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New Year's Eve Guide: Eats + Drinks

New Year's Eve Guide: Ignite the Night

Reinvention is the new resolution. Ring in 2013 with eats, drinks, music, and more.

How Do I Become a Food Writer?

Anonymous asks: How do I get into food writing? I've wanted to be a food journalist since graduating from college. Dear Anonymous: It's a very tough market for food writers, as you know, with some universities barfing out large volumes of grads with MAs and MFAs in "Food Writing" and "Food Studies" ... More >>

The So So Glos Carry the Torch for New York Rock and Roll

DIY or die

Year of the Takeout Day 178: East Williamsburg Dumplings

Dumplings from Broken Rice (580 Grand Street, 718-302-8886)

The Top Ten DIY Venues In New York City

In New York's chaotic do-it-yourself music ecosystem, nothing is a given. A venue might combust as suddenly as easily a new one might spring up, making this list obsolete—yet that volatility is part of the venues' inherent uncivilized appeal. Who's to say where the next bunch of longhairs migh ... More >>

Oral Arguments in Mathieu Lefevre Case This Afternoon

Six months to the day after Mathieu Lefevre was killed by a truck driver who ran over his bicycle in an East Williamsburg intersection, his family's lawsuit against the NYPD will be argued in New York Supreme Court this afternoon. Judge Peter Moulton has denied a motion to allow Lefevre's mother, E ... More >>

Our 10 Best Late Night Eats in New York City

New York is the city that never sleeps and never stops eating, no matter what hour of the day -- or night as the case may be. While it's true that a lot of the foods consumed after midnight are of the drunk pizza variety, the city boasts many 24-hour restaurants that serve some damn fine fare. Her ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Pics From Greenpoint Are From 2009

Yesterday, Runnin' Scared wrote about a series of photos chronicling a group of neo-Nazis in Greenpoint. As one would expect, the photos, which Gawker broke, have gone viral, and were featured in the Daily Mail, prompting the Daily News to ask: Are there Nazis in Brooklyn? Runnin' Scared has rec ... More >>

Council Grills NYPD About Cycling Death

The police department is called on the carpet for its dismissive approach to bike deaths

Mathieu Lefevre Case Prompts City Council Hearing on NYPD's Investigation of Cycling Deaths

In a rare oversight hearing on the New York Police Department's treatment of traffic accidents involving bicyclists and pedestrians, Council members, advocates, and the relatives of slain cyclists expressed anger and frustration at what they say is the NYPD's reluctance to charge the drivers respons ... More >>

Guard Thwarts Armored Truck Robbery Outside Williamsburg Deli

​Don't come between a security guard and his breakfast. The New York Post reports of a struggle earlier this morning between a masked assailant and a security guard outside of East Williamsburg's Late Night Deli on Metropolitan and Olive Street (the Post incorrectly reported it as Oliver St, w ... More >>

Mother of Cyclist Killed in East Williamsburg Says NYPD Didn't Return Her Calls

FacebookMathieu Lefevre​Gothamist has an interview today with the mother of Mathieu Lefevre, the 30-year-old Brooklyn artist from Canada who was hit by a truck and killed in East Williamsburg while biking last week. Lefevre's mother, Erika, said that the family was told to go to the NYPD Accid ... More >>

TOUR DE BOOZE

Stay in the bike lanes, even if the lines look blurry

Anonymous Hacker Arrests Include 16-Year-Old Girl and Ex-Resident of Williamsburg: 'Faces of Domestic Terrorism'

​While the artist lofts on Kent St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn were buzzing with police activity this morning, their neighbors at the similar loft spaces on McKibbin St. had an unrelated run-in with the law yesterday. As part of the FBI raids that resulted in 16 arrests nationwide ... More >>

JellyNYC Putting On New Concert Series In Deep, Deep Brooklyn

After a pretty lousy 2010 the concert-promotion crew JellyNYC has taken leave of the Williamsburg waterfront and announced Rock Beach, a summer series of concerts at the all-the-way-out-there Aviator Sports Complex kicking off with a July 9 show starring Penguin Prison, Wild Yaks, Janka Nabay and t ... More >>

Kings County Distillery Already Too Big for Its Britches

kingscountydistillery.comWhiskey grows in Brooklyn.​Brooklyn's first whiskey distillery since Prohibition, Kings County, released its bourbon earlier this month after just about a year of peddling nothing but an un-aged white whiskey. It looks like business is good, because the distillery is a ... More >>

Williamsburg Hipster Trailer Park Shut Down

​For the second time, the Meserole Street warehouse that's home to an "artist community/trailer park called "The Nut Factory," has been shuttered by city inspectors, though residents still claim they're in the clear. "I don't know what the Fire Department considers unsafe now," one of the resi ... More >>

Tortilleria Chinantla Factory Worker Killed in Freak Dough-Machine Accident

​Some Monday morning awfulness from East Williamsburg:

Xi'an Famous Foods Wants to Expand to Bedford Avenue

Robert Sietsema​ Along with building a commissary in East Williamsburg, Xi'an Famous Foods is hoping to set up shop in the vicinity of Bedford Avenue.

Xi'an Famous Foods's Expansion Plans: New Locations and a Spot in the Frozen Foods Section

Spicy and tingly lamb face for Brooklyn and beyond.​Get ready for spicy and tingly lamb face to go mainstream. Xi'an Famous Foods, the Flushing hand-pulled noodle joint that expanded to Manhattan this past year with two new locations, has even bigger plans. According to the Wall Street Journal ... More >>

NYC Nomad, Who Says He's Not a Hipster, Lives New York One Hood at a Time

Via NYC Nomad on Facebook​The NYC Nomad, who was totally at our Web Awards last week, is starting to achieve a certain Internet fame, as evidenced by a recent piece on him in the New York Times. Ed Casabian, the nomad's real name, is a financial analyst for Outside.in during the day who goes h ... More >>

Google Street View Helps Bust Drug Dealers Selling to "Hipsters and Other Dope Fiends"

​Seven alleged drug dealers were busted in Brooklyn yesterday for brazenly peddling heroin and crack in open view. Police say the suspects were caught following a four-month investigation that included an undercover sting and -- yes, seriously -- a Google street-view map that caught three of t ... More >>

Today in Insects: The Return of West Nile

​ It's an itchy week in New York. First bedbugs, now this: poison mosquitoes. City Room is reporting today that West Nile virus, which you'd probably forgotten about, is back in action. It's been found in Old Town on Staten Island, East Williamsburg/Bushwick (run, hipsters!), and South Jamai ... More >>

Sam Mason Opens the Lady Jay in East Williamsburg

Sam Mason will stare deep into your soul.​Although he told us that he was thinking of opening a restaurant in Park Slope, Sam Mason has gone and opened a bar in East Williamsburg. Eater brings word that Lady Jay's opens tonight, and will not -- repeat, not -- serve food. The bar, which sits ac ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Best Of!

​Hurrah for Best Of the Best Ofs! What do you think? Is Mexico 2000, "a quaint shop under the J/M/Z line in East Williamsburg," New York's Best Bodega? Or McGovern of Brooklyn the city's Most Morbid Florist? Surely you have an opinion on our Best Yankee (Mariano Rivera), Met (Jerry Manuel) , ... More >>

Broadway Triangle Rezoning Stirs Bad Blood

​The Iron Triangle of Willets Point isn't the only triangle that's got people up in arms. The Broadway Triangle, 31 acres of East Williamsburg in which are clustered a number of factories and other small, unsexy businesses, is being rezoned for affordable housing, and last night critics let t ... More >>

Northside Festival Began Last Night, Magik Markers Played, Controversy Ensued at Shea Stadium

Magik Markers at Shea Stadium, photos Rebecca Smeyne So last night was the beginning of L Magazine's ambitious little festival that could, Northside Festival, and it is, by all appearances, cozier and far more endearingly starry-eyed than our old embattled, but lovable glue-bound horse CMJ, whose ... More >>

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Zap Mama, Cake, and Some Golden-Age Hip-Hop

Starting today, intrepid Voice intern Michael Downes will offer a daily, highly biased digest of that evening's best NYC shows -- and the whole weekend's slate on Friday, which today is, mercifully, if you were not aware. Enjoy. FRIDAY Zaire-born Marie Daulne fronts Zap Mama at Joe's Pub. Foun ... More >>

Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are

NYC RFD: Celeb Swim Class, DWI, Cab-Robber, Hair Loss

SUNDAY | 5.25

4th Annual Tour de Brooklyn

Class Action: Listings

The New Face of "East Williamsburg"-- Plus Tom Robbins Talks Bushwick on WNYC

The Second Battle of Bushwick

Thirty years after the blackout riots, it's getting hot all over again

On Lockdown in Williamsburg

How Not to Pay Rent

The lofty ambitions of tenants of illegal apartment buildings

Fear of Heights

Skyscrapers, fronted by tantalizing promises, set to invade Williamsburg's interior

Williamsburg Gingerbread

I turned on to Bushwick, oh god. I don't want to live here. It's so ugly.

Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn

Snowy Past

He sings in French: 'the seasons come and go.' Jerome admires his accent.

It's a Wrap

Take Note: Drink Beer and Write the Great American Novel

See you later: Folks swamp a Williamsburg watering hole

Renovated Loft in Former Industrial Building

The Unkindest Cuts

Lost Jobs Tough to Recycle

Ready, Willing & Under Fire

Community Fights Doe Fund Shelter

Listings

Loft in Former Brewery