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Had the Burger at Rippers? Now Try the Torta

For the this week's Village Voice, I checked out Rippers, a credible burger shack at Rockaway Beach that has been feeding sand encrusted beach-goers with well-made fast food for the past two summers.

Rippers Sets Sail Again After Sandy

Use the Sun to Charge Your Phone for Free Across the City

In a Sandy-wrecked metropolis, New Yorkers learned how vulnerable their phones are once the lights go out; without electricity, nomadic residents were left charge-less at a time when communication with the outside world was needed more than ever. Luckily, as a gift to the city (presumably out of sha ... More >>

Our 10 Best Pop-Up Restaurants in NYC

Restaurants have a hard time standing out beneath the intense glow of the New York City spotlight, which might be why so many entrepreneurs in this generation have launched with a pop-up, testing out their concept in a lower-stakes environment. Some of those ventures, though, have taken on a life of ... More >>

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Sandy Relief Dollars Face An Uneven Split With Long Island & NYC

If yesterday's weather was any amazing indication, it's April. It's also the month when the first wave of Sandy relief dollars - $1.77 billion in total - will filter into New York City from the federal relief package passed by Congress in February. So, yes, it is a wonderful time of the year for all ... More >>

Sick of Delay, Rockaways Residents Invite Politicians to Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

The weather was cold, damp and raw in the Rockaways on Saturday morning, as more than a hundred residents gathered on the corner of Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 112th Street, anxious to start marching. But there was a hitch. "113th Street, 114th Street, 115th Street, 116th Street, the police ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/11/13

These are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Concessions Will Return to Rockaways This Summer

It might be hard to get tourists out to Rockaway Beach this summer, but concessions will be there even if the boardwalk might not be. At the Community Board 14 meeting on Tuesday night, the Queens Park Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski told the crowd that some amenities like lifeguards, bathrooms, a ... More >>

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Salteñas for the Soul

If you ever accidentally ordered a chicken empanada from the pink and yellow house at Smorgasburg, you surely won't be doing it again. However, you might walk away newly pinned with a colorful anti-empanada button and a hefty Bolivian pastry called a salteña, stuffed with your choice of richly mari ... More >>

Live: Sweating Out The Summer With EULA, Sleepies, The Kills, Daytona, And Ice Balloons

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. As the second half of August wrings the last drops of sweat from us, it's important to make the most of the time we have left before fall makes us feel like we have to go b ... More >>

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Three Nights of Crab Boils on the Rockaways

[See More Events: Brooklyn Pour 2012 | BLT Cooking Class, Iron Chef Contestant Menu] Back Forty is heading to Rockaway Beach for three nights this month for some summer crab boils. On Thursday, August 9, and Saturday, August 18 and 25, the crab boils will be held outdoors at the Rockaway Beach Club ... More >>

Mountain Sweet Berry Farm Sells Tristar Strawberry Sorbet

The sorbet is made for Mountain Sweet by DiCosmos Italian Ices of Queens, according to the sign. When I hit the Union Square Greenmarket this past Saturday, Mountain Sweet Berry Farm was not selling Tristar Strawberries, but they were selling Tristar Strawberry sorbet, made from their fruit by a ... More >>

Seven Favorite NYC Fish Tacos

[See More Favorites: 5 Cooling Dishes to Help You Beat the Heat | 5 Best Cheap Eats on Eldridge Street] Despite the hype, Baja-style fish tacos have never quite gotten the traction here we might have expected, still constituting something of a gastronomic rarity in New York. Following are the seven ... More >>

Staten Island's Cedar Grove Beach: Go For The Ocean Breeze, Stay For The Syringes

There's good news for intravenous drug abusers: there are free syringes washing up on the shores of New York City beaches.This, of course, is bad news for the rest of us, who don't necessarily want to get poked with a potentially deadly needle while taking a stroll on the beach.Last month, an NBC 4 ... More >>

Anti-Bloomberg-Drink-Ban Advocates Hit the Beach for Petition Signatures

"This is New York City. No one tells us what neighborhood to live in, what team to root for or what deli to eat at." Or so the logic goes. In the New Yorkers for Beverage Choices' first viral video, the narrator attacks Mayor Bloomberg's sugary drink ban by sticking to the basics: Big Apple den ... More >>

Sam Mason Is Opening an Artisanal Mayo Shop, Signaling the Brooklyn Food Movement's Total Descent Into Self-Parody

This is your future, Brooklyn.​Oh, Brooklyn. We stood by you as your chocolatiers congratulated themselves on their "childlike curiosity." We had your back when the owner of your new-wave soda fountain described the mise en place required for making an egg cream. We even stuck around when your ... More >>

Two More Bicyclists Killed in NYC Traffic This Week

Salim VirjiTwo more NYC cyclists were killed in traffic this week.​Two more bicyclists were killed in New York City traffic this week. Last night a 60-year-old man was killed near Rockaway Beach as he attempted to change lanes. The cyclist, whose identity hasn't yet been released, was taken to ... More >>

U.S. Postal Service May Cut More Than 30 NYC Post Offices to Save Money

​Today in things we don't really worry about until we order something from Amazon, the Post Office, which lost $8 billion last year, is considering closing 1 in 10 retail outlets and is studying 3,653 local offices, branches, and stations throughout the U.S., many of which could be replaced by ... More >>

Con Edison Warns New Yorkers: There May Be Outages

​Con Edison is asking everyone to pitch in and maybe turn off some lights and stop blending so many frozen margaritas or taking elevators up and down just for fun, because things could get bad in this heat. The word that must not be named here is "blackout." Yes. Remember when the lights went ... More >>

Motorboat & the Big Banana's Frozen Bananas Are Summer on a Stick

Rebecca Marx​ As anyone who has ever stuck a bowl of grapes in the freezer can attest, frozen fruit is a criminally underrated dessert. Particularly when you're at the beach and don't want to sink under the weight of whatever you've just eaten or end up with a blanket full of crumbs. All of wh ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to The Lot on Tap, Goodbye to Café Charbon

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. New Roma Pizza on the Lower East Side has been closed since Memorial Day and will not reopen. [Bowery Boogie] The New York Film Academy Café will close its doors on June 30, as the building t ... More >>

The Meat Hook and Roberta's Join Forces for Rockaway Beach Bar

Kristine Paulus/flickrTacos no longer the only game in beach town.​Brooklyn Based has the details on the gastronerd paradise that will be Rockaway Beach this summer. And the plan sounds like a foodie hipster's wet dream.

Rockaway Beach May Become the Next Gastronerd Paradise

Like this, but with sustainably sourced fish tacos.​Back in February, Fany Gerson told us that she was thinking of partnering with Rockaway Taco to open a La Newyorkina concession stand on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. It her plans materialize, it looks like she'll be in good company.

Asshole Pilot Landed Plane on New York Beach Because He Felt Like It

Jason Maloney (NY Post/Alex Rud) ​​Jason Maloney, the 24-year-old pilot who landed his small plane in Queens on Monday night, sounds like a pain in the ass. Today, the New York Times reports that Maloney chose to land his single-engine Piper Warrior on Rockaway Beach because he really likes ... More >>

Jerk Pilot Who Landed a Plane on a New York Beach Had a Seizure Today

Sick Maloney (Harbus for NYDN)​Jason Maloney, the 24-year-old private plane pilot who landed on Rockaway Beach after lying to air traffic controllers on Monday, was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday after experiencing seizures, according to an emergency worker and the New York Daily News. We ... More >>

Former Jet Blue Flight Attendant Steven Slater Will Always Be News

​Steven Slater, the renegade airline steward who shot to cult stardom when he walked off the job by sliding out of a plane's inflatable emergency slide and onto the tarmac at JFK with two beers in-hand, can't catch a break. While he was in court yesterday, copping a plea that would allow him t ... More >>

The Problem With the First Date Ideas in the New York Times

​People are like lemmings, the New York Times teaches us in this weekend's Style section meta-trend piece on dating, entitled "Watching Trends in Dating." More specifically, this is "The Ritual of the First Date, Circa 2010" and New Yorkers are lemmings because they collectively migrate, in th ... More >>

Adult Foodies Go to Farm Camp; Growing Dining Trend: 'Linner'

​Egon Ronay, the Hungarian food critic who helped shape British culinary culture, has died at the age of 94. He had been ill for a number of weeks, but never fully retired. [Guardian] Parade Publications is planning to introduce a new food newspaper magazine and website called Dash, with the ... More >>

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The Dawn of the Food Truck Trend; A Guide to Flushing, Queens

​Whole Foods shares recently fell 8.6 percent after more than tripling over the past year. CEO John Mackey said he expects no "positive change in the economy over the short term," adding that 2010 sales should improve slightly. [Bloomberg] Kraft is expected to make its hostile takeover offer ... More >>

Several City Beaches Closed for Hurricane Bill

​Hurricane Bill is at this writing hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida, but it's still strong enough to whip up surfs in our area. So the Department of Parks and Recreation has closed Rockaway Beach, Coney Island Beach, nearby Manhattan Beach, and Staten Island's South Beach, Midland Be ... More >>

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Rockaway School Bus Aide Charged with Sexual Wedgies

 Darnell "Michael" Washington, a school bus aide working for Philippe and Elmer Transportation and serving P.S. 183 in Rockaway Beach, is up on charges of molesting young boys in his care, the Rockaway Wave reports. The Queens D.A.'s office says that Washington's M.O. was to give what were char ... More >>

This Weekend! Not-at-Bonnaroo-and-Don't-Care Defiance Edition

So it's awful outside, and your friends ditched you for Bonnaroo. Quit sulking; Tennessee is flooded in state troopers and Phish acolytes, while you have countless local offerings to gorge on. If you haven't already picked up your Northside Festival badge, order online for pickup at 60 North 6th St ... More >>

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