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May 23, 2012
SEEDCO, Nonprofit Bloomberg Admin Fave, Slapped By Feds With Fraud Lawsuit
Federal prosecutors filed a civil fraud case this week against SEEDCO, which ran two job placement centers under contract with the city, for taking million of dollars in government funding without providing much service. The SEEDCO lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan names seven former mana ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Paulaner Brewery Is Opening an Enormous Flagship Brauhaus on the Bowery
Soon after we posted our list of the city's 5 best beer halls, we got word from Bowery Boogie that Paulaner Brewery, the Bavarian brew giant, is planning to open a massive flagship beer hall on the Bowery.
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April 22, 2012
The (Manhattan) Rent is (Seriously) Too Damn High
Ah, the Manhattan real estate market. That one barrier holding you back from the Big Apple's charm while simultaneously making you go absolutely insane. This collection of brokerages and hidden fees turns this anxiety-driven urban playground into a rental nightmare, forcing inhabitants to search for ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Spicy Chicken Sandwich at McDonald's: Ugh! Double Ugh!
The spicy chicken sandwich laid bare -- but there really should be more stuff inside the bun, likes onions and tomatoes or something. I was kinda excited when the McDonald's hype machine cranked up to tout the new spicy chicken sandwich, and more so when the TV commercial told me it was part of th ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Serial Groping In New York City Is Sooo In Right Now
For the second time in as many days, police are asking the public's help in tracking down a serial groper responsible for at least four unwanted gropings -- and the suspect doesn't appear to be the same man responsible for a recent collection of gropings in Queens. In other words, there currently ar ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Schnipper's Is Fab In Two Locations
Schnipper's Quality Kitchen offers perfectly delighful American fare at fairly reasonable prices. I love the one on 41st and 8th because it's a sensible place to stop before Broadway shows for a lovely burger (even better with blue cheese) and sweet potato fries. They used to give you a device tha ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Sprinkles Cupcakes Vending Machines to Hit Manhattan
Here's some good news for Manhattan cupcake monsters--Sprinkles Cupcakes will install three 24-hour cupcake vending machines around the city this year.
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March 5, 2012
Eataly's La Pasta's Cacio e Pepe
It's so simple. Just a mess of al dente spaghetti, cracked pepper, and cheese. However with just three basic ingredients, a thing of beauty can be made. Cacio e pepe is a traditional Roman dish that is replicated throughout Manhattan's restaurants...and at one very fancy supermarket.Head to Flatiron ... More >>
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March 4, 2012
The New York Of The Future? Say Hello to 'LoLo'
And another hundred people just got off of the train? Try another two hundred thousand. An article printed in the Sunday New York Times -- which poses in its headline the daunting question: "How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?" -- explains that the Department of City Planning's Population Division e ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
'Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing' Billboard Is Not OK, Says Scott Stringer
If an offensive advertisement fails, and you apologize for the offensiveness of the ad, what's the next logical step for the ad company? For Wodka Vodka, the answer apparently is to try and offend someone else. IN VERY LARGE LETTERS. The thinking behind the madness: If making fun of Jews doesn't w ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
NYPD Numbers Show Sharp Increases in Crime So Far This Year
That jump in the citywide crime rate has continued through the sixth week of the year, up over 5 percent so far, with thefts and robbery accounting for the increase. Robberies, burglaries and grand larceny are all up 10 percent citywide. Crime is up through Feb. 12 by double digits in three of the ... 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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February 8, 2012
Surprise, Surprise: New York Becomes Even Less Affordable
Manhattan 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 rents often decrease dur ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
PICTURE-PERFECT
Take advantage of MOMA’s studio
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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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January 19, 2012
Manhattan Has the Most Hipsters, According to Not Very Scientific Survey
According 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, survey?
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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 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 waits for n ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Food Lovers Hit With Diet Tips
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 and give up white bread. And even though the food world is ... 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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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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November 25, 2011
Happy Hour at Subway Inn
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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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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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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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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October 19, 2011
He Nan Flavor: Noodle on Down
The Lower East Side greets its first Henan restaurant
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October 11, 2011
Manhattan Gas Stations Are an Endangered Species
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 throughout the five boroughs, with Manhattan's share counting for less than 5 ... 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.
Voice Choices
September 28, 2011
Gang Gang Dance
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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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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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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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 >>
Voice Choices
August 31, 2011
DEEP END
New Yorkers dive in
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August 17, 2011
Crosby, Stills and Nash
New Yorkers dive in
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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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 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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