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Midwood (Brooklyn)

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Q&A: Flatbush Zombies On Thug Waffles, Longtime Friendships, And The Meaning Of The Zombie Lifestyle

    The word "Brooklyn" conjures up images of all types of illy shit—gold fronts (not grills), bubble coats, designer "wears," dreads smoking bud like it was legal. Newcomers Flatbush Zombies managed to incorporate all of the aforementioned BK traits into their music and its accompanying visuals w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2012

    Swastikas Found In Midwood Neighborhood Of Brooklyn

    A week after midtown storefronts were vandalized with swastikas, there are reports of more of the symbols being found in Brooklyn over the weekend in Midwood. DCPI told Runnin' Scared they are is being investigated as "possible bias incidents"

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Four Suspected in Swastika Graffiti Incident

    At least four perps were involved in the Sunday graffiti spree that left four Midtown storefronts vandalized with swastikas, cops say. Now, police want your help finding them: Cops say that four suspects (pictured above)are responsible for what's now the most recent incident in the rash of anti-Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Swastikas Found on Midtown Storefronts, Scott Stringer Responds With Press Conference

    Hate has hit midtown Manhattan in the form of four swastikas graffitied onto 6th Avenue storefronts -- the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the city over the last four months. Several stores on 6th Avenue across the street from Bryant Park were vandalized on Sunday with a total ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Brooklyn Man Accused of 144 Counts of Sexually Assaulting Young Boys

    CBS 2​CBS reported last night (the story was originally broken by the New York Post) that a Midwood man is accused of 144 counts of sexual abuse of two young boys. Andrew Goodman, 27, is charged with assaulting one boy aged 11-15 and another aged 13-16 from 2006 onward and taping it on a webca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Salud's Roasted Fava Beans Are a Paragon of Vegan Snack Food

    Rebecca Marx​ To the canon of healthy foods that masquerade convincingly as snack foods, we can now add these roasted fava beans from Salud, an organic Latin juice bar in Midwood.

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Brooklyn Is Covered in Condoms

    ​"Jackpot" for the Prospect Park cleaning crew over the weekend meant condoms. Wrappers and rubbers comprised much of the trash collected by the the Prospect Park Litter Mob, a volunteer group concerned with "Brooklyn's largest remaining stretch of forest," and their community-minded actions e ... More >>

  • News

    May 25, 2011

    Black and White and Hebrew All Over

    HLA is a new kind of charter school

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Shelsky's Smoked Fish Will Make Smith Street a Little More Lower East Side-ish

    ​Now that Mile End has successfully spread the gospel of Jewish delicatessen across Boerum Hill and its leafy environs, a new establishment is planning to pay homage its more aquatic counterpart.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    R.I.P. Don Hill and David Apelewicz

    ​It's a sad day for the restaurant and nightlife industries. Eater reports that Don Hill, the founder of eponymous, legendary club, has passed away at the age of 66, while the Daily News brings word of the death of David Apelewicz, a Remedy Diner waiter who was shot in the head during a muggin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    David Apelewicz, 43, Gunned Down in Brooklyn

    Cops have released a video of three suspects in the March 18 shooting death of David Apelewicz, 43, of Midwood, Brooklyn. Responding to a call of shots fired at about 5:35 a.m. on the 18th, cops found Apelewicz, shot in the head, in front of 884 East 15th Street, a couple of blocks north of his resi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Park Slope Anti-Rap-Club Petition Probably A Hoax, Definitely Unhelpful

    ​Kudos to Capital New York for writing the most thorough piece yet on the great Prime 6/Yo! MTV Raps/Park Slope-is-racist controversy. You recall the online petition, circulated by one Jennifer McMillen, suggesting that Prime 6, a soon-to-be-opened club near the Atlantic Yards nexus, consider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Yes, You Can Order Di Fara on Facebook, as Long as It's a Day in Advance

    Paul Lowry/Flickr​Earlier today, Slice noticed that Di Fara, the Midwood pizzeria whose legendary pies are matched by its legendary lines, had started taking orders over Facebook.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    New Yorkers Find New Dumb Thing to Complain About: Noisy Snow Plows

    ​It's official: New Yorkers will complain about anything snow-related. Oh, the street didn't get plowed fast enough? Complain! Slush is gross? Salt stains are annoying? Train's a few minutes late? Flight's delayed? Complain! Complain! Complain! Now the city overcompensates for its prior ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    AOL Dubs Bedford Avenue "Safest NYC Neighborhood"

    ​AOL's WalletPop site has revealed the safest neighborhoods in America's major cities based on neighborhood and FBI crime data. Guess what!? Bedford Avenue has ranked as one of those cozy locales, where your chance of becoming the victim to a crime is but 1 in 500 each year.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Our 10 Best NYC Pizzerias, 2010 Edition

    ​Not on the menu, but always available, Roberta's guanciale-and-egg pie demonstrates some of the place's strange but effective ideas about pizza. New York has always been the world capital of pizza, ever since the pie-as-we-know-it was invented at Lombardi's bakery sometime before 1905. That ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Brooklyn Fire Kills 8-Year-Old Boy; Injures 5 Other Children

    via New York Post​A residential fire last night at 1123 Avenue P in Midwood, Brooklyn, killed the 8-year-old son of a Brooklyn rabbi; NY1 reports the boy's name as Avigdor Krasny. The rabbi's five other children, who range in age from 1 to 10, are in Staten Island North Hospital. The 1-year-ol ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 22, 2010

    Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant Spreads Its Treats to Queens

    Unlike the Midwood original, a full-fledged restaurant for Jackson Heights

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    The Miracle of David's Brisket House in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

    ​David's hyperbolically good $10 roast brisket sandwich, in this case on rye with gravy. The history of David's Brisket House is lost in the murk of time. Surprisingly, it's a Jewish-style deli in the commercial heart of Bed-Stuy. Does it date from the days early in the last century when the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    For Passover, Some Gefilte Fish, Out of the Jar and Into the Steamer

    Smoked whitefish gefilte fish. Not filthy fish.​ On the Passover Seder table, there are few foods more reviled than gefilte fish. Burdened with the nickname "filthy fish" and typically sourced from glass jars where it's suspended in a viscous, gelatinous sludge, it's been likened to SPAM, ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Another Tuesday, Another Election No One Will Vote In

    ​It's Tuesday, and these days in New York City, that means another special election. With runoff elections, resignations, and the occasional expulsion from a legal body, there have been quite a few in the past election season. Today's race is in the 44th City Council District, where Republica ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Di Fara May Take Flight at La Guardia

    Michael Y. Park/EpicuriousDoes this say 'airport restaurant' to you?​Looks like Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali aren't the only ones with super-sized Italian on their minds: Feast reports that OTG Management, the company responsible for revamping the food options at JFK's Terminal Five, is pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Daily News Enlivens Morning with Lesbian Sex Teacher Story

    ​We hope the PC scolds out there are happy. For years they've clucked their tongues every time a female teacher was found having sex with a male student. And now look what's happened: the frustrated female teachers have been forced to have sex with each other. Do you see what you've done, Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Tokyo More Gastronimically Acclaimed than Paris; Farming Dream Job Found in Brooklyn

    ​Four Seasons Restaurant co-owner Alex Von Bidder is insisting that Jean Mackenzie, who owns the Four Seasons Caterer in Southampton, change the name of her business so as not to suggest any connection to the restaurant. [NY Daily News] Costco has announced that it is no longer carrying Coca- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Weiner Continues Senior Town Halls; Accused of Communism, Delaying Lunch

    Anthony Weiner is no longer getting away with short-notice, low-impact health care town halls. He went to a senior center in Midwood yesterday and, per the Daily News, got an earful of finely aged rage. "I came to eat and I came to eat on time," one retiree said. "They are having chicken marsala tod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    A Bit More About the Di Fara Price Hike

    Paul Lowry/flickr​The Post has an article questioning the price hike at Di Fara: earlier this month, the famed Brooklyn pizzeria announced it would charge $5 for a plain slice. The cost for a Di Fara slice (previously $4) is reportedly the highest in the city; it's rare to find a slice selling for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Brooklyn Summer Treats at Savarese Bakery

    Savarese Bakery lies under the D tracks in Midwood, Brooklyn, and has done so for a long, long time. According to its website, Savarese was founded by the Savarese family from Naples, Italy in 1918. The current owners, Mario and Cathy Giura, purchased it in 1962. Even among the best Italian-Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2008

    Brooklyn Bangladeshi

    Savarese Bakery lies under the D tracks in Midwood, Brooklyn, and has done so for a long, long time. According to its website, Savarese was founded by the Savarese family from Naples, Italy in 1918. The current owners, Mario and Cathy Giura, purchased it in 1962. Even among the best Italian-Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    24-Hour Goat-Tripe Curry and Other Good Stuff

    Savarese Bakery lies under the D tracks in Midwood, Brooklyn, and has done so for a long, long time. According to its website, Savarese was founded by the Savarese family from Naples, Italy in 1918. The current owners, Mario and Cathy Giura, purchased it in 1962. Even among the best Italian-Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    DiFara to Re-Open Tomorrow

    Savarese Bakery lies under the D tracks in Midwood, Brooklyn, and has done so for a long, long time. According to its website, Savarese was founded by the Savarese family from Naples, Italy in 1918. The current owners, Mario and Cathy Giura, purchased it in 1962. Even among the best Italian-Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2007

    In Defense of a Brooklyn Pizzaiolo

    Savarese Bakery lies under the D tracks in Midwood, Brooklyn, and has done so for a long, long time. According to its website, Savarese was founded by the Savarese family from Naples, Italy in 1918. The current owners, Mario and Cathy Giura, purchased it in 1962. Even among the best Italian-Ame ... More >>

  • News

    June 5, 2007

    Pizza Shut

    A beloved Brooklyn pizza joint is targeted by the city

  • Dining

    January 23, 2007

    Got Goat

    Haitian cuisine on the rise near Brooklyn College

  • Art

    January 2, 2007

    New Kids on the Block

    Immigrant families try to wade through the school system bureaucracy

  • News

    April 25, 2006

    Rolling Down the Gates in Little Pakistan

    Pakistanis, Russians, Mexicans, Irish line a Brooklyn street for immigrant rights

  • News

    April 4, 2006

    Save the Date

    His Queens wedding plans in doubt, Tauqir Zafar Rizvi waits in immigrant detention

  • News

    July 5, 2005

    Too Tall in Park Slope

    In marketable Brooklyn, developers are already pushing the envelope

  • Music

    May 10, 2005

    Beyond the Melting Pot

    Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa sure are tough-minded—and also Indian Americans

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    We Are All New Yorkers

    Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

  • Specials

    June 29, 2004

    Letters

    Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

  • Specials

    May 11, 2004

    Letters

    Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

  • NYC Life

    January 6, 2004

    Close-Up on Borough Park

    Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

  • Art

    January 6, 2004

    The Real Estate Job Shuffle

    Lost your job in finance? No problem. For a small investment of time and money, you can be on your way to making a living in real estate.

  • News

    September 9, 2003

    Fleeing America

    Post–9-11, Thousands of New York's Pakistanis Leave the U.S. Under Pressure

  • News

    April 1, 2003

    From Baghdad to Brooklyn

    Immigrants Brace for Backlash but Fear Alerting NYPD

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    Out in the Cold

    An Afternoon on the INS Line

  • NYC Life

    November 19, 2002

    Close-Up on Midwood

    An Afternoon on the INS Line

  • NYC Life

    October 23, 2001

    Two-Room Apartment in 1930s Co-Op

    An Afternoon on the INS Line

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Two-Bedroom Apartment in a 1965 Co-op

    An Afternoon on the INS Line

  • Dining

    February 16, 1999

    Royal Road

    An Afternoon on the INS Line

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