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May 22, 2012
Where Was I Eating? Max Brenner
I'm surprised it took six comments to get it right, but I was eating at brunch at Max Brenner near Union Square.
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May 19, 2012
What To Look for in the Farmers' Markets This Weekend
Thick meaty rhubarb is available in abundance. Several products have recently debuted for the season in the Union Square Greenmarket, and will be generally available this weekend and in the coming week. Bright red and much thicker than the specimens seen last week, rhubarb is a welcome harbinger o ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
Another "Week of Action" Protest Movement Begins, Culminating Tuesday At Times Square
The 99 percenters' continual assault against banks starts today with what is being dubbed another "Week of Action" (They might as well start calling it the year of action) that started yesterday with a rally at Union Square that will culminate on Tuesday with what, they say, will be a massive conver ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
First Strawberries of the Season Appear at Farmers' Markets
Fiendishly expensive, but they are the first Spring strawberries from local sources appeared for the first time this season in the Union Square Greenmarket. Priced at $4.50 per pint, the price was steep, but the fruit proved sweet and juicy, so good you wouldn't dare use them in a pie or in jams.
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May 1, 2012
Union Square Undergoing Massive Barricading By NYPD In Advance of OWS Rally
As we just shared on our live blog of today's OWS May Day events, Voice writer Robert Sietsema has confirmed that while much of the OWS activity is happening in Bryant Park, Union Square is undergoing a massive barricading effort by the NYPD. Robert wrote to us that: "I don't think I've ever seen s ... More >>
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April 28, 2012
Lilac Boughs Bloom in the Greenmarkets Today
Eight dollars gets you a branch of freshly cut lilacs -- better than bathroom deodorizer. Despite temps that hovered around 42 degrees in the morning, Greenmarkets in the city were thronged today with cold-weather-weary visitors. For gardeners and their window-box-tilling cousins, there were sets ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Demonstrators Protest AIDS Inaction, Student Debt and Tuition Hikes
May Day isn't even here yet, and it's already becoming clear that a season of protest and politics in the street is upon us. Yesterday morning saw a substantial demonstration by ACT UP!, other AIDS activists, and Occupiers, marching from City Hall into the Financial District to call for a financial ... More >>
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April 6, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Escalates The Battle For Union Square
The Battle for Union Square continues. The branch of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have colonized Union Square for the past three weeks continue their nightly standoff with the New York Police Department, which each night deploys more than fifty officers to clear the park and stand guard along ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Occupy Union Square: The Evolution Of A New Protest Camp
When the NYPD again forcefully evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park more than a week ago, many of those who weren't arrested marched north, leading police on a winding course that finally ended at around 2 a.m. in Union Square. Most of the protesters went home after that, but a handful sta ... More >>
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March 24, 2012
OWS Marches Against Police Brutality
Following last week's Occupy Wall Street action that brought the movement back into the streets and the news, protesters marched against police brutality from Zuccotti Park to Union Square today. As with last week the Voice's Nick Pinto is out in the streets following the activity. You can read his ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
LeBron Has Taken His Protests to South Beach
Well, he couldn't make it to Union Square two nights ago for the emotional Trayvon Martin rally, but LeBron James just tweeted a picture of his entire team in hoodies--with the hashtags #WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice--as a sign of protest against the sad story of the slain ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Trayvon Martin Rally In Union Square Leads to Massive March
It was not the promised presence of people wearing hoods that first got our attention at tonight's rally, but the Skittles. We were a bit skeptical when we arrived at the Trayvon Martin rally in Union Square and saw a hollering woman tossing bags of Skittles out at the audience. People were grabbin ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Happy Hour at Revival
Because of its extremely convenient location right off of Union Square, Revival is the perfect meet-up spot for happy hour drinks.
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January 21, 2012
Despite Snow Storm, Union Square Greenmarket Carries On
There were eggs to be had aplenty -- but you had to fish them out of the snow drifts. In spite of the year's first major snowfall, the Greenmarket went on as planned today at Union Square. The tarmac was paved with slush, and the fervent locavores who make up the market's customers in weat ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
This Week's Specials: Clammy Sammies
And now, a look back at what was on the menu here at Fork in the Road this week.Balls on buns, at the Union Square Holiday Market. Lauren Shockey satisfies her yearning for yuletide eats with this week's listing -- Our 10 Best Things to Eat at the Union Square Holiday Market. Robert Sietse ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
The Q Train Loves You and Wants You to Be Happy
The Q train would like to remind you that love is possible, and that it will happen to you, even you! This hopeful memo seen en route from Union Square to Brooklyn this Saturday may be the loveliest thing anyone has ever said to us -- via Post It note, on public transportation, anyway.
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December 2, 2011
Would You Pay $12,500 for a Subway Sign?
EV Grieve has noted an eBay listing of interest to New York City public transportation geeks -- there's an authentic 51" x 31", 26-pound New York City subway sign, from outside Union Square, available for a mere $12,500. The seller writes that the sign was by the stairs to the entrance and is "from ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Duane Reade's Beer Growlers: Miracle or Satanic Manifestation?
Where am I? Blind Tiger? Rattle N Hum? D.b.a.? (Click on image to enlarge.) It wasn't that long ago that if you wanted to get a six-pack (I'm talking beer, not abs) around Union Square, you had to make do with Bud Lite or Colt 45 in cans. Then the beer revolution occurred, and suddenly every bodeg ... More >>
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November 26, 2011
Farmers' Markets Undergoing Seasonal Shrinkage
Perfect multihued cauliflowers from Kernan Farms of Bridgeton, New Jersey, at the Abingdon Square Saturday market. This is their last week till spring, also at their St. Marks Church (Tuesday) location. While Thanksgiving marks the start of the Christmas shopping season, it also marks something so ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Why Not Pig Milk?
For years, every time I see a pig farmer at one of the Greenmarkets, I ask the same question: Why is there no such thing as pig milk? Usually, I get an equivocal answer, but for once I got what sounded like a convincing response.
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November 19, 2011
Union Square Holiday Market Now Open, Park Smells Like Cinnamon
Now in its eighteenth year, the Union Square Holiday Market opened yesterday--a week before Black Friday. The "Christmas episode" of the year-round Greenmarket features wares from local knickknackeries. Neighborhood fixtures like Wafels and Dinges are there, as are unusual businesses like the one sp ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Did You Use a Chase ATM Near Union Square in January or May?
Not a Chase ATM, though we'd probably avoid this one.Two men have been arrested and face charges "including burglary, criminal possession of forgery devices, and larceny," reports the New York Times, for installing devices in card slots of 11 ATMs at four different Chase locations around Unio ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
Ingrid Burrington, Researcher of Missed Connections: 'The Loneliest Place in NYC is Union Square'
Under the semi-serious auspices of the Center for Missed Connections, 24-year-old Ingrid Burrington, who grew up in California, has been studying Craigslist's outlet for the lonely, the hopeful, the romantic, the horny, and the insane for more than two years now. It all started with what she ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
22-Year-Old Woman Punches the Crap Out of Her Subway Groper
The alleged groperWhat would you do if some person came up to you as you minded your own business on the subway platform as you waited for your train and lifted your skirt, rubbed your thigh, and groped you? Would you run away, scream, call the cops, take his picture? Would you be paralyzed a ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
October's 45 Openings and 25 Closings: A (More or Less) Comprehensive List
The shark-infested waters of New York City's restaurant industry are not for the faint of heart. In case you're into keeping tabs, here is a list of those who took the leap and opened new establishments and those who were forced to bow out this month.
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October 26, 2011
Mike Bloomberg Reviews Yelp Offices On Yelp
Yelp opened their brand-new New York office at Union Square today. NYC Digital head Rachel Sterne was reportedly there, as was Mayor Bloomberg. Like many an opinionated restaurant or bar patron before him, Bloomberg took to Yelp afterwards as Mike B. from Manhattan to review the office. Five ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
NYPD Passing out "Gear Guards," Marking Phones with Invisible Ink for Straphangers
Is your gear protected? Your phone marked with invisible ink? In response to increased crime on trains, NYPD officers have been passing out "gear guards" at various subway stations this week to make sure passengers' backpacks and purses are safe from pick pocketing thieves.
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October 4, 2011
Art in Odd Places Is Happening on 14th Street: An Interview With One of the Artists
Art in Odd Places is an annual New York City exhibit featuring artists, doing, well, art in odd places. This year (the sixth in New York), the theme focuses on ritual, with 70 artists taking over 14th street from October 1st through the 10th to do hour-long projects on that theme each day. The goal ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Leon Reid's 'Tourist-in-Chief' Project Gets O.K. From Parks Department
Despite a unanimous vote in favor from Community Board 5, the Parks Department had seemed bent on denying "Tourist-in-Chief," the public art project by Leon Reid IV in which he hoped to dress Union Square's George Washington statue in tourist accoutrement: "I Love NY" cap, camera, subway map, and sh ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Ben Koatz, 17, Describes Arrest and Detainment Following Saturday's Occupy Wall Street Protest
Ben KoatzBen Koatz is a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan. He's 17, from Queens, and writes for the school newspaper. He's also among the 80-90 people arrested during Occupy Wall Street's march on Union Square this past Saturday. Ben gave us an account of his arrest for diso ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Union Square Subway Station Now Boasts the World's Largest Linear Digital Zoetrope
Tonight at 7 p.m. at the Union Square subway station, in a temporarily vacant retail space just down the stairs below the Food Emporium at 14th Street and 4th Avenue, Professor Joshua Spodek and his students will officially unveil "Union Square in Motion," an interactive art installation considered ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
A Fork in the Road Guide to Greenmarket Etiquette
Robert Sietsema Farmers markets are a bit like inebriation: they have a way of amplifying the best and worst parts of one's personality, of shaving away pleasantries to reveal a certain hard nut of truth about human nature. And they're also like an open-air subway car, particularly on Saturd ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Upside-Down Elephant to Grace Union Square Through May
What the elephant will look like when fully installed. If you go over to Union Square right now, you'll notice that people are installing a huge elephant standing on his trunk. The tireless 26-foot-tall elephant will maintain the pose through the end of May 2012. He's a 2008 piece by Spanish ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Bloggers Pissed Over Frozen Lasagna; Patsy's In Debt
You know those commercials where real people are caught on hidden cameras reacting to some new product? Well, for ConAgra and some unsuspecting bloggers, it didn't really work out this time. [NY Times] The restaurant planned for Union Square Park may be delayed now that concessionaire O-V Ho ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Cast In Concrete #2: Meet Dan Bellen And The Hare Krishnas
Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records the musical offerings of New York City's street musicians. Who: Dan Bellen And The Hare Krishnas When: 6/8/11, about 6:15pm Where: Union Square Scorcher of a day out at the Union Square Greenmarket, which is the best I can do by way of exp ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Traces, An Acrobatic Spectacle: My Review
Six guys, a girl, two poles, a piano, a basketball, some furniture, and a hanging mic. Talk about low budget. But the Traces cast works wonders with it at the Union Square Theatre. Their show is an acrobatic spectacle, but they're not hanging from high wires and falling onto trampolines.
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August 2, 2011
Heirloom Tomatoes Invade the Farmers' Markets in a Big Way
Heirloom tomatoes are currently available at nearly one-third of the stands at the Union Square Greenmarket. Two weeks ago, it was hard to find an heirloom tomato in the city's farmers' markets. Sure, there were plenty of hothouse tomatoes from New York and north Jersey, and plenty of field ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Danny Meyer's in the House at the Union Square Café
Danny Meyer has taken to Twitter to inform New York that he'll be indulging in nostalgia at the Union Square Café today: He's taking the maitre d' shift for lunch. "Will feel like old times especially with PBB behind the bar!" Impressive, but we'd still like to see him slinging burgers ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Help Make Union Square's George Washington Statue Look Like a Tourist
Public artist Leon Reid IV wants to turn Union Square's classical equestrian statue of George Washington -- you know, our first American president, that guy with the wig, on the horse -- into just another subway-map-gazing, fanny-pack-wearing, camera-toting tourist. At least it's a tourist on ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Posts of the Week
As we submit to the welcoming embrace of the holiday weekend, let's cast a brief glimpse back at the week preceding it ... The Union Square Café's Carmen Quagliata talks cookbooks, culinary influences, and his favorite and most hated foods. Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where to F ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Union Square Park Not Completely Clean After All
Esther ZuckermanThe New York Post reported Monday that "law and order" has returned to Union Square Park by way of tough love from the NYPD. Because the claim seemed a little hyperbolic, we went to the park around 7 p.m. Tuesday to check things out. Although the park's stretch known as "Metha ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
L Train Suspended in Both Directions After Person Jumps in Tracks at Union Square
We're hearing reports of a person jumping in front of an L train at Union Square around 11:30 this morning. There's now police activity at 14th Street shutting down L train service in both directions -- per an MTA Service notice: "There is no train service in both directions from the Bedford ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Num Pang Will Sling Its Sandwiches in Midtown
A scene soon to be replicated in Midtown.Last months, news came down the pike of Ratha Chaupoly's plans to open a second outpost of Num Pang, his terrifically popular Cambodian sandwich shop near Union Square. Chaupoly offered no clues to its location, but now, Eater has done it for him, via ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Is Union Square Park the Hot New Druggy Crime Spot?
The New York Post has an old-fashioned "Isn't NYC going to hell?"-type piece today regarding Union Square Park, a/k/a, "Methadone Alley," a "lawless city within a city" filled with addicts and pervs and criminals. Specifically, they're talking about the path on the East Side of the park that' ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Ramp-O-Rama at Farmers' Markets This Weekend
This is what Rapunzel's mom sold her out for? They've been showing up in dribs and drabs for the last week, but ramps will be available in quantity at this weekend's farmers' markets. Count on at least three or four stalls to have substantial quanitities at Union Square, including stalwarts ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Locals Pissed at Proposed Union Square Pavilion Restaurant
BNO designThe new Union Square pavilion? Maybe not...Apparently, not everyone is happy about the Parks Department's plan to convert the Union Square pavilion into a seasonal restaurant. Washington Square News reports that neighbors are against the idea, in part because converting the space in ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Walgreens Finds New Adjective for Focaccia
Spotted last night at the Union Square Walgreens. We've never really thought of focaccia as "elegant," but then we never expected to find it at a drugstore, either. Have a tip or restaurant-related news? Send it to fork@villagevoice.com.
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November 19, 2010
Fat Pants Friday: Breezy Hill Orchard's Cranberry Walnut Square
The Union Square Greenmarket has no shortage of pumpkin- and apple-endowed treats right now, but while we went there earlier this week fully intending to eat at least one of them, we were instead swayed by the unassuming cranberry-walnut square pictured above.
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November 16, 2010
The Time to Deck the Halls is Upon Us as Holiday Markets Return
urbandspacenyc/flickrIt's a blur market.It's about to begin looking a lot like Christmas and Hanukkah up in this piece. The annual holiday markets at Union Square and Columbus Circle are set to return this Friday, November 19 and December 1, respective, and both will stay open through Decembe ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
I, Locavore: Pumpkin Whoopie Pie
The whoopie pie, two cake-like chocolate cookies buffering a cream filling, is a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. The story goes that the treats got their exuberant name because Amish wives would place them in their husband's lunch boxes; when the men discovered them, they would shout "whoopie! ... More >>
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