Downtown Manhattan

Heat Maps Confirm Williamsburg Bars Serve Lots of PBR

Data startup Locu confirmed a long-standing hypothesis: Hipsters love Pabst Blue Ribbon, which until now was only thought to be a favored cheap brew. The menu management company analyzed data from more than one million venues and found which neighborhoods in San Francisco and New York City serve the ... More >>

If You See Something, What Should You Say...And to Whom?

If you see something, say something. It's the mantra we hear through speakers and read on signs whenever we ride the subway. The MTA campaign is part of a post-9/11 anti-terrorism initiative: if you see "suspicious activity," report it. The slogan is intended to keep an eye on potential terrorist ... More >>

Vermouth Got Awesome and Here's Where to Drink It in New York

I peered into the liquor closet -- yes, I have a closet devoted to booze, not shoes -- and there it was: A dusty bottle of Martini & Rossi Vermouth that had been opened and left untouched for years. Since I don't drink many martinis at home -- what else was vermouth good for? -- I admit to neglectin ... More >>

If NYC Public Schools Lose $300 Million In A Week, You Can Thank Politics

Forget about the fiscal cliff in Washington; the kids of New York City are about to jump off one, too. In less than ten days, New York City's public school system stands to gain or lose nearly $300 million of the $700 million allotted to New York State under President Obama's "Race to the Top" prog ... More >>

After Nearly Two And A Half Months, The PATH Train Returns

This will probably be the last post-Sandy transportation post of its kind. Unless, of course, the H Train in the Rockaways becomes a permanent thing.Shuttered due to Sandy, the PATH Train was barely functional until after Thanksgiving and only then was it running on a limited sch ... More >>

"What's That Huge Plug For?" Or, MTA's Possible Plans for the Next Big Storm.

If you can't beat 'em, plug 'em.That's the m.o. of a research team at West Virginia University for a project known as the "Resilient Tunnel Plug." To tell you the truth, the name says it all. The 32-foot-long (16.2-foot-wide) object would act like a plunger in a giant leaking toilet bowl: In its las ... More >>

Shelter in the Storm

Q&A: Jesus Nunez of Barraca on Remaining Open During Hurricane Sandy, Part 1

Jesus Nunez is the chef of Barraca, a newly opened Spanish spot in the West Village owned by Hector Sanz, whose restaurant group is also behind downtown spots Macondo and Rayuela. Formerly of Gastroarte on the Upper West Side, Nunez is dishing out authentic Spanish tapas and paella in West Village ... More >>

NYC Marathon: Stupid Media Tent For Even Stupider Race Gets Power Before Thousands Of New Yorkers

UPDATE: Mike Bloomberg Defends Running the Marathon.If you're reading this, you're probably one of the lucky New Yorkers who currently has electricity -- or you're in a NYC Marathon media tent in Central Park that (as outrageous as it may sound) is getting electricity via-several diesel-powered gene ... More >>

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli: Wall Street Is Doing Kinda/Sorta Better Than You

Whether you're a part of the 47 Percent, the 99 Percent, the 1 Percent or some other slogan-driven demographic, this news should not surprise you: Wall Street is making a ton of money. Actually, it had its 5th best start of all time, doubling its profits from last year. In 2012 alone, the securities ... More >>

West Village Gets Its Own IHOP

The signage is up, but the news might not be good, depending on your perspective. The conquest of New York City by national franchises continues apace, as a banner announcing a new IHOP goes up at the corner of Carmine Street and Varick Street in the West Village.

NYAG Eric Schniederman Announces First Fraud Task Force Target: J.P. Morgan Chase

Last January, President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that a joint effort between state and federal authorities would aim to bring Wall Street's ass to court for civil fraud violations. Although the frustrated liberal base wanted jail time for the 2008 financial crisis, this lega ... More >>

Shepard Fairey Must Do 300 Hours of Community Service for Obama 'Hope' Poster

You might know Shepard Fairey. If you don't, you probably do or at least haven't realized yet. The Los Angeles man behind Obey and one of the stars in street artist Banksy's mockumentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," has risen to fame in the contemporary art world, partly because he created one of ... More >>

Leib Glanz, Former Rikers Chaplain, Pleads Out to Housing Fraud

A genius at gaming the system until recently, Leib Glanz, the former Rikers Island chaplain cut loose for organizing a bar mitzvah party in a jail, and his brother, Menashe, pleaded guilty today to housing fraud, theft and lying in federal court in Manhattan. Federal prosecutors say the two men def ... More >>

The Power of New York City's Farmers' Markets

In a populist sense, a farmers' market is like the gastronomic version of a town hall; citizens come to barter with other citizens, trading locally grown strawberries instead of talking points. Every day of the week, you can find one of these fine establishments in almost every borough. It is a tren ... More >>

Intimate Encounters at June's Jazz Fests

Let's get small

What the Hell Are You Doing Here? You Should Be at 4Knots!

According to legend, the East River passes through South Street Seaport at a speed of four knots. This little tidbit provided us here at the Voice with a perfect title for our annual shindig in downtown Manhattan. Welcome to the second 4Knots Festival - an all-day, all-ages totally free musical ... More >>

Chen Guangcheng Will Become a New Yorker in a Few Hours

Beijing might have us beat in regards to population and the Olympics opening ceremony but there's no place like New York. And the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng will soon discover that.This morning, the controversial figure who has given American diplomats a few headaches in past weeks board ... More >>

In Second Occupy Wall Street Protest Trial, Police Claims Again Rejected

Another day, another Occupy Wall Street trial, another black eye for the police. Just two days after the first Occupy Wall Street protest case to go to trial ended with the NYPD's version of events unraveling, the same thing happened again in New York Criminal Court this morning. Jessica Hall, an O ... More >>

Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and Fellow 9/11 Conspirators Are Finally Arraigned

What can 2,976 counts of murder and dozens of other charges of conspiracy, terrorism and hijacking get you? At Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and the other masterminds behind the September 11th attacks are about to find out the hard way.In an arraignment process that began this morning, the ... More >>

May Day! The Voice Staff's Live Coverage of Occupy Wall Street's M1NYC

Good morning, and welcome to the Village Voice's liveblog of May Day 2012, as the Occupy Wall Street movement calls for a "General Strike" and a day of protests around the city. Our reporters and photographers are fanned out across the boroughs. We'll be liveblogging their dispatches right here and ... More >>

Live: Yann Tiersen Gets Playful At Irving Plaza

Yann Tiersen Irving Plaza Friday, April 27 Better than: Most of the Philip Glass and Stephin Merritt music I've heard. Skyline, Yann Tiersen's seventh studio album, is only the second album of his current deal with Anti- and, like 2010's Dust Lane, it pioneers sonic territory structurally differen ... More >>

Miss Lily's Bake Shop's Jamaican Beef Patties

Downtown Manhattan is seriously lacking in Caribbean pastry shops. This may not mean much to some, but other people don't want to have to hop the train to Flatbush just for a snack. Luckily for that second group Miss Lily's Bake Shop (132 West Houston Street; 646-588-5375) now has the downtown patty ... More >>

SOTC March Madness: Larry Levan (7) Squares Off Against The Beastie Boys (10)

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

City Secures Anti-Terror Funding, Will Support Surveillance Program in Downtown Manhattan

In the face of steep cuts, the city will receive millions in anti-terror funding, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced this morning. New York City has secured a total of $151,579,096 in Urban Areas Security Initiative Funding, which comes from the Federal Emergency Management Ag ... More >>

The Hot New Downtown Trend Is Babies

Once upon a time, hip, taste-making Manhattanites in the know would trek to Brooklyn to propagate the species with relatively more space and sometimes even backyards in which to park their Maclarens. But a surprising trend has been uncovered by DNAinfo, which reports that birth rates in Lower Manhat ... More >>

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same

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 >>

College Student Arrested and Held for 36 Hours for Being in Riverside Park Without ID

​You could say the NYPD is having a PR problem. In the wake of tales of ticket fixing, planting drugs on innocent people, gun-smuggling, "rape cops," accusations of police brutality, and pepper spraying incidents, there's a pretty damning story in the New York Times today about 21-year-old Sam ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, NYC

​The four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Macaroni, Macaroni is engagingly crunchy. If you haven't been on the stretch of MacDougal Street between Houston and West 4th in a while, you need to pay a visit. This student haunt and historic refuge of Bohos from John Reed to Bob Dylan has lately become ... More >>

Sandwich Spinoffs: Restaurants Spread Their Sammies

Lauren BloombergTribeca gets a mouthful at Pane Panelle.​ First, there was speculation that the owners of Torrisi Italian Specialties would take over the vacant space next door. Then it was announced last spring that they would indeed turn the adjacent spot into a second location: A spin-off o ... More >>

Deadmau5, K-Holes, Screaming Females, And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

The week brought us Jon Brion and Shellac and Sam Sparro (not to mention a handful of surprise Occupy Wall Street pop-ins), and that wide spectrum of genres is also represented in this weekend's concert listings. Tonight Deadmau5, who Maura has just informed me stands out as the only artist to be n ... More >>

Occupy the Hood Aims to Bring More Minorities Into the Occupy Wall Street Fold

Occupy Wall Street wants to represent the "99 percent." But if you've been down to observe the goings-on at Zuccotti Park, you'll have noticed that the majority of participants are white, which -- at the risk of sounding obvious! -- does not represent 99 percent of the U.S. population. Now, labor un ... More >>

East River Ferry Service Coming to Brooklyn Next Month

via Brooklyn Paper​If you live in Brooklyn and need to get to downtown Manhattan or Midtown every day for work, you must be hurting pretty badly right now. The L and G trains are always swamped in these summer (read: hot and sticky) months, and there's no other way around it. But starting next ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rape Case Has French Press Obsessed With...the American Press

​The most persevering story of the week, judging by the tabloid covers at least, was that of ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused last Sunday of attempting to rape a hotel maid near Times Square. Since, members of the press have descended on downtown Manhattan like locusts, but ... More >>

Roberto Santibañez Unveils His New Torta Concept and His Cinco de Mayo plans: Interview Part 2

Andrew GrantRoberto Santibañez knows how to have a fiesta​Yesterday Fonda chef Roberto Santibañez told us all about his new cookbook, Truly Mexican. Today the busy man tells us about what's next in store. Hint: Mexican sandwiches.

10 Postcards of Long-Forgotten NYC Restaurants

ioffer.com​1. Divan Parisien Restaurant, 33 East 48th Street - Even to its frequenters, the meaning of "Divan" was somewhat unclear. Some said it was French for "meeting place," others claimed it was Turkish and referred to the furniture of the Sultan's palace. Others took it to mean, as "div ... More >>

One of Our 'Ten Worst Tenants' Has Seizure While Being Sentenced

​Julienne Sialeu -- named in this week's cover story as one of the city's Ten Worst Tenants -- was convicted yesterday of making false statements after a one-day bench trial in District Court in Lower Manhattan. The judge, Denise Cote, did not actually finish delivering the verdict against her ... More >>

New York's "Hottest Subway Routes" Identified

photo by Angela Pham, Refinery 29​Trendy fashiony site Refinery 29 has uncovered New York City's "Hottest Subway Routes" and is offering eye candy in the form of "36 Saucy Snaps" of attractive peoples discovered riding, waiting for, or frolicking about the trains. As a matter of public service ... More >>

Your Day to Drop Trou on the Subway Is Nearly Here Again: Here's How to Do It

​It seems like it JUST happened, and now, here we are again, just days away from the 10th annual time you get to expose your nether regions to the pristine and germ-free interior of a subway car. It all goes down this Sunday, at 3 p.m. If you're new to New York or have for some reason not been ... More >>

"Lower East Side" Being Co-opted to Sell Cheap Shoes

Something ugly this way comes.​Via Bowery Boogie, we have learned that Payless ShoeSource is now offering a brand encapsulating the style, quirkiness, and wonder of one of our very own downtown Manhattan neighborhoods. The "Lower East Side" line features heart waterfall earrings, flower satin ... More >>

Here Are 10 of New York City's Creepiest (Unhaunted) Places

Creepy abandoned smallpox hospital. ​We're feeling kinda Halloweeny, and, luckily, New York has a whole host of reputedly haunted locales, including the Algonquin (now, creepily, a Marriott), the Dakota, the Empire State Building, and Washington Square Park. But it struck us that each of those ... More >>

NYC NOISE

A look back at No Wave

The Ongoing Improvement of Sonny Rollins

Chatting with the Saxophone Colossus, who still insists music can help

Private paperwork found in Yankee parade confetti

​The half ton of recycled confetti provided to buildings lining the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan for the Yankees' victory parade yesterday turned out not to be enough for some people to show their enthusiasm. Medical records, financial statements, pay stubs, law firm invoices and cou ... More >>

Scooping up Raw Meat in Bay Ridge

Midnight at the oasis

A Hero's Welcome

Chinatown's new banh mi parlor turns to France for inspiration

The Continental Drifts

An East Village staple evolves, but dies a little in the process

Magnificent Morsels

A brilliant dim sum specialist appears in the Brooklyn outback

Specimens for Dissection

Entrées? Don't need 'em at Soho's most ambitious wine bar