New York crackdown on hookah bars generates some blowback

Nashwa Yosry, 20, looks at her cellphone as she smokes a hookah pipe at Sahara East in New York. It's one of 13 hookah bars targeted for closure after health inspectors found tobacco in the pipes.

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In Ken Schles's Photos, a Grittier East Village Comes Back Into Focus

A solo exhibition of photographer Ken Schles offers a look at the gritty nature of his East Village neighborhood in the 1980s. The sites around photographer Ken Schles's East Village apartment in the 1980s are the backdrop for "Invisible City," a photography book from 1988 that has been reissued with a new companion volume, "Night Walk."

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A Grittier East Village Comes Back Into Focus

A solo exhibition of photographer Ken Schles offers a look at the gritty nature of his East Village neighborhood in the 1980s. The sites around photographer Ken Schles's East Village apartment in the 1980s are the backdrop for "Invisible City," a photography book from 1988 that has been reissued with a new companion volume, "Night Walk."

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On the Market: Luring Gentrifiers to Ridgewood, Crown Heights and East New York

... "The Rent is Too Damn High" McMillan has received an eviction notice for his $872-a-month, rent-stabilized, East Village apartment, according to The New York Daily News . The landlord claims that he keeps a primary residence in Brooklyn, but Mr. ...

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12 Numbers That Break Down What Happened In NYC During That 'Historic' Snowstorm

... weighed down with snow. The approximate number of bros playing beer pong in the middle of First Avenue in the East Village Monday night before they decided to destroy the beer pong table. The number of points on the star-shaped snowflakes falling in ...

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NYC's 'Rent Too High' candidate facing eviction

... rket rent to someone else. "The bottom line is, they want me out for more money," he said. He has lived in the East Village building since 1977, he said.

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The Best Craigslist Ads Looking for Love During This Week's Snowpocalypse

... ad goes on to indicate cross-dressing will be involved. "Wow. Snow Storm make me so hornya " says an athletic East Village trans woman looking for a man. "Snow day, are you Bored? Let's find something to do?" A cross-dresser from Connecticut wrote, ...

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Modern Matcha: Where to Drink (and Eat) New York's Latest Obsession

... of course. Cha-An What : Ceremonial Matcha Price : $12 In terms of quality, it's hard to top Cha-An: The East Village establishment serves traditional matcha - whisked into a shallow bowl at water heated to 175 degrees. You can also get it as a ...

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Storm unleashes blizzard conditions on parts of Northeast U.S.

... winds and heavy snow. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York, early Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Rick Caso, center, watches as his son Andrew ...

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Storm unleashes blizzard conditions

... No airplanes in the sky. An unexpected quiet. A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York, early today. ASSOCIATED PRESS Brandon Bhajan, a security guard at a West 33rd Street building, said ...

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Storm unleashes blizzard conditions on northeastern U.S.

... ton, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP / Steven Senne) A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighbourhood of New York. (AP / Patrick Sison) Police and fire personnel prepare to deploy to flooded areas on the coast in

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NE Bookstores Close, Cancel Events Thanks to Blizzard

... and New Jersey stores closed early, too, from BookTowne in Manasquan, N.J., to the Strand Bookstore in the East Village and Greenlight and WORD in Brooklyn. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., where the blizzard is expected to continue until ...

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Morning 10: Blizzard fizzles | Silver ultimatum | Wall Street pushback

The massive winter storm that was supposed to wallop New York City never materialized. Instead, the worst of the storm struck east of the city, on Long Island and in New England.

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A.M. Roundup: The ground shifts, and Silver sinks

... s Too Damn High" McMillan has received an eviction notice ordering him out of his $872-a-month rent-stabilized East Village apartment. (DN)

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Snowmaggedon fails to pack a punch

... and central New Jersey about 6 inches. A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) The National Weather Service over the weekend had issued a blizzard warning for a ...

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Millions hunker down as Northeast storm totals downgraded

... the Northeast for days. Photo: Patrick Sison, AP A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York, early Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Photo: Patrick Sison, AP With a bus in the background, steam pours ...

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Millions hunker down as Northeast storm totals downgraded

... its path in the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor. A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York, early Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Myron Korobij using a leaf blower blows the snow off his sidewalk on ...

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Millions hunker down as Northeast storm totals downgraded

... snow that could paralyze the Northeast for days. A person stands in the middle of snow-covered Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of New York, early Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. With a bus in the background, steam pours from a manhole cover, ...

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Sex, lies and art: Get drawn into 'The Credeaux Canvas'

... in New York, the Off-Broadway hit explores the close-knit lives of three young aspiring artists in the East Village of Manhattan. In a bold new production, Ross McGregor is directing a stellar cast including James Wright, Felix Johnson, Emilie ...

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Is Yonah Schimmel Knishery Closing?

Bowery Boogie, a terrific blog about New York's Lower East Side, has reported that 115-year-old East Houston eatery, Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery, may be about to lose its lease. "Apparently word on the street is that the landlord is trying to force 'em out with an all-too-familiar rent hike," Marguerite Preston reported on the blog.

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'Frantic' Shopping, Long Lines As New Yorkers Prepare For Blizzard

Long lines snaked around snow-covered blocks as New Yorkers swarmed supermarkets and hardware stores, trying to stock up on staples from milk to flashlights Monday morning ahead of the 2-foot snow dump. "Everybody seems really frantic, like something really, really bad is going to happen," said Dalia Flanagan, 33, as she loaded up a cart full of groceries at the bustling Fairway in Red Hook.

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The Launch of Lovecraft Bar in NYC

... interior design gives it a spooky yet mystical vibe, which makes this NYC bar simply spectacular. This East Village bar is especially great for Lovecraft fans, local art enthusiast, and live-music fanatics. But you don't have to follow horror ...

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MAP: 7 Classic Village Businesses That Closed in the Past Year

Word of Avignone's upcoming closure was just the latest small business closure for the Village, capping a year in which a Starbucks opened where Bleecker Street Records used to be and rising rents forced drag bar Boots & Saddle off of Christopher Street after 40 years . Eater broke the news of Gray's Papaya's closure with photos of construction workers taking down the Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue hot dog stand's well-known sign.

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Raising a baby in NYC is a terrible, terrible idea

"New York, New York, it's a helluva town for babies," said no one ever in the history of New Amsterdam, which is why my husband and I packed up our bags and moved to Westchester when our son was 5 months old. I'm sure I'll get plenty of angry e-mails from city parents claiming in fact, no, Manhattan is a-mah-zing for kids - and they'd be right - if they're talking about kids, not babies.

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Legendary Punk Rock Bar May Close Due to Lawsuit Under Disabilities Act

Legendary East Village punk rock bar Manitoba's is in danger of shuttering after reaching a settlement with a man who has sued dozens of businesses under the Americans with Disabilities Act , according to court filings. The Avenue B bar started a $25,000 fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo on Jan. 19, saying it was "recently forced to reluctantly settle a case with a private individual for a cumbersome amount" because of a "small wrinkle in the interplay between State and Federal law."

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State and city pols push to close charter school loophole

... a resolution this week calling on the charter school authorizers to do the same. "New Yorkers know that the East Village is different from East Harlem, and that East Williamsburg is different from East New York. But right now, the state's process ...

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Brooklyn Banya Named One Of The Best Indoor Activities In NYC

When it seems like the world is one unending sheet of cold rain, where do you go when you just can't spend another afternoon holed up in your apartment? If your answer is Brooklyn Banya , you may want to hurry up and go before the word spreads even more about the Russian-Turkish bathhouse. Gothamist just published a list of "the 8 best indoor activities in NYC that aren't sex," and the website named Brooklyn Banya as one of those top non-carnal spots.

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Where to find home decor items in NYC

Julie Gaines and David Lenovitz share a passion for old restaurant ware. Together they would scour the basements of restaurant suppliers in New York City's Bowery district for odds and ends or discontinued items.

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Caps Lock Theatre Stages Site-Specific 'MRS. MAYFIELD'S...

Mariah MacCarthy reunites with director Leta Tremblay on their site-specific hit Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion, this time set in an East Village apartment. Mrs. Mayfield is a rollicking yet compassionate multi-layered look at what happens when a group of former classmates hovering in their 30s reunite for an evening of partying and reminiscing.

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Boys Club Teaches Teens They Don't Need to Be Tough to Be 'Real Men'

... just let it loose, let it out, whatever they've got on their mind," said David Lucas, a teen director at the East Village clubhouse who helps run the Real Men program. Jason Rosario, a program coordinator who leads the program's activities, said ...

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New Yorkers still can't get enough ramen noodles

... with chasu pork and a perfect broth to skinny noodle ratio to have you slurping until the last sip. This small East Village ramen shop is always packed with people waiting to cram onto a bar stool and slurp up some authentic ramen. No frills or ...

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Bonnie Slotnick Redux

... sement space on 2nd Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery, where she'll have plenty of room to stretch out. The East Village will be gaining another bookstore, thanks to the Johnstons.

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Why I Believe New York's Art Scene Is Doomed

This is an article about art and gentrification, the inescapable topic . I have something new to add-that I think we may be coming to the end of a period where being an artist was synonymous with being urban, unless we are willing to fight for it-but before I start it, let me say that I have mixed feelings about my own conclusions.

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Goofy New Horror Musical Haunts the 'Frigid New York' Festival

PRLog - Jan. 12, 2015 - NEW YORK -- MZJ Music is proud to present The Can Opener: A Brief Horror Musical, at the Frigid New York Festival in the East Village, beginning February 19. Dr. Seuss meets zombies in a creepily over-perfect 1950s suburb. Young Bobbi, an intelligent but immature young woman, is tormented by zombies in her nightmares-and horrified to learn from the headlines that her visions are coming true! Under pressure from her parents she agrees to attend college, where she finds out how these nightmares started-and how they will end.

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Just so you know, Israel is wonderful

... This may seem trivial, but before making aliya , I got nostalgic and sad about the Hudson River, the East Village and my annual apple picking trips in Rockland. But, whether it's a hike up North, the Tel Aviv boardwalk or the Ella Valley, I'm ...

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Natalie Suarez - NatalieOffduty.com

Natalie Suarez began her early career as a model. She began modeling at the age of 15 in Los Angeles, CA before moving to New York, NY due to her high level of demand in the modeling world.

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Cuban sandwich paired with winter ale

It's an icy cold, windy weekend in New York. What could be better than the warmth of a spice-infused winter ale? Pairing it with a sandwich full of salty, tangy, cheesy roasted meat goodness, that's what.

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Fitness Minute: Your guide to gym news across NYC

SURFSET gets its own studio, Asphalt Green doles out fitness monitors and DavidBartonGym opens in a space worthy of worship. Every month, health reporter Meredith Engel will update you on what's new and noteworthy in the New York City fitness scene.

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's Restaurant Power Rankings: Mission Chinese Returns; Ramen Lab Debuts

... a bone-broth trend piece without prominently featuring Marco Canora's broth takeout window attached to his East Village mainstay - which is good news indeed for the chef, as it ensures the crowds will continue to line up for cups of gingered beef ...

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Artist Blair Thurman And Friends Revisit Barney's Beanery At Half Gallery

... New York. I have contributed music and art criticism to VICE, Time Out New York, Bedford and Bowery, the Local East Village Blog, and my own blogs. I am an art contributor to Mass Appeal and I currently work as Associate Web Editor at Haute Living ...

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Caps Lock Theatre to Stage Site-Specific 'MRS. MAYFIELD'S...

Mariah MacCarthy reunites with director Leta Tremblay on their site-specific hit Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion, this time set in a Williamsburg apartment. Mrs. Mayfield is a rollicking yet compassionate multi-layered look at what happens when a group of former classmates hovering in their 30s reunite for an evening of partying and reminiscing.

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The 25 Most Anticipated New York City Openings of Winter/Spring 2015

... Hanson and Riad Nasr will transform an old Spanish restaurant into their first post-McNally project, and an East Village pizzeria will do double duty as an up-and-coming chefs counter. And that's only the beginning. Here, in order of projected ...

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World Trade Center towers slow to fill

One World Trade Center stands at the end of Fulton Street in New York on Sept. 7. Thirteen years after the trauma of 9/11, the memorial and museum are now open and tenants are moving into the office buildings.

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The Bowery Meat Company Is a Beef Haven-but Don't Call It a Steakhouse

We who eat meat seek meat but need not timorously seek it. We are not mice, nor must we be lions, puffed with pride, who try to hide the mouse inside through smoke and char and crass charade and tales of getting laid.

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The 14 Biggest Restaurant Closings of 2014

... that opened up the doors and let you out into the world... forever. New York, NY If you walked around the East Village any time in the past few decades, 7A would be open. The 24-7 diner never seemed to lack a crowd (especially during brunch). Now, ...

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Friends of Eater Predict the Dining World Headlines of 2015

... Mural, $45 Egg Foo Yung" "Carmellini Throws Midtown a Bone by Opening Lafayette Spinoff on 39th Street" "East Village Hot Spot Serves Tacos That Are Fed-Exed from Mexico" "The Velvet Koozie, New York's First Bro-Centric Fine Dining Restaurant, Opens ...

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