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Hip-Hop Mogul Chris Lighty's Death Deemed a Suicide

Before he was found in his Bronx apartment last Thursday dead with a head gun wound, Chris Lighty was the force behind some of hip-hop's greatest acts in the past twenty years. From Diddy to 50 Cent, Lighty helped manage the no-names that became icons, pushing hip-hop into its permanent spot in the ... More >>

The 10 Best Draft Beer Bars in New York

Some like it bottled. Some like it canned. But really, is there a better experience with beer than when it's drawn from a tap? When that brew is poured, it offers the delightful hoppy blend in true form. The only challenge is that to enjoy a real draft beer, you've gotta head to a bar--well, unless ... More >>

Happy 75th Birthday, Henry Hudson Bridge!

​The double-decker Henry Hudson Bridge, which links Manhattan to the Bronx, is 75 today! Originally designed for a casual jaunt in and out of the suburbs, the bridge became a thoroughfare once commuters started moving north. The Riverdale Public Library is celebrating the bridge's dodrascenten ... More >>

Our 10 Best Beer Bars

​ The craft beer movement, once the province of homebrewers and so-called "beer nerds," has become so mainstream that you'd be hard-pressed to find a bar in New York City that doesn't have at least Brooklyn Lager on tap. But where do you go when you want to find the absolute best brews in the ... More >>

Ask the Critics: The Sweet Spot

Calvin Godfrey​ Everyone I Know asks: Do you know where I can the find a restaurant that serves inventive, exceptionally prepared food at dirt-cheap prices with a fun atmosphere and plentiful booze? Dear Everyone I Know: I am not a magician. I cannot conjure up a restaurant with the food of P ... More >>

Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver On The Oxford Companion to Beer

photo by Michael Harlan TurkellGarrett Oliver makes beer a companion.​When an editor at the Oxford University Press first approached Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, about doing The Oxford Companion to Beer, he politely declined. Having already written a book, the prospect of su ... More >>

St. Anselm Finds Religion on the Grill

A Williamsburg restaurant reopens and lights the gas

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 >>

How to Say Those Unpronounceable New York City Place Names

​Thanks to the pronunciation experts at the New York Times City Room blog, who told us the right way to say "Van Wyck" just weeks ago -- a Netherlands native says it's "Fon Weg"; do with that what you will -- we now know how to say three other place names that previously likely befuddled and b ... More >>

Time Out Gets a Namesake Beer

TONYTastier than eating a magazine​The city's latest beer isn't a new seasonal ale or anything like that. Nope, it was created as part of a marketing campaign to celebrate weekly mag Time Out New York's beer issue, which is being billed as the city's ultimate guide. No longer just magazine s ... More >>

Bittermens Has Decamped to Red Hook and Is Now Making Burlesque Bitters

BittermensBurlesque Bitters Will Tease Cocktails​Good news for bitters lovers: Bittermens, a small-batch bitters company based out of Boston has just moved to New York, opening a production facility in Red Hook. "We'd gotten to a point where we were exceeding the space we had. We got our sta ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Friday afternoon is here, and so is our look back on the week that was. We ranked Our 10 Best 100 Dishes to Eat Now. Jin Fong and Very Tong vie for dim sum supremacy. Pumpkin ale taste-off!

Two Low-Key Food Events: Spuyten Duyvil's Oktoberfest & International Pickle Day

​Two attendees at Spuyten Duyvil's Oktoberfest might have been posing for an August Sander photo in the 1920s. Note the lederhosen. OKTOBERFEST AT SPUYTEN DUYVIL Too many of today's grandiose food events are a pain in the ass to attend, and expensive, too. I'm thinking of shindigs where the ... More >>

Jeremy Cowan of Shmaltz Brewing Company Talks Geektoberfest, Jewish Celebration & How Sour is the New Bitter

Jeremy Cowan​Jeremy Cowan started Shmaltz Brewing Company back in 1996 out of his San Francisco apartment. Now, the beer is brewed in upstate New York and includes the line of HE'BREW craft kosher beers and Coney Island Craft Lagers. Cowan is busy this week as NYC Craft Beer Week is in full sw ... More >>

Our 10 Best Bars for Drinking Outside

Sam Horine/MetromixSpuyten Duyvil's idyllic backyard.​On this fine Friday, we turn our thoughts to bars where you can drink outdoors. We've gathered up our 10 favorite places to enjoy an adult beverage in the sun, and hope you'll be inspired to sneak out of work early today to check one out. ... More >>

St. Anselm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Debuts the Newark Dog

​The Newark dog at St. Anselm is really a pair of dogs jammed in "pizza bread." St. Anselm, the younger sibling of across-the-street Fette Sau and next-door Spuyten Duyvil, has been having a soft opening lately, prior to getting its liquor license.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Traif; Goodbye to Bushwick's Market Hotel

Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and taking their leaves this week. The Market Hotel, a music hall in Bushwick, has been shut down for operating without a license. Promoter Todd Patrick hopes to relocate his events to Monster Island, off Kent Avenue. [Brooklyn ... More >>

In Good Spirits at the Bell House

Keith WagstaffRevelers enjoy the Farm on Adderly's pork, beef, and lamb-blend meatballs.​The Manhattan Cocktail Classic is but a week away, but don't think that would stop me from pouring artisanal alcohol down my throat in the meantime. Thank god for Edible Brooklyn's Good Spirits event at th ... More >>

Fette Sau's Joe Carroll will Debut St. Anselm Next Month

Freewilliamsburg.comSpuyten Duyvil will be getting a new neighbor next month.​Good news for those awaiting the delayed opening of St. Anselm, the latest addition to his Fette Sau-Spuyten Duyvil empire: it's going to open sometime next month.

Our Ten Best: Brooklyn Bars

​The best thing about drinking in Brooklyn is how incredibly diverse the options are. You can belly up the bar in an old sailor's hangout, or a place where they make their own bitters, a spot with 19-century charm, or one with no charm at all. A stellar Brooklyn bar might be a neighborhood tim ... More >>

New Yorkers Rise Early for Moon Mugging

​A group of die-hard New York stargazers met this morning in Inwood, in the northernmost tip of Manhattan near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, to watch the LCROSS lunar probe crash into the surface of the moon. The mission's objective is to see if there is water on the moon. Jason Kendall, the founder ... More >>

Haute Snack Food Comes to Metropolitan Avenue

hamburgercalculus.comSpuyten Duyvil​The gastronomification of Metropolitan Avenue continues apace: Free Williamsburg reports that Joe Carroll, the owner of Fette Sau and Spuyten Duyvil, is busy crafting a "haute snack food joint" in the building next door to his Belgian beer shrine. The new place ... More >>

Jimmy Carbone Explains Why He Won't be Biking to Queens, Staten Island, or the Bronx

dyobmit/flickrYesterday, a New York Times article about this Sunday's Bike to the Bars ride to various Brooklyn and Manhattan bars raised a question: "...seriously, no good beer in Queens, the Bronx or Staten Island?"Jimmy Carbone, owner of Jimmy's No. 43 and one of the creators of the Good Beer Sea ... More >>

Grizzly Bear's Mellow Gold

Brooklyn quartet goes quietly, grandiosely epic

Meet the Maker--Manhattan Meadery's Nathaniel Martin

Today we debut Meet the Maker, a recurring feature in which we meet a local food or drink producer, farmer or monger of some sort. Because everyone loves a monger. This week, we meet Nathaniel Martin, co-founder of Manhattan Meadery. Nathaniel (pictured left with a tank of his mead) and his brot ... More >>

Another Take on Obamamania

Poking the Fat Pig

Brilliant no-nonsense 'cue at Brooklyn's newest barbecue

The Fine Print

Brooklyn's indie publishers turn the page

Honey, Don't

Why mead, ancient drink of love, may not be making a comeback this year

Film

A cure for all that ales you: The devil spits on Williamsburg

Close-Up on Riverdale

Close Up On: Inwood

One-Bedroom Apartment in High-Rise

Midsummer Night’s Read

Beach Fare with an Edge

One Track Mind

Chelsea Group Works to Save an Abandoned Rail Line   

Toxic Soil at ‘Spitting Devil’

Parents Oppose School Construction on Contaminated Site

The Ringless and the Ruined