta, and Red Hook Lobster Pound, will be there along with 57 other food vendors.

Junior's Black and White Cookie Turns Red and White for Valentine's Day

Behold, the Valentine's black-and-white. Long-running downtown Brooklyn deli Junior's has an always-active bakery carryout operation right inside the front door, where the most popular pastries are plain cheesecake, cheesecake with canned cherries, cheesecake with canned pineapple, cheesecake with ... More >>

MTA Releases New Night-time Version of Subway Map

The MTA has released a late-night version of the subway map so that now, on that rare occasion when you're trying to get home drunk on a Thursday night, you will know exactly which trains you should avoid waiting for! Said MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota, "This companion night map will, for the first tim ... More >>

Look at All the 'Lost Subways' That Might Have Changed Your Life

​Have you seen WNYC's "Lost Subways" Map? It shows 11 planned subway lines that, had they ever been built, would have added to the current 842 miles of track in the New York City system. Among them: An underground subway connecting the North Shore of Staten Island with Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; a F ... More >>

December'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.

Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, on FUREE's 10th Anniversary Party

Caleb Ferguson​It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we're be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. Today we're talking to Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Rac ... More >>

M50 Bus Wins "Slower Than a Lawnmower" Acclaim

According to this year's annual "Pokey" award, the slowest local bus route in New York City is the M50, which travels crosstown on 49th and 50th Streets between First and Twelfth Avenues, clocking in at just 3.5 miles per hour at noon on a weekday, according to Straphangers Campaign staff and volunt ... More >>

The Weeknd Will Come On Down To New York Next Thursday

Details are sketchy on how exactly to get in, but yes, the Toronto-based downer R&B outfit known as The Weeknd will make its US live debut on September 15—that's a week from tonight—at Skylight One Hanson, the schmancy Downtown Brooklyn venue that earlier this year hosted a super-exclus ... More >>

Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... More >>

Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants

pbase.comAt one time, Lundy's was the world's largest restaurant, seating 2,800 hungry souls.​ Shed a tear for Brooklyn's great restaurants of the past. They once defined life in the borough, making it unnecessary to toddle to Manhattan for a lively and memorable night out, and they died as t ... More >>

JUST DON'T IT

Elliott Sharp turns 60

Steve Cuozzo Bestows Year-End Rant Upon the General Public, Williamsburg

​The relentless barrage of year-end lists means that their contents tend to get lost in a shiny, amorphous tangle, so we're grateful for Steve Cuozzo's annual dining-related invective, deposited amongst the tinsel like a fat lump of coal. The Post critic's take on 2010 is more or less as withe ... More >>

This Week in Chains: Panera Bread Is Coming to Brooklyn

​Chains just love them some downtown Brooklyn: Not only is the neighborhood getting a Shake Shack, it's also the future home of the borough's first outpost of Panera Bread.

CIVILIAN UNREST

An eminent domain showcase

Pressuring 'Rat'-ner in Brooklyn

​Either this rat really can't wait to get shop at Best Buy, or somebody hasn't negotiated with the union. It is of course the latter. Local 79 was protesting this morning outside of the old Circuit City in the Atlantic Mall in downtown Brooklyn, which went belly-up last October. Like the Cir ... More >>

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Comes to Brooklyn

​If you're a fan of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, today's your day. The final installment, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, hit stands this morning.

ART RIDER

Pop the kickstand on your weekly art fix

Have you seen... an Armed Robber in Brooklyn

​The NYPD would like to speak to the man in the picture about four armed robberies in the past month in downtown Brooklyn. Police in the 84th Precinct say that he approaches his victims, shows them a black gun, grabs their stuff and runs. He hit three victims between January 20-25, all on Fult ... More >>

Downtown Brooklyn -- Where It's All Happening, Eventually, Baby!

​The New York Post has the surprising story: that the newest Hot Nabe is -- Downtown Brooklyn! Yes, the zone of borough offices, courts, the Transit Museum, and crappy delis is "Brooklyn's fastest-growing residential neighborhood" -- its population has tripled in just 10 years. That still l ... More >>

Class Action Listings 2010

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Ofrenda; Goodbye to Rainbow Cafe (in Manhattan)

The Loading Dock, an expansion of Forrest Cole's Choncho's Tacos cart at the Brooklyn Flea, has opened in Downtown Brooklyn. Serving Mexican-style eggs, tacos made with tortillas from Corona's Nixtamal, and Gorilla coffee, it will also act as a gallery. [NY Magazine] Peter Poulakakos, whose father ... More >>

34th Street Bus Lines Get Timers

​It surprises us that the MTA has chosen the M16 and M34 buses on 34th Street for its bus-shelter digital timer pilot program, which announces to waiting riders when the next one is scheduled to arrive. The relatively uncomplicated L train made a good test case for the subway version, but the ... More >>

City Officials Still Park Illegally. Our Solution: Jimmy Justice!

Browstoner and the Daily News notice "parking abuse" by civic officials in downtown Brooklyn. Expired meters, crosswalks, hydrants, bike lanes -- these mean nothing to the police, fire, and judicial employees who use their placards to park any damn place near Borough Hall, despite a mayoral crackd ... More >>

Protesters Tell Gristede's King Catsimatidis: Give Us Back Our Supermarket

Brooklyn Residents Chant 'Save Our Neighborhood, Yo'

The Chocolate Factory

On the Outs in Brooklyn

The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate

There's a New CSA in Town!

BAM Goes the Neighborhood

While Atlantic Yards grabs the headlines, an art attack quietly transforms downtown Brooklyn

Sundance 2.0

Redford vs. De Niro: Utah fest moves into Tribeca's backyard

Cracking the Code

How to dress like a schoolboy—for less

'Fever' Pitch

Karaoke for a cause in Brooklyn; bitch sessions about bottle service

Close-Up on DUMBO, Brooklyn

Where There's Smoke

Letters

Project Girls

Five Veterans of the City’s Public Housing Tell Their Tales