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Andrew Carmellini's Lafayette Opened on Monday

Andrew Carmellini's new French restaurant, Lafayette, opened on Monday. He tweeted that the bakery opened at noon and dinner service was available at 5:30. Carmellini joined forces with his partners from Locanda Verde and the Dutch, Josh Pickard and Luke Ostrom, to run the bistro. Chef Damon Wise cr ... More >>

December's Openings and Closings

In New York City, only the strong restaurants survive. Or the ones with amazing food, cult followings, lots of great press, and a whole slew of other factors. For those keeping tabs, here's a list of restaurants that opened and closed in December.

Get Free Froyo for a Year at Soho's 16 Handles

When 16 Handles opened a location in Williamsburg it could have meant the end of Williamsburg or the beginning of the chain's complete total fro-yo domination. The new flagship store at 240 Lafayette opens tomorrow, and they're celebrating with free froyo for 16 social media savvy customers.

New Year's Eve Guide: Ignite the Night

Reinvention is the new resolution. Ring in 2013 with eats, drinks, music, and more.

Say Hello To More 16 Handles, Ristorante Rafele

16 Handles Frozen Yogurt is expanding across Manhattan with four additional stores. Already opened: Chelsea at 178 8th between 19th and 20th streets. Slated to open late August: Murray Hill at 428 Third Avenue between 29th and 30th streets. October opening: SoHo at 240 Lafayette between Spring and P ... More >>

The Demise of the 'Drunken Negro Face' Cookie: Lafayette French Pastry Seized by Marshals

Some time in the last few days, the red Marshal's Notice appeared in the window of Lafayette French Pastry. West Village old-timer Lafayette French Pastry, 26 Greenwich Avenue, was seized by marshals pursuant to an eviction notice in the last few days, and the gates were up during what would have ... More >>

La Colombe Torrefaction Opening on Lafayette Street on Monday

Lauren ShockeyLa Colombe Torrefaction, now even closer to The Village Voice!​ Coffee fans regularly flock to lower Lafayette Street to get their java fix at La Colombe Torrefaction (270 Lafayette Street, 212-625-1717), the Philadelphia-based coffee roaster that puts out a great cup of joe. Now ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: Live Updates From the March

The Community/Labor march to Wall Street is on, with thousands of people filling Foley Square, where marchers are assembling prior to the march, which begins at 5 p.m. They're scheduled to head past City Hall and to Zuccotti Park to "unite in solidarity." Nick Pinto (@macfathom) and Rosie Gray (_@ro ... More >>

Falai Has Closed, and Falai Panetteria Is on the Market

​ After months of speculation, Iacopo has closed Falai, his six-year-old flagship restaurant on Clinton Street.

Five Women Attacked in Four Days in Downtown Manhattan

Security footage/NYPD​A mugger has been targeting women in downtown neighborhoods and attacked five people in four days in May, "sometimes showing a knife and physically assaulting his victims," according to DNA Info. His first reported attack occurred at East 18th Street at 10:30 p.m. on May ... More >>

Bike Tickets Up 65 Percent in 2011; Every Cyclist Is An Asshole, New York Post Reports

​Bike-hating newspaper the New York Post dispatched four reporters to two bike lanes in Soho in order to observe how many of the riders broke the rules thereby putting everyone's life in danger, as the NYPD continues to crack down on "dangerous" riders. The Post "investigation" counted 7,182 c ... More >>

Our 10 Best SoHo Eats

Sarah DiGregorioStuff your belly with these clam bellies from Ed's Lobster Bar​SoHo might automatically come to mind as a place filled with throngs of slow-moving tourists and not populated with tasty treats, but the neighborhood spanning from Houston to Canal Streets and Lafayette to Sixth Av ... More >>

A-List: New York Gets Another Gay Thumbs Down

​Here's what Next magazine's Dan Avery has to say regarding the Logo series about striving gays and their well-groomed machinations: "The 'reality' show everyone loved to hate probably cancelled out 100 'It Gets Better' videos with its cringe-worthy depictions of Reichen, Rodiney, and the oth ... More >>

With Dough, Choice Market Will Enter the Doughnut Business

Just a Temporary Measure/Flickr​Apparently the doughnut delirium gripping Zac Young is contagious: over in Clinton Hill, the folks at Choice Market are also planning to open a doughnut shop.

"Rat Zoo" Discovered in Lower Manhattan

​NYC the Blog has posted a video of rats literally overrunning Collect Pond Park in Lower Manhattan, on Leonard Street between Centre and Lafayette. Of course, we're all aware that New York has a lot of rats. But seriously, this is a lot of rats. Blogger Paolo Mastrangelo saw (at his estimate) u ... More >>

A-Pou's Taste, New Taiwanese Food Cart, Arrives at Astor Place

​There's yet another new food cart in town--A-Pou's Taste just opened yesterday, and they've snagged a prime spot on the south side of Astor Place.

Video: The BP Station in SoHo Gets "Occupied" by Oil-Covered Mermaid Protesters

Photo via Young Manhattanite.Click to enlarge.​It's Memorial Day weekend! And if you're like some New Yorkers, you headed out of town as soon as you could, to some of the best beaches in the country tonight. And if you're these New Yorkers...you geared up for a Friday night at the BP station o ... More >>

Is This the Infamous "Mike's Apartment," aka New York's Newest Hotspot?

​Earlier this morning, Gawker introduced the world to "Mike's Apartment," the supposed newest addition to the NYC nightlife scene. In a "reasonable-sized studio/loft downtown somewhere," goes the joke, the city's fashionable elites are gathering, fleeing the depredations of the Box and the shu ... More >>

Project Runway Villainess Kenley Collins's Favorite Brooklyn Bar is Matchless

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow awards like Best Shop for the Williamsburg Girl Who Has to Grow Up and Best Bodega on our favorite things. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. photo by Chris Ramirez ... More >>

Chinatown Brasserie to Get a Makeover

​Per the Feedbag, Chinatown Brasserie, the well-reviewed but under-populated dim sum shrine on Lafayette, will be relocating to its basement. The makeover will come courtesy of Serge Becker, the empire-builder behind La Esquina, Cafe Select, the Box, BBar, and Joe's Pub. Becker was recruited b ... More >>

At Last Night's CB2 SLA Committee Hearing...

...Josh Morgan (Houston's) and Robert Werhane (Dell'anima, L'Artusi) talked about their plans for the former Bar Q space at 308 Bleecker Street: Their "Chesapeake Bay-inspired fish house" will feature seasonal small bites and weekly specials. Morgan and Werhane have spent three years planning the co ... More >>

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B?--Quesadillas at Brooklyn Flea

Thwap! Thwap! Thwap! is the sound of masa being kneeded and then pounded into outsize pancakes, which form the wrapper for Pueblan quesadillas, currently available on Saturdays at the Brooklyn Flea, made by former Red Hook vendors. These quesadillas are nothing like bar-food quesadillas--t ... More >>

The Top 10 Records That Sold Last Week at Other Music in the East Village

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. Photo of Tak ... More >>

Organ Recital--Pork Cracklin's

Pork Cracklin's from Saratoga Country Store in Bed-Stuy, or is it Ocean Hill? Seeing Sara DiGregorio's piece on pork cracklin' rice krispie treats made my mouth water for just the cracklin's (aka pork rinds), which is what's generally eaten right out of the lard cauldron for breakfast in the Ca ... More >>

Weekend Special--New Food at the Brooklyn Flea

The lines at the Brooklyn Flea this last Saturday were longest for the pupusas and the quesadillas, the iconic foods of the Red Hook ballfields (click to enlarge) The Brooklyn Flea Market has moved back to its original home at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School at the corner of Vanderbilt ... More >>

Rev. Billy on a Roll in WSJ, at NYU and New Campaign HQ

Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh. People are starting to refer to Reverend Billy -- Mayoral candidate and longtime anti-corporatist advocate -- by his full name, Billy Talen, which may be a sign that they're taking him more seriously. The Wall Street Journal gave him a surprisingly supportive profile o ... More >>

BREAKING: Obama Fried Chicken Won't Back Down

When we first noticed an Obama Fried Chicken in Harlem last month, we just thought it was cute. Who knew it would become such a tsimmis, with councilmember Charles Barron threatening to lead demonstrations against OFCs in Brooklyn and Harlem because "Fried chicken, watermelon and minstrels are part ... More >>

Clip Job: Familiar Refrain -- Newspapers vs Technology

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 3, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 11The Newspaper Strike: A Union Man RepliesBy Art BergerIt is very rare for labor and strikes to get a fair deal in the press, which, like the other media, is always eager to give management's slant on the union sc ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette

This week in blogs... When it isn't wearing meat, Eat me daily is taking in meaty portraits. Han Hyo-seok's Zeitgeist exhibition recently ran at the ARTSIDE gallery in Seoul, Korea. [Eat me daily] Astronaut Sandra Magnus and her orbital cooking adventures have been documented on the NASA website. ... More >>

'Drunken Negro Face Cookies' Don't Pay

Well, if Ted Kefalnios of Lafayette French Pastry thought that his Obama-inspired 'Drunken Negro Face Cookies' were a good idea before, he surely has rethought things since we last wrote about him and the fallout from his racist cookies. Whether you think it's an outrage or a tempest in a teapot, yo ... More >>

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