Halal Guys food cart 'Guys' win lawsuit vs. same-name rivals

... Five Guys Burgers and Fries into a nationwide chain. The goal is to license the Halal Guys name. "For me, the (East Village restaurant) is not my aim," Abouelenein told the Daily News earlier this summer. "This is just the first step. I am imagining ...

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Rats! New York City Tries To Drain Rodent 'Reservoirs'

New Yorkers can take city-run classes to learn how to make their homes and businesses less attractive to these guys.

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Rats! New York City Tries To Drain Rodent 'Reservoirs'

City officials are ramping up efforts to teach regular New Yorkers how to make their streets, businesses and gardens less hospitable to rodents - in other words, to see their neighborhood the way a health inspector would.

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Everything by My Side to Make U.S. Premiere at Hudson River Park as...

... translated into English, Italian, and French. Performance Space 122 (PS122), a not-for-profit, New York City East Village institution founded over 30 years ago, is recognized internationally for its presentations of contemporary theater, dance, ...

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Sponsored Story: The Must-See Spots Of NYC, According To Us

... worries - it's more about the ritual. Our newest obsession is macha, and Physical Graffitea (get it?) in the East Village is the perfect place to try it out before ambling toward Tompkins Square Park to enjoy the sunshine. We really do believe that ...

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This Week's Best Shows and a Spotify Playlist of the Bands

... Saturday for the final installment in the free weekend outdoor concert series Summer Thunder , co-curated by East Village record store, Other Music . Headlining is J Mascis's (Dinosaur Jr.) stoner rock ensemble Heavy Blanket . From 2 p.m. until 6 ...

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New York Essentials: 10 Must-Eat Desserts in NYC

... batches are baked several times a day for freshness. The whimsically named Bun Chika Bun Bun at this mad-cap East Village bakery starts with a large choux puff and a crunchy craquelin coating. The choux, which sets on a buttery speculaas cookie ...

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Don't Let the Jocks Win, Chloe Sevigny

Sevigny has moved. She has moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn - not out of self-motivated whimsy, but rather to protest the migration of the jocks .

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The Green Juice Cocktail: New Yorkers Are Now Boozing and Detoxing Simultaneously

In the not too distant past, Sunny Delight was considered a perfectly acceptable form of juice.

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Chloe Sevigny Exits Greenwich Village

A couple of fun media strands to note in Marlow Stern 's solid Daily Beast Q&A with actress Chloe Sevigny , whose Amazon series The Cosmopolitans debuts August 28. Shortly after departing SoHo restaurant Balthazar, where she had sat down last week for lunch with the reporter, Sevigny was snapped and her outfit turned into a Daily Mail summer item .

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Must-see concerts this week

... Square Park, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival will finish its free two-day festival and feature up-and-coming East Village talent. Meanwhile, at a more intimate setting, the 250-person capacity Mercury Lounge will be hosting indie folk band ...

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McDonald's worker, 81, fights on for fair fast-food worker wages

Peruvian immigrant Castillo is paid $8.10 an hour at a Midtown McDonald's and can't afford to retire.

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August in the City Has Its Upside

... people away on vacation, there are a few unexpected perks to being stuck in New York. Chris French Cleaners in East Village is much less busy in August than at other times of the year. While wedding dress alterations can take six weeks other times ...

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It's Chinatown: Neighborhood Sees Yet Another Harbinger of Gentrification

... bellwether of the neighborhood's shift than the harassment of rent-regulated tenants. Greenwich Village, the East Village and the Lower East Side have all been loci of similar battles in recent years, with the roles of villain largely played by Ben ...

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Thrones star takes off-Broadway lead

Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage is to join Orange is the New Black actress Taylor Schilling in a New York revival of A Month in the Country.

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Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling to Spend 'A Month in the Country'

... Classic Stage Company, directed by Dinklage's wife, Erica Schmidt . The play begins performances Jan. 9 at the East Village venue, in a limited engagement scheduled through Feb. 15. Schilling takes on the role of Natalya, the bored wife of an older ...

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Dog days of summer! Naomi Watts enjoys sunny day in NYC wearing...

Dog days of summer! Naomi Watts is all white in crisp sundress as she takes her pooch for a stroll around New York The 44-year-old wore a perfectly crisp white sundress as she enjoyed a stroll in New York's East Village on Monday with her 12-year-old Yorkshire Terrier Bob.

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Artist's Notebook: Sean Joseph Patrick Carney

... theme would be "food." Ramocki and Bebecka were curating the first exhibition, and she and I met up in the East Village after work one day in early February to talk about possible ideas for the show. I pitched her the idea of Experimental Aioli, and ...

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Crown Height's Crabby Shack | Yodle's new lease | Sirius XM director sells

For the Record is a weekly listing of information from the public record that can help businesspeople in the New York area find opportunities, potential new clients and updates on competitors.

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New York: All About That Basil: Go On a Basil Cocktail Crawl at These NYC Hotels

It's no secret that we love drinking in hotels here at HotelChatter. In fact, hotels might be our favorite "local."

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New Bern Civic Theatre announces plans for 2015 season

... "This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers on Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to ...

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New Bern Civic Theatre announces plans for 2015 season

... "This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers on Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to ...

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Exclusive: David Chang Makes His Ideal Childhood Meal

Piles of blue crabs, baptized with Miller Lite and anointed with Old Bay, with a grenadine-red cherry Coke on the side.

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Single man plasters 500 posters a DAY round NYC in bid to find his soulmate

... meaningful relationship. I have already got a couple of dates lined up thanks to the posters.' The artist from East Village turned his back on more modern match-making methods such as dating apps and sites after being single for two years following ...

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The End of New York: How One Blog Tracks t...

... was taking over what had been a long-standing pocket of eccentricity and bohemianism.' Moss has lived in the East Village the whole time, in a 'crummy slum tenement where the landlord never gets anything fixed,' and he has witnessed his area ...

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Shilpa Ray Announces National Us 2014 Fall Tour Dates plus stream the ...

Shilpa Ray will embark upon her first national US tour of 2014 this fall, playing dates alongside fellow Brooklyn duo She Keeps Bees beginning late August and running through the end of September.

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OPINION: Sketchy Neighborhood App Encourages Fear And Discrimination

According to the NYC Crime Map, the sketchiest place in New York is its heart, Times Square.

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Wylie Dufresne Has a Lot of Aches and Pains

Name: Wylie Dufresne Age: 44 Neighborhood: Gramercy Occupation: Chef, Alder and the trailblazing East Village restaurant wd~50 , which is set to close at the end of November .

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New Yorkers fall in love with puppies on Tinder

Last week, dogs started to pop up on the popular dating app in the New York City area, and residents are swiping right.

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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: City Parks Foundation Presents the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, August 23-24, 2014

... blocks from the famous jazz clubs where Parker graced the stage, and move to Tompkins Square Park in the East Village on Sunday, just across the street from the late Parker's apartment. In the words of Miles Davis, "You can tell the history of jazz ...

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... was taking over what had been a long-standing pocket of eccentricity and bohemianism.' Moss has lived in the East Village the whole time, in a 'crummy slum tenement where the landlord never gets anything fixed,' and he has witnessed his area ...

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The End of New York: How One Blog Tracks the Disappearance of a Vibrant City

... was taking over what had been a long-standing pocket of eccentricity and bohemianism.' Moss has lived in the East Village the whole time, in a 'crummy slum tenement where the landlord never gets anything fixed,' and he has witnessed his area ...

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The End of New YorkBy Tim Teeman

... was taking over what had been a long-standing pocket of eccentricity and bohemianism." Moss has lived in the East Village the whole time, in a "crummy slum tenement where the landlord never gets anything fixed," and he has witnessed his area ...

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Why New Yorkers Are Getting Matched With Dogs on Tinder

... literal dogs. Like, the four legged kind, not the kind that sends you lots of suggestive eggplant emojis . East Village no-kill shelter Social Tees Animal Rescue teamed up with The Barn at ad agency BBH to push pet adoption a via a dating app. Since ...

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Love where you work, enjoy Friday night bites at SILO in Makers Quarter

SILO in Makers Quarter, the art-infused outdoor space at 753 15th St. in the East Village, continues to create ways to bring some of the best things in life together: community, creativity, and change.

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How Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan became off-screen friends

... theater community welcomed me and gave me a chance to prove otherwise. ZK: Seven years ago I was living in the East Village with my roommate, and our apartment got totally infested with mice. So she found a place in Carroll Gardens, and we moved out ...

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Rethinking the Tortilla: Aspiring Restaurateur Seeks Funding to Bring ...

... no one I've asked had ever actually had a pupusa." Similar to the Venezuelan arepa, made popular in New York's East Village and Brooklyn by hot spot Caracas, Pupusas are a gluten-free corn masa closed tortilla stuffed with any combination of beans, ...

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Peloton puts a new spin on home workouts with high-tech bike

... its paces. Peloton is the spinning class - without the actual class. I took the bike for a spin in my own tiny East Village apartment. Peloton is a new touch-screen-enabled bicycle that lets the user take classes from the comfort of her own home - ...

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Many varieties of shave ice are available to New Yorkers looking to cool off

A gold flake topped shave ice reportedly debuted at a Tokyo hotel this summer for $25, while another nearby hotel just started serving the summery snack with a scoop of caviar - for $50.

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Site-Specific Dead Behind These Eyes Set for Sing Sing Karaoke, Begin. 8/29

Taking place inside an East Village karaoke bar, Sister Sylvester's Dead Behind These Eyes is a site-specific performance about pop music, love and apathy.

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The Corporate Sector Completely Assimilates Brooklyn, NY's Williamsburg

... decline as factories and warehouses closed. It became a symbol of urban blight. Towards the late 1990s, as the East Village began to become too expensive for starving artists, the poorest of students and recent graduates, these urban pioneers began ...

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The Oldest Rapper In Hip Hop Takes On Cam'ron

He was rolling along in his wheelchair on a busy East-Village street, looking for something.

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Film clips

... with a major label, she's at loose ends until a disgraced record label exec stumbles upon her performing on an East Village stage. (101 minutes) BLENDED, PG-13 After a disastrous blind date, single parents (Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore) agree on ...

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