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Whole Foods Cleared for Brooklyn Site

It's official, Brooklyn is getting a Whole Foods on a site along the Gowanus Canal. On Tuesday, the supermarket chain got approval for zoning changes from the city's Board of Standards and Appeals, clearing the last hurdle before it can obtain building permits and start construction, reports the Wal ... More >>

Gross Gowanus Canal: Cleanup Conversations Continue

​The Gowanus Canal, which has the unique honor(?) of being one of the few water bodies in America that can kill a baby whale, might soon lose its century-old street cred as a cesspool for industrial waste. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency met with area residents and shared its ... More >>

Littleneck: Gowanus Gets Its Clams

We promise you they're not from the canal

Live: Undead Jazzfest Shows Off Its Rock-Solid Vital Signs

Brian Chase (l) and Alan Licht (r) perform at Kenny's Castaways on June 23.​ Second Annual Undead Jazzfest Kenny's Castaways, Sullivan Hall, (le) poisson rouge, The Bell House, Littlefield, CrossFit Gym, Homage Skateboard Training Facility Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25 Better ... More >>

Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants

pbase.comAt one time, Lundy's was the world's largest restaurant, seating 2,800 hungry souls.​ Shed a tear for Brooklyn's great restaurants of the past. They once defined life in the borough, making it unnecessary to toddle to Manhattan for a lively and memorable night out, and they died as t ... More >>

List: Five Key Songs For Tonight's Flight Of The Conchords Sing-Along At Bell House

​If you desire relentlessly goofy, profoundly surreal live entertainment this fine Wednesday evening, might I suggest you follow your nose to the banks of the Gowanus Canal and avail yourself of, yes, the Bell House's Flight of the Conchords Sing-Along, which will focus on season one (no "Caro ... More >>

Toxic PCBs Found in New York Public Schools

alamosbasement​Low levels of PCBs, a chemical compound linked to cancer, have been found in public schools across New York. The New York Times reports leaky light ballasts are to blame. Parents are being told that there is no immediate danger, but that long-term exposure could increase health ... More >>

Gowanus Canal Is Totally Grody, Finds EPA

​After a yearlong evaluation of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, the EPA has released their report on the levels of contamination in the waterway. The results, published yesterday, aren't good for the Superfund site. Two suspected carcinogens -- PAHs and PCBs -- were found to be "widespread" in the ... More >>

CARTOON CENTRAL

The best animators show off their work

'Sunday Best Presents Alex from Tokyo'

The best animators show off their work

Benchmark: Park Slope's New Steakhouse

Benchmark's New York strip​When Benchmark--Park Slope's only true steakhouse--opened this spring without signage, it seemed to to be going for that tired "secret restaurant" cache. Thankfully, now a large sign announces the restaurant's existence--still, you might miss it as you walk by. The ... More >>

Sunday Best Finds A New Home; This Weekend's Party (With Dâm-Funk!) Is On

This guy's real happy to hear the news. The shocking announcement a few weeks back that BKLYN Yard was permanently shutting down -- robbing Brooklyn of one of its best outdoor venues, and marooning several great reoccurring summer parties -- still lingers, but perhaps the highest-profile of those ... More >>

BKLYN Yard, Site of Many a Foodie Extravaganza, Is Closing

536/FlickrThe sun has set on the BKLYN Yard.​Despite a fancy write-up from the Times earlier this week, the BKLYN Yard, home to numerous barbecues, food truck festivities, lobster bakes, and pig roasts, is closing up shop.

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

The Toxic Joys of Sunday Best

How the best weekly dance party in town wound up alongside the Gowanus Canal

'Sunday Best Presents Michael Mayer'

How the best weekly dance party in town wound up alongside the Gowanus Canal

A New Brick Oven Pizza For Brooklyn

More pizza​ Strolling south on Smith Street from Carroll Gardens toward the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus Canal, you stumble across this fledgling brick oven pizza joint, on a very industrial block across from a car wash and next to an eccentrically decorated notary office. It's j ... More >>

AND THEY'RE OFF!

So what if the Kentucky Derby is months away?

Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

​The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at which it encourages conversations that "follow the conventions of polite discourse." As you ... More >>

Drink for Gowanus

Mykl Roventine/flickr​The controversy surrounding the proposed clean-up of the Gowanus Canal may be far from over, but tonight the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is providing a less complicated opportunity to show support for the beleaguered waterway. It's holding its second annual Fall Beer Tastin ... More >>

Urban Photographer Nathan Kensinger Knows NYC's Best Rooftops, Toxic Industrial Canals, and Dive-Bar Bathrooms

We recently published our Best of NYC issue, the Voice's annual opportunity to bestow awards like Best Vigilante and Best New Snarky Media-Gossip Site on our favorite things. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. Nathan KensingerIn the Kitchen, a ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​ Leaf peeper map of New York State Saturday Stinky Cheese Man author Jon Scieszka and five others read at Books of Wonder Hayrides at the Carl Schurz Park Harvest Festival Mask making at Kate's Paperie Craft fair, Chelsea, with PS11 and a group of local Etsy sellers Madison Square Fall ... More >>

Pig Roast 'On' Tonight at Brooklyn Yard in Spite of Downpour

The Hapa Kitchen cooks planned on roasting two pigs in an arcane Cuban-Chinese style at Brooklyn Yard this evening, assisted by some celebrity barbecuers. The bad news is, what with the incessant rain, there will probably be no canoeing on the Gowanus Canal tonight. The good news is that the pig roa ... More >>

Live: Theo Parrish, Soaking In It At Brooklyn Yard

Pics by Puja Patel, more below Theo Parrish apparently played Eddie Kendricks' "Date With the Rain" just about an hour before the first downpour washed over South Brooklyn last night; the Sunday Best dance party was the last of a Detroit-based trilogy that previously featured deep-house youngin Kyle ... More >>

Jana Hunter

Pics by Puja Patel, more below Theo Parrish apparently played Eddie Kendricks' "Date With the Rain" just about an hour before the first downpour washed over South Brooklyn last night; the Sunday Best dance party was the last of a Detroit-based trilogy that previously featured deep-house youngin Kyle ... More >>

Sunday Best with Losoul

Pics by Puja Patel, more below Theo Parrish apparently played Eddie Kendricks' "Date With the Rain" just about an hour before the first downpour washed over South Brooklyn last night; the Sunday Best dance party was the last of a Detroit-based trilogy that previously featured deep-house youngin Kyle ... More >>

Conrad Shawcross Sails the Gowanus!

Brave brit will not be deterred by PCBs or anti-terror squad

'Sunday Best Presents Mr. Scruff'

Brave brit will not be deterred by PCBs or anti-terror squad

Afloat in a Sea of Green--Guactacular Invitational 2009 Guacamole Contest

                    I knew enough from my previous attendance at the Bacon Takedown  and Chowder Slam that I'd better get to this event early: Guactacular Invitational 2009 was to be a competition among nine avo ... More >>

Despite Late Jameson Surge, Bloomberg Clicks With Jobs, Against Superfund

See, it could always be worse: Urbanite reports that a new issue of Spider-Man will have newspaperman J.J. Jameson, the webslinger's arch-nemesis, elected Mayor of New York. No word as to whether the cigar-chomping Bugle editor will end the smoking ban. It's fun to hear Spider-Man writer Dan Slott ... More >>

Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus

See, it could always be worse: Urbanite reports that a new issue of Spider-Man will have newspaperman J.J. Jameson, the webslinger's arch-nemesis, elected Mayor of New York. No word as to whether the cigar-chomping Bugle editor will end the smoking ban. It's fun to hear Spider-Man writer Dan Slott ... More >>

RAVE ON

Dance all day on the Gowanus

Growing Food without Knowing, Hope Breeds From Depths of Dirty Gowanus Canal, and 60 and Still Being Carded...

Dance all day on the Gowanus

The Official Guide to Twee Outdoor Summer Dance Parties

Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide

Bleak Waters

The Gowanus Canal inspires some poetry in Maggie Nelson's latest

R.I.P, You Noble Whale

The Gowanus Canal inspires some poetry in Maggie Nelson's latest

The Tower of Positive Thinking

Architects color the skyscraper green

Love on the Lamb

Culinary adventures in a Brooklyn outback

Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

Culinary adventures in a Brooklyn outback

Framing Sevens

Yoshiko Chuma leads us to art and architecture

River Dance

Down the Mississippi with the Miss Rockaway Armada

Electric Dreams

Down the Mississippi with the Miss Rockaway Armada

A Shore Thing

Mini guides to five waterfront neighborhoods worth your salt

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Backward

Belleville builds a better bistro in Brooklyn's Park Slope

Close-Up on Red Hook

Belleville builds a better bistro in Brooklyn's Park Slope

Two-Room Apartment in 1880s House

Belleville builds a better bistro in Brooklyn's Park Slope

One Track Mind

Chelsea Group Works to Save an Abandoned Rail Line   

Low Life

Chelsea Group Works to Save an Abandoned Rail Line