Sentimental look at New York bars skips darker side

... and was inspired to examine the role that drinking establishments have played in the gentrification of the East Village and Lower East Side of Manhattan. Despite its urban backdrop, his story will be familiar to anyone with a taste for western ...

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New York holiday markets from Brooklyn to Bryant Park

... from the Macaron Parlour and Mayhem & Stout. And you can't beat the views of Central Park. What's new: The East Village venue has 150 indie vendors, including Cork Buds - which makes planters from wine corks - and the Men's Soap Shop, featuring ...

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New Yorkers are paying up to $9 to sip on a cup of artisanal bone broth Brodo

... Winter warmer: Chicken, turkey and beef broth with Calabrian chili oil from Brodo, a new window in Manhattan's East Village selling 'sipping broths' by the cup But it doesn't come cheap. While the price of a small (8oz) cup of organic chicken broth ...

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Gillian Anderson Remembers Her First Big Break as an Actress

... Parker was originally cast, but she got the movie "Grand Canyon" and left. I was waitressing in the East Village and at a greasy spoon and a fancy restaurant. I was terrible at waitressing at the fancy restaurant. I can handle 30 tables with fast ...

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Cuba set to stage its first US musical in 50 years

... yes, the story. Rent, which is loosely based on Puccini's 1896 opera La BohA me, begins on Christmas Eve in an East Village bedsit. Not only does it have an anti-capitalist bent (the title song refers to the refusal of two lead characters, a ...

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Life's not always a cabaret for Cumming

... like letting go." He's lived in New York for 16 years and is in the process of renovating a town house in the East Village in Manhattan. He also has a pad in Edinburgh, but doesn't return much because of work commitments, he says. "New York's a city ...

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Organization 'God's Love' Steps Up to the Thanksgiving Plate

... and delivers meals for New Yorkers too sick to cook or shop. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report. East Village resident Sarah gets meals delivered to her apartment twice weekly by God's Love We Deliver. She says she couldn't live without it ...

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Paying the rent: Cuba to mount its first Broadway musical in 55 years

It will be "Seasons of Love" in Cuba next month when the Caribbean country hosts its first Broadway show in more than five decades. The show's producers said they have been trying for several years to stage a full production in Cuba, which has banned U.S. musicals since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.

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Ferguson verdict: Protesters block busy New York streets

... they tried to pull down a police barricade. Another group of protesters marched from Union Square through the East Village and hopped a barricade onto FDR Drive. Officers standing nearby blocked vehicular traffic as the protesters walked in the ...

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Ferguson verdict: Protesters blocks busy New York streets

... they tried to pull down a police barricade. Another group of protesters marched from Union Square through the East Village and hopped a barricade onto FDR Drive. Officers standing nearby blocked vehicular traffic as the protesters walked in the ...

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Police: Suspects Robbed Woman, Sprayed Her In Face In East Village

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26-Year-Old Benny's Burritos Will Close on Saturday

A manager at Benny's Burritos in the East Village confirmed a report today that its restaurant component will cease to exist as we know it after service on Saturday. The good news is that Benny's will continue to serve green-chile enchiladas and burritos from a takeout and delivery counter being installed right now at the back of the space, where the bar currently stands, and the transition should be seamless, a worker says.

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On the Market: Museums Expand, Pastry Shops Vanish and Airbnb Wants a Nobel Prize

Museums' good fortune has also been the New York construction industry's, Crain's reports , with some $2 billion in museum renovations and expansions currently underway. Among some of the biggest projects: the Whitney's move to Chelsea, the Met's expansion into the former Whitney building and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's 6o percent expansion.

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Gemma Ward sells New York pad

Gemma Ward looks set to make a tidy profit if she can find a buyer for her New York apartment. The Perth-raised supermodel, right, has reportedly put her East Village pad up for sale for $US2.25 million - $US750,000 more than she paid for it seven years ago.

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Comprehensive exhibition of Tseng Kwong Chi's work opens at Ben Brown Fine Arts

Tseng Kwong Chi, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 1985. Silver Gelatin Print, 38.1 x 38.1 cm / 15 x 15 in.

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A day in Greenwich Village

... an ice cream truck in 2009, the soft serve was so popular that they opened up a brick-and-mortar shop in East Village and later expanded to West Village. Sweet-savvy New Yorkers arenA a a t the only ones taking note. In 2012, USA Today ranked Big ...

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NYPD: East Village Pizza Delivery Man Robbed Of $22

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Lawsuits: Rent-Stabilized Leases Can't Be Treated As Assets, Court Rules

The state's highest court has ruled that the city's precious, sparse rent-stabilized leases can not be used as assets in the case of bankruptcy, meaning the leases cannot be seized and sold to pay off creditors, the Times reports . The decision comes after a year-long legal battle between the state and rent-stabilized East Village tenant Mary Veronica Santiago Monteverde , who declared bankruptcy when she was unable to keep up with her expenses following her husband's death.

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Scenes from an Italian Restaurant: John's of 12th Street

John's of 12th Street is a documentary about the East Village Italian restaurant of the same name, directed by Vanessa McDonell, and currently screening at the Spectacle Theater . Upcoming screenings are this Saturday, November 22nd at 10pm, followed by a filmmaker Q Friday, November 28 at 7:30pm; and Sunday, November 30 at 5pm.

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Rent-stabilized leases shielded in bankruptcy

In a 5-to-2 vote on Thursday, the state's Court of Appeals said that a rent-stabilized lease was exempted from a bankruptcy estate as a public-assistance benefit, just like disability or unemployment benefits, according to The New York Times . The ruling has implications for the nearly 1 million New Yorkers who live in rent-regulated apartments.

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Ruling Favors Renters With Regulated Apartments

... to their homes under a decision issued Thursday by the state's highest court. The case involved an 80-year-old East Village woman, Mary Santiago, who filed for bankruptcy in 2011 because of credit-card debt, and found her rights to her apartment in ...

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Reelin' and Writin'

Congratulations to friend, comrade, and contessa of cinema Farran Smith Nehme on the publication of her first novel, Missing Reels , where the romance of the city meets the romance of old movies, tango'ing between the rich palette of the Hannah and Her Sisters 80's and the patchy, velvety monochrome of silent classics. Remarkably assured, neatly plotted, deftly paced, and charming as all get out, it may be the first novel with the churchly soul of a revival house, taking us back to the glory days when the Thalia, the New Yorker, the Elgin, and so many more theaters were running double features of Hollywood and foreign favorites, and film buffs partook of a movable feast.

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Limoges pops into Rock City

... Belfast Free Range Festival, as well as venues from Jalopy in Brooklyn, N.Y. and the Alphabet Lounge in the East Village to many Maine venues such as Blue in Portland. In 2012, Limoges graduated, a year early, from Camden Hills Regional High School ...

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Delicious Ukrainian Food in a Basement

Hidden restaurants usually fall into two categories: Those that cater to Wall Street types looking to impress on a second date, and those that don't need to advertise, because they're places so excellent and revered, word of month is all that is needed. Located just below a chiropractic office in the basement of an East Village townhouse, Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen is the latter, a place that a friend may tell you "is kind of hard to find."

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Book review: - You' is a teasing tale that keeps you hanging by your fingertips

... from Catcher In The Rye. Too clever by half you might say. He works in a bookshop in New York's trendy East Village and is a walking compendium of American Literature. Knowing, superior, he judges the customers by what they read. In comes Guinevere ...

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'Man Spreaders,' There's No Excuse for Not Closing Your Legs on the Subway

... in front of a whole row of benches, or passing out on an entire row on the F train on the way home from an East Village bar at 2 a.m. Sure, if the train is a little bit empty, you can be at ease, soldier, but never to the degree that it would ...

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Thanksgiving ideas for NYC gatherings

Thanksgiving is almost here. New Yorkers are getting ready to enjoy a traditional dinner at home or their favorite NYC restaurants.

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Treasured New York Cookbook Shop to Close

... not renew her lease. She is, however, planning to move shop, perhaps to the East Village. "I'm not really an East Village person," Slotnick told the Forward, "but it feels much more human scale and homey to me now than the West Village. And the ...

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Longtime Village Cookbook Shop Closing After Losing Lease

Bonnie Slotnick is shutting down her independent cookbook store after 15 years, because her landlord refused to renew her lease, according to a report and a sign in the window. Slotnick, who owns Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks at 163 W. 10th St., told Jeremiah's Vanishing New York that she is being forced to close the store when her lease expires on Jan. 31, 2015.

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15 Years in, Gabrielle Hamilton's Prune Is as Relevant as Ever

... cared less because I don't eat brunch. I can make my own eggs. But since many New Yorkers primarily know this East Village mainstay for its Dutch pancakes and such, I forced myself out of bed at noon on Saturday and taxied over to Gabrielle ...

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Best Bets: Week of November 17, 2014

David Yurman , he of the signature twisted-metal-jewelry motif, on his brand's downtown flagship , debuting November 24. 'It wasn't till halfway through this project that I realized, 'I'm actually going to have a store in Soho.' In the late '60s, early '70s, I had a basement studio on Thompson where I welded bronze statues: Two of my bronze angels will be on display in the store, standing five feet tall by the entrance.

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Man arrested after his wife is found shot dead in the front yard of their home

... Jonah Hill bundles up in red plaid shirt as he takes his dog for a stroll on chilly day Spotted in the East Village on Sunday A family affair! Brooke Shields takes daughters Rowan and Grier ice skating at Penguins Of Madagascar premiere in NYC ...

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A Brief But Stunning Visual History Of Burlesque In The 1950s

Today, burlesque is nothing short of an art form . Performers both male and female combine the most explosive aspects of costumery, dance, comedy and theater in a type of live entertainment that, of course, places nudity on a pedestal.

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New York: JetBlue Debuts Brand New 'T5i' International Zone for JFK Terminal 5

... some gardening, and blue skies. a NY Times bookstore Bar Veloce, the first airport outpost of the popular East Village wine bar NY Market, stocked with products local to New York State new restrooms and gate waiting areas a customer service desk new ...

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Parents Just Don't Understand Brooklyn: When Families Shop BK, Generations Clash

Not even Brooklyn Heights is a hit with some parentsa s 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park On a recent evening at Docklands, a self-described Nouveau American Bistro in Crown Heights, a young man behind the bar served one-dollar oysters and recalled growing up in the neighborhood in the 1990s, when Nouveau American Bistros and one-dollar oysters in Crown Heights were quite unthinkable. "Franklin and St. John's was a heroin corner," he said, referring to a nearby intersection.

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An Insider's Guide to Local New York Bites

I once read that it would take 15 years for someone to see every single item that is on display at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Similarly, with over 4,200 restaurants in New York City , there are ample options but not all may be worth a visit.

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Your Weekend Starts Now 11/13/14

NY1's weekly segment "Your Weekend Starts Now" shows entertaining picks for great things to do this weekend all around the city. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.

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Broth takeout shop | Madewell's Brooklyn location | Papyrus' new lease

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The East Village Eye: Where Art, Hip Hop, and Punk Collided

Between May 1979 and January 1987, the East Village Eye breathlessly covered the East Village art scene. Indiscriminate in its interests, the magazine charted the rise of hip hop, graffiti, and punk, and is widely credited with contributing to the intermingling of several New York scenes.

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'Game of Thrones'-Inspired Dinner to Be Served at East Village Restaurant

" Game of Thrones " geeks will find plenty to chew on when L'Apicio hosts a four-course dinner inspired by the popular show and book series next week. The restaurant, on East First Street between Second Avenue and the Bowery, will serve new dishes inspired by the Great Houses of Westeros - the ruling families that often battle for power - at an event on Nov. 18. "I'm just trying to make a menu that maybe they would eat if they were hosting a feast, what they might serve as their main course," said Executive Chef Gabe Thompson.

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New Yorkers Getting a Taste of Rice's Country Ham From Mt. Juliet

... one word being superfluous or one detail unwanted. Last week's column features King Bee , a restaurant in the East Village that is "inspired by the Acadian culinary tradition." As in, a little eastern Canadian and a little Cajun. But that's not what ...

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Nytw Seeks Choirs for David Greig's Play the Events

New York Theatre Workshop is proud to announce the Community Choir Program, as part of the upcoming New York premiere of THE EVENTS, written by acclaimed Scottish playwright David Greig . THE EVENTS follows one survivor's search for compassion, peace and understanding in the wake of unthinkable violence.

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The 5 new rules of resume writing

... opportunities on LinkedIn and realized Peppercomm was a great fit for me," explains Roth, a 23-year-old East Village resident. Mandy Roth created a Web site with a personalized list of why she was a perfect fit for the p.r. firm she wanted to work ...

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Rebecca White: Creeps, catcallers, color and class

In the back room of an East Village bar packed with a genteel crowd of mostly white downtown types there for a discussion of politics and culture, my radar registered prudes, not pervs. As a 33-year-old white woman wearing a jacket that hid my form and an English-teacher type of billowy scarf, my guard was down. And then it happened.

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For Your Next Weekend Trip: Hungry Wino In Toronto's Vine Country

Fathom celebrates all the reasons why we pack our bags, get on a plane, hitch a ride, and explore beyond our backyards. Fathom reinvents the travel website through inspiring stories, practical advice, and useful tools and products.

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Shooting Outside East Village Housing Development Leaves Man Wounded

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's Restaurant Power Rankings: Little Park, a New Downtown Steakhouse, and More

... pork sausage with plum mostarda and salsa verde. 10. Tuome (Off last week) It was a very good week for this East Village spot helmed by a former Eleven Madison Park staffer: Both Pete Wells and Tejal Rao filed reviews, and both were quite impressed. ...

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A pop-up exhibit of 80 french fries is here to feed your addiction

... fry. These fries are made to order, fresh never frozen, and made with one ingredient: the potato. Location: East Village Chef: Shaun Vanalphen Notes: Thick cut fries that souffle out - crispy outside with a creamy and fluffy center. Location: East ...

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Like Filipino food? Check out one of these NYC restaurants

Enjoy a traditional Filipino feast - served on banana leaves and eaten with yours hands - at Jeepney in the East Village. "A lot of people still don't know what [our] food is," says Neil Syham, who opened Lumpia Shack with wife Angie Roca earlier this year.

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Marc Maron Finally Chills Out

... A and B. Do you have any places that you like to visit when you're back? I find myself at Veselka in the East Village a lot. There's something about that pierogi. That place has been part of my life more than most places. Does it also remind you why ...

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Ramen King David Chang Is Launching His Own Food Delivery App

Foodies may know David Chang as the founder of Momofuku , an award-winning restaurant group that includes nine restaurants in New York City, five in Toronto, and one in Sydney. Now, the master chef is branching into tech, with a new food delivery app called Maple that will launch early next year.

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A selection of the delicious specimens on display in Sir Kensington's #FriesOfNewYork.

I used to live a couple of blocks away from Pommes Frites , the Belgian fry counter in the East Village, and as a broke freelancer in my early twenties, I often replaced meals entirely with a paper cone of fries. They were cut thick and fried twice, so the batons were dark and crisp, but with fluffy, tender centers.

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Comedy's Biggest Names Talk About Their Relationship with New York

Throughout the middle part of the 20th century, comedians like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Woody Allen, and Bill Cosby shared stage time with folk musicians, Beat poets, and activists in the basement bars and coffeehouses of Greenwich Village. The Improv Comedy Club, founded in 1963 in Hell's Kitchen, expanded to a Hollywood outpost in 1974, paving the way for the first -- and, with two dozen venues, still the largest -- chain of comedy clubs in the United States.

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Philadelphia: Serenity, Art and Fine Food

... dA cor and the loose threads of Bohemia, then try discovering the area north of Chestnut, which has an East Village vibe without the crowds and traffic. There are plenty of nice spots to sit and enjoy a quiet coffee in the morning while you ...

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Top chefs are trying to be simply great

They're leaving high-end eateries for laid-back spots, and serving cheap eats like tacos on disposable dishes, messy barbecue meats, Americanized egg rolls and pizza. Alex Stupak, the Picasso of pastries who formerly churned out modernist desserts like lemongrass mousse at WDEoe50 - the Lower East Side restaurant boasting multicourse tasting menus that can cost upwards of $600 for two - is the latest chef to leave fine dining for more casual grub.

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For some singles, vacation flings turn into the real thing

... celebrity gossip and beachside margaritas. Meeting a new boyfriend was not on the agenda. Not only was the East Village resident getting over a breakup, she was also wary of holiday romances in general - and for good reason. Trip Advisor data from a ...

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15 New York City attractions for people who hate people

... city park. It's not likely you'll find any people here, except in the things they left. A sign posted in this East Village bar reads, "NO LOUD TALKING ALOUD- WHISPERING ONLY -BY ORDER of the BREWIST MONKS." The reference to "brewist monks" is a ...

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