East Village (Manhattan)

Why Did the Taxi Drive Into the Coffee Shop?

​This is not the beginning of a joke. Late Saturday night, a taxi cab SUV drove directly into a crowd outside of the East Village coffee shop, The Bean. The hear the New York Post tell it, the cab was like a heat-seeking missile: "the cab swerved to avoid an SUV that may have run a red light a ... More >>

Fox News vs. Hipsters: A First-Rate Lesson in Hate Speech

​Fox News decided to publish an editorial on "hipsters" or what they think they know "hipsters" are, entitled, "The Trouble With Hipsters," written by a Hopefully you've landed here and will not read the actual article. That said, given that Fox News's broad outlook still sees President Obama ... More >>

The East Village to Be Beset With Sidewalk Cafés

A sidewalk, clearly not in the East Village.​EV Grieve attended last night's Community Board 3 SLA meeting and emerged with the news that DBGB plans to add sidewalk seating, presumably so that its customers can exchange smug looks with the patrons installed at Pulino's alfresco tables across t ... More >>

Quinoa Taco at Snack Dragon

​Snack Dragon taco shack recently branched out from its original East Village location to open a spot on the Lower East Side. There you will find a vegetarian taco that brings together all the various charms of crunchy hippie-Cal-Mex-drunk food.

A-Wah Serves Up Pot in Chinatown

The bo zai fan, that is -- a tasty rice casserole.

Ichiban-Tei: New Takoyaki (Octopus Ball) Restaurant Opening in the East Village

​Otafuku will soon have competition in the East Village octopus ball market. Ichiban-Tei is under construction on 13th Street at the northeast corner of First Avenue, and the restaurant will specialize in takoyaki, those fried octopus fritters often topped with bonito flakes and sweetish brown ... More >>

Checking in on Desnuda, the Craziest Cevicheria in Town

​When I reviewed Desnuda, the avant-garde cevicheria in the East Village, over a year ago, the place had a pleasant sense of anarchy about it. There was no real menu, just executive chef, Christian Zammas puttering around behind the bar (there's no kitchen) armed with a sushi-bar-style cooler ... More >>

What to Eat While Drinking and Ogling at Cienfuegos

​At Cienfuegos, the new rum emporia in the East Village, the food is somewhat less impressive than the cocktails and the atmosphere. What a room! It's a turquoise-and-pink fantasia of Sinatra-era Havana crossed with Alice in Wonderland. The servers are dressed up in colorful aprons like 50s ho ... More >>

The New East Asian Desserts of St. Marks: Fried Mochi, Shaved Ice

Fried mochi stuffed with sesame​A walk down St. Marks Street in the East Village never fails to turn up something novel. Lately, Fork in the Road checked out the latest branch of Xi'an Famous Foods and the newcomer Neapolitan pizza joint, Totale. Today we tried out a couple of sweets from TKet ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on St. Marks Place in the East Village, NYC

​Like the sign says: New York's Best Egg Cream St. Marks Place is only three blocks long, but packs an astonishing 63 places to eat along its truncated and colorful length, some of them nearly invisible. It constitutes one of the city's foremost tourist destinations for the under-40 crowd, th ... More >>

Tomorrow, the Steak Shoppe Opens in the Permanent Brunch and Burger Space

Farewell, brunch, hello, cattle.​ Permanent Brunch & Burger wasn't quite as permanent as advertised: tomorrow, it's being replaced by the Steak Shoppe, a restaurant that ostensibly promises to be a carnivore's wet dream.

NYC Icy Is Returning, This Time to Avenue A

​We at Fork in the Road are no strangers to the pleasures of frozen treats, so the following is pretty exciting: NYC Icy is (re) opening in the East Village, perhaps as early as tomorrow. The Feed reports that the ice joint -- which has closed and re-opened more times than anyone can seem to ... More >>

Don McNeill, Documenter of the Hippie Explosion, 1945-1968

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 15, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 44 A Death in the Family by Leticia Kent We have had a death in the family. Don McNeill accidentally drowned last Saturday night near his rented summer cottage in Monroe, New York. He was 23 years old. T ... More >>

Taxi and Limousine Commission Cracks Down on Nickel and Diming Cabbies Just in Time for Friday Night Rush

​Today the Taxi and Limousine Commission announced that they'll attempt to revoke the licenses of 633 drivers who did the dastardly, unforgivable deed of routinely overcharging their customers, costing those poor, innocent taxi riders $1.1 million en toto. (Which, just for comparison's sake, i ... More >>

Have You Seen This Man Connected to Burglaries in the East Village?

​The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance identifying this man, pictured, wanted for a series of burglaries occurring in the East Village between March 10 and April 3. East Villagers take note: He has a habit of entering through windows. Anyone with informa ... More >>

Spicy Miso Ramen at Ramen Setagaya in the East Village

​It makes a pretty picture: an angry red bowl of ramen against a backdrop of wooden planking. My noodle hang in the East Village lately has been Ramen Setagaya. Not the one on First Avenue that peddles such ramen arcana as a version featuring the noodles by themselves in a separate bowl from ... More >>

In the Eyes of McDonald's Germany, We Are All Cupcakes Now

This is what it's come to, New York.​To anyone with any shred of doubt that New York has lost whatever edge it once had in the world's eyes, you can now give up the ghost. In a double-whammy of what-the-fuck proportions, McDonald's Germany has introduced cupcakes, and named them after New York ... More >>

Man With Straw in Ass Storms Gay Bar Scene

​Things get a little dullish at the boites sometimes, so on Tuesday night, at an East Village place called Urge, I was thrilled to spot a guy sitting at the bar with his butt crack brazenly sticking out like a business card.

Luis Johnson, 29, of Staten Island, Slain in the Village

View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:51 p.m.LOCATION: in the rear of 20 Avenue D, East Village, Manhattan.Luis Johnson, 29, of Amboy Road in Staten Island, was stabbed fatally last night near an East Village public housing development during a street brawl. Johnson was stabbed in one arm ... More >>

875 People Were at the Market Hotel for Surfer Blood on Saturday?!?

Probably should've known that the Surfer Blood bill at the Market Hotel on Saturday night was going to be sold way the hell out, especially when even Luke's Lobster in the East Village was playing Astro-Coast on Friday night. Nevermind the ominous symbolism in a bunch of Brooklyn kids texting back ... More >>

Tully's Gluten-Free Bakery Scheduled to Open Next Monday

Gluten-free goodness next Monday?​ Next Monday is shaping up to be quite a watershed for sweet tooths and those who enable them: not only is Dorie Greenspan throwing open the doors to her CookieBar, but Tully's Gluten-Free Bakery is also scheduled to bestow its creations upon the East Village. ... More >>

Motorino to Bring Neopolitan Goodness to Your Doorstep

​Good news for East Village residents who are both snow-averse and hungry: starting today, Motorino is providing delivery service. The delivery area covers 9th to 20th Streets between Third Avenue and Avenue C. Pizzas can be ordered during business hours, cut and uncut.

A Softly Reopened Luca Lounge Seeks Gas-less Inspiration for Its Food Menu

Without gas, cooking can be a shocking affair.​ You may not have noticed it, but beloved East Village hangout Luca Lounge reopened earlier this year. The place has lost both its garden and its gas line, but owner Vito DiTomaso is optimistic. He hopes to attract some of his old regulars with th ... More >>

Times: New Storefront Art Shows Like Old Kind, Except Fancy, Curated

​Last week we mentioned that some city-owned rental space, even in buildings one imagined would be very rentable (the Staten Island Ferry terminal, for example) were being offered free to artists to use as exhibition spaces. Today the Times tells us the city's not the only landlord to give ov ... More >>

A Guide to NYC Bars with Great Takeout Food

Take a grub-pub crawl

Former Five Rose's Proprietor Now Making Pizza in Jamaica

04deveni/flickr​Jeremiah's Vanishing New York reports that Krystyna, the Polish lady who worked at Five Rose's Pizza on First Avenue for 27 years before it closed last November, is now making pizzas down in Jamaica. Krystyna, who owned the East Village mainstay for its last eight years, was in ... More >>

The Early Word: Veloce Pizzeria

Are you prepared for yet another pizza style? Veloce Pizzeria, the latest project of the Bar Veloce foks, occupies the former Teresa's, a Polish restaurant on First Avenue in the East Village. The space now conforms to the familiar Bar Veloce idea of design, with a deep dining room and a long b ... More >>

Gleefully Violent Hardcore Nostalgia Reigns at the A7 Reunion

Old NYC scenesters go back to the shoebox

Gimme a Break

Desperately seeking asylum after a night of retreat

Rent Stabilized

Columbus's movie version is stiff, stolid, and stuck in an excruciatingly detailed past

Hartman's Grime Opera and Downey's Dog Pound Highlight Howl!!

Up From Down Under

Think globally, act locally: P.S.122's new Aussie artistic director arrives

New Year's Weekend

A Pseudo-English Pub Has the Cure for Whatever Ales You

Dancing (Naked) in the Dark

On the Cusp

In New York, Bohemia Is Dead. Long Live Bohemia.

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Bye Bye Bowery

Work to Start on Loisaida Luxury Units

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Eight Arms to Hold You

Pharaonic Fowl

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Ketchup Versus Ketjap

Three Sheets in the Wind

Unveiling a Uniplex in the East Village

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