Artist Who Protested Fancy New Condos on Bond Street Just Bought One
Chuck Close keeps it superreal.
Posted 09/03/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Is Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi in Crisis? Schay It Isn’t Scho!
Is Julian Schnabel's big, pink Palazzo Chupi in the West Village so sleepy that the doormen are giving tours to any old passerby? That and more blasphemous rumors from Sunnyside Gardens, Dumbo, and Park Slope in today's boroughs report.
Posted 09/02/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Does Dumbo’s Squarehead Have a Secret Admirer?
A copycat has taken over for a famed Dumbo robber. Plus, déjà vu at Astroland, tenant grievances in the East Village, and more in our post–Labor Day boroughs briefing.
Posted 08/26/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
New Dessert Bar on Clinton Street; Kurve’s Menu Incomplete
Toloache's $1 tacos are going fast in Times Square, and the East Village gets a new Thai restaurant, in today's neighborhood news roundup.
Posted 08/25/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
Boston’s Burgers Bow to New York’s; Tribeca Scores a Jerry’s Diner
Country’s chefs start to bail and the grotesque cost of lunch at Ko, in today’s neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/22/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
East Village AvroKO Project Opens in a Month; Craft Beer Week Kicks Off in September
Chef Eton Chan’s dumplings are filling and cheap in Carroll Gardens, and a free concert comes with BBQ in Queens this Saturday, in today’s neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/21/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
South Slope Gets Its Own Tower of Toys
A ‘Retirement Home for Well-Loved Stuffies’ (not scruffles, mind you) has taken up residence near a tree in this hood. Plus, everything else in our daily borough roundup!
Posted 08/21/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
Free Food and Cheap Beer in the South Slope; The ’Burg Gets Another Speakeasy
The Cheyenne Diner gets its latest fifteen minutes of fame, and pet goat at Dévi in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/18/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Soho Knows ‘Rod Stewart Loves the Hamptons’
A rogue graffiti artist really wants you to believe that the aging rocker really has a thing for the East End. And for palm trees. Plus, pandas in Union Square, a ‘Gossip Girl’ spat, and more in our daily borough report.
Posted 08/18/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
John’s Pizza Uses Canned Sauce; Military Helped Soldier Open Hipster Bar
A yummy BYOB Mexican cantina in Williamsburg, and a tribute to Bemelman's Bar, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/14/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
Free Ribs Tonight in Midtown; $1 Tacos at Toloache
A new chocolate happy hour in the East Village, and Astoria's version of Miami cool, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/11/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
Freemans Closing Briefly for Renovations; Burritos No Longer
A Wondee Siam will soon service Columbia students, and so many fries to try, so little time, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Now Brooklyn Heights Is Climbing Aboard the Ikea Whine Wagon
The Wonder Wheel is 88! On 8/8/08! Whee! Climb aboard the daily boroughs report and drink in the view!
Posted 08/07/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
The Return of Aquavit’s Crawfish Week; BYO Toppings at South Brooklyn Pizza
A pizza truce in Sunset Park, and more evidence to suggest Veselka's burger is serious, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 08/06/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Punk Celebration in Tompkins Square Park Cited — Shockingly — for Noise Violation
Tribeca's ritzy rooftops, Howard Beach's sacred litter, the East Village's decibel-dueling bands, and Brooklyn Heights' unsolved stab death: all in today's nabes report, which hits four outta five boroughs!
Posted 08/05/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Joshua Kushner: Jared 2.0?
Jared Kushner's developer bro rocks the East Village shul crowd, the waterfalls installation is killing the trees at River Café, barges are rotting in Jamaica Bay, and scruffle venue Studio B in Greenpoint is shuttered. In today's hood roundup!
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Accidents Happen … Even Within View of the Shake Shack
Hapless poopers in Madison Square Park? Porn kings threatening comedy kings in Times Square? Radicals burning good money in the East Village? The links in today's boroughs report must be clicked to be believed!
Posted 08/01/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The Montauk Monster Has Competition. Sort Of.
There is a colorful beast of some sort climbing out of the East River. Plus, Harlem's eye-straining new condo, Chinatown's intra-hood Olympics smackdown, and the big-cabbage guy of Staten Island. In our Freedom Friday edition of the daily boroughs report!
Posted 08/01/08 in Grub Street
Neighborhood Watch
McNally Restoring, Not Modernizing, Minetta; Weekend Happy Hours
McNally gives his word on Minetta Tavern, while Belgian waffles settle in Soho, in today's neighborhood food news.
Posted 07/30/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Yuppies Discouraged From Partying in Tompkins Square Park
Plus plaster nearly falling on East Harlem babies before their souls are insured and a cure for killer staph in the Gowanus Canal. Why wait? Click through today's boroughs report!
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