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Guy Fieri on Roberta's, Bushwick Restaurant Week, and Knaidel in Today's Neighborhood News

Guy Fieri headed to Brooklyn over the weekend, and he had nice things to say about Roberta's, where he feasted with Mario Batali. That, free rides to Bushwick Restaurant Week, and a heart-warming special celebrating a spelling champ make today's round-up of neighborhood news.

Robbing the Same Bank Over and Over Whenever You Need Cash Is a Thing, Apparently

On Monday, we wrote an article about a Brooklyn bandit who has robbed the same Crown Heights Apple Bank three times in the past year and a half. We, for the record, were flabbergasted by the amount of chutzpah the guy had for returning to the scene of the crime where he ostensibly could have (should ... More >>

Assemblyman Rory Lancman Announces Anti-Hate Crime Bill

A recent spate of anti-semitic hate crimes has prompted Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman to propose a law that would toughen penalties on perps who vandalize houses of worship. The proposed measure would amend the current penal code, so vandalism and thefts that take place on religious property wou ... More >>

Cupola Samarkanda II Speeds the Plov

Take a toki without fear of arrest under the F tracks

NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies

​Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>

Ben's Best Kosher Deli Gets the Food Curated Treatment

The Secret to Surviving the Deli Business: Ben's Best Kosher Deli (food. curated.) from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Food Curated teams up with the intrepid Joe DiStefano for a journey into Rego Park, Queens, where one of the city's last kosher delicatessens still stands. Jay Parker, owner of Ben's Best Go ... More >>

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 >>

The Early Word: Mantao Chinese Sandwiches

When Tribeca's Province Canteen closed, many were disappointed--not because the place's mantao sandwiches were as traditional as they are at, say, Andy's in Rego Park, or as impeccably sourced as the those at Momofuku, but because the place offered a wide range of flavorful, spicy, unusual sandwich ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Nazi Pentagon Experiments in Queens!

As Schizo Letters of the Week go, this one is in a league of its own. If only all crazy people wrote with such clarity and style... There is mounting evidence that the military is using aircraft that was outfitted with technology intended for warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan to conduct experimen ... More >>

HIV Man Faked HIV Test to Get Sex, Is Under Arrest

No Balls at Café Sim-Sim

A report on the 'jiz biz' in Brooklyn's Kensington

Hand Pulled Noodle Devastation

Ever Wonder What the Staff Eats at a Chinese Restaurant?

Family Meal: Stomach-ticklers at Goodies

Letters

Our Man Sietsema: "These obese wontons are superb"

Follow the Yellow Silk Road

Savory Uyghur cuisine comes of age in Rego Park

Downloading Doner

New Queens Boulevard Turk turns up the lights and the charm

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Democrats Notch a Win

Who's mad at Weiner's decision to drop out? Not his supporters

The New Movement Against Wal-Mart

Fresh blood joins the battle to keep the mega-retailer out of NYC

Close-Up on Rego Park

Phat Fat

Taking a giant toki at a new Uzbek eatery in Rego Park

Co-op on the Chopping Block

Close-Up on Forest Hills, Queens

Letters

Railroad Apartment in Tenement

Close-up on Rego Park

Sweatshop Blues

Garment Workers Face Down Cops in Slave-Labor Uniforms

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part I

The Missing and the Dead

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Two-Bedroom Apartment in Tenement

One-Bedroom Apartment in 1950s High-Rise

Two Bedroom Apartment in Pre-War Building

Beach Blanket Surgery

Summertime Blues

The King of Comix

With Raw, a Pulitzer Prize For Maus, and a Strategic Job at The New Yorker, Art Spiegelman Has Become Lord of All New York Cartoonists. But His Power Is No Laughing Matter.

Letters

China in Clinton

Manhattan's Last Great Emporium Addresses the Balance of Trade