Spanish Harlem

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/27/13

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Ben E. King

Dough Loco Revamps the Neighborhood Doughnut Shop

The Illegal Underground Economy Behind Churros

Five NYC Rappers Who Deserve To Be In XXL's 2013 Freshman Class Issue

XXL magazine revealed their annual freshmen list today. Among the10 picks for future rap fame (plus a boxed-out bonus picture of Chief Keef's head), New York City is represented by the monolithic Action Bronson, Pro Era leader Joey Bada$$ and Angel Haze. In the interest of municipal pride then, here ... More >>

New York Feels the Blowback as Puerto Rico is Battered by Drugs and Brazen Murders

Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen Gets Down With Vegetables in the East Village

Dirty Pleasure

Bodega Bamz

"Harlem is the Mecca of the World!": Bodega BAMZ Introduces His Latin Trap Movement

"I'm from Spanish Harlem and the story has never been told from my 'hood," says Bodega BAMZ, the uptown rapper who's plotting to write his own chapter in hip-hop's history with his Latin trap movement. The cornerstone of BAMZ's come up so far is Strictly 4 My P.A.P.I.Z., the 'Pac-style mixtape he dr ... More >>

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map: John Randel Jr., and the Manhattan grid

Much of Manhattan was made long in the past--or long enough ago that its boundaries are often seen as acceptable and natural, while the people who live on the fringe (read: above 96th Street) are easily forgotten when defining the character of the city. (This tendency became briefly regretful when, ... More >>

Live While 
We're Young

See the present and future 
of New York rap at S.O.B.’s

Say Hello to Moti Mahal Delux, Hot Bread Almacen

Moti Mahal Delux is opening at the Upper East Side today. As a departure from almost every other Indian restaurant in the city, they will be serving a menu sans chicken tikka masala. Instead, the star dish will be the signature butter chicken. [Fork in the Road] Hot Bread Kitchen is opening a reta ... More >>

Thousands March Down Fifth Avenue in Silence in Protest of Police Brutality on Father's Day

SPANISH HARLEM -- It was the sound of the birds that was most startling. As thousands of protestors marched, in silence, down Fifth Avenue yesterday, it was a strange thing indeed to hear so many New Yorkers not speaking, yelling or blaring music, but to just simply hear birds chirping on a beautif ... More >>

Eddie Palmieri

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Four)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decrim ... More >>

Alicia Keys (14) Takes On Tito Puente (3) In Sound Of The City's Search For The Quintessential New York Musician

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today's first match pits "Empire State Of Mind" ... More >>

WORDS LIVE ON

Poets honor a Spanish Harlem hero

Fake! DMV Clerk Clarence Jenkins Sold Drivers Licenses, Manhattan Prosecutor Alleges

Money can't buy happiness -- but it might buy you time behind the steering wheel if you're a felon who has been kicked out of the U.S. The Manhattan District Attorney says that Clarence Jenkins, a 56-year-old DMV clerk, sold three fraudulent drivers licenses to New Yorkers -- including "at least on ... More >>

Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

Download: Larkin Grimm's Pulsing, Luminous "Paradise And So Many Colors"

Doom-folk lifer Larkin Grimm is known mostly for 2008's desolate, pastoral daymare Parplar and her colorfully wry outlook (her hilarious MySpace post about attending SXSW in 2009 is required reading). The last four years have been nothing short of monumental for Grimm; she moved to Spanish Harlem, l ... More >>

Day in the Life of...a Macaroon Maker

Welcome to Day in the Life of, a feature that will appear every so often on Fork in the Road in which we look at different culinary professions in New York City and the people behind them. How do the pros actually spend their days? Up this week: Dan Cohen, owner of Danny Macaroons 8 p.m. -- I don ... More >>

Download: Nickolas Mohanna's Expansive, Escapist "Particles"

​New York sound artist Nickolas Mohanna is the real Sound of the City. The noises of our rainy days, planes flying overhead or whatever's happening on Mott Street are dutifully documented on his digital recorder, then stretched out and distended (via synth and guitar) into majestic drone world ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Outer-Borough Restos, Bloody Marys, Fungi

This week in food blogs ... Muffet/FlickrBelieve in magic.​ Eater rounded up 10 new restaurants worth an outer-borough commute. Grub Street delved into how much people actually spend at the city's top restaurants. CHOW looked at the 11 most ridiculous restaurant-related Facebook groups.

Comments of the Week: Claim Your Village Voice T-Shirt, Winners!

​It's time for the weekly comment roundup! You know how it goes: every week we pick the comments we thought were funniest, or smartest, or most thought-provoking, and then we reward those commenters with a lovely free Village Voice t-shirt. If you've won, email our web editor Francesca Stabile ... More >>

The Ultimate New York Mix

Brought to you by an Englishman with a big crush on the Big Apple

Q&A: Watch The Closing Doors Mastermind Kris Needs On Crafting Compilations And New York's Musical History Books

​A veteran English music writer, Kris Needs lived in New York City in the late '80s (he spent two years behind the counter at Bleecker Bob's). It was part of a longstanding fascination with the city that—lucky us—now culminates in Watch the Closing Doors: A History of New York's Mu ... More >>

The Cinco de Mayo Charade

Its organizer sits in jail for raping his daughter. And the parade of his sympathizers marches on.

This Week in the Voice: Juan Cáceres, Villainous Community Hero

​This week in the Voice, Victoria Bekiempis tells the sordid tale of Juan Cáceres, founder of the Spanish Harlem nonprofit CECOMEX. Cáceres is revered by many in his community as an exemplary leader, even after "being convicted of second-degree rape -- of his own daughter, from the time she ... More >>

Yes, Yes, We Know They're Called Mararons. But We're Talking Macaroons, Here.

dannymacaroons.comYou say macaron. We say macaroon.​Dan Cohen, founder of Danny Macaroons, makes artisanal macaroons out of Spanish Harlem. No, not the dainty, colorful French sandwich cookies foodies recently claimed were poised to take over the reign of cupcakes. Macaroons, as in the coconut ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: Kennedy Fried Chicken vs. Crown Fried Chicken

Victoria BekiempisFinger- (and thumb-)licking good?​ Welcome to this week's battle, where two fried-chicken chains -- Kennedy Fried Chicken and Crown Fried Chicken -- give New York the bird. In a good way. First a little history ...

THE LONELY HUNTER

Inside Carson McCullers’s heart

Artist Etch A Sketches New York City, From Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge

​Unique art is easy to find in New York City, but Bryan Lee Madden's pieces stand out in the crowded field. Madden uses Etch A Sketches to create his works, which run from fine art to cartoonish sketches, and are commissioned for friends and clients alike (email him if interested!). We got in ... More >>

Coati Mundi, Back in the Fray

A prince of surrealist alt-Latino pop returns to his kingdom

Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown

An unsettling conversation, to oft-disturbing and potentially lasting effect

The N-Word Is Flourishing Among Generation Hip-Hop Latinos

Why should we care now?

Primary Directive

A new principal's tour of duty, from Bloomberg's 'academy' to P.S. 50