Kings County

The International Cat Video Festival Is Coming To Brooklyn So... Yeah

Last September, we got wind of a certain festival over in Minnesota. One where cat lovers and viral video nuts could come together in peace and harmony for a sole purpose: to fawn over cat clips on the Internet. 75 finalists. 5,000 people. 65 minutes straight of the best cat videos the World Wide ... More >>

Beer and Beard: Brooklyn Brewery Celebrates Great News

Brooklyn Brewery knows how to enjoy a birthday. The Kings County beermakers are celebrating their 25th year in business by releasing a "Silver Anniversary" lager with a tricked-out label designed by four local artists. The brew's release comes on the heels of other exciting news for the company: Bre ... More >>

Who's Bros With Who? City Council Candidates Rep Their Friends Lists

As City Council contenders gear up for the race to City Hall, they want to make sure we know that they have lots and lots of friends. Because only popular kids are allowed to eat at the City Council table, right? Ari Kagan, currently the district leader of Brooklyn, recited names from his Facebook ... More >>

All That Brooklyn Jazz

The borough is where it's at

Brooklynites, You're Going To Have To Ice-Skate Somewhere Else This Winter

Come winter, New Yorkers love to ice-skate. They also love to hibernate for three months and watch Woody Allen movies (for whatever the reason, his flicks comfortably settle when it's freezing outside). However, I do not like to ice-skate - I tried my unbalanced luck at the rink in Central Park a fe ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Rural Restaurant, Tejal Rao at Comodo

Robert Sietsema goes to Rural Restaurant, a northeast Chinese eatery in Flushing. The food shows Korean, Mongolian, and Russian influences: "Speaking of deals, pescatarians will go gaga over the flounder version of the recipe--an entire fish thickly crusted with cumin, red-pepper flakes, garlic, and ... More >>

Facebook Leads To Fall Of Two Brooklyn Gangs; "Very Crispy Gangsters" Are Crispy No More

As it currently stands, the body count from the ongoing war between the "Rockstarz" and the "Very Crispy Gangsters," both thuggish Brooklyn street gangs, stands at three dead VCG members -- which prompted a member of the "Rockstarz" to post on Facebook that "Rockstarz are up 3-0."Unfortunately for t ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Requests Special Prosecutor To Investigate Assemblyman Vito Lopez's Pervy-ness

Things just went from incredibly bad to incredibly worse for shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez.Not only has he been "disciplined" by Democratic Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, but he could potentially face criminal charges for several claims of alleged pervy-ness made against him by multiple female staf ... More >>

Live: Flatbush Zombies And Cerebral Ballzy Bring Brooklyn To The Lower East Side

Cerebral Ballzy w/Flatbush Zombies, The Gospels, Jasmine Solano The Space Friday, June 22 Better than: Getting caught in the rain. On a humid Friday at a new, still-raw, skate-ramp-slash-stage-equipped Lower East Side space (called, er, The Space), the answer to the timeless question "Is Brooklyn ... More >>

Brower Boys Street Gang "Taken Down" Thanks To Facebook And Stupid (Alleged) Criminals

Here's a tip for any potential criminals out there: don't bicker about the proceeds of robberies you've committed on Facebook. Believe it or not, cops also have access to Facebook, and monitor it for dopes dumb enough to announce to the world that they're criminals.That said, more than a dozen membe ... More >>

A Breakdown of the NYC Bike Share Map

The bicycles are comin'! The bicycles are comin'!Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation released the initial 420 bike share station locations for the program that will unleash (eventually) 10,000 bikes onto the already crammed streets of New York by 2013. Influenced by NYU's ... More >>

Q&A: Brownsville Ka On Creative Control, Growing Up, And Why He Doesn't Release Mixtapes

Close to 75% of the New York State prison population comes from seven New York City neighborhoods—Harlem, South Bronx, Lower East Side, Bed Stuy, Bushwick, South Jamaica and Brownsville/East New York. Brownsville Ka never went to prison, but he is from perhaps the most violent on that list, th ... More >>

A Fatal Car Crash, NYPD Cop DWI In Brooklyn Last Night; Nassau Cops Get a DWI Grant

It was an eventful but tragic evening in the outer borough of Kings County.Late last night, on the Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay, two cars met in a head-on collision after the driver of a BMW lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a minivan. The man behind the wheel, Jamal Iq ... More >>

GZA, Screaming Females, And About 300 Other Artists Will Play Northside Festival This June

The music portion of the Northside Festival—the North Brooklyn celebration of music, art, film, and (in a nod to Brooklyn's many small businesses) entrepreneurship—will take place at various venues throughout Kings County from June 14 to 17. Participating venues include the usual Brookly ... More >>

Who's Getting Foreclosed on in Brooklyn Today? A Third-Generation Home-Dweller

The Voice is starting a new feature several times a week. As foreclosures continue unabated across the nation, the Voice will be profiling the foreclosures that happen every week right here in the five boroughs. We'll be looking closely at the properties facing foreclosure, the public auctions where ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat at the Union Square Holiday Market

Lauren ShockeyA super cheesy pretzel makes for fine snacking while shopping​Well, we've saved the best for last. After visiting several of the bigger, non-pop-up holiday markets that have cropped up this season, we can say that the most varied and delicious culinary options can be found at th ... 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 >>

Posts of the Week

Here we are on a rainy Friday afternoon, looking back at the week's sunnier days: Way Station's Andy Heidel talks about Flaming Moes, Dr. Who-themed cocktails, and that infamous stroller manifesto. Our 10 Best New Frozen Treats. Why is my spicy tuna roll spicy? Here's why.

The Whitest Kids U Don't Want to Know in The Art of Getting By

Breuckelen in Cobble Hill Does the King County Fare

They don't pet animals here—they eat 'em

T.G.I. Friday's Among Those Charged With Dumping Waste and Raw Sewage in Brooklyn Waterways

Because untreated grease gives us all something to smile about!​Here's yet another reason we find ourselves weary of the continuing existence of T.G.I. Friday's.

FINAL COUNTDOWN

On your mark, get set, shop!

Almost Half of Judge Candidates Unqualified to Run, Says NY Bar

​Nearly half the candidates running for city judgeships in this year's general election on November 2 are unqualified to run, the New York City Bar Association said yesterday. Of the 34 candidates running in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, 15 are unqualified by the Bar's reckoning ... More >>

A Catalog of Dishes at Breukelen, New in Cobble Hill

​Chef Andrew Karasz, formerly of Django, has recently opened Breukelen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. The brand of seasonal, New American/Mediterranean cooking that Breukelen offers has become endemic in Kings County, but Breukelen stands out for the quality of its cooking. I hesitate to call it "c ... More >>

Kings County General Store Halloween Party

Tomorrow: My 10 Favorite Brooklyn Restaurants

The grilled octopus with beans at Bay Ridge's Athena Express is a contender​Everyone has their favorite restaurants--the ones that are dependable after a long day, where they make the fried eggplant exactly how you like it. These places might not be "the best" but they're the places you're dra ... More >>

BAM Announces 2010 Next Wave Festival, Plus Fun Fact: Sufjan Stevens Got Paid $147,338 For His 2007 BQE Commission

​Another year, another Next Wave Festival: the 2010 edition, BAM announced today, will feature--among many other works--the American premiere of Delusion, "a far-reaching work exploring memory and identity" from new music doyenne Laurie Anderson, Red Hot New Orleans, a Big Easy tribute from ... More >>

ONE OF A KIND

Shopping, pinball, photobooth—you!

In Good Spirits at the Bell House

Keith WagstaffRevelers enjoy the Farm on Adderly's pork, beef, and lamb-blend meatballs.​The Manhattan Cocktail Classic is but a week away, but don't think that would stop me from pouring artisanal alcohol down my throat in the meantime. Thank god for Edible Brooklyn's Good Spirits event at th ... More >>

'Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera Festival'

Man Shot Dead in Crown Heights, Female Bystander Wounded

View Larger Map Date: Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 at approximately 6:49 p.m. Location: In front of 1610 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Two people were shot outside the above address yesterday evening in Crown Heights. One victim, 21, had been shot repeatedly in the chest. He was taken to Ki ... More >>

Atheists, Religious Abuse Support Group Team Up to Sue Church

​It's been a busy year for atheists, and they're not, as you might expect, slowing down for the holidays. NYC Atheists has been charging forward on many fronts in 2009, from letting people know you can be good without God on busses, to taking its message to the streets en Espanol. And now, th ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best, Wildly Diverse Brooklyn Bars

​ Check back here tomorrow to find out which drinking establishments make Our 10 Best Brooklyn Bars. We're compiling a list that reflects the crazy-quilt diversity of Brooklyn, including a spot where you can drink dirt-cheap Polish vodka with old men, and a place where you can get small-batch ... More >>

Prosperity Dumpling Gets a Brooklyn Outpost

Good news for Kings County: Prosperity Dumpling, one of the best $1 dumpling houses in Manhattan, is opening a branch in Sunset Park, at 4317 Eighth Avenue. It joins current favorite Kai Feng Fu Dumpling House (corner of Eighth Avenue on 48th street). More ultra-cheap dumplings and sesame pancakes f ... More >>

Psych Patients Remember Esmin Green

Mosaic Man Leaves East Village for Brooklyn

Obama Time

An admitted 'hope-monger' brings down the house in Brooklyn

Crazy Behavior

Staff, not inmates, at Brooklyn's biggest psychiatric ward

Ready to Divorce—or Marry—'Voice' Over Sex Column

Home Shopping Network

A hidden camera catches the underside of a Brooklyn pol's personal housing deal

Adult Swim: Heavy Metal Outside, Yummy Drinks Inside

Spontaneous Combustion

A Protest in the Stansbury Case Lights a Fire Under the Police Brass

The Suicide of Mr. A

A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

The Waiting Game

Loft Dwellers Hope to Hold Out Until a City Policy Kicks In

For Judges, It's One-Stop Shopping

Brooklyn Dems Celebrate as Scandal Mounts

Peace Activists Planning to Disrupt Manhattan

Brooklyn's Judicial Loyalty Oath

Selection Procedures Questioned as Scandal Widens

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