Amapola Dry to Perform Live at NUBLU, 4/26

Amapola Dry will perform live at NUBLU on April 26, 2014 at 10:00pm. NUBLU is located at 62 Avenue C between 4th and 5th Street in the East Village.

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$2.1 million New York East Village brownstone apartment ideal for exhibitionists

If you're the kind of person who likes to think of your home as a sanctuary where you go to escape the craziness of the world around you then this New York apartment most certainly isn't for you! Located in the city's bustling East Village neighborhood, the converted brownstone features many unusual features, but none more so than the retractable ... (more)

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Moscow 57 On Delancey Celebrates Jim Brochu and His Play Character...

Newly opened Russian Central Asian restaurant with live music, Moscow57, located at 168 1/2 Delancey Street, is hosting a cocktail party to celebrate the Off-Broadway show, Character Man, written by and starring Drama Desk Award winner Jim Brochu on Sunday, April 6th from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

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Crowdsourced: Comedian Todd Barry Talks About Making Fun of His Audience, Louis CK

Last Wednesday evening inside a nondescript bar on Avenue C, the comedians gathered.

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Choice Eats: Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple

Just in time to ring in the first days of spring 2014, the seventh annual Village Voice Choice Eats tasting event descended on lower Manhattan's Basketball City on Tuesday, March 22. With it came more than 60 restaurants from all over the city, serving up the very best of their menus for a sellout crowd of 3,000 hungry New Yorkers.

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Choice Eats: Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple

Just in time to ring in the first days of spring 2014, the seventh annual Village Voice Choice Eats tasting event descended on lower Manhattan's Basketball City on Tuesday, March 22. With it came more than 60 restaurants from all over the city, serving up the very best of their menus for a sellout crowd of 3,000 hungry New Yorkers.

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Review: Menzel shines but a If/Thena too sloppy

... with his old "Rent" co-star Menzel. Seeing the pair go from that show set in the gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village to a corporate mayoral office in "If/Then" is a funny subtext. Rapp does well as Elizabeth's apparently bisexual best friend ...

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Review: Menzel shines but 'If/Then' too sloppy about 2 hours

... with his old "Rent" co-star Menzel. Seeing the pair go from that show set in the gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village to a corporate mayoral office in "If/Then" is a funny subtext. Rapp does well as Elizabeth's apparently bisexual best friend ...

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Review: Menzel shines but 'If/Then' too sloppy

... with his old "Rent" co-star Menzel. Seeing the pair go from that show set in the gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village to a corporate mayoral office in "If/Then" is a funny subtext. Rapp does well as Elizabeth's apparently bisexual best friend ...

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Review: Menzel shines but 'If/Then' too sloppy

... with his old "Rent" co-star Menzel. Seeing the pair go from that show set in the gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village to a corporate mayoral office in "If/Then" is a funny subtext. Rapp does well as Elizabeth's apparently bisexual best friend ...

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Review: Menzel Shines but 'If/Then' Too Sloppy

... with his old "Rent" co-star Menzel. Seeing the pair go from that show set in the gritty drug- and AIDS-plagued East Village to a corporate mayoral office in "If/Then" is a funny subtext. Rapp does well as Elizabeth's apparently bisexual best friend ...

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Watch NYC Gentrify Right Before Your Eyes

... neighborhoods of New York City and the sense of community they provide," the Murrays, who have lived in the East Village for more than 20 years, wrote in an email to HuffPost. "These storefronts have the city's history etched into their facades. We ...

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Lottery Offers Affordable East Village Co-Ops for 'a Few Thousand Dollars'

... the lottery will be prioritized for current residents of Community Board 3, which covers the Lower East Side, East Village and Chinatown. The Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association - which was founded in 1990 by the Cooper Square Committee to ...

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From left: 136 East 3rd Street and 31 Third Avenue

... crowd funding in 2012 to raise money to fund its lease at a new location, setting a goal of $23,000 for a new East Village spot. How close St. Mark's has come, or whether the goal has changed with the Indiegogo campaign, was not immediately clear. ...

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West Village Resident Films Psychic Web Series Featuring Locals

... have this guy in the show," she said. Smith has shot most of the self-funded series in the West Village, the East Village and Park Slope, using a two-person crew, who are paid out of the tiny budget. Actors perform for their own personal amusement, ...

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In New York's Urban Borscht Belt, Ukrainians Debate Russia and Revolution

A memorial to those killed in the recent clashes in Ukraine located in the Little Ukraine neighborhood of New York City's East Village.

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Oni Faida Lampley's Tough Titty to Run 4/23-5/11 at Paradise Factory

The New York premiere of the late award-winning playwright Oni Faida Lampley 's play Tough Titty, a poignant and funny exploration of what comes next for a Brooklyn mother diagnosed with breast cancer, will be presented next month by actress/producer Ami Brabson & her husband, Emmy and Obie Award-winning actor Andre Braughe r .

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Unseen Beauties: Stirring Life at BAM's New Voices in Black Cinema

'We dance on top of our history," intones East Village DJ August deep into Julius Onah's busy, vivid, grimly sparkling NYC-now noir thriller The Girl Is in Trouble , one of the most accomplished features at the fourth annual New Voices in Black Cinema festival at BAMcinmatek.

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$2.1 million New York East Village brownstone apartment ideal for exhibitionists

... the world around you then this New York apartment most certainly isn't for you! Located in the city's bustling East Village neighborhood, the converted brownstone features many unusual features, but none more so than the retractable facade on the ...

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Art Movements

... France, was recovered in Nice . St. Mark's Bookshop is raising funds on Indiegogo to move into a new East Village location , where it will be reimagined as a nonprofit event space. See Hyperallergic's previous coverage of the plight of St. Mark's ...

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Begin Again to Close the 13th Annual Tribeca Film Festival

... turn for the better when Dan (Mark Ruffalo), a disgraced record-label exec, stumbles upon her performing on an East Village stage and is immediately captivated by her raw talent. From this chance encounter emerges an enchanting portrait of a ...

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Stage Coach Theatre Extends RENT Through 3/29

... excellent in helping highlighting the different moods and journeys that the play took you through. Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best ...

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The Weekend Guide

... at Twelfth Ave. Tickets ($30) at adhomedesignshow.com or at the door ($40). NOSH Schnitz What: Hit the new East Village storefront for crispy cutlets in three varieties: Bamberg (chicken with pickled cucumbers, daikon, ginger, and shallots), Grumpy ...

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Second Cumming: Alan Cumming, Polymath

... he has lived since 1998. "What I think is great about Manhattan is it's only a finite size," the longtime East Village resident, who in January bought a $4.65 million townhouse with his husband of six years, said. "It means that if people go ...

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15 Secret Bars You Need To Visit

... W. Medill Ave., Chicago New York City is all but officially the capital city of "secret" bars, and this cozy East Village spot is arguably the city's most popular watering hole of its kind. The entrance to PDT (short for Please Don't Tell, of ...

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Cheap Laughs: The Best in Independent Comedy This Week, 3/19 - 3/26

... with a great lineup and genial hosts. Paul Oddo and Ray DeVito (host of the departed and much beloved cult East Village comedy show Sacapuntas!) bring you Carmen Lynch , Sarah Tollemache , Keith Alberstadt , and a bunch of other fine comics. People ...

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The Top 5 Romantic Date Ideas in New York City

Today, the editors at NYCTourist.com released its Top 5 Romantic Date Ideas in New York City.

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New York Ukrainians Worry About 'Evil' Happenings at Home

A woman walks past the Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union in the Ukrainian neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village.

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New York Ukrainians Worry About 'Evil' Happenings at Home

New York is home to tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian immigrants. A woman walks past the Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union in the Ukrainian neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village.

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Pink Olive is coming to Williamsburg

Mar. 15, 2014 - BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Pink Olive, whimsical gifts for happiness and home, is opening a new store location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on April 12. Since opening its doors in 2007, Pink Olive has made gift-giving fun, easy and attainable for little ones to loved ones.

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5 Things To Know This AM

The New York premier of BAFTA-nominated movie Good Vibrations will take place tomorrow night, Friday, March 14, in Brooklyn.

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Sara Gates: How I Fell For An Awful Apartment Scam -- And How To Avoid It

When something is too good to be true, it probably is. I know you've probably heard that before, but no words could be truer -- especially when it comes to renting in New York.

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Ask the Critic: The Best Bars for Birthday Parties

... on Avenue C. Two sizable connected rooms, serious cocktails that go for at least a couple bucks less than most East Village bars, lots of drinks offered by a small or large pour, and a menu that'll satisfy everyone from the teetotaler to the ...

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Brownstone Fever 1969

Last week, we talked about hyper-gentrification , the brand of urban change we're living with today, a very different process from old-fashioned gentrification.

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The Heavy Lowdown: NY Death Fest II adds to line-up, weekend shows and more

... to Slough Feg main man Mike Scalzi about his controversal 2010 IO columns, among other things . We returned to East Village Radio -- this week's show was brought to you by the Children of Bodom Halo of Blood tour, which also features Tyr & Death ...

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The Most NYC Albums That Didn't Make Our Most NYC Albums List

... and dangerous life on the Lower East Side in the early '80s. The band formed around the A7 Club in the East Village and quickly attracted critics who labeled them fascists and skinheads, lead by punk zine Maximumrocknroll -- all claims the band ...

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Chef John Fraser Talks Narcissa and Vegetable Power

... his days between uptown and downtown, where he's the culinary mastermind behind Andre Balazs' Standard, East Village hotel. Just-opened Narcissa is the main attraction, where crisped beets do time in the rotisserie and steamed black bass sits in a ...

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Nick Anderer's Best Eats in the East Village and Alphabet City

As a longtime resident on the east side of Manhattan, Nick Anderer has seen more restaurants pop up closer to the East River each year.

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New York Neo-Futurists Feature 30 Food-Packed Plays in Grade Pending This Weekend

The New York Neo-Futurists' 2014 Specialty Show, GRADE PENDING, will feature 30 food-packed plays in 60 delicious minutes! Come and see our favorite plays featuring waiters, dumpster meals, the service industry, food deserts, pudding and bourbon.

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Famed SAT and ACT Tutor Returns to New York City

... ost ambitious, sharpest people in the world, and I'm excited to be plugged back in." Green is now based in the East Village of Manhattan, where he splits his time between tutoring students one-on-one and continuing to develop his online programs.

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Row NYC Is More New York Than New York

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Row NYC Is More New York Than New York

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New Line Theatre Opens RENT Tonight

New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre, " continues its 23rd season of adult, alternative musicaltheatre with an all-new, re-imagined production of the Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary classic, the iconic rock opera RENT, running tonight, March 6-29, 2014.

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Man left with nothing when contractor clears out wrong apartment

A New York man came home to an empty apartment after a clean up crew went into the wrong apartment and threw out almost all of his belongings.

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The Other Critics: Wells Reviews Ramen; Steve Cuozzo Gives All'onda Two Stars

There were no new reviews from New York this week, but Pete Wells tried an incredible amount of ramen across the city, Joshua David Stein feasted on rotisserie-crisped beets at Narcissa, and Michael Kaminer enjoyed the majority of the menu at Margaux inside the Marlton Hotel.

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Inside a NYC horse carriage stable

Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to the bring about the end of the horse carriage ride around New York City, citing inhumane treatment of the animals.

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Midtown East Coffee Nightmare Finally Over: Where to Get a Good Brew

... old New York, and the most recent location of Ninth Street Espresso does just that. Firmly entrenched in the East Village and well-trafficked in Chelsea Market, Ninth Street opened its fourth location in Manhattan in this seemingly unusual spot, and ...

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A taste of Japan in Manhattan's Little Tokyo

... traditional, and the other is hazelnut chocolate and banana." Between St. Marks Place and 10th Street in the East Village lies an area that's become known as Little Tokyo. There are Japanese restaurants, specialty food stores and gift shops galore. ...

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Will Success Spoil Astor Place?

... "The IBM building was marketed as the commercial district coming south," adds Sara Romanoski, head of the East Village Community Coalition. "It clearly stands out. They want to be in this place for a reason. So we hope they respect the qualities ...

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Ukrainian NYers on Edge as Conflict Back Home Nears Possible Tipping Point

The moves and counter-moves over Ukraine are of special concern to New Yorkers with relatives in the embattled country including many in the East Village where immigrants continue to keep close watch on events in their homeland.

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East Village Small Businesses Join Together in Merchant Association

"From a community character and quality-of-life standpoint, we believe in a diversity of businesses and services in the East Village," said Sara Romanoski, managing director of the East Village Community Coalition , who started the new business group.

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Benjamin Alter announces The Opening of Cafe CAMBODGE. New York's...

... opening his first restaurant Arcane, a French-Caribbean restaurant 5 years ago. When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Village in 2012, like most of his neighbors Arcane was hit hard. The bar was closed for a month and the kitchen for more than two ...

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Enough already! More snow to sock NYC

... st month, Beck said. "Cold as hell and need to warm up. Vitamin D please! " tweeted @lowayne, on the way to an East Village tanning salon.

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East Village Candy Store Marks 40 Sweet Years

A store in the East Village is marking 40 years of being the go-to place for New Yorkers with a sweet tooth.

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