New Year's

Bon! Asian Spice Cafe Opens in Bushwick and IHOP Opens in West Village

Bushwick got an Asian fusion restaurant, Bon! Asian Spice Cafe. The menu features gyoza, yakisoba ramen noodles, pork belly buns, and other dishes that blend ingredients from all over Asia. They also offer Asian style brunch with entrees like bulgogi omelets and waffles with Japanese-style fried chi ... More >>

Try Watching This Stop-Motion Video of the Polar Bear Plunge Without Getting Cold

Photographer Jena Cumbo stitched together some of her shots from the Polar Bear Plunge--which took place on New Year's Day on Coney Island--to make this teeth-rattling video. What's a better hangover cure than diving into the near-freezing Atlantic Ocean? A bacon egg and cheese and some Excedrin, yo ... More >>

Things Not To Do On New Year's Eve

Monday night will be here soon enough, so you'd better be prepared for the parade of landmines that you'll have to avert if you want to survive into 2013. Here's what not to do: *Don't go to a restaurant. They will be packed, noisy, and suddenly charging twice what they used to, which was already ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

Love Goes to Press: Old News Is Good News

The Mint revives a romantic comedy by Martha Gellhorn

Q&A: The Arrogant Sons of Bitches' Jeff Rosenstock On The Joys And Stigmas Of Ska, CBGB Misery And Pranky Vibes

During my high school years in the early 2000s, I wanted to be in a ska-punk band. This fantasy could have been sparked by an Operation Ivy record, Save Ferris's prom-night concert in 10 Things I Hate About You, the genre's sartorial trappings, or the sound of trumpets. But one thing's for sure: Any ... More >>

Beyoncé Gives Birth; Wild Card Blowouts; Second New Hampshire GOP Debate

Last night, Beyoncé Knowles gave birth to her and Jay-Z's child, Ivy Blue Carter. The Daily News reports the baby girl was born in Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side in a private wing and that "hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phon ... More >>

Coney Island Polar Bear Club Ushers in 2012 With Annual Frigid Dip

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club, the "oldest winter bathing organization in the United States," was at it again with aplomb over the weekend for their annual New Year's Day swim. Photographer C.S. Muncy was there to get some shots. While it was warmer than usual as far as outside temperatures run t ... More >>

NYE Guide: Memories from Matt Johnson of Matt and Kim

Yeah, about last night

Women's World Cup Sets New Tweet Record

​Alas, the U.S. lost in Sunday's Women's World Cup final, ceding the first place spot to Japan, but worldwide there were other competitions -- on different fields -- afoot. As we watched the final moments with bated breath, people were tweeting about them like crazy around the world, surpassin ... More >>

Bronx Burglars Caught on Tape; Your Turn to Catch Them

Cops are asking for help in finding two burglars caught on surveillance cameras ripping off a Hunts Point apartment at 918 Faile Street at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Day. As you can see, each had an armful of swag. Know anything? Tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or sub ... More >>

Elevator Rapist Loose in Williamsburg

Alleged rapist in Williamsburg​Cops are searching for an elevator rapist in Williamsburg. This scum's M.O. is to hop on an elevator and menace women. At 8 a.m. on New Year's Day in a building on Manhattan Avenue between Seigel and Moore streets, a 63-year-old woman was riding on an elevator when t ... More >>

5 Infomercial Products Designed To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

​Sticking to New Year's resolutions is never an easy thing to do. Luckily, the early infomercials of 2011 have brought in a new slew of gadgets to help you stick to any resolution you might have (or might not have even thought of yet). We and the ghost of Billy Mays (R.I.P.) are here to help you o ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Laur ... More >>

Dwayne Houghton, Shot to Death New Year's Day in Queens; Cops Hunt Suspect

Wanted: Carrie Dixon​Cops are searching for Carrie Dixon, 25, a suspect in a homicide around 5:30 a.m. on New Year's Day in the area of Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park in Queens. Dead is Dwayne Haughton, 29. Cops heard shots and found Haughton on the ground at 127th Street and 94th Avenue with gunshot ... More >>

Photos: Gogol Bordello And Man Man Compare Facial Hair At Terminal 5 On New Year's Day

Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello master of ceremonies. All pics by Ben Jay.​Few New York bands put on a show more raucous, incendiary, and mustache-imbued than famed gypsy-punks Gogol Bordello, whose sweaty global fusion makes them the perfect band to welcome a hopefully far friendlier 2011. Joine ... More >>

Nurse Your New Year's Day Hangover in Your PJs at Highlands

highlands-nyc.comDeal with the DTs the Scottish way.​In case you're not well equipped with a hangover cure for January 1 (a/k/a National Hangover Day), Highlands has just what the doctor ordered. The Scottish gastropub is serving a New Year's Day brunch, complete with gourmet Bloody Mary bar, ... More >>

Need a Hangover Helper? Try these Restaurant Dishes

healtynews.comDon't spend the morning feeling like this!​ New Year's Eve's approaching. That single evening of fun and booze which results in a terrible hangover the next day. Everyone has his own cure, from drinking pickle juice to simply drinking more booze. Yesterday we told you how the ... More >>

A Music Fan's New Year's Resolution: Let's All Not Use The Word 'Indie' For An Entire Year, Okay?

Arcade Fire, the most famous "indie" band ever?​Ever made a New Year's resolution vowing to improve your communication skills? To more forcefully assert yourself, perhaps, and stop passively equivocating on important matters? In an offhand way, that's what Panos Panay, the CEO of Sonicbids (th ... More >>

Ruby's, Other Evicted Coney Island Businesses Want $2 Million From Zamperla

jamie nyc/FlickrThe Grill House on the boardwalk.​In the latest chapter of the sad saga unfolding on Coney Island, Ruby's Bar & Grill and the seven other boardwalk businesses evicted by Zamperla are now asking for a $2 million settlement from the developer. The businesses, The New York Post re ... More >>

Goat Town's Nick Morgenstern, Part II: Fast Cars, Chocoholism, and French Frozen Foods

Nick Morgenstern​Yesterday, we talked with Nick Morgenstern about his new restaurant, Goat Town. Today, he lets us in on his Christmas plans and New Year's resolutions, which may or may not involve another launch for 2011. Goat Town has it's own garden, we hear. How's it looking? We're worki ... More >>

NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum; Megan Prelinger's Another Science Fiction

An exhibit and book look back at the future

Have You Seen... Bronx New Year's Day Stabber

This fellow must have had a rough New Year's Eve. Around 5 a.m. on New Year's Day, he was hanging out in a food market near the corner of U.S. 1 and Pelham Parkway, where he got into a dispute with another young man, which he resolved by stabbing him. The perp is described as between 25 and 35, Hi ... More >>

Courtney Love Covers the Replacements and Gives the World "Unsatisfied (Multitasking-Makeup Remix)"

Inclined to go with "Anonymous 9:48am" on this one: "My god, she sounds like a horse." What we have here is a five-minute YouTube video of Courtney Love pacing around her hotel room at the Standard on New Year's Eve, wandering from bathroom mirror to cosmetic bag to face-painting tool, while attem ... More >>

Confirmed: Beyonce Performed For "Terror-Backing Libyan Dictator" Scion Hannibal Khadafy

Image via Russell Simmons (who else?) by way of AnimalNY​Not the best look, performing on New Year's Eve on the yacht of the son of one of the more notorious terrorism financiers and Lockerbie bomber-absolvers on the planet. Worse if that son happens to have a woman-beating problem. The New Yo ... More >>

Yes in My Backyard, Special New Year's Edition: Download A-Bones' "Outcast"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Megan Dooley​Brooklyn's A-Bones make garage rock. Not "lo-fi" or "shitgaze" or "We own a copy of Nuggets" or "We post to the Goner board sometimes", but vintage no-fucking-around three-chords-and-a-y ... More >>

Celebrate New Year's at Times Square Hotel Mass Kissing Event

​If you don't want to stand in the snow of Times Square tonight, or drink too much with friends and family, here's a suggestion from Colgate : join them at the Doubletree Guest Suites on Broadway, where in partnership with New Year's Nation they will hold a mass kissing event in pursuit of the ... More >>

Diddy Will Pay For Your Cab Ride Home Tomorrow If You Drink Enough Ciroc Vodka First

At first we though all these news stories circulating today about Diddy distributing $15 pre-paid taxi cards for drunken New Year's Eve cab rides home and even more hilariously, $2.25 one-way subway cards, were based on a year-old article of ours that seems to have been making the rounds lately. B ... More >>

Atlantic Avenue Gets a Boutique Wine Shop

Get your bubbly in Brooklyn this New Year's Eve.​What was once a bullet-proof-glass-type liquor store on Atlantic Avenue is now a proper wine shop. Atlantic Cellars opened this month at the corner of Grand Avenue on the Clinton Hill/Prospect Heights border. It stocks a selection of wines from ... More >>

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What's Happening This Week: NYE in NYC

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! New Year's Eve at Spice Market Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Spice Market is hosting a New Year's Eve bash complete with a choice of appetizers (from roasted Peekytoe crab dumplings t ... More >>

2009 Claims Another Victim: The Kitchen Club is Set to Close

weblogs.hollanddoc.nlMarja Samsom in the Kitchen Club, which will close after New Year's Eve​ The carnage of 2009 continues: the Kitchen Club, which has sat on the Southeast corner of Prince and Mott Streets since 1990, will close after New Year's Eve.

Confirmed: New Year's Eve is Going to Suck

​This year the State Liquor Board's deadline for bars to request after-hours authorization for New Year's Eve has come and gone, and only 165 bars applied. 394 had applied by deadline last year. The Times thinks bar owners didn't know the deadline had been moved up, but that's like saying th ... More >>

An Interview With Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz

New Year's Eve 2008 Parties

Performances & Live Music

Breaking the Ice at Coney Island

Polar Bears tighten plunges after death last New Year's Day

Perfect From Now On

New Year's resolutions, many of which are likely to be broken by the time you read this

New Year's Eve Event Guide

Wring Out the Old

But Take It Easy on the Lamé

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

Music

Online Resolutions

Echo, New York's legendary computer bulletin board, shares its goals for 2005

Horoscope

Making a List

Peace Goods

Anti-War Holiday Gifts

The Glitterati

Cheap Sparkle for the New Year

Horoscope

Promises, Promises

Every Year at This Time, People Suddenly Start Thinking Up Ways They Could Be Better. Do You Have Resolutions for 2001?