Afternoon Bulletin: Judy Blume Saves a Marriage, City Potholes Worsening

... the New York Post, an alley bordering the glass facade of Cooper Union has become a congregation spot for the East Village homeless. "I have seen drug deals, public urination, defecation, masturbation in broad daylight," a member of Cooper Union's ...
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Place Final Bids for 'A Benefit Auction for 826 NYC,'...

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14 Things to Do in Manhattan Neighborhoods This Weekend

... from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. East Village community gardens will do double-duty as screening rooms during an eight-night outdoor film series hosted by the Museum of ...
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Via Della Pace and Bruno: A Tale of Two East Village Pizzerias

The public's appetite for small expensive pizzas cooked in a wood oven along Neapolitan lines seems only to be growing. When these pies first appeared here in 1996 at the Flatiron's La Pizza Fresca, they engendered little response from New Yorkers, who thought their own bigger, lusher, cheaper pies were sufficient.
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DIARY: Vital Signs

... back. "Pardon my shtick," Wayne Koestenbaum grinned to a dozen of us gathered one warm July evening in the East Village for "Marking Marks," a walk the poet-painter-critic was leading in homage to Frank O'Hara 's 1953 poem "Second Avenue." We were ...
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032c Debuts its Workshop in Berlin with Willy Vanderperre Curating 20 Years of Raf Simons

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DIARY: Vital Signs

... back. "Pardon my shtick," Wayne Koestenbaum grinned to a dozen of us gathered one warm July evening in the East Village for "Marking Marks," a walk the poet/painter/critic was leading in homage to Frank O'Hara 's 1953 poem, "Second Avenue." We were ...
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feature The Strokes Confirm Plans To Hit The Studio: Read A Classic...

... to discover the true state of The Strokes... The day before 'Under Cover Of Darkness' goes live, and in the East Village offices of Wiz Kid Management things are very much, as the proprietor puts it, "getting back into gear". While his dog, Xavi, ...
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Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen Hires Minneapolis Curator to Run New Seattle-Based Art Center

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's appointing Karen Brooks Hopkins as senior fellow in residence, according to the New York Times ' Robin Pogrebin. She'll fill the newly created position after recently stepping down as the president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music-a role she held for thirty-six years.
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NYPDa s Big Brother watch tower removed from East Village

The NYPD watch tower that has left New Yorkers feeling uneasy since being placed in the East Village park last week was finally removed by cops Tuesday morning. "I'm glad to see it's gone," said Chris Tornay, a 47-year-old construction supervisor who has lived in the area for 25 years.
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Shuttered in Recent Budget Crisis, Illinois State Museum Gallery Reopens

On the first of this month, state workers, with little advance notice, packed up artworks on view and closed the Illinois State Museum's Lockport gallery, according to the Chicago Tribune 's Frank Vaisvilas. The reason? "The state had stopped covering the space's insurance during the current budget crisis," writes Vaisvilas.
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Shigeko Kubota

The Korea Times reports that artist Shigeko Kubota, who was married to Nam June Paik, died last Thursday in New York after battling cancer, according to the Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, Korea. Born in 1937 in Niigata, Japan, Kubota studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education before moving to New York in 1964 and studying at New York University and the New School for Social Research.
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#LOVESTORY to Play FringeNYC

Dating in New York City should be as simple as ordering Seamless, but as Zoe and her friends find in #LoveStory - A New Musical, love is a far cry from a few taps on an iPhone. In this contemporary musical comedy, we find Zoe alone on Valentine's Day, surrounded by her unhappily coupled best friends.
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MACBA Hires New Director

The current head of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo contemporary art museum in Mostoles near Madrid, Ferran Barenblit, has been announced as the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, reports Belen Palanco in the Art Newspaper . Barenblit has been at his current post since 2008, where he helmed exhibitions of Teresa Margolles and Jeremy Deller.
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Sally Gross

Bruce Weber reports in the New York Times that the dancer and choreographer Sally Gross has died. A participant in Judson Dance Theater in the early 1960s, her work focused on using a small number of dancers in simple settings with repeated movements.
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Police search for missing girl

The New York City Police Department is seeking to find a missing 12-year-old. The girl, from Pennsylvania, was visiting her mother in Harlem and went missing about 8 p.m. on Saturday.
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Cover story features 35 of Bill Cosby's accusers

New York magazine released a provocative cover Sunday night of 35 women who accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault over decades. Last week, the NY Times released a court deposition which revealed the comedian and actor gave Quaaludes in order to have sex with them.
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City Hall, NYPD ponder strategy as attacks by homeless increase

As the city and police prepare to tackle homelessness, two recent violent attacks highlight the urgency to go after the issue as soon as possible.. There have been two attacks by homeless people in recent days... One of them involved a 72 year old architect waiting at a corner, stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors by a homeless woman.
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NY churches close and consolidate

"Nine years ago in Philadelphia I had to be with a church that closed" he said. "Its really in many ways like a death."
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Penny skateboards find a niche

When Lauren Waxenberg, 9, isn't around, there's one toy of hers that her dad, Scott, likes to borrow: a tiny, pink, plastic skateboard with purple wheels. "When she's playing with a friend, I get to grab it," said Waxenberg, 52, who lives in Rye Brook, N.Y. His older daughters, ages 19 and 16, have had longboards for years, but Waxenberg, who skated as a child, said he never liked the feel of them.
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Tortillas on the rise in New York

... on the outside. It's a labor of love that is finally paying off. Otto's, which has a location in both the East Village and the West Village, is planning to open a third in Hell's Kitchen. "Tortillas were part of my culture and upbringing," said ...
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Ingrid Sischy

Ingrid Sischy, a former editor of Artforum , died this morning at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Sischy was named editor of the magazine in 1979 and served until February 1988, when she left to become editor of Interview Magazine , which she edited from 1989 to 1998.
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The Locations Behind 28 Iconic Album Sleeves - And Where To Visit Them In Real Life

... has been daubed on the wall in recognition. Led Zeppelin, 'Physical Graffiti' - 96 and 98 St. Mark's Place, East Village NYC : "I had come up [with] a concept for the band based on the tenement, people living there and moving in and out," said album ...
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Momofuku founder to open mystery restaurant in Chelsea

David Chang , the founder of Momofuku restaurant group, is reportedly preparing to open a new restaurant in a new zip code - Chelsea - although what type of eatery the popular chef has up his sleeve is unclear. Eater NY reports that Chang's business partner Drew Salmon applied for a liquor license for a storefront at 232 8th Ave. between 21st and 22nd streets, a location that is now home to a noodle and curry restaurant called M-Thai.
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A Tale of Two Sandwiches

... River, stones in pocket, I look down to the small package, swathed in tin foil, that has brought me to the East Village in the first place: Brooks Headley's Superiority Burger. Before I die, I thought, I'd better try it. This is a tale of two ...
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James Beard Top Pick Cookbook Author and Chef Amy Chaplin Makes...

Award-winning chef to the stars shares recipes in new book that revels in environmentally-sustainable fresh produce available at local farmers markets "Amy Chaplin makes the most delicious, healthy, inventive vegetarian food I've eaten. I wish I could eat her food all the time."
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New York 11 NYC Burgers You Need to Eat Immediately Hotness Level: -- ...

... bar & grill exudes "neighborhood spot" and it has the simple-yet-excellent cheese-smothered burger to match. ) East Village This dry-aged patty has the earthy funk you want from this style of burger, plus a noteworthy mashup of complementary flavors ...
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Find Ice Cream Near You, Lickety Split

New York City is packed with ice cream - and the East Village is the most packed, with 77 shops per square mile. With a click of that button, we'll detect your location, scan the vicinity and find your nearest scoop.
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NYC residence for homeless youth to be named for Bea Arthur

It's been six years since entertainer Bea Arthur died. But on Monday, her face popped up on an East Village street -- in photos displayed near a future residence for homeless youth.
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New York can be the land of the free if you're looking in the right places

... slice of real New York pizza. Other cheap but authentic treats came courtesy of Paul's Da Burger Joint in the East Village and Luncheonette off Lexington for bacon and pancakes in syrup. As a first timer, I did barely enough to dent New York's ...
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Hot weather expected in NYC all week

As New Yorkers sweated out a scorching Sunday, the forecast called for more of the same to start the week. In the East Village, people queued up for an ideal treat in the sweltering sun - ice cream.
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'Hannibal' Season 3 Episode 7, 'Digestivo'

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Obama finds story like his own at 'Hamilton'

... swooned during an off-Broadway run. Celebrities and New York tastemakers packed the Public Theater in the East Village nightly before the show moved to Broadway this month. It's already sold more than 200,000 tickets for an open-ended run at the ...
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Obama finds story like his own at 'Hamilton'

... swooned during an off-Broadway run. Celebrities and New York tastemakers packed the Public Theater in the East Village nightly before the show moved to Broadway this month. It's already sold more than 200,000 tickets for an open-ended run at the ...
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At hot-ticket 'Hamilton,' Obama finds a story like his own

... swooned during an off-Broadway run. Celebrities and New York tastemakers packed the Public Theater in the East Village nightly before the show moved to Broadway this month. It's already sold more than 200,000 tickets for an open-ended run at the ...
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Advocates stage sleep-in to push for more affordable housing

About 200 protesters took to the streets Thursday evening to call on Mayor de Blasio to set aside 15,000 residential units for the homeless. The group marched from the First Houses in the East Village down Avenue A to the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, the site of the Essex Crossing Development.
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Obama to break with tradition during NYC visit

Obama will not be staying at the famous Waldorf Astoria on Park Ave., the first President to do so in recent memory. There are fears the famed suite may have been bugged after it was sold to a Beijing insurance company last year for $2B.
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Brandy Norwood loves Broadway

Brandy Norwood is heating up Broadway as Roxie Hart in "Chicago." As she prepared to take the stage at Broadway in Bryant Park, she shared her newfound joy.
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The Winners and Losers of The Contest, Day 1

... Morabito's anemic eggs on a roll procured somewhere in Brooklyn. Moving up the flavor scale, Jarret Meskin's East Village bodega bacon-egg-and-cheese looks kinda good, but I'm not sure how to measure his observation that it's "significantly higher ...
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Modern Korean Cuisine at Oiji : The new East Village restaurant...

While there are many small restaurants crammed into Manhattan's block-long Koreatown on 32nd Street, their menus are pretty similar. Each offers the traditional home-cooked staples that Koreans overseas crave, from doenjang jjigae to samgyetang , with little variation-as their purpose is to restore the memory of mom's meals.
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Lypsinka! the Boxed Set Cancelled Due to Actor Injury

Kevin Malony and Joseph A. Berger, producers of the return summer engagement of LYPSINKA! THE BOXED SET, announce that the run will be canceled due to an injury sustained by star John Epperson . Mr. Malony says, "John recently had a very unfortunate accident - he fell on the sidewalk, seriously injuring his hands.
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Six cyclists dead in NYC: where are the most dangerous spots for bikes?

... Boro Park (Midwood and Kensington) in Brooklyn. Third was the 9th precinct in Manhattan, which encompasses the East Village neighborhood and a slice of Greenwich Village, bounded by the area stretching from East Houston Street to East 14th Street ...
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Russell Wilson and Ciara are not alone in skipping sex

Sure, plenty of New Yorkers were dumbfounded by the star quarterback's announcement that he and his hot singer/dancer girlfriend were pulling a Tim Tebow and abstaining from sex. "Everything in our society is geared toward objectifying people into body parts so it's all about the arms, thighs, butt or crotch," said Aurin Squire, a 36-year-old playwright from Queens.
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Michael Swier Is the Proud New Yorker Behind L.A.'s Coolest New Music Venue

In the 30 years he's spent in the music business, Michael Swier has seen enough dirt, blood, sweat, and tears to coat the stages and floors of his venues 20 times over - and that includes his own. In 1985, Swier opened his first bar - 2A in Manhattan's East Village - and has been the roll-up-your-sleeves type from the get-go.
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Bad Old Days

There's a panic spreading across a certain sector of the city. Pre-Giuliani New York is coming back! For mega-realtor Robert Knakal at the Commercial Observer , crime is "increasing like wildfire."
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Lourdes Leon shows off table manners

Madonna's 18-year-old daughter Lourdes Leon popped into Miss Lily's restaurant in the East Village in the past week, where she demonstrated table manners she clearly learned at home. "She spent most of the night on her phone," said a regular at the popular Jamaican eatery where Madge herself made a visit in April and also spent the whole night texting.
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Caught On Video: Man On Bike Snatches Woman's Cellphone In East Village

... said it was not the only time. Dashcam video shows the woman as she crosses East 7th Street at Avenue A in the East Village on Wednesday evening, cell phone in hand - until a bold biker cruises through the intersection and snatches the phone right ...
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Security Guard Takes Down Suspected East Village Purse Snatcher

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Hm, Netflix's Simulated East Village Explosion Is Kinda Tasteless

On the evening of July 7, a simulated explosion rocked Avenue B between 6th and 7th Streets during filming for the Netflix series Jessica Jones , which is based on a Marvel comic. This is fine.
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Lovecraft Bar NYC "Can Jam" Event on July 18th

... be a jam session party you won't want to miss this summer! Created in honor of writer H.P. Lovecraft, 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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Non-profits helping NYers turn abandoned lots into gardens

... to remember the pitted battles between former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and community gardeners - especially in the East Village and Lower East Side - there's always a fear their hard work will disappear if a land developer comes knocking. "Yes, it's an ...
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'Hannibal,' Season 3 Episode 5, 'Contorno,' Recap

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Lypinska! the Boxed Set Returning to Nyc This Month

A glamorous dose of the legendary Lypsinka, John Epperson 's iconic creation, will once again be doled out this summer when the acclaimed LYPSINKA! THE BOXED SET returns for a limited Off-Broadway engagement. LYPSINKA! THE BOXED SET will be performed Wednesday, July 22nd through Saturday, September 12th at the ravishing jewel-box Connelly Theater, located at 220 East 4th Street in Manhattan's East Village.
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