Williamsburg Bridge

Food at Barclays Fatty 'Cue is Really, Really Terrible

FiTR has recommended where to eat at outside Barclays Center, but there's a whole host of places to eat inside the arena, too, including many counters and carts offering nachos, hot dogs, hamburgers, and hot wings. More interesting, perhaps, are such Brooklyn foodie favorites as Calexico, L & B Spum ... More >>

BrisketTown Jumps on the Austin Breakfast-Taco Bandwagon

You can get up early on a Saturday and enjoy this smoked-brisket taco as early 8 a.m.! When I wrote about Dan Delaney's new BrisketTown a month ago, I hinted that the place is a kind of laboratory where menu experiments would be ongoing. At the time pies were the subject of experimentation, and no ... More >>

Don't Stop Smoking at BrisketTown

A new barbecue joint lights up Williamsburg

Dan Delaney Talks Brisket

Dan Delaney carves the meat at BrisketTown. Now fully opened on the stretch of Bedford Avenue just north of the Williamsburg Bridge, and dishing out luscious, long-smoked brisket, BrisketTown evolved out of a series of 31 pop-up barbecue events called BrisketLab that happened over the summer. The ... More >>

How Good Are Brooklyn's Japanese Noodle Spots?

The ramen ride

HELL ON WHEELS

Go biking with ghouls

G-Train Expansion, Restored Bus Routes Get Permanent Greenlight

Long live the G-Train, after all! The looping line will permanently run from Church Avenue to Queens, and the City has also announced the return of B-29 bus service over the Williamsburg Bridge. The M9 will now go to Battery Park City, according to State Sen. Daniel Squadron. Also, there will be ... More >>

The Domino Sugar Factory Deal: $160 Million and a Waterfront View

If you've ever drove/ran/biked across the Williamsburg Bridge, you have probably seen the Domino Sugar factory. The pre-Civil-War industrial building used to be the largest sugar refinery in the world; now, its worn-down streaks are covered with bright graffiti and its drabness is reminisc ... More >>

The Best Places To Smoke Weed in NYC

Hey man...yeah, we know it's early, too. Are you seriously watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation right now? Dude that's crazy. Riker like, gets turned into a Klingon or some shit on one of those episodes, right? No, I'm good for right now, thanks. I have to work! But is there any pizza lef ... More >>

Woman Who Jumped from Williamsburg Bridge Identified, Expected to Survive

There's a bit of news to follow up to yesterday's breaking story that a woman had jumped from the Williamsburg Bridge and landed, 20 to 30 feet below, and alive, on the windshield of an NYPD cop's Honda Ridgeline truck parked on Pitt Street. The woman has been identified as Jenna Marie Filippi, 34, ... More >>

A Woman Just Jumped Off the Williamsburg Bridge [Updated]

​According to a tipster, a woman has just jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge, landing on an vehicle parked on Pitt Street, at Delancey. Our tipster says, "She fell onto the windshield of an SUV on Pitt Street, right across the street from the fire/police station. When I walked by about 10 minu ... More >>

HOLIDAYS ON WHEELS

Get in shape for 2012!

'Safety Managers' Are Monitoring NYC Bridges to Help With Cyclist-Pedestrian Relations

​Did you bike or walk across the Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Williamsburg Bridge today? Did you see guys, or gals, in yellow vests, stationed there to prevent pedestrians and cyclists from encroaching upon each others' territory, possibly wounding, or simply being rude to one another? If you didn' ... More >>

Deep Fried Bunny at Fatty 'Cue Manhattan, Dish No. 24

​We've had such a rash of fried chicken lately, it's time for a change. The menu at the new Fatty 'Cue on Carmine Street in "the City," as Brooklyn denizens like to call it, has a menu twice the length of that at the mothership underneath the Williamsburg Bridge.

How Long Does It Really Take to Cross Delancey Street?

​Delancey Street has for a while now been acknowledged as one of New York City's most dangerous intersections. A cyclist was killed at Delancey and Chrystie earlier this August, and there have been 523 motor vehicle accidents at the intersection of Essex and Delancey Streets in the last 12 yea ... More >>

NYPD Patrol Car Cruises Williamsburg Bridge Bike Lane

In the ongoing debate over bike lanes -- and who's either blocking them to cyclists or not using them properly as cyclists -- comes this video of a NYPD patrol car driving slowly and apparently leisurely along the Williamsburg Bridge bike path, which is ostensibly only for people who are either ridi ... More >>

Naked Bike Riders Will Fill the Streets of NYC This Saturday

via​More nudity news you can use: The 2011 World Naked Bike Ride is on Saturday. This has always seemed rather uncomfortable (banana seat?) but it is for a good cause, that is, protesting harmful environmental effects from cars and oil dependencies and promoting alternative transportation. It' ... More >>

Taxi Driver Jumps From Williamsburg Bridge?

​Police responded to a call this morning reporting that someone had jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge after leaving his vehicle. A call to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI) gave no new information and details are "unknown" at this time. Smartcrew tweeted that it ... More >>

Mable's Smokehouse—We Meat Again

Williamsburg gets itself another good barbecue joint

Rude Drunk Man Stumbles Around Tracks of J Train Today Instead of During Blizzard

​Adding to all the difficulties the poor MTA is having with the snow and raising your fares, drunks are now stumbling around on the tracks and causing service shutdowns! The J was suspended from 12 a.m. until about 1 a.m. today when a drunk guy "wandered onto the track area of the Williamsburg ... More >>

Chet Baker Wouldn't Smoke a Pussy Cigarette Like Camel Blues

Chet knows cool​The real outrage about this new Camel cigarette promotion isn't that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is trying to peddle cancer to would-be hipsters using images like the Williamsburg Bridge. This is directly in line with the industry's goal of creating nicotine addicts out of adoles ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Free Booze and Burlesque; Pop-Up Taqueria

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Drunken Dragon Night Macao Trading Co. Monday, August 23, 9 p.m. The folks at Macao Trading Co. are truly outdoing themselves tonight with this free evening of booz ... More >>

Breaking: Guy Attempts to Jump Off Williamsburg Bridge

via Brooklyn365​We heard via Brooklyn365 that there was a jumping attempt off the Williamsburg Bridge this afternoon. The police have confirmed to us that there was a man on the bridge who attempted to jump at about 4 p.m. today. While "circumstances are unknown," they report that the guy is n ... More >>

ART RIDER

Pop the kickstand on your weekly art fix

Fancy, Tasty Grease At Fatty 'Cue

At a new Williamsburg spot, the meat gets smoked—but so does your wallet

Shutterbug's Sinister New York

'Brooklyn Psych Fest'

New Venue Report: South Williamsburg's The Woods

PIx by Puja Patel, more below​Nestled 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 >>

R.I.P. New York DJ Josh Link

​New York DJ Josh Link died in a tragic accident on Monday afternoon. The 29 year-old from Long Island was riding his Vespa across the Williamsburg Bridge when he was hit by a black sedan and thrown from his bike. Witnesses say that he was wearing a helmet and the accident was caused by the bi ... More >>

Broadway Triangle Rezoning Stirs Bad Blood

​The Iron Triangle of Willets Point isn't the only triangle that's got people up in arms. The Broadway Triangle, 31 acres of East Williamsburg in which are clustered a number of factories and other small, unsexy businesses, is being rezoned for affordable housing, and last night critics let t ... More >>

YEA YEAH

Matt and Kim are so happy together

Billyburg Bike Lane War! And a Modest Proposal

Big Bottle-Throwing Brawl in Billyburg

Possibly 4th Street 18: IAMX (Ex-Sneaker Pimps Chris Corner)

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Black Kids' "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"

Bridge-and-Tunnel Kids

When city parents choose public schools far afield, what are the consequences?

The Evolution Starts Now

Steve Earle saunters into town; hopefully, Oakley Hall can teach him some new tricks

Friday Scribbles: Made You Look

Friday Scribbles (On Wednesday): Walk-To-Work Williamsburg Bridge-Style Edition

Get Your Cool On

From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes

Deuce Seven: "New King in Town" Has Left the Building

Close-Up on South Williamsburg

Music

Escape From Bedford and Head to an Oasis in Williamsburg

Stearns & Foster, R.I.P.

Dancing (Naked) in the Dark

Fast Cars, Slow Sofas

Listings

Tripping the Light Ecstatic

E Radicals Journey Beyond the Rave

A Famous Co-op on the Lower East Side

Four-Room Apartment in 244-Unit Art Deco Co-Op