South Brooklyn

The CitiBike Program Has A New Map So Maybe It Is Really Happening

We haven't forgotten about the CitiBike plan. Even after it got delayed once (thanks computer glitches). And then again (thanks Sandy). Now, the expected release date is this July for New York's first citywide bike share - a program that Mayor Bloomberg is still whatever about. Keyword: expected. B ... More >>

An Express F Train May Be In The Near Future For Brooklyn

This past August, the Straphangers Campaign gave the F train a $1.40 grade, which is basically a B or a C-. The score was given based on cleanliness, breakdowns and service - and, for the F train, this grade is sparing. The line between Culver and Jamaica-179th Street is known for its long waits; i ... More >>

UPDATE: The G Train ('Crosstown Local') Will Get Its Full Line Review

[UPDATE, February 22nd] Looks like the public campaign by State Senator Daniel Squadron and others to refocus attention on the increasingly popular G train worked in the end. According to the Daily News, the MTA has agreed to conduct a Full Line Review of the green line in an attempt to make the ... More >>

A Month And A Half After Sandy, The R Train Returns To Full Service By Friday

If the 12/12/12 concert last week told us anything, it was that Paul McCartney's Nirvana fill-in was something we should talk about more as a society. And that, a month and a half later, there's still a ton of work to do in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.When the storm hit two days before Hal ... More >>

New Evidence Emerges About Police Downgrading of Crimes

Accounts of police downgrading crime reports surfaced again on Sunday in a New York Times article, which compared descriptions of crimes in police reports versus the charges eventually brought by prosecutors. The article's author Joseph Goldstein examined more than 100 police reports, and found a n ... More >>

Arthur on Smith: Mama's Duck-Fat Popcorn

Joe Isidori brings Italian family cooking back to Carroll Gardens

Porchetta's Lebanese Chicken Sandwich

The sandwich was inspired by a Lebanese original. [ See More Taste Tests: Spring Garden: Brooklyn's Best Dim Sum? | The 6 Best Snacks on the High Line | The City's Weirdest Frozen Treat? Salted Licorice Pops ] Porchetta -- the East Village establishment specializing in a Tuscan roadside attracti ... More >>

Bay Ridge Joins the Arab Peninsula

A Yemeni café brings the nabe its home-style eats

NYPD Blames Warm Winter for Increase in Crime Rates

If it seems to you like there have been more crime, you're not wrong. There have already been 9,902 crimes reported in 2012, compared to 9,366 in the same period last year. Reports of burglaries, robberies, and grand larceny are all up at least 10 percent, and rapes and murders are up 5.9 percent. R ... More >>

Phil Kline's 'Peregine'

Police Arrest One Suspect in Brooklyn Sex Attacks, Others Remain At Large

DCPIThe fourth police sketch in connection to the Brooklyn sex attacks. ​The NYPD has taken a suspect into custody for one of the attacks in the series that's haunted south Brooklyn since March. Adolfo Martinez, 26, of Sunset Park was taken into custody last night around 9 p.m. in connection w ... More >>

Cops: Attack in Sunset Park Last Night Doesn't Fit the Pattern Of Other Brooklyn Assaults

DCPILast night's attack in Sunset Park doesn't fit the pattern attributed to these suspects.​In the last few days there have been two sexual assaults in south Brooklyn, one in Windsor Terrace and the other in Sunset Park. The attack in Windsor Terrace, in which a young woman was groped from be ... More >>

Park Slope Sex Attacker Strikes Again; Last Night's Groping Is 12th Crime Since March

A woman was assaulted on Vanderbilt Street in Windsor Terrace last night, and cops say it's the work of one of the men behind the string of sexual attacks in south Brooklyn since March. A DCPI detective confirmed that the incident fit the pattern of the other attacks. This one is the 12th in the ser ... More >>

In Light of Brooklyn Sexual Assaults, Activists Petition NYPD For 'Sensitivity Training'

It's been about seven months since the now-infamous south Brooklyn sex attacks began, and the NYPD still hasn't been able to finger a suspect. The police have ramped up their response after 11 crimes, but not without problems; women in the neighborhoods affected have begun to accuse police of handli ... More >>

Yet Another Woman Was Attacked in Park Slope On Wednesday Night

​We've received a tip from a reader that another woman was attacked in Park Slope last night. The reader got an email from Community Board 7 that describes an assault that happened at 9:15 p.m. on Prospect Avenue between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue. The victim, a woman in her 20s, was walking ea ... More >>

Yet Another Woman Was Attacked in Park Slope On Wednesday Night

​We've received a tip from a reader that another woman was attacked in Park Slope last night. The reader got an email from Community Board 7 that describes an assault that happened at 9:15 p.m. on Prospect Avenue between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue. The victim, a woman in her 20s, was walking ea ... More >>

Your Week In Nightlife, Starring Juan Maclean, Benny B, the Death Set, and a Dance Party For Japan

​The good thing about this weekend is that your Twitter feeds won't be cluttered with SXSW tweets. Unfortunately, they'll likely be replaced by DJs tweeting about being on the beach in Miami for WMC. (Whatever. It's almost Spring here too.) Thankfully, at least a handful dance acts decided to ... More >>

My Worst Look Ever! It's a Complete Eyesore!

​It was in the smiley-faced, deranged 1970s, and I was all decked out for some swanky South Brooklyn event or other. And I wore the de rigueur white leisure suit that was so prevalent until people realized that polyester causes brain damage (or, more likely, is the result of it). On top of t ... More >>

Julianna Barwick's Sound-World

Using vocal loops to get back to church, or at least that one tree she loved

Weekend Links: U.S. Subpoenas WikiLeaks Twitter Info; Portuguese Journalist Found Dead in Midtown Hotel

Good morning and welcome to Runnin' Scared Weekends 2.0  I'm Rosie - you might remember me as the intern that went on embarrassingly public dates and got on Dov Charney's bad side. Now I'm taking over weekends here from the venerable Joe Coscarelli. So! Let's begin. According to an Icelandic l ... More >>

Natalie Storm, Blondes, DJ Pauly D, Derrick May, And (Maybe!) Prince Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​Your partying jag kicks off on Thursday this week and features a global takeover of NYC. Jamaican dancehall queen Natalie Storm is something of an obsession for us lately (especially after Friday night's reOPENed party) -- she's returning to the Lower East Side for an appearance at Happy Endi ... More >>

The Freedom Party, One Step Beyond, Jackpot, And Love Tempo Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Start your Friday off with a little Happy Hour. The Lower East Side's Panda hosts the appropriately named Pregame to ease you into your night out (or, in our case, ease you back home to a backlog of Boardwalk Empire) with a mix of disco, hip-hop, and funk. DJs Project Matt and Jimmy 2 Times h ... More >>

The Plight of G-Train Riders, Perfectly Epitomized

​The G-Train: the only subway line in New York City that doesn't go through Manhattan, the main rail between Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and South Brooklyn. Possibly the only subway line with its own beauty pageant. But a subway line of suffering.

Rumble, Oktoberfest, Flashing Lights, And Ratatat Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​On Friday, there's only three places we'd want to be. In Manhattan, The Fader is throwing an afterparty for those of us who won't be attending the Gorillaz takeover at Madison Square Garden. Spin, the Flatiron ping-pong hall/bar/dancerie, will host tonight's revelry, which is less corny than ... More >>

Animal v. Human: Who Will Win in the Battle of New York City Domination?

​New York City. If it's not the raccoons, it's the coyotes,  geese, sewer gators, rats, bedbugs, or the dangerous fornicating opossums. The New York Post reveals that city officials decided to try to fuck with biology by introducing the rat-tailed marsupials into Brooklyn a few years ago to r ... More >>

!!! Do Berlin

Dance-punk hedonists seek closure, more hedonism

The Mad Decent Block Party, PG-13, And Wheel Up Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

We'll get it out of the way early: This weekend is all about Saturday's Mad Decent Block Party. And even though we think Diesel is responsible for the worst marketing campaign of all time, you should drop by tonight's in-store pre-party anyway. From 5 to 7 p.m., saucy rapper Maluca tries her hand ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Summer of Whippets

​It may not be the summer of love (in fact, we're pretty sure it isn't), but that doesn't mean that you can't spend the next two months "jamming to the familiar hiss of hippie crack." In this week's cover story, John H. Tucker goes inside the Nitrous Mafia, a surprisingly organized group made ... More >>

South Brooklyn Pizza Will Open on First Avenue on Monday

scaredy_kat/FlickrA South Brooklyn specimen.​Last November, we learned that South Brooklyn Pizza was crossing the river from Carroll Gardens to open a new outpost in the East Village. It looks like it'll be opening its doors for take-out, sit-down, and delivery this Monday. Per a release, the ... More >>

Please Join DJ Small Change At Tomorrow Night's Xmas-Themed "Lose Yr Shit" Soiree

​The last time I saw DJ Small Change, he was walking down Bleecker Street, resplendent in a bright purple suit and top hat--it was daylight, mind you. If the quirky charm the DJ flaunts through promo emails and DJ sets aren't enough to solicit your attention, the lineups at his warehouse galas ... More >>

This Weekend: Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Block Party, After the Jump Fest, Impose and 826 NYC at the Yard

​ --Spike Lee's Brooklyn Block Party for Michael Jackson's birthday, which recently was moved from Fort Greene to Prospect Park, is expected to draw 10,000 people to the grossly named Nethermead in the heart of the park tomorrow. Things are supposed to go off rain or shine, although expect tha ... More >>

Live: Theo Parrish, Soaking In It At Brooklyn Yard

Pics by Puja Patel, more below Theo Parrish apparently played Eddie Kendricks' "Date With the Rain" just about an hour before the first downpour washed over South Brooklyn last night; the Sunday Best dance party was the last of a Detroit-based trilogy that previously featured deep-house youngin Kyle ... More >>

Full After the Jump Fest Lineup Announced

​After a fusillade of Twitter updates, the After the Jump Fest has revealed its entire three-day lineup. The fest, which will take place August 28, 29, and 30 at South Brooklyn's Littlefield, sports a killer Saturday--Das Racist, Wild Yaks, and Philly glam-pop savants Free Energy, among others ... More >>

MER-MADNESS

Coney is still Coney

Char No. 4 Is Not Kosher

A new Brooklyn spot specializes in all the delicious things that can kill you

CONEY ISLAND, BABY

We only do this once a year

Health Care Doesn’t Care: An Old Folks' Hospital Diary (Fifth and last entry)

A Shore Thing

Mini guides to five waterfront neighborhoods worth your salt

Proving Your Metal

Close-Up on Red Hook, Brooklyn

School Food Firm Passes on Seconds

Close-Up on Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Apulia Redux

New South Brooklyn restaurant reflects southern Italian roots

Losing Their Lunch: School Food Plan Hits New Snag

Post Taste Test

Letters

Girl Fight

Students say a Marine Park brawl was kid stuff. Prosecutors are calling it race rage.

Hooky for a Day

On the Waterfront

In Red Hook, One Building Is a Tipping Point