Jersey City

Another Plane Crashes into the Hudson River, Everyone Survives (Again!)

Ah, the Hudson River! It looks so damn majestic as it flows beneath the George Washington Bridge, and it maintains a nice, wide barrier between us and Jersey City. Oh yeah, and it swallow planes whole. It's a simultaneously heart-warming and bone-chilling landmark. In utterly terrifying news, a sma ... More >>

Heaven for Eggheads at Chennai Flavors

Your dinner gets laid in Jersey City

Experience Derby Days at Maysville; Egghead Heaven at Chennai Flavors

Our own Tejal Rao appreciates the refined elegance amidst the southern hospitality at Maysville, the new Flatiron restaurant from chef Kyle Knall. The Gramercy Tavern alum shows his roots at his new spot. Rao writes, "Knall has [GT chef Michael] Anthony's reverence for local vegetables, always accom ... More >>

Carry a Big Steak at Midtown's Bill's Food and Drink; Wave Goodbye to Lesbians and Hello to Pork at the West Village's Swine

Our own Tejal Rao reviews Bill's Food and Drink, a "flashy John DeLucie joint." Bill's Food and Drink is the recently revamped former speakeasy that once held Bill's Gay Nineties. The Midtown restaurant is "cluttered with maps, Victorian portraits, and taxidermied animal heads... it can feel like th ... More >>

Big Gay Ice Cream Opens in the West Village; Barcade Looks For Space in Chelsea

Big Gay Ice Cream opened a storefront in the West Village yesterday. No sparkly unicorn murals just yet, but Salty Pimps are up for grabs. 61 Grove St.

Robert Sietsema at Deccan Spice; Tejal Rao at The Penrose

[See More Reviews: Masak; Governor | Tacos Cachanilla; Neta] Robert Sietsema heads over to Jersey City's Little India for Deccan Spice. The menu sports unique offerings like goat brains and intestines. There's a fair number of egg dishes too -- rare for a northern India restaurant: "My favorite is ... More >>

Say Hello to 5 Boro Burger, Vic & Anthony's Steakhouse

5 Boro Burger has begun serving burgers, hot dogs, and bar snacks to diners in Midtown. [Midtown Lunch] Also in Midtown, a new coffee and pastry shop with outdoor seating called Spresso Cafe has sprung up in the Sanctuary Hotel. [Zagat Buzz] Former Momofuku Noodle Bar chef de cuisine Kevin Pemouli ... More >>

Army Officers Killed Over Quran Burnings In Afghanistan; Occupy Town Square Set For Tompkins Square Park Today; Subway System Sees Injury, Death

Two U.S. Army officers were killed at their desks in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Saturday by a junior intelligence officer. "We believe it was 100% linked to the Quran burning because of the religious background of this junior officer. He spent two months in a Pakistani madrassa," an Afghan ... More >>

Joe Budden+Joell Ortiz

Day in the Life of...a Coffee Cart Vendor

Lauren Shockey​Welcome to Day in the Life of, a new feature that'll appear every so often on Fork in the Road in which we look at different culinary professions in New York City and the people behind them. How do the pros actually spend their days? Up first: Mohammed Eladl, 57, who operate ... More >>

A Refuge for Foodies With Legal Problems?

​On Journal Square's main drag in Jersey City, the prominent legal offices of Anise & Anise. After a voluminous meal of dosas, iddlies, and other South Indian brunch items in Jersey City, and groggy from so much food, a friend an I stumbled on the law offices of Anise & Anise. Pretty funny ... More >>

Boom, Bubble, Bust: Matthew Barney + Jenny Saville + Mickalene Thomas

New York goes retread. But maybe there's a little hope

Hot Music for Long Nights

Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

Charlotte Bloomberg, Mayor's Mom, Dead at 102

​New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mother died on Sunday in Massachusetts at the age of 102. "Today, my sister, Marjorie, and I lost our mother, Charlotte, after an extraordinary 102 years of life," the mayor wrote in a statement. "As the center of our family, our mother's unimpeachable ... More >>

Lin Evola Makes Melted Gun Statue For NYPD

via​The New York Police Department gave the artist Lin Evola 946 guns, "taken from suspects or turned in during buyback programs," which she promptly melted and made into a five-foot statue of an angel. The sculpture is meant to promote peace and will be displayed at Police Headquarters, Commi ... More >>

Ten Fascinating Ethnic Ingredients Chefs Should Get to Know Better

Sprinkled with sesame seeds, marinated jellyfish makes a memorable summer salad​ The last couple of decades have flooded NYC with colorful cuisines many of us never knew existed, and stocked ethnic markets with exotic ingredients that had strange names and fascinating properties. This influx ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to West End, Goodbye to Café Flo

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Vai, the Upper East Side spot that just got a Soho outpost, has closed. The building is reportedly being torn down. [Grub Street] Café Flo in Astoria did not survive a four-alarm blaze that r ... More >>

Renegade PATH Conductor Really, Really Hates It When You Eat on the Train

​Today the New York Post covers the story of a PATH conductor who takes very strictly the "no-eating-on-the-subway" rule (but is less concerned with the "no-littering-on-the-subway" rule, to say nothing of the "no-ripping-other-people's-property-out-of-their-hands-and-throwing-it-out-the-windo ... More >>

The Latest From the Gross Foods Arms Race: Philly Pretzel Factory's New Cheesesteak Pretzel

​Food chains across the country seem to have taken This is Why You're Fat to heart. First there was the Double Down, sandwiching bacon-and-cheese between fried chicken, and then IHOP's Stackers, smooshing together pancakes and cheesecake. The latest in the greasy fast food arms race is being ... More >>

After Chinatown Fire, Tenants Pick Over the Ruins

Two weeks after a seven-alarm fire ripped through their Chinatown building and three others, the tenants of 289 Grand Street lined up in front of the ruins on Saturday afternoon to salvage whatever remained of their belongings. The tenants came with empty shopping bags and low expectations as th ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Lowlands; Goodbye to Jade Terrace

Jade Terrace, the rooftop bar at China Club, has filed for Chapter 11 following China Club filing last month. The owners blame the economy for its demise. [Crain's]​ The team behind Lokal in Greenpoint will soon open a Mexican place at 52 Nassau Avenue. Expect tacos, burritos, and quesadillas ... More >>

Sietsema at Sapthagiri; DiGregorio at Torrisi Italian Specialties and Despana

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema samples an array of vegetarian southern Indian, including Jain and Swaminarayan food, at Sapthagiri in Jersey City. Sarah DiGregorio makes a couple of meals out of the Italian-American bites at Torrisi Italian Specialties and the Spanish tapas at Despana. Sa ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Time was, Andrew Cuomo would pass a lot of harsh comments about rival politicians. Now, the attorney general mainly lets his indictments do the talking. And they've been eloquent. But has the former bully-boy really changed, or just changed tactics? Tom Robbins looks at the possible second Go ... More >>

Ellis Island reopens after fire

​Ellis Island was evacuated yesterday after a transformer fire shut off electricity, trapping visitors in elevators. Jersey City Fire and Emergency Services Department responded to a call about the elevator problem at 12:50, and discovered a failed transformer in the mechanical room of the Imm ... More >>

Bowery Ballroom Booker Johnny Beach Loves Oksana Baiul and the Jersey City Chili's

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Guitar Shredder and Best Gay Theater Fest. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. Tony Johnny Beach, the booker for the Bowery Ballroom, has se ... More >>

A Dispatch From Our Favorite Restaurant Names

​ This kebab house in Jersey City has dubbed itself "Horn Okay Please." It's a pretty funny choice, but it does have a meaning. The moniker references the fact that most trucks and rickshaws in India have that exact slogan painted on the back--it used to mean, "please honk if you would like to ... More >>

Getting Ready for Diwali in Jersey City

Mitai from Bengali Sweet--the kesar peda is on the far left. ​ ​For Hindus, the upcoming holiday of Diwali marks Lord Rama's victory over the demon Ravana, and the god's subsequent homecoming after years of exile. Diwas, or small oil lights or candles (left), are lit as a symbol of the v ... More >>

Get Your Cuchifrito, Your Cocaine

Calle Luna restaurant in Jersey City has not only been doing big business in pernil and pasteles (which Eating in Translation thought were particularly fine), but it's also allegedly been peddling cocaine, to the tune of $35,000 each week. An investigation of the drug ring operating out of the resta ... More >>

HOOT AND HOLLER

Country music abounds across the East River

WFMU Announces WFMU Fest

​ In 2008, the pioneering Jersey City-based freeform radio outfit WFMU celebrated its 50th anniversary. One year later, the party evidently continues: WFMU will host a music festival over the first three days of October at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and they're bringing out the heavy hitt ... More >>

The Search for Kenyan Food in Jersey

A year ago the Voice ran a piece called "Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style," a fascinating story about how Kenyan immigrants who identified with the opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement, were streaming into a fairly obscure corner of Jersey City after a disputed election a few mont ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World -- Ube

Edgar Allan Pho: World of Taste in the Bronx

Southeast Asian nabe surrounds horror master's cottage

Clip Job: Death in the Long Hot Summer

Obama Conjures the Kennedys in Jersey City

Three points short in New Hampshire, Barack is still coming strong

Bachelor pad

New place on Newark Avenue wants to be your Indian diner

Stuck in the City—and Lovin' It

Four cool adventures for three hot months

Our Man Sietsema: 'an intravenous drip of sticky honey'

Weird Tales

From tiny screens to giant heads

Neon Rainbow

Single-minded Egyptian fish joint rules near Journal Square

New York Radio

Left of the Dial

Letters

Four Rooms on Top of Renovated Farmhouse

Radio On

Collegiate Record Geeks Choose Their Frequency

What Fresh Sell

Family Circus

One-bedroom apartment with sleeping loft in renovated tenement

Sexism & the City

On the Bias

Burn, Baby, Burn

Flag Day

Schools for Scandal

Kiddie Porn