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June 14, 2013For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.
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June 13, 2013The weekend is almost here, and if you're looking forward to spending quality time with dad on Sunday, check out the roundup of offbeat food-related Father's Day activities we posted yesterday. If you're weekend isn't revolving around celebrating Dad--or if he's game for non-Father's Day-related out ... More >>
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June 6, 2013On Sunday, the choicest day for implosions, the Trust for Governors Island will level an abandoned 11-story building on the island with 200 pounds of dynamite. Building 877 was constructed in 1968 to house Coast Guard families, but hasn't been in use since 1996. So, kaboom it will go, to make room f ... More >>
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September 12, 2012And the best vendor of 2012 is . . .
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August 29, 2012Bring your appetite to Pig Island
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August 28, 2012The finalists for the 2012 Vendy Cup, which celebrates the best food vendors in the city, have been announced. The nominees are below:
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July 18, 2012Bring your sonnets and sunscreen
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July 11, 2012Who says you're too old for games?
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June 6, 2012All of your senses have the right to be happy
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May 22, 2012Green Table Crawfish Boil
On Sunday, Green Table inside the Chelsea Market will be hosting a New Orleans-style crawfish boil at 6:30 pm. According to Zagat, chef Brent Sims will be adding his secret ingredient to the peel-and-eat crustaceans, paired with unlimited beer.
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February 20, 2012Governors Island just got a little bit cooler.
While lots of exciting activities and new projects have been popping up on the little-island-that-could -- which the city finally took over in 2010 -- there are still many unused, vacant spaces on the 172-acre plot of land just south of Manhattan.
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September 26, 2011solberpupusas.comAnd the winner is...
The seventh annual Vendy Awards took over Governors Island this past Saturday.
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August 17, 2011The truth about Andy Warhol and you
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August 9, 2011Take your picnic on two wheels.We've always been fans of eating and biking. And so it made perfect sense to us that Perfect Picnic, the new picnic-delivery shop on Clinton Street, would join forces with Bike and Roll NYC. Now you can grab a bike and a locavoric bite to go.
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July 27, 2011Even though you're still probably digesting the spoils of Meatopia, it's time to start readying your colon for another carnivorous onslaught: on September 10, Pig Island will descend upon Governors Island.
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June 22, 2011Bring your armor for the Battle of Agincourt
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June 10, 2011FigmentThis weekend people will stand in kiddie pools on Governors Island and throw soaking-wet stuffed animals at one another. Or, they might sit on some cushions and throw rose petals in the air. It's all part of Figment, a participatory art festival, born on the island four years ago. Alth ... More >>
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June 1, 2011A figment of your imagination
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April 21, 2011Trust for Governors IslandDo you know this cat? She washed up on Governors Island near Water Taxi Beach last Sunday, after the torrential downpour on Saturday. According to Elizabeth Rapuano, chief of staff for the Trust for Governors Island, "She has a great personality and she seems to like ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
It's mid-April, which means it's time to start thinking about things that will happen in late September. Specifically, it is time to start thinking about the 2011 Vendy Awards, which will take place on September 24.
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September 27, 2010Not only do the Guerrilla Ice Cream guys make excellent ice cream, they know how to juggle, too.
Both the sun and the crowds turned out in force for the sixth-annual Vendy Awards, which were held on Saturday on Governors Island. Some twelve hundred people showed up to patronize 18 food truck ... More >>
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September 22, 2010Jimmy Carbone, proprietor of Jimmy's No. 43 and Craft Beer proselytizer, is going to be busy next week. In addition to hosting a number of Craft Beer Week events, he's gearing up for Pig Island, the pork and beer blow-out he's presiding over on Governors Island on Saturday, Oct. 2. The event ... More >>
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September 13, 2010As much stuff as one guy can operate crediblyPanda Bear/Gala Drop/Teengirl Fantasy
Water Taxi Beach at Governors Island
Saturday, September 11
Better Than: Watching cable news, on this day in particular
He makes a hell of a racket, Panda Bear, a one-man maelstrom of stabbing synth washes, h ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
"Does that mean I have a massive ego? Is there something wrong with that?" asks Panda Bear, a/k/a Noah Lennox, about his latest conquest as a solo artist. Though Lennox is the soaring, helium-voiced member of the ubiquitous Animal Collective and the man responsible for one of the most prais ... More >>
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August 25, 2010Two festivals devoted to funny business
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August 25, 2010No crazies here, just art lovers
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August 25, 2010Lobster rolls, ice cream, and everything in between
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August 11, 2010Voice Choices
August 11, 2010Old-school Volkswagens go bumper-to-bumper
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August 4, 2010Blogs
July 30, 2010Keepaway's Mike Burakoff. All photos by Georgia Kral.The Music Slut began posting five years ago, and to celebrate, the localish pop blog invited some of its favorite bands to play to a captive audience on the Marco Polo Cruise boat Half Moon. And we must admit: cruising down the East ... More >>
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July 21, 2010Dame and Tallulah. Not pictured: Sienna Miller. Photo by Raquel M. Horn.In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick profiles the post-Roc-a-Fella edition of Damon Dash as he haltingly embarks on a kinder, gentler comeback. Elsewhere, Sean Fennessey dissects the two halves of California's pre-em ... More >>
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July 6, 2010Welcome to meat-lovers' paradise
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June 30, 2010This sixth-annual Vendy Awards will take place on September 25 on Governors Island, and beginning today, you can nominate your favorite vendor for the event's top honor. The Street Vendor Project, which holds the awards -- and benefits directly from the cost of the (tax-deductible) $85 ticket ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
Splendid: From Brooklyn Vegan comes word that the South African rave-rap Meme to End All Memes known as Die Antwoord has booked their first NYC headlining show, at MHOW July 25. Tickets on sale Wednesday. This just one day after that big-ass Hard Festival thing at Governors Island with M.I.A. and ... More >>
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June 17, 2010NY BrewfestCraft beer will get yet another moment in the sun this Saturday, when Brewfest descends upon the grassy expanse of Governors Island. The festival will celebrate its fourth year with suds from breweries including Brewery Ommegang, Ithaca Beer Company, Spaten, Duvel, Captain Lawrence ... More >>
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June 8, 2010Leave Manhattan and reality behind
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June 7, 2010So Saturday night Yeasayer played a free show at Governors Island (first of the season) that was apparently a summer-heralding alt.utopia for all those fortunate to get in before the ferry situation became untenable. For those who missed out (and a few who didn't!), however, well, let's just ... More >>
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May 28, 2010In yr face. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>
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May 26, 2010Full of heroinLet it be known the Beach at Governors Island website's official FAQ section, as far as rock-concert venue FAQ's go, is surprisingly enjoyable reading, though it doesn't exactly have great things to say about humanity. Of particular interest is the rapid-fire list of shit you ca ... More >>
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May 25, 2010The Lincoln Center Festival brings high art to the harbor
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May 3, 2010Yes, there's still more than four months until the sixth-annual Vendy Awards, which will take place on Saturday, September 25. But given that so much about attending the Vendys involves strategy and long waits, it's never too early to start planning. Beginning today, you can order tickets for ... More >>
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April 11, 2010New York's next hot tourist destination will have 87 acres of green space, a view of the Manhattan skyline, and a moat.
Governor Paterson announced today that the state is turning over control of development on a 150-acre patch of Governors Island to the Governors Island Operating Entity, w ... More >>
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September 15, 2009High ambitions from a Low Land
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September 11, 2009Assaf Shtilman/flickrAs part of the NY400 Pioneers of Change festival taking place on Governors Island this weekend, a group of Dutch artists have created the "Go Slow Cafe," where diners wear slippers, food portions are determined by how far they have traveled (i.e. a generous amount of must ... More >>
Art
August 4, 2009Haul out the Stimpmeter—artists design two local miniature golf courses
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June 17, 2009Creative Time hosts a free vacation
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June 10, 2009Step outside for more than 800 concerts
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June 17, 2008Musicians take to the streets in all five boroughs
Dance
August 22, 2006Old fort inspires quick sketches by choreographers
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