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May 3, 2011
Don Peppe to Take Manhattan, Go Hollywood
Don Peppe to outgrow Queens.Don Peppe, in Ozone Park, is gearing up to open its first Manhattan outpost next year. But Manhattanites aren't the only ones about to get introduced to the Queens mainstay.
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May 24, 2011
Here's the NYC Subway Map as an Erect Penis, Excited About Osama Bin Laden's Death
See, by flipping the standard subway map 90-degrees, Manhattan becomes a big dick, thrilled by the death of Osama Bin Laden. (For an extra "ew," the train lines are veins.) The project is the work of the street artist Beast, who calls the work "Unexpected Improvements," probably in reference ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Manhattan Tells Brooklyn to Suck It
James Campbell TaylorDear Boroughs, Last week we wrote of a "lighthearted jab at that other borough across the river," for sale on Etsy from the Fourth Floor Print Shop. In it, Brooklyn told Manhattan that it was ugly and, basically, that it was over it. Manhattan has now written back, or a ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Those "Defend Brooklyn" Shirts Might Have More Cross-Generational Appeal Than Originally Thought
"A lot of people from the old days carry guns. One of these days one of these suburban kids is going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person." —Longtime Williamsburg resident Sunny Chapman speaks to the Times about the gentrification that's been affecting her neighborhood for the bet ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
85-Year-Old Woman Brutally Assaulted on Upper East Side
In a shockingly awful Monday morning attack, "a light-skinned Hispanic man, 25-30 years old" snatched an 85-year-old woman, dragged her into a stairwell, sexually assaulted and robbed her on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. The crime occurred before 6 a.m. near 81st and Madison Avenue, close ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
East River Ferry Starts June 13, Free For a Bit
The East River Ferry, as we've been teasing, is indeed coming and now there's a launch date. Beginning June 13, there will be water travel from East 34th Street in Manhattan to Long Island City, down to Greenpoint, Williamsburg, South Williamsburg, DUMBO and back to Manhattan at Pier 11 near ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Manhattan Is Down a(nother) Diner and Deli
As went the dodo, so too goes the Manhattan diner.The roster of endangered or extinct old food businesses keeps growing, and today brings news of two more additions.
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June 14, 2011
'Mommyrexia' Is the Cute New Word for Being an Anorexic Mom
There is an article in the New York Post today that sheds light on an important issue facing Manhattan women -- specifically, Manhattan women with babies. The Post dubs it "Mommyrexia." Adorable, right? Unfortunately, mommyrexia is not the fear of being a mom; no, it is the fear of being a FA ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Taxi Bill Letting Livery Drivers Pick Up Street Hails in Outer Boroughs Passes Assembly
Despite yellow cabs surrounding the New York Capitol building today to protest legislation that would let livery drivers pick up passengers who hail them in the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan, the Assembly has passed the bill in an 110-28 vote, reports the AP. Yellow cab drivers had ar ... More >>
Film
June 22, 2011
The Comedy of Manhattan Parenting, Wasted, in The Best and the Brightest
Despite yellow cabs surrounding the New York Capitol building today to protest legislation that would let livery drivers pick up passengers who hail them in the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan, the Assembly has passed the bill in an 110-28 vote, reports the AP. Yellow cab drivers had ar ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
The Nitehawk Cinema Draws Nigh
Now showingCome this weekend, Williamsburg will have one less reason to come to Manhattan: After three years of planning and construction, the Nitehawk Cinema is opening its doors. That news comes from Zagat, which reports that the theater's food menu includes watermelon salad and homemade be ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
NYPD Saves Jumper on Lower East Side
viaEyewitnesses on Twitter are reporting that police stopped a woman from jumping off the roof at 1 Essex Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. As seen above, an inflatable landing pad was set up below the building, but officers managed to grab the woman before it was necessary. "I wasn't wa ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Rob Gorski Bought Rabbit Island, Hopes to Turn It Into Mini-Manhattan Artist Utopia
We have to go backOn jury duty one day last year, New Yorker Rob Gorski, who lives on the Lower East Side, found an island for sale on Craigslist. The 91 acres in Lake Superior three miles north of Michigan are called Rabbit Island and Gorski purchased the land with a plan, which has since bl ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Manhattan Pools Open Tomorrow
Summer is now officially summer, and by that we mean not only is the sun shining down on our bare shoulders but also that Manhattan's 54 city pools will open tomorrow, just in time to take advantage of this really quite lovely weather (82 degrees and mostly sunny!) and the last day of school, ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Food Trucks Chased Out of Midtown; Cheese Cutters Thwarted... What's the World Coming to?
A number of chefs from around the world are flavoring their fires for grilling to add an extra taste dimension to food. [NY Times] Food truck are being chased from Midtown Manhattan, it appears. In the last 10 days, the Treats Truck and Rickshaw Dumpling truck have both been shooed from thei ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
How to Eat a Hopper, and Other Curious Starches From Sri Lanka
Hoppers come four to an order and -- surprise! -- there's a runny egg inside one of them. This week, Counter Culture traipses in to Banana Leaf, a newish Sri Lankan restaurant in the part of Manhattan that used to be known as the Fur District (think of how much better that sounds than the M ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Yes, It Is Expensive to Park a Car in Manhattan
If you did not already know this, now you do. Also, if you did not already know this, you may not deserve to live in Manhattan, but here it is, anyway: Manhattan is the most expensive place in the U.S. to park a car. After all, very few of us have actual garages attached to our actual houses, ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Manhattan May Not Have Roberta's, but It Does Have Shachi's Arepas
stevendepolo/FlickrGriddled corn cakes, as far as the eye can seeAlthough Roberta's is a ways off from expanding to Manhattan, another North Brooklyn restaurant has put down roots in Midtown. Following the closure of its Havemeyer Street location, Shachi's Arepas opened Shachi's Arepas To Go ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Village Voice Immortalized In The Greenwich Village Follies
Run down to The Greenwich Village Follies at Manhattan Theatre Source, and when they ask the trivia question about a certain newspaper that started in 1955, yell, "The Village Voice!" You'll win a free condom. You should run there anyway because the revue -- a loosely structured glimpse at ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Manhattanhenge, Tonight and Tomorrow!
SahadevaTonight and tomorrow night at sunset comes that magical twice-a-year moment when the sun sets in exact alignment with the Manhattan grid. Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term "Manhattanhenge" to describe this rare occurrence. He writes, "the setting sun aligns precisely with the Manhat ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
BREAKING: City Vows to Marry Every Couple on Sunday Who Entered Wedding Lottery
823 couples just won a different kind of New York LotteryWell, 59 extra couples are going to be very happy this Sunday! When New York City recently received a whopping 2,600 marriage license requests, with over half of those indicating they wanted to wed this Sunday (the first day of legal s ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
New York Press to Close? Manhattan Media Publisher Tom Allon Makes No Promises Beyond Labor Day
The days are numbered for New York City's other alternative weekly. We hear that the New York Press will likely cease publication by the summer's end if Manhattan Media can't sell the title or at least the website. "Everything is always potentially for sale for the right price," Manhattan M ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Westboro Baptist Church Loses, New York Wins
I'm not a position to mock the many reporters who lined up to spend a few minutes with Margie Phelps and the four other unpleasant Westboro Baptist Church members who flew up from Kansas to spend their Sunday shouting slurs at same-sex New York couples. After all, I spent hours with these a ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Cabbies Don't Want to Pick Up Bleeding People, Either
Since it is something of a precious and rare cabbie who will happily make the jaunt from Manhattan to Brooklyn -- much less pick up anyone he or she decides he doesn't want to pick up, for whatever reason -- it's really no surprise that a number of cabbies didn't look kindly upon a bleeding ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Chiles & Chocolate Follows Beer Table and Toby's Public House From the Slope to Manhattan
nsnn.comWhile Brooklyn and Manhattan's dining exchange program has generally followed the pattern of the latter's restaurateurs colonizing Williamsburg, Park Slope is leading the reverse charge into Manhattan.
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August 17, 2011
Crosby, Stills and Nash
nsnn.comWhile Brooklyn and Manhattan's dining exchange program has generally followed the pattern of the latter's restaurateurs colonizing Williamsburg, Park Slope is leading the reverse charge into Manhattan.
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September 8, 2011
It's a Tiny Bit Easier to Rent an Apartment in New York City These Days
According to a new report from Citi Habitats, your chances of finding and renting an apartment in the city, always a tremendous pain unless you are very, very lucky, or very, very rich, have gone up a bit. That is to say, it's not quite so difficult because the vacancy rate has increased...to ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Deep Fried Bunny at Fatty 'Cue Manhattan, Dish No. 24
We've had such a rash of fried chicken lately, it's time for a change. The menu at the new Fatty 'Cue on Carmine Street in "the City," as Brooklyn denizens like to call it, has a menu twice the length of that at the mothership underneath the Williamsburg Bridge.
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August 31, 2011
DEEP END
New Yorkers dive in
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September 20, 2011
'Safety Managers' Are Monitoring NYC Bridges to Help With Cyclist-Pedestrian Relations
Did you bike or walk across the Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Williamsburg Bridge today? Did you see guys, or gals, in yellow vests, stationed there to prevent pedestrians and cyclists from encroaching upon each others' territory, possibly wounding, or simply being rude to one another? If you didn' ... More >>
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October 9, 2011
Hot and Sour Soup at Inexpensive Delicacies, Dish No. 4
If you want to kindle a fierce debate among "bottom feeding" foodies, as they're derisively called (and I'm certainly one), just ask what's the cheapest and best item of food for the money in one borough or another.
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October 11, 2011
Manhattan Gas Stations Are an Endangered Species
The former Lukoil on Eighth Avenue between Horatio and West 13th.New York City gas stations are fewer and farther between than ever, according to a Crain's article that reports there are just 41 remaining in Manhattan (there were 58 two years ago). There are 835 gas stations distributed throu ... More >>
Dining
October 19, 2011
He Nan Flavor: Noodle on Down
The Lower East Side greets its first Henan restaurant
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October 26, 2011
13 Percent of the Richest People in America Live in New York City
The New York Times has an interesting piece today in their City Room blog that analyzes the wealth distribution of American households from 1913 (when federal income tax was first imposed) to today. In 1913, for example, "the richest 0.1 percent of households reaped 8.6 percent of the nation' ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Changes Afoot: Aquavit Modifies Space, Fatty 'Cue Alters Name
thewanderingeater.comFewer seats for your Swedish fix.Always tweaking and adjusting, these New York restaurants. In Manhattan, the Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit has decided to move its dinner service to the 52-seat bistro. Eater is reporting that the dining room in back will become a second ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Gang Gang Dance
thewanderingeater.comFewer seats for your Swedish fix.Always tweaking and adjusting, these New York restaurants. In Manhattan, the Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit has decided to move its dinner service to the 52-seat bistro. Eater is reporting that the dining room in back will become a second ... More >>
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October 29, 2011
Yes, That is October Snow
The above video was taken in Midtown Manhattan this morning, and it shows the unseasonal weather that is going to ruin your Saturday. Consider it karmic retribution after you laughed off Hurricane Irene. Nice going, smart ass.
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November 3, 2011
Turkiss to Replace Yatagan on MacDougal Street
Newcomer Turkiss is nearing completion, with a brilliant tile interior and extensive doner station. For nearly two decades, Yatagan was the cheap eats capital of Greenwich Village. Fork in the Road wrote a paen to it in 2008, and even by then it had shown up on several Village Voice Best O ... More >>
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November 25, 2011
Happy Hour at Subway Inn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josepha/4757082979/ If spending time with family on Thanksgiving doesn't drive you to drink, then a visit to a department store on Black Friday surely will.
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December 2, 2011
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges All Messed Up This Weekend
It's been a tough moment for people trying to get places in New York. This week we had the double whammy of the President's visit plus the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting, and last weekend a lot of the trains were, for lack of a better word, fucked (especially the L). For those of you w ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Sea Beans at Manhattan Fruit Exchange
Mmmm! Sea beans Also known as glasswort and pickleweed, sea beans are marsh plants capable of growing up to their necks in saltwater. The plant is native to North America, South Africa, Europe, and India. The species shown here (there are many) is likely Salicornia virginicus, sometimes kn ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Income Inequality Visualized on Map of NYC
TKPretty cool: a map that visualizes income inequality using Manhattan as a scale. This appeared on the third issue of n 1's Occupy! gazette. Maria Popova has an explanation:
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December 7, 2011
Swedish House Mafia
TKPretty cool: a map that visualizes income inequality using Manhattan as a scale. This appeared on the third issue of n 1's Occupy! gazette. Maria Popova has an explanation:
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January 17, 2012
A Baby Was Born on a PATH Train Yesterday
A baby boy was born on a PATH train en route to Manhattan yesterday, allowing for all sorts of hilarious "express train" jokes from the dailies. Rabita Sarkar and her husband, Aditya Saurabh, New Jersey residents, hadn't expected the baby for another two weeks, but, as they say, the baby wait ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Food Lovers Hit With Diet Tips
beneneuman/FlickrSomeone could stand to lose a few pounds.Every treadmill is taken, the quinoa shelf is empty, and orange juice-fast bags hang off the shoulders of legging clad ladies. It must be January. Post-New Year's, everyone, and their mother, makes resolutions, vowing to cut out alcohol an ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Robert Sietsema at Land of Plenty; Lauren Shockey at Parm
This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema samples Sichuan in his review of Land of Plenty: "At the end of the last century, who could have predicted Manhattan would someday be speckled with Sichuan restaurants? But as old-school takeaways vanished, pricier Sichuan places appeared in Chelsea an ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Manhattan Has the Most Hipsters, According to Not Very Scientific Survey
viaAccording to an important statistical analysis of New York City's hipster makeup, you may be incorrect if you've held to the common perception that Brooklyn is New York's hipster-est borough. In fact, the survey suggests that there may be significantly more hipsters in...Manhattan. WTF, su ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Valentine's Day Peeps Push the Peep Envelope
We're hereby declaring a start to the Valentine's Day mayhem, and hope to give you some decent advice as to where to eat cheaply and well in a romantic atmosphere, and what kind of foodie gifts are available in a Cupidian theme.
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February 8, 2012
Surprise, Surprise: New York Becomes Even Less Affordable
Kristian StevensManhattan living has become more overpriced than before, even though there are more open apartments than in January 2011, a new study has found. Citi Habitats, one of the town's largest real estate firms, says that rents have gone up 5 percent compared to last year. "While r ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
City Votes to Close 23 Public Schools, Parents Are Not Pleased
Last night, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to close or partially shutter 23 public schools, a record-setting decision that has many parents angry and upset. Nearly 2,000 angry moms and dads, joined by protesters from the Occupy movement, crowded into the Fort Greene auditorium where t ... More >>
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