Downtown Brooklyn

A Look at How Citi Bikes Will Affect Local Bike Shops

Unless you've been wasting away inside the past week and a half, snuggling with your A/C and bingeing on the new season of Arrested Development, you've seen the lines and lines of metallic blue Citi Bikes stationed across New York City, begging, as the slogan goes, you to hop on and "explore your ci ... More >>

Stock Dividends at Suzume and Ganso

Two new Brooklyn ramen joints break the mold

A Decade On, Freelancers Union Founder Sara Horowitz Takes Her Fight Mainstream

Hive mind

Q&A: Raekwon Recovers Some Lost Jewelry

Raekwon is the mayor of fly shit. Snow Beach pullovers to Cuban links, his oft-imitated style and slang have been referenced for the past 20 years -- as Cappadonna once put it, "Half the East Coast sound just like Rae"). In the past, he's accused Frank White of biting his visual style. Today, if he ... More >>

Mass Transit Update: Here's What's (And What's Not) Running in New York City Today

It's Day Three of Sandy's aftermath and, needless to say, New York is still swamped with flooding, power outages, displaced residents and, most importantly for commuters, public transportation shutdowns. We are told that it will take a few days for the City to be up and running like her old, pr ... More >>

Long Island City's Tech Takeover

The Hozziner has his eyes set on the tech industry, repeating over and over that he wants New York City to become the new Palo Alto, the new Mountain View and the new Copertino - all hubs of some of the past decade's greatest innovations. Progress is rapidly being made to make that dream a reality: ... More >>

New York Times Supports NYU Expansion In Editorial

In an editorial published in today's paper, the New York Times throws its weight behind NYU's controversial expansion plan, saying that the project's opponents have "mostly overreacted." Although the paper does honor some criticisms of the plan, their ultimate point is broad. "N.Y.U., along with ot ... More >>

10 Iconic Foods of New York City, and Where To Find Them

​Ultra-creamy New York cheesecake may be the world's richest dessert. Hotbed of culinary fusion, NYC is not only a repository of cuisines from around the globe, but the place where many important dishes originated, if not by pure invention, then as uniquely compelling adaptations of things t ... More >>

Turtle Sighted on a Brooklyn Subway Platform: Could This Be Lionel, Inwood Hill Park's Missing Box Turtle?

Dean Olsher, the former host and creator of The Next Big Thing on public radio, now a grad student in music at Queens College, was at the Atlantic-Pacific Street subway stop in Brooklyn yesterday at about 4:30 p.m. when he saw something strange. A turtle was on the platform, "freaking out and trying ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan

Nick PintoThe NYSE, which protestors did not stop from opening today​Good afternoon, and welcome to the evening edition of the Village Voice liveblog of Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action. Today, November 17, marks the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park. Pro ... More >>

Bronx Restaurant Week Starts; Red Apple Supermarket Opens

​Starting today, The Bronx is hosting its first restaurant week, "Savor the Bronx," which will run for two weeks. [NY Post] Red Apple Supermarket has opened in Downtown Brooklyn after several delays, the first full-service supermarket in the neighborhood in years. [NY Post] Stockbox Grocers ... More >>

Back to School at LIU? Faculty On Strike, Locked Out

Striking faculty outside of LIU's downtown Brooklyn campus​Update below: LIU releases statement that deal with union could come on Monday. Like most schools in the city, this week was supposed to mark the normal start of fall classes at Long Island University's downtown Brooklyn campus. Inst ... More >>

O SUPERJAM

Roulette reopens with a bang

Did You Lose Your Chicken in Downtown Brooklyn?

This is what happens when you google "hipster chicken."​Via Brownstoner, there's a chicken lost in Brooklyn that's been located by some kind soul who is trying to help it find its way back home. (Home, we hope, is a place amenable to chickens, as this story would go very differently if it were ... More >>

Brooklyn Department of Finance to Be Replaced By a Mall

​The city announced a plan today to transform part of the Brooklyn Municipal Building in downtown Brooklyn into 49,000 feet of retail space. Which part? The Department of Finance, which is relocating somewhere else to make room for the new mall. The developer is United American Land, and they ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Betto, Goodbye to South Houston

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Southernish restaurant South Houston on West Broadway near Grand Street has closed after little more than a year in business. [Eater] Pick-a-Pita has served its last its french fry-stuffed shw ... More >>

Can't We Just Put Bike Lanes in the Sky?

​That's what Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz wondered about the problematic bike lanes, which he opposes, in our fair city. "Elevated bike lanes -- that's the answer," Markowitz told Brooklyn Paper, for some reason. That way, cars could be reckless and cyclists could be where they b ... More >>

Top 10 Rap-Related Reality-TV Moments

​"Reality rap" was once a phrase invoked by gangsta rappers to defend their music against moral outcry from the mainstream media and pesky suburban dwellers. These days, the term largely refers to the slew of emcees lining up to star in their own TV shows. While Boogie Down Productions associa ... More >>

The Loading Dock Will Close Thanks to Some Jerk Who Stole Its Truck

Photo courtesy of the Loading DockThe Loading Dock's shrimp tacos.​Another indirect casualty of last month's blizzard: the Loading Dock, the downtown Brooklyn taco place beloved by fans of both Mexican food and good food in general. The New York Post reports that Forrest Cole, the Dock's co-ow ... More >>

Class Action Listings

Q&A: Tanya Morgan's Von Pea Shares His High School Memories of Fabolous, Biggie, and Jay-Z

​Boys & Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn--once home to both the Notorious B.I.G. and Fabolous--has long since become a legendary spot for New York hip-hop. Von Pea, one third of the indie rap group Tanya Morgan, also attended its hallowed halls--a move which inspired his new b ... More >>

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Video and Tell: The Destruction of Downtown Brooklyn's McDonald's

Click to enlarge.Before and after Angry Crane's reign of terror. ​So, McDonald's: The Fast Food Restaurant that's basically terrible for the universe. They had a location in downtown Brooklyn that you could reach by simply going over the Manhattan Bridge and taking a left (or if you're driving ... More >>

NYU to Continue Semi-Hostile Land-War Takeover of Manhattan

​Tonight NYU, the Dread Pirate Roberts of Greenwich Village, will unveil its 25-year growth plans at an open house at the Kimmel Center, reports Crain's New York

Atlantic Yards, Bloomberg get national bad press

The press in other places have​ discovered the Mayor's pet Atlantic Yards project, with a scathing AP piece on the human cost of eminent domain and a firebreathing George Will column on how much the Founding Fathers would have disapproved. Neither mentions the mayor, but both make it far more ... More >>

Did Atlantic Yards Ruling Pass the Buck on 'Blight'?

Tuesday's Atlantic Yards decision, in which New York's highest court upheld the right of the state to seize private property on behalf of a mega-developer, will doubtlessly impact the lives of thousands of Brooklyn residents and be discussed for years to come. But the court backed off from a cen ... More >>

WSJ Says Real-Estate Drop Will Lure Businesses, But How Low Can We Go?

Ex-Felons For Obama

More Love for Summer Streets: A Thousand Bikes Bloom in Manhattan

Isaac Abraham, Sudden Satmar Star

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Atlantic Yards as Interpretive Dance

Brooklynites Rail Against Proposed MTA Fare Hike

The Judge and the G-Man

A radical on the bench weighs an FBI agent's fate

Amber Waves of Pain

A black arts center will get bulldozed for a paler version

Obama Time

An admitted 'hope-monger' brings down the house in Brooklyn

Cloudy Atlantic Yards Passes, Thanks to Silver Lining

Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas

The Squeeze Is On

Bad news for poor kids: Under new welfare law, state has to meet yet another 'quota' of cuts

Target Agrees: Most Americans Believe in Angels

Strikeline: What Price, Respect?

Rotting Away

Thousands of New York inmates have hepatitis C. Only a few hundred get treatment.

Brooklyn Court Insurgent Wins Round as Foes Rally

Union Gap

At AFL-CIO, a splitting issue for the nation's biggest labor organizations

Scary Ride at Coney Island

Extreme makeover not amusing to everybody in the amusement district

Peace March Veers Way Left

Black-led protest challenges capitalism, imperialism, and New York's very rich mayor

Close-Up on Vinegar Hill

The Backroom Crowd

Indictments Looming, Power Brokering Goes on as Usual as Brooklyn Pols Meet

Close-Up On: Boerum Hill

Heartless Hotel

Prison Contracts and Homeless Crisis Built Empire

A Tear in the Net

As Federal Dollars Disappear, No Security for City’s Poor