Governors Island

The New York Of The Future? Say Hello to 'LoLo'

And another hundred people just got off of the train? Try another two hundred thousand. An article printed in the Sunday New York Times -- which poses in its headline the daunting question: "How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?" -- explains that the Department of City Planning's Population Division e ... More >>

This Month, the Snap Food Truck Is Parking Its Dogs Around Town

​A month after we learned of their plans to bring Chicago-style wieners on wheels to New York, Liz and Zeph Courtney have written in to inform us that their Snap Food Truck will be making a number of appearances throughout the city this month.

Rock The Bells NYC Lineup Updated; Erykah Badu To Perform Baduizm

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the New York City stop of the Rock The Bells Festival, which will take place on September 3 at Governors Island. The lineup for the all-star hip-hop concert, during which a slew of heavyweights (Nas, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Raekwon & Ghostface) will revisit album ... More >>

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10 Places Better Than the Apple Store to Take Pictures in NYC

Really?​There are a lot of neat places in New York, tourist attraction or otherwise, which is why we were pretty shocked to learn that one of the most photographed spots in the city is the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. (The findings were based on one researcher's experiment with Flickr geotags.) C ... More >>

Martha Stewart Gets a Cocktail App; San Francisco Gets an Absolut

​Beer-happy picnickers were not too happy at this Sunday's first annual Brewers' Pic Nyc at Governors Island about having to wait for a whole extra hour before they could start drinking. Organizers were apparently confused about New York's blue laws, which were changed in 2006, making it legal ... More >>

Cook Out NYC to Bring Meat, Beer, and Kimchi to Governors Island

​July is shaping up to be an auspicious month for those who like their meat charred and consumed out of doors: Not only will Meatopia lower its fat haunches onto Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 23, but Cook Out NYC will take over Governors Island two weeks prior.

Meatopia Will Press the Flesh on July 23

​As he has done for the past seven years, Josh Ozersky will bring the smell of slowly cooking animal flesh to the city with Meatopia. This time around, he's taking his blood lust to Brooklyn Bridge Park, where the festivities will take place on July 23.

Lauryn Hill Is Playing The Blue Note January 3-5, Tickets On Sale Today

​Here comes Lauryn Hill again, everyone -- after gracing us with her presence at August's Rock the Bells retro hip-hop spectacular at Governors Island (which was either a total disaster or a fount of "majestic retro-future space-metal," depending on your inclinations), she's suddenly playing a ... More >>

Fiji Water to Pull Out of Fiji; Bees in Red Hook Caught Red-Bodied

​Fiji Water is shutting down its operations on the island due to a tax hike imposed by Fiji's government. The company is owned by billionaire investors Lynda Resnick and Stewart Resnick, who also own POM Wonderful. [Wall Street Journal] Burger King's monthlong "King of the Road" bus tour has ... More >>

Rumble, Oktoberfest, Flashing Lights, And Ratatat Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​On Friday, there's only three places we'd want to be. In Manhattan, The Fader is throwing an afterparty for those of us who won't be attending the Gorillaz takeover at Madison Square Garden. Spin, the Flatiron ping-pong hall/bar/dancerie, will host tonight's revelry, which is less corny than ... More >>

Three Philly Food Trucks Roll into New York for the Vendys

phillylunchcarts.comThe Philly food trucks are coming.​Philadelphia will indeed be spreading the brotherly love when three food trucks from the city make their way to New York in time for the Vendy Awards, taking place this weekend.

Ground Zero Mosque Haters Go Dutch

Intolerance—imported and domestic—invades a 9/11 anniversary

Yes, M.I.A. Is Still Doing A Free New York Show, Somewhere, Sometime

Let's try this again, shall we? Pic by Puja Patel.​So M.I.A.'s last show here, headlining July's HARD Festival at Governors Island, was an unpleasant experience for all involved, due to some combination of technical difficulty, weather calamity, and further bad mojo from her seemingly cursed 2 ... More >>

Electric Zoo, Fat Beats, And The Parked Food Truck Festival Headline Your (Long!) Weekend In Nightlife

​Ah, Labor Day weekend. Your last chance to wear white pants and white sandals (though my best friend tells me they're awful all year round). As for your weekend partying, skip the beach -- summer isn't over until the 22nd, so you still have time. Instead, welcome back NYC's nightlife and stay ... More >>

Week In Review: "You Died! Luckily This Is Just A Video Game."

​In a week wherein we bid adieu to both Fat Beats and Paste magazine, we needed something to fill the void, be that the Das Racist video game or, far less pleasantly, a glowering, shirtless Rick Ross. Good thing this one's over with.

Lauryn Hill, Whose Set At Rock The Bells Was Probably Better Than You Think, Attempts To Explain Herself On Fuse Tonight

The woman of the hour, polarizing the Governors Island masses last Saturday. Pic by Rebecca Smeyne.​So despite months of confusion and trepidation, Lauryn Hill really did play a full set at Governors Island Saturday as part of the Rock the Bells festival's vintage hip-hop blowout -- and our o ... More >>

Rock The Bells, New Orleans Bounce, And Michael Jackson Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​We're going to recommend you avoid Manhattan this weekend. Thanks to NYU and Columbia, every 20-year-old within a ten-mile radius will either be moving back into their dorms or celebrating the end of summer with one last cityside hurrah. Instead, take Friday night off and keep yourself in the ... More >>

Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth

Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>

Morning Links: Middle East Peace Process Revived; BP Payout Requires Lawsuit Waiver; Last Chance to Dip in a Dumpster Pool

​• Israel and Palestinian will reportedly return to negotiations for the first time in almost two years. Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, will probably be invited by President Obama to Washington in early September to ... More >>

Mosque Fever Puts Mike Bloomberg Down in the Polls, But Up With the Voice. 'Thanks a lot,' Says Mayor

​Just how heavy a lift Mike Bloomberg took on last week when he ferried over to Governors Island to put the downtown mosque debate in the context of this city's great tradition of religious freedom came a little clearer yesterday with the new polls: He's way down. For the first time in five y ... More >>

The Martinez Brothers, Animal Collective (DJ-ing), And Afrika Bambaataa (Probably) Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Friday night in Manhattan, Webster Hall is the place to be. It's the year of dubstep, apparently, and U.K. duo Nero headline an especially solid lineup for tonight's Girls and Boys, along with L.A.'s Gaslamp Killer. The ravetastic Flashing Lights crew kick off the night with electro and glows ... More >>

M.I.A. Is Now Threatening To Do A Free Make-Up And/Or Penalty Concert

​So. M.I.A. at Governors Island Saturday night: unpleasant experience. M.I.A. in 2010: a series of unpleasant experiences, many not necessarily her fault, etc. etc. Now comes word that she'll make it up to us, with a Free Show to Be Named Later, perhaps with your HARD Festival ticket stub, whi ... More >>

Live: Die Antwoord Kick Our Writer In the Head at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Die Antwoord Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday, July 25 Yo-landi Visser, one-half of the notorious internet phenom South African rap project Die Antwoord, has a thing for spanking her own gold, spandex-plated butt. Naturally, this is a distracting spectacle to see onstage at the Music Hall of Wil ... More >>

Live: Fortunately, M.I.A. Was Not The Only Performer At Governors Island's Hard Festival

​Skream and Benga (below) warm us up for the theoretical star attraction. Pics by Jens Joller.​"I'm MIA's protégé: My name is Rye Rye!" yelled the young rapper from Baltimore at the onset of Saturday's Hard Festival. Unfortunately, it's been a long, long, terribly long year for her men ... More >>

Is M.I.A.'s 2010 Cursed?

M.I.A.'s Saturday performance at HARD NYC did not go well. Like, kind of spectacularly not well. Her headlining set at the festival was the evening's low point, by all accounts; her sound, in particular, was a catastrophe, and this was before the heavens opened up and sent most of the crowd sprint ... More >>

Ivo Van Hove Stages Pasolini on Governors Island

Teorema at Lincoln Center Festival

The Demons and Musashi Open the Lincoln Center Festival

Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Eiji Yoshikawa hit the New York stage

Portugal. the Man

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Women and Media Act Like Animals around Good-Looking Single Prince

via the Huffington Post​From childhood onward, books, fairy tales, and idealistic parents condition women to desire a handsome prince. Then, eventually, the notion is accepted as a metaphor for whatever acceptable guy you've got (He held the door for me -- what a prince!). But when a real prin ... More >>

Eligible Bachelor Alert: Prince Harry Hits NYC

​Ladies, ladies, ladies. It's time to dig deep for that Chelsy Davy impersonation and maybe freshen up your roots, because a real, live prince is in town this weekend. And even though he's only third in line for the throne and has, to be fair, exhibited some behavior perhaps ill suiting the cr ... More >>

ROYAL PICNIC

Prince Harry saddles up on Governors Island

COUNTRY GIRL

It doesn’t get more American than Rosanne Cash

STRANGE BREW

Take one down, pass it around

Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Premier, And, Yes, Lauryn Hill Added To Rock The Bells Lineup

​Well, this has been somewhat of a confusing rollout. The news: Snoop (doing Doggystyle in its entirety), Tribe (doing Midnight Marauders), and DJ Premier (doing a Gang Starr tribute that'll probably be the highlight of the whole thing) have been added to the bill (already loaded with Wu Tang, ... More >>

Governors Island Opens This Saturday, Braces Self for Next Month's Meatopia

The calm before the storm.​To the great joy of those of us who enjoy consuming food on large swaths of grass, Governors Island will be open to the public beginning this Saturday, June 5. Water Taxi Beach will return with its line-up of burgers and wieners. They will provide but a prelude to th ... More >>

NYU Wants Space? Here's How to Win Our Approval

​NYU has money, NYU needs space, NYU says it wants to work with the community. OK, so here are five things NYU can do, only two of which require new construction: 1. Relocate nursing school to St Vincent's and establish a second teaching hospital on site. 2. Assume responsibility for the ... More >>

Voice Critics Debate the Theater Season So Far

Ivan van Hove Revives Cocteau's La Voix Humaine

Last Night's B-52s Show at Governors Island Did Not End Particularly Well

Start at about 4:15 here to see the B-52's attempt, unsuccessfully, to make it all the way through "Roam" at an ill-fated Governors Island show last night, which began in the wake of probably the hottest day of the summer and ended with a fusillade of hella cinematic lightning that sent the band f ... More >>

Photos: Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae at Governors Island Beach

​ Few things we love here more than Janelle Monae. Unfortunately our resident "space cowgirl" correspondent had his own event to attend, so Rebecca Smeyne went in his place to photograph the r&b superstar open for Erykah Badu, also no slouch to the strange-while-riveting live performer depart ... More >>

Street Vendors Will be on Governors Island Tomorrow, Along With the Street Vendor Project

Paul Lowry/flickrIt's been a busy summer at the Street Vendor Project. Both a recent spike in new-wave vendors and a New York Times article about vendor permit fraud brought increased attention to the group, which advocates on behalf of its 750 members. "We've been contacted by a lot of radio statio ... More >>

News Roundup: Lupe Fiasco, Elliott Smith, Brooklyn Bowl, Late Night TV

-- Lupe Fiasco released the first single from his upcoming album, Lasers. The track is the spacey "Shining Down," which has Lupe taking a dig at autotune by using it. It leaked last month to the rapper's dismay. He plays Governors Island on Sept 11 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon) and SUNY's Dewa ... More >>

A Sustainable Farm on Governors Island; A New Hut for the Texting Generation

Has Pizza Hut changed its name to "The Hut"? Despite the chain using this shorter name on its signage and delivery boxes, it claims that the name has not officially changed. Apparently, "The Hut" is just a "simpler and easier" nickname for the "texting generation" to use. If they're going to go ther ... More >>

JUST YOUR IMAGINATION

The Figment Festival takes over Governors Island

Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Take Me Out

Two choreographers make the city their stage

War Stories

On patrol with the 119th New York Volunteers

Sleepy Hollow

Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life