Utica

Brooklyn Brewery Finishes Expansion, Expects 100,000 Barrels of Beer

A bright yellow crane stuck out against the Williamsburg waterfront on Tuesday morning as it installed three 25-foot-long fermenters in the Brooklyn Brewery on North 12th Street. This week marks the third and final phase in the Brooklyn beer company's expansion plan that was announced in February 2 ... More >>

Getting Drunk in the Rain in the Catskills

Saranac India Pale Ale from Matt Brewing Company in Utica, New York Style: American IPA Serving style: Bottle Location: Little Pond Campground in the Catskills, which is somewhere upstate outside of the city. Don't ask me to explain it more than that. Cost: A fellow camper brought it, and I swip ... More >>

Only Three People Shot At West Indian Day Parade. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Crown Heights

Only three people were shot during this year's West Indian Day parade in Crown Heights yesterday, which -- sadly -- is an improvement from last year. However, two people also were stabbed to death during yesterday's festivities, so don't wave the victory flag in the war on Brooklyn violence just yet ... More >>

Bath Salt Apocalypse: AG Eric Schneiderman Hits New York Head Shops With Lawsuits

There's a new hero in the ongoing Bath Salt Apocalypse: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.Apparently recognizing that synthetic drugs like bath salts bring out a person's inner-cannibal, Schneiderman has filed 12 lawsuits against head shop retailers across New York for violating the state' ... More >>

Bath Salts: Utica Suffers From Fourth-of-July Batshit Spree

Shortly after we reported on the spread of bath salts in Utica, at least three more incidents involving the designer drug took place on the Fourth of July. The first happened around 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Cops got a call that an "emotionally disturbed man" had locked himself inside a bathroom and ... More >>

Bath Salts: Are They Ruining Utica?

This weekend brought news of three batshit bath salts incidents in Utica, New York, continuing a seeming spree of designer drug-fueled rampages in the small town. Seven such reports were issued in the last two weeks. And just within the past several days, cops responded to calls in which a woman w ... More >>

Zombie Apocalypse: Upstate Woman Tries To Eat Cop; Bath Salts NOT Suspected (Just Kidding)

It's official: snorting bath salts makes you want to eat people.Full disclosure: we've never done it. But there's a reason -- snorting bath salts apparently makes you want to fucking eat people!The latest bath salt-inspired cannibal is a fellow New Yorker from Utica, who -- after attempting to eat a ... More >>

Bath Salts: Six Myths Dispelled

If you had thought that bizarre, bath salts-related news would have subsided by now, you certainly would have thought wrong: Bath salts-dealing gangs are apparently a thing in Muncie, Indiana; Cops found a Utica man, reportedly under the influence of bath salts, hiding on the roof of his girlfriend' ... More >>

Dick Clark Dead At 82: Andrew Cuomo Weighs In On a "True New Yorker"

Legendary TV personality Dick Clark died today at the age of 82 -- and Governor Andrew Cuomo was quick to weigh in on the passing of a "true New Yorker." "Today, we mourn the passing of Dick Clark, an American icon and a true New Yorker who was born in Mount Vernon, graduated from Syracuse Universit ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Is Andrew Cuomo A Weed-Bully Or Is "Cuomo 2016" On His Mind?

As we reported yesterday, a bill will soon be introduced into the state Legislature that would legalize medical marijuana in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo, however, says he won't sign the bill -- despite overwhelming public support for prescription pot. It seems as though maybe -- just maybe -- th ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Saying Nope To Medical Dope Actually Is "Encouraging" To Prescription Pot Advocates

An upcoming bill in the New York Legislature that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes is getting no love from New York's gov -- Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that he still thinks the cons outweigh the pros when it comes to medical marijuana and that he wouldn't support the bill...this year ... More >>

Who's Getting Foreclosed on in Brooklyn Today? A Third-Generation Home-Dweller

The Voice is starting a new feature several times a week. As foreclosures continue unabated across the nation, the Voice will be profiling the foreclosures that happen every week right here in the five boroughs. We'll be looking closely at the properties facing foreclosure, the public auctions where ... More >>

Junior's Black and White Cookie Turns Red and White for Valentine's Day

Behold, the Valentine's black-and-white. Long-running downtown Brooklyn deli Junior's has an always-active bakery carryout operation right inside the front door, where the most popular pastries are plain cheesecake, cheesecake with canned cherries, cheesecake with canned pineapple, cheesecake with ... More >>

Taste Testing Saranac's Shirley Temple in a Bottle

While food shopping at Polpette (254 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, 718-399-8800) recently, we chanced upon a soda we'd never seen before: Saranac's Shirley Temple. Having drunk many a Shirley Temple in our youth (gotta train for cocktail consumption early in life!) we were excited to see the beverage in ... More >>

Sugar Ray Leonard, Boxing Great, Discloses Sex Abuse By Coach, Drinking and Drug Use In New Book

​In a new book, Boxing Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard reveals a long held secret: that he was sexually abused as a young fighter by an Olympic boxing coach. He also mentions infidelity, cocaine and alcohol abuse, and growing up in a home with afflicted with alcohol and domestic violence, the ... More >>

Bedbug Registry Creator Talks Infestations, Prevention, and the Worst Reported Cases in New York City

​By all accounts, the bedbug front keeps getting scarier. See "Sick Fucks Now Promoting Bedbug-Infestation as a Revenge Tactic." But what, really, is the state of the bedbug? Is all this talk just a bunch of fear-mongering? Or is the city's battle over bedbugs just beginning? We caught up with ... More >>

The Reinvention of Andrew Cuomo

A Prince of Darkness turns White Knight

Christmas Eve Stabber Arrested; Family Says She "Feared for Her Life," Cops Disagree

​There appears still to be a divergence of opinion on that 16-year-old girl who stabbed Thomas Winston on Christmas Eve outside the 21st-Queensbridge subway station. Circumstances made the attack seem eminently justified; Winston, with many priors, traveled with a group of other young men, th ... More >>

Our 10 Best Beers

​ When we got the idea to do Our 10 Best Beers, little did we realize what a shark tank we were jumping into. While wine drinkers, cocktail swillers, and those that drink their spirits neat are a very vocal and cantankerous bunch, the vast majority of beer fanciers just sit back, foamy quaff i ... More >>

Staten Island Congressman Complains of Lack of Federal Money for Cops

​When it looked like the NYPD wasn't going to get any federal stimulus funds, everyone from the Governor on down was upset, so Obama relented and had Homeland Security scrape up $35 million for us. But when the big-money federal COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) grants came out in late July, ... More >>

Think Globally, Chew Locally--Brooklyn Gum

Brooklyn gum is available in two flavors: spearmint and extramint Grab a couple of packs of Brooklyn gum at, say, D. Coluccio & Sons, and you may think you've got your hands on a real locavoric chew. But think again--Brooklyn gum is made in Lainate, which is about 15 kilometers northwest of ... More >>

Lousier Subways Predicted; Panic Ensues

The Rockefeller Drug Laws: 35 Years of Unjust, Biased Policy

The City Is Their Laboratory

Pratt students invent the next New York—for real.

Your Turn: MTA Leaving You Stranded?

Hop State Pride

A roundup of New York's great microbreweries

Pataki's Quiet Court-Packing

Long after he's gone, the governor's GOP judges will still be ruling

City Goes Judge Shopping

Held in contempt for convention detentions, the city gets a Pataki court to step in

A Question of Justice

Three young men, two coke deliveries, one prison sentence

All in the Name

In Pataki land, the name Velella came before the taxpayers. Everyone wanted to help.

The Reluctant Activist

One mother's unlikely education in New York's Rockefeller drug laws

Hear No Evil

GOP judge tried to shut down the Velella probe. Quid pro quo not always wrong, he said.

Day by Day, Death by Death

A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part I

Close-Up on Crown Heights

Jeb & George

Bush Slated to Pay Top Dollar for Libby Pataki’s Florida Land

Base Speculations

Two Connected Studios in High-Rise

Faded Rage

As a Divided Community Begins to Forget, a Court Reopens Old Wounds in Crown Heights

Al Sharpton’s Jewish Problem

So What’s Not to Like?

The Best Campaign Money Can Buy

Team Bloomberg in the Chips

Open City

Parades, Beaches, Festivals: What's Out There

Campaign Classics

Tales From the Trail About Green, Zogby, Powers, and Zuckerman

Conservative Paper Calls Race for Bush

Other Polls Have Gore Still in Hunt, With Nader Rising

The Post's Predictable Pollster

Surges and Soft Money

Nation

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Palace Walks

On the Road With the Theatre Historical Society

Nation

The Hillary Clinton Cheat Sheet

A Guide to the Scandals and Issues That Could Stall Her Senate Run

Holy Daze

Rebecca Segall investigates the problems of young Lubavitcher Hasidim in a world without the Rebbe