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December 22, 2009Cycling activists remember their fallen comrades
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December 18, 2009Everyone, even if they don't care about bike lanes, seems to be looking forward to the naked bike ride scheduled for Saturday.
The spectacle is meant to draw attention to the bikers' plight in Williamsburg, where the city scrubbed the Bedford Avenue bike lake, leading to a guerrilla hipste ... More >>
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December 17, 2009Quote, "a pop-up music gift gallery open to the public Dec 17th-21st." At the 303Grand "revolving storefront" in Williamsburg. Though Insound's well-deserved rep is as an online music retailer, they are leaving the local retail competition alone--instead of records etc., expect audio gear, t- ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
On the afternoon of November 19, cops say this guy grabbed a woman's property on the G train platform in Williamsburg and split. The video shows him in flight. They describe him as 15 to 18 years old, 5'5", wearing blue jeans, a blue jacket, and white sneakers at the time.
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December 9, 2009The cycling enthusiasts who repainted a bike lane in Williamsburg and were arrested for it early this week have, we think, achieved a journalistic watershed in mainstreaming the use of the word "hipster."
Sure, there was the Hipster Grifter story, itself a kind of watershed, but hers was a f ... More >>
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December 7, 2009Photo of MPP groundbreaking via DBOBNot that there were any illusions that the Greenpoint pool would remain a venue--the Williamsburg Waterfront area took over hosting duties for Jelly NYC's Summer Pool Parties a year ago. But now that the Williamsburg Waterfront space also appears to be in j ... More >>
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November 24, 2009A storefront in Murray Hill, Flushing, Queens, proclaims poultry insanity.
Here we go again, offering yet another picture gallery of our favorite names for restaurants, liquor stores, coffee bars, caterers, and other food- and booze-related establishments.
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November 20, 2009The roof garden at French bistro Juliette awaits forlornly the return of summer.
The growth of Williamsburg restaurants in the last dozen years has been meteoric, and, where once there were a dozen or so places that might be worth trying, now there are probably 200 or more.
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November 16, 2009International aid agencies are saying that a United Nations summit on food security that kicked off in Rome today could be a "waste of time" as it won't commit donors to provide more money to end world hunger.
[Bloomberg]
Companies like Nestle and Frito Lay are offering "mommy bloggers" all- ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Ship's biscuit is the somewhat facetious name for one of the vegetarian sandwiches available at Saltie.
Saltie is a sandwich shop that debuted recently on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, open from 8 a.m. in the morning till 8 p.m. at night. The cafe--which provides only rudimen ... More >>
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October 23, 2009This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow awards like Best Blow Job and Best Literally Underground Cabaret Show on our favorite things about the city. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name a few of their favorite local things.
He's the fi ... More >>
Music
October 20, 2009We shouldn't have to tell you this, but we'll try
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October 16, 2009In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you.
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October 14, 2009An RSVP will get you in for five bucks cheaper. Not for nothing, but the circa '04-'05 spectacle of Diplo doing it in Williamsburg will probably move a lot of humans to show out for this. And how will you look your future children in the eye and tell them that you missed the opportunity to ha ... More >>
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October 10, 2009
For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg.
It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>
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October 5, 2009PIx by Puja Patel, more belowNestled beneath the Williamsburg Bridge (a charming view) (no, really), long-rumored nightlife spot the Woods finally opened its doors Friday night to an overwhelming response. Located at 48 South 4th Street, the bar has no sign over the door; a set of stairs and ... More >>
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September 17, 2009One interesting sentence in the latest press release making the rounds re: Pavement's reunion show at Central Park's Summerstage on September 21, 2010: "Please be advised this tour is not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reunion." Make of that what you will. Related: tickets ... More >>
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September 8, 2009TONY's The Feed blog has posted a roster of establishments slated to open by September 16. While there is actual food to be found, most notably at Saltie, Caroline Fidanza's Williamsburg lunch counter, and at An Nhau, a new Vietnamese spot, what's most striking about the eight places included in the ... More >>
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August 31, 2009Sam HorineHey, look, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste went to that Jay-Z show yesterday in Williamsburg. A whole summer's worth of Jelly NYC Pool Parties on the Williamsburg waterfront took a bow yesterday, as Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Vega played the final Sunday of the 2009 series. Solange Kno ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
We're contractually obligated to post about Williamsburg's finest making their late-night TV debut. Couldn't happen to a nicer meaner couple. Flyer promises "that f'ing good"--does this mean they'll streak? Yes, contractually obligated to make nyucky naked jokes too.
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August 20, 2009
High real-estate costs make for strange bedfellows: Pedestrians passing Grande Monuments, seller of gravestones and a longtime fixture on Graham Avenue, have been double-taking at the sight of hand-chalked-signs advertising bread. Just what is this bread made from, they wonder?
Well, the br ... More >>
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August 7, 2009Queens Crap posts the sort of headline you expect to get the schadenfreude roaring: "Bushwick hipsters kicked to the curb." They refer to a NY1 story about several young people who'd been living in 20 apartments carved out of a building certified for only six, with which the DOB caught up and ... More >>
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July 29, 2009We are grateful to Gothamist for finding Russel Fong's short film on the Williamsburg yelling man, whom we've been wondering about. As it happens, Lawrence LaDouceur is a lot more amiable in private conversation than when yelling at the corner of North 7th and Bedford, but alas, no less crazy ... More >>
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July 27, 2009Scary sky pic viaCredit to whoever runs things over at the Williamsburg Waterfront's Sunday Pool Parties--since lightning was actually striking humans in Brooklyn yesterday, the choice to end Sunday's HEALTH/Black Lips/Trail of Dead show before ToD actually got to play seems prudent. Which ha ... More >>
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July 22, 2009Nate "Igor" Smith
In this week's New York Press, there's an enormously long feature chronicling the ignominious rise and fall of Williamsburg's short-lived after-hours space, the Shank. As someone who pulled a few all-nighters loitering around that mud-bucket of an early morning hideaway this past ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
File under Summer 2009's Worst-Kept Secrets: Jelly NYC is, again this year, throwing a slew of free Sunday-afternoon shows in Williamsburg. As pretty much everyone and your L-Train-puking pug already knew (except AM New York), this season's location is 90 Kent Ave a/k/a the Williamsburg Waterfront ... More >>
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June 30, 2009Thankfully, we no longer have to keep this secret: Phosphorescent are playing a free show tonight in Williamsburg. If you didn't get enough of the band at Celebrate Brooklyn this past Saturday, catch angelic country crooner Matthew Houck and his gang of folksters in a more intimate setting at Bruar ... More >>
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June 19, 2009Rebecca Smeyne
In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
This genius Jay Mundy needs no help from us in going completely and totally viral, but there is a disturbing if also exhilarating recognition in hearing the exact rant you've unleashed many a time come out of the mouth of a man who is reportedly a right wing psychopath. Slash genius! Above is the ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
The first inaugural Northside Festival brings CMJ-style pandemonium to Williamsburg and Greenpoint, starting tonight. Ewok Village-natives Naybob and Raybob Shineywater of Brightblack Morning Light headline the opening gala at Studio B. The Music Hall of Williamsburg's sold out Hold Steady show a ... More >>
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June 8, 2009In an objective correlative to the Simpsons scene in which Bart loses so much status that Martin is scoring off him, the New York Times runs "Parents Pulling the Plug on Williamsburg Trust-Funders," in which even the traditional measured Times-speak cannot conceal the schadenfreude. In the recession ... More >>
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June 3, 2009Brooklyn's block party needs badges, too
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May 20, 2009
These went up earlier this week in--where else--Williamsburg. They're from Head Hoods, a project on behalf of a dude that's taken shape in the form of faux-stenciling I CAN'T AFFORD TO
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April 22, 2009Free bicycles? What's the catch?
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February 11, 2009Where trends are set before they get to Vogue
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February 11, 2009Looking back on pre-gentrified Williamsburg
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January 21, 2009Can I have that in a sentence, please?
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October 22, 2008Voice Choices
July 29, 2008The Galapagos Art Space finally opens its new home
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April 29, 2008Voice Choices
March 25, 2008Shepard Fairey and others take over Cinders
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September 4, 2007Music
July 24, 2007A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection
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August 15, 2006News
May 9, 2006Skyscrapers, fronted by tantalizing promises, set to invade Williamsburg's interior
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